I know they are different, and probably looked down upon by the Formula one crowd, but does anyone in here keep up with Indycar? Nashville is hosting an Indy car road race for the first time right by downtown (track goes across the Cumberland and near the titans stadium) and I’m headed down for practice/qualifying today. Don’t keep up with Indy at all, but still pretty excited to see it in person.
Everyone in this thread except like 3 people started following F1 in the last 2 years. There isn’t a whole lot of room for us to turn our nose up to other motorsports.
Let us know how it is. I planned to go with a few of my kids, but was surprised at the ticket price (and I'd have to go up/back from Birmingham same day). Tickets here at Barber for Indy are like $75 for a three-day pass, and kids are free. Up there, race only was like $80/ea, all ages. No thanks.
I'll watch anything race. F1,Nascar, Indy, SRX, MotoGP, American Flat Track, a tortoise and a hare, doesn't matter.
I bet you see another race like at a Silverstone or something like it to replace Japan. It seems pretty much understood that there will be an Austin double too later this year.
Suzuka is awesome. Disappointing to miss it on this year's calendar, but I'm sure it'll be backfilled by something.
Ferrari bringing an engine upgrade to start the 2nd half of the season is surprising. The fact that they think its a significant upgrade is giving me way to much joy... Maybe we wont be embarrassed at Monza after all.
I thought the NFL salary cap rules were confusing, but trying to disentangle what counts as an upgrade or not in F1 is a step further. "Under F1’s rules for 2021, teams were only permitted to introduce a single revision to their previous power units. However Binotto said Ferrari will only introduce upgrades for 2020-specification parts on the power unit it has used so far this year."
Pulling the plug on the Olympics is a much bigger deal than an F1 race. For F1, the host tracks only revenue stream is fans and the in person event, and they have to pay a ton to F1 for the right to host the race. They are just cutting their losses. It's the same for the Olympics pretty much. Japan lost billions on that. But it was probably too late to not go forward when they made the call.
I believe Japan couldn’t cancel the Olympics because of its contact with the IOC. The Olympics going on was a call made totally by the IOC, with no input from Japan.
https://racingnews365.com/trouble-for-wolff-and-stroll-allegations-of-insider-trading-emerge/ Trouble for Wolff and Stroll? Allegations of insider trading emerge...
Me either a competitor takes you out and permanently damages your engine and therefore you likely will have a grid penalty in a later race it should be the reverse
I think the overarching logic of the rule is around cost savings (as this was in place before the general spending cap came into play). The richer teams could be swapping engines every race or two which wouldn't be able to be matched by the others. No idea why there isn't an exception when your engine is damaged irreparably due to the fault of another drive though.
Red Bull confirm Perez to stay with team for 2022 https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...ith-team-for-2022.1N02NcecDQCu2kfINaijoe.html
Hello? Ham and Bot have to toss on their 3rd of 4 sets of Inters for the entire weekend in q2. They sit in 10th and 11th with under two minutes left, can’t miss q3. they get through but at what cost.
Brownie points for Seb, very concerned and checking on him. Norris definitely was favoring his left wrist and elbow, which would be the impact side, as he exited the vehicle.
What is the expected forecast for tomorrow? If it is Inter weather, I don’t know how Mercedes can expect anything. Ugh, they actually just disclosed it is similar to today, I could have waited one minute to post.