Poll: Official 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Thread - Yas Marina Circuit - Round 23
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Thanks for all your work making the threads this season, @chrismscotland
Running at the front makes things easier. Max gets lots of clean air to cool the engine and spent half the season cruising around at the front not pushing at all. Just as we saw with Merc in their domination era, that leads to immense reliability advantages.
Running at the front makes things easier. Max gets lots of clean air to cool the engine and spent half the season cruising around at the front not pushing at all. Just as we saw with Merc in their domination era, that leads to immense reliability advantages.
True, but it is still impressive. Espeically considering it was massively unreliable through the start of the 2022 season.
Absolutely. You can basically ignore the front.
It was funny how the press tried to hype up perez's chances mid season.
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This'll be the last race I can watch live for the forseable. I've just renewed with Sky and dropped F1.
Had it since it moved to Sky and the past few seasons (especially the last 2), for multiple reasons, have just ruined my interest in the "sport".
Had it since it moved to Sky and the past few seasons (especially the last 2), for multiple reasons, have just ruined my interest in the "sport".
I stopped paying when VPN+f1 tv stopped working. Even if I could use it again I don't think I would. I'm happy enough with free replays.
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Will be glad to get the season done so we can look forward to 2024 in the hope of more competition, although I won't hold my breath.
It's becoming quite hard to predict week to week now (apart from Max winning I mean) with the cars seemingly becoming harder and harder to setup due to so many factors. I guess with Abu Dhabi, they have a lot of previous data and fairly predictable weather and surfaces so perhaps we will see more of a "true" performance reflection between the teams.
It would be good to not have these quali lotteries though. We are seeing more and more where people are going out in Q3 or Q2 due to a combination of traffic/track limits/track evolution/tyre set limitations. As much as it is exciting to see it mixed some times, it gets a bit rubbish when we see top teams that should be competing at the front losing out. Happened to them all at some point I think. Then it just compromises their whole race as they start so far back.
It's becoming quite hard to predict week to week now (apart from Max winning I mean) with the cars seemingly becoming harder and harder to setup due to so many factors. I guess with Abu Dhabi, they have a lot of previous data and fairly predictable weather and surfaces so perhaps we will see more of a "true" performance reflection between the teams.
It would be good to not have these quali lotteries though. We are seeing more and more where people are going out in Q3 or Q2 due to a combination of traffic/track limits/track evolution/tyre set limitations. As much as it is exciting to see it mixed some times, it gets a bit rubbish when we see top teams that should be competing at the front losing out. Happened to them all at some point I think. Then it just compromises their whole race as they start so far back.
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With the winner being already being predetermined, it seems crazy to pay to watch it live when the sky showcase or channel 4 highlights are fine.
Channel 4 highlights....fine... wash your mouth out son
Adverts...Redbull fanboys like Coulthard and Webber? Nah maaayte. I prefer to bend over and let Sky go in dry, live and direct.
With no big changes coming next year - I suspect this GP and then next 20 will be pretty much Max's to loose.
Unless RB have a total meltdown next year in terms of their reliability/car then nothing will change next year. I don't see Ferarri/Merc/McLaren making a huge step up to challenge them on a consistent basis.
Max will cruise to victory in this one to end an unbelievable season of dominance - But as a 25/30 year fan of F1, it's been an incredible boring season with really no decent races of note this year. No real drama. The odd flicker of excitement but overall a very boring season to watch.
Unless RB have a total meltdown next year in terms of their reliability/car then nothing will change next year. I don't see Ferarri/Merc/McLaren making a huge step up to challenge them on a consistent basis.
Max will cruise to victory in this one to end an unbelievable season of dominance - But as a 25/30 year fan of F1, it's been an incredible boring season with really no decent races of note this year. No real drama. The odd flicker of excitement but overall a very boring season to watch.
It would actually have been amazing without Red Bull.
Ferrari, Merc, McLaren and Aston going at it.
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Oh no it's not! (It's panto season, sue me!
)(I think you changed quali to 2 hours...that might give them enough time to stop whining about traffic mind
)It's a bit of a ball ache trying to avoid spoilers for most of the day. The BBC seem to delight in putting the results as a headline on the news pages and I always forget to avoid the website.
Thank you @chrismscotland for creating all the threads this year to bring us all together.
Can't believe it's the last race already, hoping it will be some sort of 'No holds barred' blow out and everyone tries. But I know that won't happen, but I can dream eh
Can't believe it's the last race already, hoping it will be some sort of 'No holds barred' blow out and everyone tries. But I know that won't happen, but I can dream eh
I say this as a compliment to the RB engineers but I can’t fathom how every other team goes up and down every race with these regs (look at McLaren last race), yet the RB is consistently brilliant at every circuit. Bar Singapore!
Channel 4 highlights....fine... wash your mouth out son
Adverts...Redbull fanboys like Coulthard and Webber? Nah maaayte. I prefer to bend over and let Sky go in dry, live and direct.
Just go for the extended highlights on YouTube.
They took a load of staff from merc couple years ago i guess it must have worked out
I do think Adrian Newey should get a lot of credit, one of the very few who had any real life experience with ground effect (from his time in Indycar in the 80's)
Demote them all to f3 so they can have a go at winning
It is an impressively consistent car. As you say, the others have been all over the place, but the RB has always been pretty much the fastest car come race day.
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