2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Jeddah, March 07 - 09

[maxxer]

Bearman, Ferrari´s junior driver, just beaten his star coleague who is said to the best driver ever, at least that´s what his fans say, on his very first race.

Not forgetting he started 3 places behind the guy who's getting that seat next year, and then finished 2 spaces ahead of him.....all with JUST 1 HOUR of practice to get to grips with the car.

Oh wow!

Bearman better than Hamilton confirmed then! Bearman 8 times champion of the world!!!

Yeah lets keep on repeating that his dad was there even! fing amazing and he is born in the uk! Wow amazing.
Never heard them jerk off on where Yuki is born or Kmag, but Bearman is born in uk! dont forget that!

[Mogster]

Free to your opinion @dcchemtech as are we that this is more boring than other eras of domination.

Happy to see Oli do well.
Mcl so slow with drs, but Piastri couldn’t force Ham into a mistake, good experience.
Hope Tsu learns from those exchanges, but he probably played it right as Magnussen would have made contact.
Max and Perez just cruising.
Don’t get pulled back into the close quali or track is different narrative, no one is close.

Of course you are, boredom is subjective. Yet it is always interesting to see an MB fan (like the person I originally responded to) bicker and moan how this season is unwatchable, while the same applies for many others in the period 2014-2020, when this person seemed perfectly happy. If you are happy when your team dominates, don't complain its a disaster for the sport in general when another does.

You can’t just lump those years into 7 years of total domination. 2016 we had one of the greatest teammate battles for the WDC, 2017 and 2018 Ferrari had a fast car and led the WDC till mid season before imploding. 2019 Ferrari were very capable of winning on power tracks, RBR at a few venues also.

Anyway… Behind RBR there were some decent individual battles today, enough to hold my interest.

[Mogster]

Not forgetting he started 3 places behind the guy who's getting that seat next year, and then finished 2 spaces ahead of him.....all with JUST 1 HOUR of practice to get to grips with the car.

Oh wow!

Bearman better than Hamilton confirmed then! Bearman 8 times champion of the world!!!

Yeah lets keep on repeating that his dad was there even! fing amazing and he is born in the uk! Wow amazing.
Never heard them jerk off on where Yuki is born or Kmag, but Bearman is born in uk! dont forget that!

British commentary team happy for British driver at his first GP as reserve. Who’d have thought it…

I remember them being happy for Nyck de Vries a couple of years ago also.

[Mogster]

Very very impressive from Bearman considering being thrust into the car on Saturday morning. Incredible job to drive so maturely and pull off some nice moves. His neck will feel sore for a few days I'm sure

He should have done a Stroll and crash his Ferrari early on. Would have finished the race pretty fresh, physically speaking

Seriously speaking, just shows how unfair from F1 to give seats to people like Lance and Sargeant considering there are much more capable drivers out there.

F1 needs 3 more teams. Then guys like Bearman would have more chance of a seat at least.

[DChemTech]

Free to your opinion @dcchemtech as are we that this is more boring than other eras of domination.

Happy to see Oli do well.
Mcl so slow with drs, but Piastri couldn’t force Ham into a mistake, good experience.
Hope Tsu learns from those exchanges, but he probably played it right as Magnussen would have made contact.
Max and Perez just cruising.
Don’t get pulled back into the close quali or track is different narrative, no one is close.

Of course you are, boredom is subjective. Yet it is always interesting to see an MB fan (like the person I originally responded to) bicker and moan how this season is unwatchable, while the same applies for many others in the period 2014-2020, when this person seemed perfectly happy. If you are happy when your team dominates, don't complain its a disaster for the sport in general when another does.

You can’t just lump those years into 7 years of total domination. 2016 we had one of the greatest teammate battles for the WDC, 2017 and 2018 Ferrari had a fast car and led the WDC till mid season before imploding. 2019 Ferrari were very capable of winning on power tracks, RBR at a few venues also.

Anyway… Behind RBR there were some decent individual battles today, enough to hold my interest.

I'm not. Neither are RB dominating for 7 years.. this is year 3 of the current reg set. If we look at 2014, 15, 16, MB hardly had competition. There was the occasional snatch (sometimes because ham and ros hit eachother), and due to the choice of drivers there was more intrateam battle, but for inter-team, things were rather poor. In that respect, 2022 was better than 2014 until a TD ruined the season, and 2023/24 (so far... just 2 races in) remnisc of 15/16, minus the teammate battle, but with a closer rest-of-the-field. And still, long season ahead, maybe things get closer to the front, maybe there will be the occasional crazy race. And maybe, like 17/18, 2025 will be somewhat more exciting. We will see.

[Luscion]

[PlatinumZealot]

In RIC a fork you shall stick. He's over. Done. Finito. 2014 was ten years ago. The circle is complete.

[deadhead]

[Veteran]

Verstappen is really on a roll. Good drive by Leclerc. Good thing Hamilton signed his Ferrari contract a year early.

[Sevach]

Pirelli if you are listening:
The Jeddah circuit should be C5-4-3, that is all.

[Fer.Fan]

My God, F1 is borring. One team show, total dominance of RB.

[Sieper]

Pirelli if you are listening:
The Jeddah circuit should be C5-4-3, that is all.

Yep. They really need to do that. A zero stopper is easily done here now. Would it not be illegal. Even on yellow if you must.

[venkyhere]

Honestly, a nothing race.The only interesting thing was K.Mag's defence.

Bearman deserves applause, kept it clean, but didn't do anything 'outstanding' like the British commentators are saying. Started 11th, overtook a much inferior car, Tsunoda, that too after many laps behind. He got two places free from Norris and Hamilton deciding to not use the safety car to pit. Then got one place free from Stroll doing a Latifi. Drove in clean air , no one in front or behind, for ~40 laps. Yes, endured the G-forces. But there was nothing to challenge him, other than 'not hit the walls'. But the way the Brit commentators are talking as if he made 4 places in Monaco by overtaking during Green Flag. That car is a rocket, the SF24 Ferrari. Good job, not 'outstanding'. Too much Brit bias. There was nothing to 'skill test' him, other than 'can he hold his nerve on the big occasion and bring the car home'. The 4 place promotion came far too easily. Had he qualified at P7, with that car, that would've been something. SF24 is P2 only because of RB20 and Max. Otherwise it's a championship winning car by a clear margin over the 8 others.

Watching RebBulls "doing a DRS" over McLarens was like watching a car go past a pole.

Ricciardo is over. Just hang up and allow Lawson back in.

Also, what a pointless tussle b/w Piastri and Hamilton ? It wouldn't have mattered anyway whether the overtake hapened or not.

[Sieper]

Honestly, a nothing race.The only interesting thing was K.Mag's defence.

Bearman deserves applause, kept it clean, but didn't do anything 'outstanding' like the British commentators are saying. Started 11th, overtook a much inferior car, Tsunoda, that too after many laps behind. He got two places free from Norris and Hamilton deciding to not use the safety car to pit. Then got one place free from Stroll doing a Latifi. Drove in clean air , no one in front or behind, for ~40 laps. Yes, endured the G-forces. But there was nothing to challenge him, other than 'not hit the walls'. But the way the Brit commentators are talking as if he made 4 places in Monaco by overtaking during Green Flag. That car is a rocket, the SF24 Ferrari. Good job, not 'outstanding'. Too much Brit bias. There was nothing to 'skill test' him, other than 'can he hold his nerve on the big occasion and bring the car home'. The 4 place promotion came far too easily. Had he qualified at P7, with that car, that would've been something. SF24 is P2 only because of RB20 and Max. Otherwise it's a championship winning car by a clear margin over the 8 others.

Watching RebBulls "doing a DRS" over McLarens was like watching a car go past a pole.

Ricciardo is over. Just hang up and allow Lawson back in.

Also, what a pointless tussle b/w Piastri and Hamilton ? It wouldn't have mattered anyway whether the overtake hapened or not.

I think it was more the rookie factor, and that he is so young. Pretty soon expectations will weigh in. If he gets a seat. But there are many other talents waiting too.

McLaren was a pole. They couldn’t even drs past Lewis if they started in the gearbox.

[Sevach]

Also, what a pointless tussle b/w Piastri and Hamilton ? It wouldn't have mattered anyway whether the overtake hapened or not.

I think when Piastri got behind Hamilton he still fancied fighting Charles, after spending 30 laps looking at a Mercedes rear end not anymore.

Pirelli if you are listening:
The Jeddah circuit should be C5-4-3, that is all.

Yep. They really need to do that. A zero stopper is easily done here now. Would it not be illegal. Even on yellow if you must.

Yeah even with the softer tires in the range it's still a guaranteed one stopper, it's just slightly more interesting.