Official 2024 Australian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Official 2024 Australian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

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Total Members Polled: 129

Perez: 30%
Leclerc: 19%
Sainz: 21%
Hamilton: 11%
Russell: 2%
Norris: 9%
Piastri: 5%
Alonso: 3%
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DanielSan

18,835 posts

168 months

Friday 22nd March
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dobly said:
Yep, studio in London with Karun operating a bigger skypad from there. Martin, Ted, Crofty and Rachel on the ground in Albert Park. Not sure if there is another former driver yet to join the Sky team this weekend.
Crowds look massive in the warmish sunshine for an FP1 session.
A couple of exciting spins in the second half of the initial session - good saves from Russell and Botas at turn 10, Albon not so lucky at turn 6.
Top 10 within half a second - looks promising for a close race at this stage.

Edited by dobly on Friday 22 March 03:06
Quali will possibly be close, the race will be for 2nd

Sandpit Steve

10,256 posts

75 months

Friday 22nd March
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That was an awfullly close session, it’s only practice 1 but a tenth covered the top six cars!

Crowd almost Silverstone-esque for a Friday, great to see.

Sandpit Steve

10,256 posts

75 months

Friday 22nd March
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P2 underway.

Albon will miss this session, car not repaired in time.

595Heaven

2,430 posts

79 months

Friday 22nd March
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And may not have a car for the rest of the weekend if the rumour that there is no spare tub is true…


Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,802 posts

186 months

Friday 22nd March
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Confirmed no spare tub. A new low for Williams.

Sandpit Steve

10,256 posts

75 months

Friday 22nd March
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Piginapoke said:
Confirmed no spare tub. A new low for Williams.
That’s really not good!

F1TV said that the production processes at Williams were so bad that they were running the whole thing on spreadsheets!

Only having two tubs built by the third race isn’t good, it’s not as if you can do carbon fibre repairs in a few hours at the track. I do wonder if the car is going to be withdrawn, or if the team are looking for someone in Melbourne who might be able to fix it overnight to the FIA’s standards?

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,802 posts

186 months

Friday 22nd March
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Still, Ferrari looking v good so far.

Sandpit Steve

10,256 posts

75 months

Friday 22nd March
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MV helmetcam is brilliant.

F1 spent millions developing this technology over several years with the lid manufacturers, money well spent.

Sandpit Steve

10,256 posts

75 months

Friday 22nd March
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Piginapoke said:
Still, Ferrari looking v good so far.
Race pace looking very good for the red cars. Let’s hope they can take it to the Red Bull and make a good race of it.

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,802 posts

186 months

Friday 22nd March
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Yep. Hamilton in 18th, ouch!

NRS

22,251 posts

202 months

Friday 22nd March
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DanielSan said:
dobly said:
Yep, studio in London with Karun operating a bigger skypad from there. Martin, Ted, Crofty and Rachel on the ground in Albert Park. Not sure if there is another former driver yet to join the Sky team this weekend.
Crowds look massive in the warmish sunshine for an FP1 session.
A couple of exciting spins in the second half of the initial session - good saves from Russell and Botas at turn 10, Albon not so lucky at turn 6.
Top 10 within half a second - looks promising for a close race at this stage.

Edited by dobly on Friday 22 March 03:06
Quali will possibly be close, the race will be for 2nd
Not convinced the race will be close, people keep forgetting that the cars are closest in quali, once the race starts the different designs mean the cars are affected by tyre wear at different rates meaning a more spaced out grid pretty quickly.

dobly

1,209 posts

160 months

Friday 22nd March
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Leclerc looks to be most comfortable - Max, and the rest, not quite there yet.

nnnitram

47 posts

2 months

Friday 22nd March
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Danny Ric continuing to embarrass himself. The sooner they DeVries this loser the better for everyone.

Smollet

10,683 posts

191 months

Friday 22nd March
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nnnitram said:
Danny Ric continuing to embarrass himself. The sooner they DeVries this loser the better for everyone.
He's not exactly covering himself in glory unless Tsunoda has completely reinvented himself

rallycross

12,850 posts

238 months

Friday 22nd March
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Piginapoke said:
Confirmed no spare tub. A new low for Williams.
That’s a shocker
Are any other teams in the same mess?

isaldiri

18,749 posts

169 months

Friday 22nd March
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Smollet said:
nnnitram said:
Danny Ric continuing to embarrass himself. The sooner they DeVries this loser the better for everyone.
He's not exactly covering himself in glory unless Tsunoda has completely reinvented himself
Much more likely that Ricciardo is simply doing what he has done for the past few years rather than Tsunoda suddenly getting very good.....

snotrag

14,503 posts

212 months

Friday 22nd March
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I totally understand why they've done it but the green screen studio back in the UK is bloody awful.

PlywoodPascal

4,334 posts

22 months

Friday 22nd March
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snotrag said:
I totally understand why they've done it but the green screen studio back in the UK is bloody awful.
It’s a bit ‘football football football”




TikTak

1,587 posts

20 months

Friday 22nd March
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Missed this thread entirely.

Went for a Ferrari second place with LeClerc. Wasn't sure about the Sainz situation and feel like this is the kind of place Perez will bin it or qualify 8th and not move up.

DanielSan

18,835 posts

168 months

Friday 22nd March
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Albon has been given Sargeants car for the rest of the weekend. If they have that little faith in Sargesbt why keep him on for this season?