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(This thread is gonna be worked on for the rest of the day, I'm updating it as I go. Just wanted to get it up and running!)
Last event 2016 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (Abu Dhabi, November 27th)
Current event
Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2017 (Sao Paulo, November 22nd-24th)
The Current Champion is Nico Rosberg + Show Spoiler +
Lance Stroll + Show Spoiler +
Stoffel Vandoorne + Show Spoiler + Team: McLaren Honda Career Highlights: 2012 Formula Renault Champion 2014 GP2 2nd Place 2015 GP2 Champion 2016 Super Formula 4th Place
Esteban Ocon + Show Spoiler + 2013 Formula Renault 3rd Place 2014 European F3 Champion 2015 GP3 Champion
Mercedes AMG Petronas + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: Champion Drivers: Lewis Hamilton/Valtteri Bottas
RedBull Racing TAG-Heuer + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 2nd Drivers: Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen
Scuderia Ferrari + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 3rd Drivers: Sebastian Vettel/Kimi Raikkonen
Force India Mercedes + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 4th Drivers: Sergio Perez/Esteban Ocon
Williams Mercedes + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 5th Drivers: Lance Stroll/Felipe Massa
McLaren Honda + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 6th Drivers: Fernando Alonso/Stoffel Vandoorne
Scuderia Toro Rosso [spoiler] 2016 WCC Finish: 7th Drivers: Daniel Kvyat/Carlos Sainz Jr. [/spoiler
Haas Ferrari + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 8th Drivers: Romain Grosjean/Kevin Magnussen
Renault + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 9th] Drivers: Nico Hulkenberg/Jolyon Palmer
Sauber Ferrari + Show Spoiler + 2016 WCC Finish: 10th Drivers: Pascal Wehrlein/Marcus Ericsson
+ Show Spoiler + Oh sweet christ I need to dig through F1F for these
Australian Grand Prix (March 26th)
Chinese Grand Prix (April 9th)
Bahrain Grand Prix (April 16th)
Russian Grand Prix (April 30th)
Spanish Grand Prix (May 14th)
Monaco Grand Prix (May 28th)
Canadian Grand Prix (June 11th)
Azerbaijan Grand Prix (June 25th)
Austrian Grand Prix (July 9th)
British Grand Prix (July 16th)
Hungarian Grand Prix (July 30th)
Belgian Grand Prix (August 27th)
Italian Grand Prix (September 3rd)
Singapore Grand Prix (September 17th)
Malaysian Grand Prix (October 1st)
Japanese Grand Prix (October 8th)
United States Grand Prix (October 22nd)
Mexican Grand Prix (October 29th)
Brazilian Grand Prix (November 12th)
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (November 26th)
1: Peanuts 2-21: Everyone else
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Pre-Season (just barely) Polls!
WDC + Show Spoiler +Poll: Who Will Win the 2017 WDCLewis Hamilton (5) 36% Sebastian Vettel (2) 14% Kimi Raikkonen (2) 14% Valtteri Bottas (2) 14% Max Verstappen (1) 7% Esteban Ocon (1) 7% Danil Kvyat (1) 7% Kevin Magnussen (0) 0% Pascal Wehrlein (0) 0% Lance Stroll (0) 0% Felipe Massa (0) 0% Carlos Sainz Jr. (0) 0% Nico Hulkenberg (0) 0% Romain Grosjean (0) 0% Jolyon Palmer (0) 0% Stoffel Vandoorne (0) 0% Fernando Alonso (0) 0% Sergio Perez (0) 0% Daniel Ricciardo (0) 0% Marcus Ericsson (0) 0% 14 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win the 2017 WDC (Vote): Lewis Hamilton (Vote): Valtteri Bottas (Vote): Sebastian Vettel (Vote): Kimi Raikkonen (Vote): Daniel Ricciardo (Vote): Max Verstappen (Vote): Sergio Perez (Vote): Esteban Ocon (Vote): Fernando Alonso (Vote): Stoffel Vandoorne (Vote): Nico Hulkenberg (Vote): Jolyon Palmer (Vote): Romain Grosjean (Vote): Kevin Magnussen (Vote): Danil Kvyat (Vote): Carlos Sainz Jr. (Vote): Felipe Massa (Vote): Lance Stroll (Vote): Pascal Wehrlein (Vote): Marcus Ericsson
WCC + Show Spoiler +Poll: Who Will Win the 2017 WCC?Mercedes AMG Petronas (7) 64% RedBull Racing TAG-Heuer (1) 9% Scuderia Ferrari (1) 9% Scuderia Toro Rosso (1) 9% Haas F1 (1) 9% Williams Martini Racing (0) 0% Force India (0) 0% McLaren Honda (0) 0% Sauber Ferrari (0) 0% Renault (0) 0% 11 total votes Your vote: Who Will Win the 2017 WCC? (Vote): Mercedes AMG Petronas (Vote): RedBull Racing TAG-Heuer (Vote): Scuderia Ferrari (Vote): Scuderia Toro Rosso (Vote): Williams Martini Racing (Vote): Force India (Vote): McLaren Honda (Vote): Sauber Ferrari (Vote): Haas F1 (Vote): Renault
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I'm seriously hoping for a good battle at the front today
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Aye, good work on the new thread.
I am Hamilton fan but weirdly cheering for a strong Ferrari. Signs are good for a better inter team title race this year.
edit: Go on Bottas get in there! Show Hamilton he will have to fight this year.
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SoCal, USA3955 Posts
Ferrari to go to to toe with Mercedes? :D
McLaren stop hurting my heart.
lul, I wouldn't be surprised if there is some regret for his decsision.
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Thanks for the thread! Awesome work.
Wow what a start of the season! Ferrari and Merc will hopefully keep having a close battle all season long with RB in the rear mirror too. Having 6 legitimately fast drivers is like a dream.
Also, lol, took them 1h24min to finish the race Fastest in history?
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Might want to add Antonio Giovinazzi as a rookie and Sauber driver, did a great job replacing Pascal at such short notice and had a solid race. Pascal pulling out because he is apparently not fit enough but I don't see how that can change by China so wouldn't be surprised if Giovinazzi is racing there too.
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For the first time I'm actually caught up on F1 and can look at internet discussions. I spent the whole last F1 season with several races queued on my friend's DVR and had to avoid anything on the internet that might talk about it.
Having watched today's race, how do you guys think the new rules are working out for improving the spectator value of the sport? On the one hand, it's great to see an actual fight for 1st place. On the other hand, overtaking sure doesn't seem very easy right now, and if I understood correctly, the new tires make undercutting pretty hard too. That means you can almost just take a track position and then hold it for the rest of the race, unless you get screwed on pit/tire strategy.
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There was a lot of hype in Belgium for Stoffel Vandoorne, but apparently McLaren has a really shitty car. Unlucky
Quote from him after the race: "I will remember the positive point: the car was able to finish"
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On March 27 2017 14:57 ChristianS wrote: For the first time I'm actually caught up on F1 and can look at internet discussions. I spent the whole last F1 season with several races queued on my friend's DVR and had to avoid anything on the internet that might talk about it.
Having watched today's race, how do you guys think the new rules are working out for improving the spectator value of the sport? On the one hand, it's great to see an actual fight for 1st place. On the other hand, overtaking sure doesn't seem very easy right now, and if I understood correctly, the new tires make undercutting pretty hard too. That means you can almost just take a track position and then hold it for the rest of the race, unless you get screwed on pit/tire strategy.
according to drivers, this is much better. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128408
"If I watch a race, I prefer to see one good battle than 10 DRS passes on the straight."
tend to agree, overtaking was shit last years.
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Melbourne isn't exactly easy to overtake on to begin with, might give an indication but it's still hard to say.
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Couldn't watch, did my boy Max Verstappen get a good placement?
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On March 27 2017 17:00 Laurens wrote:There was a lot of hype in Belgium for Stoffel Vandoorne, but apparently McLaren has a really shitty car. Unlucky Quote from him after the race: "I will remember the positive point: the car was able to finish" That sounds pitiful because it seems like it should be a given, but I mean, 30% of the cars out there retired early, right? I assume that's because these are new cars still kinda being developed, so they don't know everything that can go wrong yet, but in that light it isn't nothing that the car was stable enough to finish.
Although if you're not in the points anyway, maybe you'd hope your car would fail somehow so you can learn more and maybe prevent a failure in a race where you could actually get points.
Edit: On March 28 2017 01:51 Pontual wrote: Couldn't watch, did my boy Max Verstappen got a good placement? Not bad, P5. Not really challenging the Ferraris like last season but given the weekend Red Bull had, Max has nothing to complain about.
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Charlie Sheens House51319 Posts
Red Bull need vast improvement to be competitive in the next race as well. Riccardo had a nightmare! Changed a gear box RACE 1! xD
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Watched formula 1 and all 3 moto gp races yesterday.
Formula 1 is so friggin boring, all 3 motogp races were pure awesome but formula 1? Lets make cars and tires even wider so its even more about pit stopps/strategy and not about actual racing.
Sry for hating, but i was actually pissed after the formula 1 race... Go watch the moto gp races, thats what this should be about.
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He only has one race under his belt and he is already trolled? Here in Montreal, the medias are talking a lot about Stroll, but they always characterize him as the son of a billionaire. I guess he will have to work hard to silence his detractors. Will see
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On March 29 2017 01:22 Poly_Optimize wrote:He only has one race under his belt and he is already trolled? Here in Montreal, the medias are talking a lot about Stroll, but they always characterize him as the son of a billionaire. I guess he will have to work hard to silence his detractors. Will see It that can make you feel better (ahem), this ignominy of a website was created before his first race.
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I mean, he crashed multiple times in testing. He has credentials, but these are the most intense cars we've seen in decades. For a rookie with only a single championship in the feeders, it's going to be a rough year. Unless he can post some points finishes, he's going to be followed by the rhetoric that the only reason why he has his seat is because of his father's money.
Red Bull pls.
I personally enjoyed the impact of the rule changes. Sure, there were fewer overtakes, but I still found the race exciting. It feels like there's once again an added level of the drivers fighting their own cars. I can't wait to see how many people lose it at Canada. honestly, the worse thing for the spectator experience is the new tire compounds allowing for single stop strategies across the board.
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On March 29 2017 06:25 peanuts wrote: I can't wait to see how many people lose it at Canada. honestly, the worse thing for the spectator experience is the new tire compounds allowing for single stop strategies across the board.
(I could be very wrong here, forgive me if I am)
A while back a single stop strat was a huuuuuuuuge gamble that made people excited. First off you couldn't see it coming usually. Usually you would see a car running out a lap or two past the max pit window. It would make you say "hey wait he didn't pit yet?!?!?" Then there was the build up of can he even hold out that extra turn to make it to the pit. Then you had that feeling of when would they actually pit and when they did, how fast it was going to be. There was all this build up that you don't get now that everyone is at least doing a single pit.
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