2024 F1 Thread

[jastel]

Best part was Vettel in the old Senna McLaren with a proper noisy engine.

 

[Flashback]

Baku getting ready for their race (a bit early), or just didn't clean up after properly?

 

[SeatBackForward]

Baku getting ready for their race (a bit early), or just didn't clean up after properly?
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Immediately reminded me of this scene from the Pink Panther movies:

 

[moa999]

McLaren with another awesome Monaco livery (after Gulf Oil in prior years).
They didn't go the full out M smoking livery as teased.. rather a Brazil senna tribute.

 

[MARTINE]

McLaren with another awesome Monaco livery (after Gulf Oil in prior years).
They didn't go the full out M smoking livery as teased.. rather a Brazil senna tribute.

Thanks.
Really enjoyed watching Aryton Senna and Ratzenberger tributes arranged by Seb Vettel too. What a star

 

[kookaburra75]

I've been watching the F2 and F3 Sprint Races and the feature Races. Much better value than the F1. Fantastic close racing, giving it their all.

 

[DejaBrew]

I've been watching the F2 and F3 Sprint Races and the feature Races. Much better value than the F1. Fantastic close racing, giving it their all.

F2/3 is always entertaining, but then again, it’s far greater risk vs reward for those young drivers.

 

[MARTINE]

I will not moz this race -

It is still

 

[MARTINE]

It is still

 

[Brissy1]

Didn't watch Monaco last night, I knew the grid positions .

 

[TheRealTMA]

Didn't watch Monaco last night, I knew the grid positions .

Didn't miss much. Apart from stupidity of the crash on lap one, the rest was the usual boring stuff.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Tears of joy for Charles Leclerc but 'boring' Monaco GP raises fresh questions over race's future

This was not a Monaco Grand Prix which will live long in the memory.

www.telegraph.co.uk

This was not a Monaco Grand Prix which will live long in the memory. As Max Verstappen remarked somewhat wearily over his radio midway through proceedings: “cough* me this is boring. I should have brought my pillow.”

 

[mel-world]

I was bored and I only watched the 20 min Mini on KAYO. I think they cut from about lap 50 to the last half lap.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I was bored and I only watched the 20 min Mini on KAYO. I think they cut from about lap 50 to the last half lap.

I dozed off then FF when I woke to find nothing had changed. Most boring race of the year.

 

[moa999]

The commentators tried hard to bring strategy into it.. but think Ferrari did a great job managing it, then the stops from HAM and VER ended any chance of it.

Apparently Oscar grazed one of the walls with 5 laps to go which caused the sudden gap to appear.

 

[DejaBrew]

The commentators tried hard to bring strategy into it.. but think Ferrari did a great job managing it, then the stops from HAM and VER ended any chance of it.

^ This. Not great for those of us spectating, but superb race management from Ferrari knowing that they would always be under serious threat from McLaren.

Was great to see LEC take it out and get that monkey off his back. Despite the lacklustre racing, it was a very emotional victory for him and made for one of those "feel good" stories we like to see in F1. Plus, it's another race that was not dominated by VER or RBR, so that's also a positive. In fact, that's now 3 of 8 races - and so very nearly 4 of 8 - this year that have not been won by VER, which already puts the '24 season ahead of last year's Championship.

As for the lap 1 crash... very surprised that K-Mag wasn't penalised as there was never enough room for that move. Real shame for Hulk and Checo as neither deserved to have their races ended like that. And as for Ocon....

Wonder if Alpine are going to bench him for a race and give Jack Doohan an opportunity to show what he can do?

 

[cjd600]

Poor Checo down the back with the loose cannons lol

May have been slightly more interesting if not for Carlos' free ticket on the restart after his puncture , and Oscar and Lando were right behind Charles to have a go and play some games...

 

[jastel]

Hope Doohan gets a go. That is the thoughts going around.