2022 Formula 1 Thread

[Ventruck]

lol @ yuki

[danegrey]

F1 delayed a hour, because of rain...
on a time limit since I have to take my son to the airport here in Atlanta...
He was here and we spent the past 4 days at Petit Lemans'

[Ventruck]

RB had themselves an interesting day for both drivers.

McLaren and Aston benefitted quite a bit from the street circuit chaos.

[axmea?]

Boring. Not exciting at all. They should have let them raced in the rain.

[danegrey]

Originally Posted by axmea?

Boring. Not exciting at all. They should have let them raced in the rain.

I agree, some drama, lots of retirements

[axmea?]

My understanding is the wets were 5hitty tires for Singapore to begin with.

[danegrey]

well some type conditions as Singapore, red flag rain delay, looks like its going to be a time race...

[danegrey]

so race to restart at 15 after the hour, they will run like for 45 minutes..
time race....

just wonder why they do not have service cars trying to clear the water off...

F1 just don't understand... this type of stuff

[Ventruck]

Championship team and driver there. I'm sure we'll get tired if we see it a couple more seasons, but right now RB as a whole is at the top of their game. That's a dominant of a title defense they could achieve.

All LeClerc could do was lose less, and he tried.
Vettel had himself a drive.
Also hard to believe Latifi was the guy who couldn't find the track during FP1 and he came up this well in the race. GOAT.

[ZCanadian]

Originally Posted by Ventruck

Championship team and driver there. I'm sure we'll get tired if we see it a couple more seasons, but right now RB as a whole is at the top of their game. That's a dominant of a title defense they could achieve.

All LeClerc could do was lose less, and he tried.
Vettel had himself a drive.
Also hard to believe Latifi was the guy who couldn't find the track during FP1 and he came up this well in the race. GOAT.

And poor Mick - his engineers were counting on Latifi to do his magic but the safety car never materialized and he just kept backing his way down the pack on full wets.

[danegrey]

Originally Posted by ZCanadian

And poor Mick - his engineers were counting on Latifi to do his magic but the safety car never materialized and he just kept backing his way down the pack on full wets.

At that stage there was nothing else HAAS could do and hope for...

[DLSTR]

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/re...-fia/10385745/

Red Bull's F1 cost cap overspend "constitutes cheating", Brown tells FIA

McLaren CEO Zak Brown has urged the FIA to act "at pace" and come down hard on Formula 1's cost cap rule breakers, declaring that overspending "constitutes cheating".

By:
Jonathan Noble
Oct 17, 2022, 5:42 PM

Red Bull's F1 cost cap overspend "constitutes cheating", Brown tells FIA
The FIA is currently evaluating its next steps after announcing last week that Red Bull had breached last year's cost cap limit, as well as having committed a procedural offence. Aston Martin was also found to have broken the rules with a procedural breach.

Both Red Bull and Aston Martin have the option of going down an Accepted Breach Agreement if they concur with the FIA's findings, or they can choose to challenge the matter through the Cost Cap Adjudication panel.

While it is not clear which route will be taken, McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown has written to the FIA to let it be known how critical he thinks it is that the matter is not brushed under the carpet.


In the letter, a copy of which has been seen by Autosport, he said: "The overspend breach, and possibly the procedural breaches, constitute cheating by offering a significant advantage across technical, sporting, and financial regulations."

He added: "The bottom line is any team who has overspent has gained an unfair advantage both in the current and following year's car development."

Brown wrote the letter to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali in private last week.

However, the contents of the letter have emerged after Brown also sent it to all the cost cap compliant teams over the weekend. This included Mercedes, Ferrari, Alpine, Alfa Romeo, Haas and Williams.

In the letter, Brown expressed his faith in the FIA's policing of the cost cap process so far but said that how the governing body acted now was hugely important.

He argued that there was no excuse for any team to have overspent, especially as everyone had been through a dress rehearsal of spending limits in 2020.

Brown believes there is no excuse for Red Bull's overspend in 2021 after the cost cap was introduced in 2020.

[axmea?]

This cost cap drama is getting old and the 5h!+$.
Please move on. If you didn't overspend after years and years of budget busting spend, you simply had better bean counters. For the breach, just pay up as stated in the rules and get back to racing. I'll be in Austin to enjoy the races and all the entertainment that comes with it including Greenday, Ed, and DJ Deisel lol who I hope will not be the one giving out the trophies.

[danegrey]

HAAS going to try a title sponsor again!


https://racer.com/2022/10/20/haas-se...ship-for-2023/

[God-Speed]

OK US Grand Prix forecast.

Friday. 57*am -- 88* 0% chance of rain.

Saturday. 64*am -- 90* 0% chance of rain.

Sunday. 69* am -- 92* 0% chance of rain.