As nothing else has been posted, I figured I’d open this up to discussion.
A brilliant race, I thought. Lots of fantastic battles. An intelligent strategy from Ferrari. Not too chaotic or arbitrary. Albon fighting on 40-lap old tires for a huge P7.
How’d everyone else enjoy it?
Yo why is this thread still here?!
Such a great effort for Albon… easy DotD, and huge for Williams in the lower WCC battle. Hope it’s a sign that the Williams upgrades are decent & we may see more of it.
Russell cracked under the pressure of trying to stay on the back of Alonso… absolutely insane that the car almost finished the race after that hit… I was surprised it finished the lap! F1 cars are made of strong stuff these days.
Max mega as ever… ominous that Newey appears to be fully invested in F1 again after a few years where he seemed to drift away.
I know Max doesn’t need the help but my god Perez does not deserve that Red Bull put Norris in it or something.
Put Albon back in that car, now that he has the experience. He’s proving how good he is at Williams.
Great idea. Do RB still have an option on him?
+1 for putting Norris in as a fan. However if I was Red Bull management I’d keep giving him one year contracts until be becomes a liability. They’ve got constructors nailed on and a clear driver hierarchy. It’s ideal for them.
Yeah they need what Bottas was to Hamilton, up there but never making a serious challenge for number 1 like Rosberg did. Then again Max is so dominant that maybe fixing what’s not broken isn’t an issue.
My observations are more on the community than the race…
- This community was amazing this weekend. I was quite active in /r/formula1 and was apprehensive about a race weekend without them. But I don’t feel like I missed anything being here instead. News about major developments got posted here, and the discussion was great. If other race weekends are this active, this is my new f1 home without doubt.
- Moderation was great, warning people about stuff that’s gonna be against the rules next week, while being chill about the fact that they’re not finalized and everything was clear but just real non-confrontational. Thanks mods.
- I thought a single discussion post for the weekend would be ok, but for me it wasn’t. I was lost in the main thread by the time qualy started and struggling to find new comments or figure out what session a comment-chain was about. It significantly hampered my ability to follow things and I contributed less to the discussion thread as a result. In a change from my take when we were planning last week, I’m now strongly in favor of per-session discussion threads plus a post-race thread like this one. If the modbot situation isn’t clear to the moderation team within a couple weeks of Lemmy v18 coming out, I’m willing to pitch in here to get a bot that can schedule posts for us in advance. With the big API changes coming in v18 of Lemmy, I don’t think there’s much point in trying to get it sorted prior to then. It’s likely that any bot that works in v17 will be broken on v18, so I think we just get it going once all the modteam’s instances are upgraded to v18.
It’s interesting you should say this, as my impression of the sub was the it was dead! I imagine this is a teething issue for the fediverse but when I looked there was no race thread, so I started one! Now I look at Top - Week and see a whole bunch of stuff I never spotted before.
Very weird.
It was dead 2w ago, but really came alive this weekend. If you were missing posts after they were made, check your language settings and make sure BOTH eng and undefined are selected (or nothing selected seems to work ok as well). Overly restrictive language limits can hide lots of posts that don’t specify language.
I took over this sub 16 days ago, when we had 36 users /month. Now we have 10x that and close to 3000 members.
The growth in the last two weeks has been insane.
Thanks for the shout out in your original comment. With any luck I’ll be getting the rules set up later today. I’ll make a post when I do. So far so good though, the general behaviour in this community has been great.
Good strategy from Ferrari? The end times are nigh
The strategy was scary! Maybe with Meckies off to a new team someone else is getting a say
I think they used all the bad choices with sainz… although I can’t blame them, a race here with no SC was really an oddity.
Favorite moment was Alonso’s pit telling him Hamilton was just 1.9s behind. “Okay, leave it to me.” And then suddenly it was a 6 second gap.
What the heck happened with Checo? He should have had a podium, but just got lost in a DRS train I guess?
It seems like he’s just lost confidence or something… he’s not in the all time greats category but he should be able to push a little harder
I can’t understand how Perez just couldn’t compete with Ferrari’s pace at all. Not his best circuit.
Not his best season.
not the best driver.
But what did Lando do though?
My understanding is that he slowed down on the race track leading up to pit entry so that McLaren could double-stack him after Piastri. It’s against the rules to deliberately go slow and impede like that.