Poll: Official 2023 Austrian Grand Prix Thread - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg - Round 10

[cuke2u]

Anyway feels like the topic has been flogged to death, need to see what they come up with

Quite, unfortunately armchair fans will always have their, never are they wrong , opinions. Some it seems more ridiculous than others.
Perhaps if they actually drove an f1 car then maybe they'd be different.

 

[chrismscotland]

Quite, unfortunately armchair fans will always have their, never are they wrong , opinions. Some it seems more ridiculous than others.
Perhaps if they actually drove an f1 car then maybe they'd be different.

100% this

 

[jaybee]

Quite, unfortunately armchair fans will always have their, never are they wrong , opinions. Some it seems more ridiculous than others.
Perhaps if they actually drove an f1 car then maybe they'd be different.

How would you define an armchair F1 fan then? Do we have to have driven an F1 car to have an opinion on what is best for the sport? What is a true F1 fan? Someone that shares the same opinions as you?

 

[Mad_Jay]

Track limits? Not in 2003.

Ugh... The sound of the cars back then, the decent size, the handling.. Sigh.

 

[Feek]

Ugh... The sound of the cars back then, the decent size, the handling.. Sigh.

The screaming V10 was the best sounding F1 engine.

The stupid grooved tyres though

 

[Mr Jack]

I thought this was interesting: estimated damage costs per driver so far after Austria. It's a bit too big to inline here, so I'll leave it as a link. Alpine and Ferrari well ahead on damage costs so far, Alfa Romeo the lowest so far with Zhou impressively damage free. I thought it was notable too that Logan and Piastri have both had less damage than their teammates - so much for the costly rookie stereotype - and even De Vries, who I had down as king of crashes is only about 10% more costly than his teammate.

 

[chrismscotland]

I thought this was interesting: estimated damage costs per driver so far after Austria. It's a bit too big to inline here, so I'll leave it as a link. Alpine and Ferrari well ahead on damage costs so far, Alfa Romeo the lowest so far with Zhou impressively damage free. I thought it was notable too that Logan and Piastri have both had less damage than their teammates - so much for the costly rookie stereotype - and even De Vries, who I had down as king of crashes is only about 10% more costly than his teammate.

Feels like there have been fewer out and out "car wrecks" so far this year, mainly just damage to pieces so far

 

[413x]

Why not just let them all run a bit further out? If it's same for everyone it doesn't matter?

Or give a harsher penalty.
5 seconds after 3 infringements. Every infringement

 

[Mad_Jay]

The screaming V10 was the best sounding F1 engine.

The stupid grooved tyres though

Agreed, even made up for that horrible grinding traction control sound they all had.

Ah well, guess they will never come back. So we can just reminisce

 

[gjbf1]

I watched the highlights last night. It was alright, just alright.