2024 F1 SUPPORT RACES THREAD - F2, F3, ACADEMY *SPOILERS*

[Big Nanas]

Amateur hour returns, it seems. Was that two cars that didn't have their wheels attached properly? Insane.

[Sandpit Steve]

Ooh, comedy pitstops.

Thankfully no-one injured, big fines incoming for those two teams.

[Adrian W]

Sandpit Steve said:

Ooh, comedy pitstops.

Thankfully no-one injured, big fines incoming for those two teams.

Be a bit unfair if the Redbull gets a penalty, they probably didn't expect to get hit by a flying wheel

[Sandpit Steve]

Adrian W said:

Sandpit Steve said:

Ooh, comedy pitstops.

Thankfully no-one injured, big fines incoming for those two teams.

Be a bit unfair if the Redbull gets a penalty, they probably didn't expect to get hit by a flying wheel

Unfortunate to be involved in someone else’s accident, but they still let their own car go with only three wheels attached, and risked serious injury to the dozens of people in the pit lane, many of whom were distracted by the first flying wheel.

[Sandpit Steve]

Porsches being Porsches.

[Adrian W]

Sandpit Steve said:

Porsches being Porsches.

Other than cars crashing into each other and driving off the track, have there been any overtakes?

[Sandpit Steve]

Adrian W said:

Sandpit Steve said:

Porsches being Porsches.

Other than cars crashing into each other and driving off the track, have there been any overtakes?

One or two at the back, which is one or two more than we’re going to see in Monaco next weekend!

[asfault]

decentish solid result for Antonellli 4th in the main race and fluffed his start in the sprint.
Bearman throwing away a good chance of a win with stalling.

[PRO5T]

Amateur hour for the F3 crowd in the only free practice.

[TheDeuce]

PRO5T said:

Amateur hour for the F3 crowd in the only free practice.

ffs, forgot that was today

[TheDeuce]

TheDeuce said:

PRO5T said:

Amateur hour for the F3 crowd in the only free practice.

ffs, forgot that was today

Caught up now.

They've had something of an education today haven't they

Imagine being a first timer at Monaco, green track and then it rains... Good practice for any first timer crane operators here too!

[TheDeuce]

Wet track, gonna be a bloodbath for F2 practice now.


ETA: lol, fittipaldi crashed as I hit the 'submit' button on the above

Edited by TheDeuce on Thursday 23 May 14:06

[Sandpit Steve]

Aaarrrggghhhhh, had forgotten the support race practice sessions were still on Thursday at Monaco!

Will catch up tonight, it’s not usually an easy weekend for the kids.

[TheDeuce]

Sandpit Steve said:

Aaarrrggghhhhh, had forgotten the support race practice sessions were still on Thursday at Monaco!

Will catch up tonight, it’s not usually an easy weekend for the kids.

I nearly forgot too..

Enjoy the catch up, it's been two pointless yet quite dramatic sessions thus far

[andycaca]

It's looking lovely and sunny for F3 qually this morning

[andycaca]

This is an interesting qually format, splitting the cars into two groups (odd and even numbers) and sending them out group at a time.

[Sandpit Steve]

andycaca said:

This is an interesting qually format, splitting the cars into two groups (odd and even numbers) and sending them out group at a time.

They’ve done it for a few years at Monaco now, it avoids the total chaos that would result from having 30 cars on track at the same time.

Edited by Sandpit Steve on Friday 24th May 12:04

[Castellet]

Seen it elsewhere in other series.
Can cause an imbalance in results if one group gets a clear session and the other suffers red flags.
Thought Hadjar’s near miss in the Tunnel showed skilful reactions - could have been very nasty.

[ajprice]

Castellet said:

Seen it elsewhere in other series.
Can cause an imbalance in results if one group gets a clear session and the other suffers red flags.
Thought Hadjar’s near miss in the Tunnel showed skilful reactions - could have been very nasty.

Definitely a code brown... https://x.com/ahmed_baokbah/status/179399756976660...

[paulguitar]

ajprice said:

Castellet said:

Seen it elsewhere in other series.
Can cause an imbalance in results if one group gets a clear session and the other suffers red flags.
Thought Hadjar’s near miss in the Tunnel showed skilful reactions - could have been very nasty.

Definitely a code brown... https://x.com/ahmed_baokbah/status/179399756976660...