Which won't happen, so we are stuck with this pile of garbage for the foreseeable. What we need is for all the drivers to complain and make a stand, but those who are competitive just won't.
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Kimi Antonelli displayed dominant pace in today's Japanese Grand Prix once he recovered from a poor start to comfortably win the race at Suzuka. Oscar Piastri led the first part of the race and still secured second for McLaren followed by Leclerc who ensured a shade of red on the podium as well.
Which won't happen, so we are stuck with this pile of garbage for the foreseeable. What we need is for all the drivers to complain and make a stand, but those who are competitive just won't.
Max can adapt his driving style. At the moment, the deployment system is nulifying drivers that drive on the edge of grip and rewarding drivers that are not. Just look at Charles and Lewis's statements about deployment in this qualy.
How slow they are, how they attack corners, the straights, any onboard is just depressing. It is just not exciting to me. Maybe it can be to others. Qualifying used to be like getting the maximum out of your car, now its about getting the maximum out of your battery. Drivers have to underdrive, cars are not at their grip level. I feels like they are driving with a handbrake on.Waz wrote: ↑28 Mar 2026, 10:46What exactly was impossible to watch? It wasn't nail biting, but Leclerc at least added some uncertainty to it.
I guess Verstappen knocked out in Q2 is the regulations, and not him just putting in a poor performance as a whole by not finding the right set up.
Mercedes deployment is the main advantage they have over McLaren for now. That won't last all season, and Ferrari are already nearly there too.
If the yoyo racing goes away, and there is a chance that will happen. The fanbase will drop quickly, and under that kind of pressure, with the amounts of money involved, things can change very quickly. If for some reason the yoyo racing catches on, than its done for the fans who like the other definition of racing .
Didn't we hear this somewhere before?purestpurist wrote: ↑28 Mar 2026, 12:00Max is running experimental setups and sacrificing his own performance to help the team. Getting outqualified in this way demonstrates his commitment and even his character, and when his teammate lucks into a race win later this year and Red Bull improves from p4 to p3 in the constructors standings next year, Max will deserve all the credit, for none of it would have been possible if he had not so generously run experimental setups
This is the LH fans' theme song from 2022-2024.purestpurist wrote: ↑28 Mar 2026, 12:00Max is running experimental setups and sacrificing his own performance to help the team. Getting outqualified in this way demonstrates his commitment and even his character, and when his teammate lucks into a race win later this year and Red Bull improves from p4 to p3 in the constructors standings next year, Max will deserve all the credit, for none of it would have been possible if he had not so generously run experimental setups
So much is getting decided by whether a driver's deployment works properly or not. Russell also just seemed to have another car problem that neither he nor the team seem to be able to do anything about or understand. The cars slowing on straights makes the cars look slow, no matter what the laptimes say in the end(since top speeds and acceleration are largely not visible).Waz wrote: ↑28 Mar 2026, 10:46What exactly was impossible to watch? It wasn't nail biting, but Leclerc at least added some uncertainty to it.
I guess Verstappen knocked out in Q2 is the regulations, and not him just putting in a poor performance as a whole by not finding the right set up.
Mercedes deployment is the main advantage they have over McLaren for now. That won't last all season, and Ferrari are already nearly there too.
Hamilton fans were clowned for years for statements like this. Will the same standards apply now?purestpurist wrote: ↑28 Mar 2026, 12:00Max is running experimental setups and sacrificing his own performance to help the team. Getting outqualified in this way demonstrates his commitment and even his character, and when his teammate lucks into a race win later this year and Red Bull improves from p4 to p3 in the constructors standings next year, Max will deserve all the credit, for none of it would have been possible if he had not so generously run experimental setups
To me the solution is to ban any direct ICE to MGUK regeneration. It does not make sense from a sustainability point of view anyway. You are better off allowing to burn that fuel for more ICE power during acceleration phases and not have the efficiency losses of mguk and battery.And no one knows exactly how the automatic control of energy flows behaves.
"Funnily enough, this causes me to lose time in the straights every time in Q3. I get faster in the corners, but slower in the straights It's so frustrating because you never get a whole lap together. You always have to weigh things up and find compromises", says Leclerc, describing the helpless feeling in the cockpit.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff knows the phenomenon. At Mercedes, the engineers artificially slow down their drivers: "We told Kimi to drive the first lap for safety. In the second one he really pushed. And then it wasn't so good anymore." In the end, Antonelli's first half-throttle attempt was enough for pole position in Suzuka.
Fans of racing have to face the music. Our time is up. Pandering to untapped markets is the only way to make more money for F1's owners. New viewers don't have any concept of why super clipping, lico, and any other monkey business has no place in a qualifying lap. They have no concept of the DNA of motorsport, or that there are any issues with what is on the screen.DDopey wrote: ↑28 Mar 2026, 11:34If the yoyo racing goes away, and there is a chance that will happen. The fanbase will drop quickly, and under that kind of pressure, with the amounts of money involved, things can change very quickly. If for some reason the yoyo racing catches on, than its done for the fans who like the other definition of racing .
