No F1 thread?

[jamcg]

None will risk a front wing anymore, sainz has one and it took ages. Meant mention, did anyone notice at the start Lawson failed to get away and was so nearly collected by one of the alpines? And then they didn’t speak of it at all in the broadcast, as if they’d been told not to? Crofty I could imagine failing to spot it happening but not Martin

Funnily enough just saw this post

[integrale_evo]

I did wonder that about the front wings when they were taping landos up in qualifying instead of just swapping on a new one.

Another way the new regs have messed things up.

[jamcg]

[duncs500]

I enjoyed it. Good to see LH really keeping CL honest, thought the dicing before the VSC was fun. Also great to see that the field didn't really build up big gaps too quickly so as a starting point there's potential for things to close up even more.

Yeah, Ferrari fucked up the strategy but I think they would have finished in the same place. FFS though guys, surely all the F1 teams are letting AI do their strategy now? Ferrari really need AI to be in charge.

[Mito Man]

Probably is but the Ferrari AI has been fed with thousands of Ferrari strategy decisions so it is now compromised

Lewis seemed to have far better race pace than Charles on the hards. Felt like second should have been possible if they pitted under VSC. They lost 11 seconds to pitting under green flags and Leclerc finished 15 behind Russell so all isn’t lost.

[Rich B]

Enjoyed that, wtf are ferrari strategists thinking though - along with every single armchair viewer, i was shouting at them for staying out on the obvious pit opportunity.

[Mito Man]

And they did it twice

[integrale_evo]

The first few laps were quite exciting, after that pretty boring.

The leaders were quite close, but they’d lapped up to 7th so quite a spread field!

All seems a bit fake, a bit like rubber banding in a video game.

Still looks exciting from the outside, but I’m always going to think hearing the cars slow along the straights on the onboards.

[RobYob]

It occurs to me these new regs would be ideal for turbine engines.