Official 2023 Australian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Official 2023 Australian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Poll: Official 2023 Australian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Total Members Polled: 170

Verstappen: 63%
Perez: 4%
Leclerc: 2%
Sainz: 1%
Hamilton: 11%
Russell: 4%
Alonso: 16%
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paulguitar

23,591 posts

114 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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honda_exige said:
When do we start talking about Albon getting another shot at a big team?

Think he's driving himself into replacing Perez and a 2nd shot at the RB seat if they skip Danny Ricc.

Dominated Latifi by the same margin as Russell last year and is pretty effortlessly dealing with a highly rated Sargeant.
Hard to forget how much he struggled at RB though.

honda_exige

6,036 posts

207 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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eastsider said:
Why does everyone rate Zac at McLaren so highly? Been going backwards for several seasons now.
He's not team principal so this cluster fk is on Seidl if anything.

I've said before that Seidl knew how bad the car was this year and jumped ship before people had an opportunity to start pointing fingers at him while his stock was high. Clever by him.

motomk

2,153 posts

245 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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120,000+ people here, over 300,000 first 3 days, Gulp.










honda_exige

6,036 posts

207 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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paulguitar said:
honda_exige said:
When do we start talking about Albon getting another shot at a big team?

Think he's driving himself into replacing Perez and a 2nd shot at the RB seat if they skip Danny Ricc.

Dominated Latifi by the same margin as Russell last year and is pretty effortlessly dealing with a highly rated Sargeant.
Hard to forget how much he struggled at RB though.
He was SO inexperienced though. Would give RB the chance to still claim they're running an RB academy driver in a way.

Sandpit Steve

10,125 posts

75 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Looks like it might be about to rain, just as Q3 gets underway.

Sandpit Steve

10,125 posts

75 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Alonso P1 biggrin

Now Lewis P1 biggrinbiggrin

Sandpit Steve

10,125 posts

75 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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VER
RUS
HAM
ALO
SAI
STR
LEC
ALB
GAS
HUL

Smile on Toto’s face.

GAjon

3,737 posts

214 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Very poor TV coverage this event.

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,771 posts

186 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Top 10 covered by 1 second, good to see. Well done George and Alex, two brilliant laps

Niponeoff

2,132 posts

28 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Mercedes pulling it out the bag! Should be a good first lap

GiantCardboardPlato

4,236 posts

22 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Really enjoyable qualifying session i thought. Constantly evolving with a few twists and turns, Hulkenberg and Albon doing a great job. Alonso show Lance where he really is. David Croft totally unable to see Verstappen’ s first Q3 lap was woeful and there was a clear 0.5-0.8 sec improvement in it for free.

ChocolateFrog

25,538 posts

174 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Should make for a interesting start tomorrow.

Going to put my neck out and say Russell/Hamilton/Alonso won't get round the first lap without some contact.

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,771 posts

186 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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GiantCardboardPlato said:
Really enjoyable qualifying session i thought. Constantly evolving with a few twists and turns, Hulkenberg and Albon doing a great job. Alonso show Lance where he really is. David Croft totally unable to see Verstappen’ s first Q3 lap was woeful and there was a clear 0.5-0.8 sec improvement in it for free.
Or be able to notice that Verstappen’s final Q3 lap was a banger….

Niponeoff

2,132 posts

28 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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GiantCardboardPlato said:
Really enjoyable qualifying session i thought. Constantly evolving with a few twists and turns, Hulkenberg and Albon doing a great job. Alonso show Lance where he really is. David Croft totally unable to see Verstappen’ s first Q3 lap was woeful and there was a clear 0.5-0.8 sec improvement in it for free.
He said it's a good first time and the track is evolving or words to that effect. Compared it to last year's best time which was the all out record (not surprising given it was a new faster track)

I didn't hear any indication that it was the best possible.

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,771 posts

186 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Lewis spoke well I thought. Merc must be hopeful for tomorrow

GiantCardboardPlato

4,236 posts

22 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Love it, when the interview asked LH About being onside alonso I was also thinking of 2007.



Edited by GiantCardboardPlato on Saturday 1st April 07:24

Aids0G

508 posts

150 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Piginapoke said:
Lewis spoke well I thought. Merc must be hopeful for tomorrow
I liked the reference to 2007, fighting talk! Still can’t see past a Max win but it should be a good race!

GiantCardboardPlato

4,236 posts

22 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Niponeoff said:
He said it's a good first time and the track is evolving or words to that effect. Compared it to last year's best time which was the all out record (not surprising given it was a new faster track)

I didn't hear any indication that it was the best possible.
Yeah, but it was a st first time, not a good first time, Max made 3-4 mistakes on that lap visible from watching from the external cameras (i.e. big mistakes). He had a snap of oversteer out of turn three, he clouted a kerb early in sector two, he ran deep somewhere in there too, and then he had to get off the power slightly coming out of the second part of the fast kink in sector three (turn 11?). It was a visibly mistake ridden lap, not a good lap for the track conditions.

Edited by GiantCardboardPlato on Saturday 1st April 07:24

PhilAsia

3,853 posts

76 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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Not Jos Verstappen: "Yeah, I almost hit a bird..." rofl

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,771 posts

186 months

Saturday 1st April 2023
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PhilAsia said:
Not Jos Verstappen: "Yeah, I almost hit a bird..." rofl
Jos?