Official 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix Race Thread - Autódromo José Carlos Pace - Race 21/24

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:30:35+0000

Race control - Estimated time of Qualifying start - 17:00

cuke2u · 2024-11-02T19:32:08+0000

Flibster said:
Bottas with his 70's porn stache and 80's bleached blonde mullet

He also has the rank of colonel in the army..

ChrisD. · 2024-11-02T19:36:54+0000

cuke2u said:
He also has the rank of colonel in the army..

Corporal.

el_dazza · 2024-11-02T19:37:10+0000

Looking at the weather forecast, how are they going to run this tomorrow at all? It's going to be horribly wet all day it seems.

Feek · 2024-11-02T19:39:37+0000

el_dazza said:
Looking at the weather forecast, how are they going to run this tomorrow at all? It's going to be horribly wet all day it seems.

Like @Flibster, I'm one of the saddos who reads the full sporting regulations each year and I don't think there's anything to cope in this situation. Someone's going to have to make a tricky decision soon.

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:45:38+0000

Feek said:
Like @Flibster, I'm one of the saddos who reads the full sporting regulations each year and I don't think there's anything to cope in this situation. Someone's going to have to make a tricky decision soon.

Next years regs state Championship standings.

Belgium 2023 (that was a sprint race event) they said they would use Championship standings if they couldn't hold Quali.

It's kind of the obvious choice. It's pretty much the stabilised performance of the cars over the year.

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:45:52+0000

Race control - Start of qualifying is postponed

Mad_Jay · 2024-11-02T19:46:28+0000

See you all tomorrow.

Scam · 2024-11-02T19:48:01+0000

Autosport popped up on my FB saying that if they can’t run quali today or tomorrow then they use FP1 standings.. Which would mean Max starts P20 after his engine penalty..

Edit: https://www.facebook.com/share/fj77xKwi9menC4QU/?mibextid=WC7FNe no idea how much truth there is to that.

AlphariusOmegan · 2024-11-02T19:48:28+0000

1 shot qualifying

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:48:34+0000

What the hell is a Maltipoo?

Ok, that's ridiculously cute...

CSMonkeh · 2024-11-02T19:48:39+0000

Feek said:
Like @Flibster, I'm one of the saddos who reads the full sporting regulations each year and I don't think there's anything to cope in this situation. Someone's going to have to make a tricky decision soon.

Read a few articles, and rang from championship order to FP1 times….

I want to say I believe the former is what they do…

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:49:49+0000

Scam said:
Autosport popped up on my FB saying that if they can’t run quali today or tomorrow then they use FP1 standings.. Which would mean Max starts P20 after his engine penalty..

For normal race weekends, they use the last completed practice session.

For Sprint races, if no quali then FP1 session is used.

For sprint race weekends and no full race quali... No rules in place.

andy_mk3 · 2024-11-02T19:49:53+0000

I say use the sprint quali results, in reverse

That would be entertaining.

AlphariusOmegan · 2024-11-02T19:51:28+0000

using FP1 is unfair as people were running different run plans, Lewis didn't run softs at all

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:52:04+0000

andy_mk3 said:
I say use the sprint quali results, in reverse That would be entertaining.

Reverse championship order? Bottas on pole!

Flibster · 2024-11-02T19:53:13+0000

AlphariusOmegan said:
using FP1 is unfair as people were running different run plans, Lewis didn't run softs at all

People may have been running aero rigs and so on.

What if there was a junior driver replacing one of the championship contenders?

andy_mk3 · 2024-11-02T19:53:15+0000

Flibster said:
Reverse championship order? Bottas on pole!

I'm all for that too.

.:MBK:. · 2024-11-02T19:53:16+0000

nice jab from Lewis there

AlphariusOmegan · 2024-11-02T19:53:34+0000

LOL Lewis telling Stefano give us better wet tyres