Official 2023 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Official 2023 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Poll: Official 2023 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Total Members Polled: 168

Verstappen: 60%
Perez: 11%
Leclerc: 3%
Sainz: 1%
Hamilton: 7%
Russell: 1%
Alonso: 15%
Stroll: 3%
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vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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mat205125 said:
Get in the queue.
Wouldn't work at some pits (like Monaco) where there is so little space. You just let them serve it within X laps, allowing the team to decide if it is likely to be empty.

Sixpackpert

4,538 posts

213 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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zsdom said:
Just shown my son this as an example of being the better man…well just any kind of man tbh.

mat205125

17,790 posts

212 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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vaud said:
mat205125 said:
Get in the queue. or go around again if there's no room to queue ....... and blame your team for not telling you to abort in time, if they could see others coming in to serve penalties
Wouldn't work at some pits (like Monaco) where there is so little space. You just let them serve it within X laps, allowing the team to decide if it is likely to be empty.
EFA

Thought of Monaco when I refrained from suggesting a "joker lap" situation, especially given the amount of real estate that'd be needed to add five seconds to a lap duration.

Siao

808 posts

39 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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honda_exige said:
Watching your hate boners for RB and Max really is entertaining hehe

Radio transcript below, Checo never even asked to go for fastest lap so ergo, wasn't told not to go for it.

And as Horner said, Checo made an attempt for fastest lap of his own volition, screwed up sector 1 and abandoned the attempt.

Checo is a clever chap, he seems to intentionally play the victim card to engender support.

Also shows that RB weren't asking him to go slower than Max, they asked for a 32.6, the same laptime as Max.












Edited by honda_exige on Monday 20th March 08:25
Hi mate, can I ask where you got the transcripts?

Stealthracer

7,641 posts

177 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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"No person or equipment may touch the car until the penalty has been served, with the exception of the driver and the front jack."

Sorted!

(Front jack is needed to guide the car into the box.)

honda_exige

5,980 posts

205 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Sixpackpert said:
zsdom said:
Just shown my son this as an example of being the better man…well just any kind of man tbh.
Jos is a piece of st but again, tabloid bks has no place here.

Jos clasping hands with Checo:


honda_exige

5,980 posts

205 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Siao said:
Hi mate, can I ask where you got the transcripts?
Saw it posted on Reddit smile

audi321

5,156 posts

212 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Daston said:
the FIA clearly don't have sky, otherwise they would have known (from Crofts constant comments) they they can ride along with any driver via the red button.
Quote of the day for me lol

RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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honda_exige said:
Jos is a piece of st but again, tabloid bks has no place here.
Says the man who, using red-top language, wrote:

honda_exige said:
Watching your hate boners for RB and Max really is entertaining hehe

Siao

808 posts

39 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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honda_exige said:
Saw it posted on Reddit smile
Ok, thank you

ZX10R NIN

27,494 posts

124 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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sparta6 said:
honda_exige said:
Hamilton saying the RB is the most dominant car he's ever seen.

Gave me a little chuckle that he'd forget 2014 and 2016 already. Spain 2014 they lapped every car up to 6th!

https://the-race.com/formula-1/hamilton-2023-red-b...
hehe
straight into drama queen 5 mins after his nanny disembarked.

Wollf disagrees:

Lewis Hamilton - who knows a thing about domination, having experienced it for a number of years with Mercedes - said he had "never seen a car so fast".

"When we were fast, we weren't that fast," the seven-time champion said. "That is the fastest car I have seen compared to the rest."

His team principal Toto Wolff disagreed - "we have had those years when we were as strong," he said - but then underlined the hard truth that Red Bull are demonstrating this year, just as Mercedes did from 2014-16 and again in 2020.
Hamilton is right though HE HASN'T seen a car that fast before & the reason he hasn't seen a car that fast before is because HE WAS SAT IN IT!!!!!!! biglaugh In 2014/16/20

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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I think the advantage Redbull have now is very similar to what Mercedes had in the early years of the hybrid era. I just hope Perez can keep Verstappen as honest over the course of a season as Rosberg generally did Hamilton.

This may not be the most dominant car we've seen in recent seasons, but it is potentially the most dominant car and driver pairing since Schumacher was at Ferrari. Personally, I have no problem with that as long as they are all above board from now on; if Redbull can build a car a second a lap quicker than everyone else, they deserve to win everything. That's what F1 has always been about.

Edited by kambites on Monday 20th March 18:35

paulguitar

23,104 posts

112 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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kambites said:
I think the advantage Redbull have now is very similar to what Mercedes had in the early years of the hybrid era. I just hope Perez can keep Verstappen as honest over the course of a season as Rosberg generally did Hamilton.
Yep, agreed. But there's no way Perez will be any kind of consistent threat to Verstappen.



GiantCardboardPlato

4,052 posts

20 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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honda_exige said:
Jos is a piece of st but again, tabloid bks has no place here.

Jos clasping hands with Checo:

you can really see their hands in that.

Gad-Westy

14,521 posts

212 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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GiantCardboardPlato said:
honda_exige said:
Jos is a piece of st but again, tabloid bks has no place here.

Jos clasping hands with Checo:

you can really see their hands in that.
The stewards say there is definite contact there.

rallycross

12,747 posts

236 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Gad-Westy said:
The stewards say there is definite contact there.
Haha brilliant !

carl_w

9,154 posts

257 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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kambites said:
I think the advantage Redbull have now is very similar to what Mercedes had in the early years of the hybrid era. I just hope Perez can keep Verstappen as honest over the course of a season as Rosberg generally did Hamilton.
Yes in 2014 Williams came 3rd in the WCC and Bottas 4th in the WDC just by having the right engine in the back. Williams repeated their WCC 3rd in 2015.


thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Gad-Westy said:
GiantCardboardPlato said:
honda_exige said:
Jos is a piece of st but again, tabloid bks has no place here.

Jos clasping hands with Checo:

you can really see their hands in that.
The stewards say there is definite contact there.
Will be overturned on appeal shortly, on the grounds that no agreement was reached between all the teams that any form of contact constituted 'congratulating the other driver'.

Sandpit Steve

9,885 posts

73 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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thegreenhell said:
Will be overturned on appeal shortly, on the grounds that no agreement was reached between all the teams that any form of contact constituted 'congratulating the other driver'.
Even if there was contact, there’s no agreement that contact between the two represents ‘congratulating the other driver’.

Siao

808 posts

39 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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GiantCardboardPlato said:
honda_exige said:
Jos is a piece of st but again, tabloid bks has no place here.

Jos clasping hands with Checo:

you can really see their hands in that.
Apart from joking, there was a video in instagram showing them actually clasping hands. The angle is terrible, but you can see it happening.