2024 F1 Thread

[docjames]

Heinz-Harold Frenzen has been active on X (twitter) - he was close friends with Roland and like many thought very highly of Ayrton. Related his guilt regarding strongly campaigning for Roland to get an F1 seat.

He lost a friend and an idol in 24hrs. Worth reading some of his posts for some context on that time.

 

[DejaBrew]

Newey free to join rival teams in 2025

Interesting excerpts -:

…it is understood that he will no longer play an active role in technical developments at the team and will not be involved in meetings on future car progress.

While Newey originally had a contract that ran until the end of 2025, and had a further non-compete clause that could have sidelined him for another 12 months, his legal representatives have agreed with Red Bull to an earlier parting of ways.

Red Bull has announced that Newey’s contract will end in the first quarter of next year, with it understood that from March he will in theory be free to join a rival outfit.

It is understood that Newey has ruled out any interest in going to Aston Martin, but Ferrari does remain an option – with it suggested that team principal Fred Vasseur met privately with the famed F1 designer on Tuesday to try to move things forward.

 

[MARTINE]

Newey free to join rival teams in 2025

Interesting excerpts -:

In my medicolegal career we specialized in the art of reading between the lines. It is what’s not written that is interesting here….

 

[prozac]

So maybe this has already been discussed, but listening to the news sport segment tonight they reported on F1. Of-course no F1 report cannot include the mention of Max Vestappen. Did you notice I did not write SH in place of the S, so why do news readers insist on pronouncing poor Max's name as Vershtappen?

 

[Flashback]

Some great defending by RIC to hold off SAI in the sprint race, for a nice 4th place finish. Hilarious with the own goal from HAM to then drop down 20 seconds at the end by getting caught speeding in the pit lane. A nice collection of points for RB (4th and 8th).

 

[DejaBrew]

Some great defending by RIC to hold off SAI in the sprint race, for a nice 4th place finish. Hilarious with the own goal from HAM to then drop down 20 seconds at the end by getting caught speeding in the pit lane. A nice collection of points for RB (4th and 8th).

Yep, great result for Danny in the sprint race and a real shot in the arm for his season. Not going to be too critical of him for missing out in Quali (as he seemed to suffer largely from similar issues as Norris did in Sprint Quali with lack of rear grip) and his Quali was always going to be hampered by his unfortunate 3-place grid penalty. Hopefully he can recover well as I think he's otherwise pretty quick at Miami.

 

[Auton]

Yep, great result for Danny in the sprint race and a real shot in the arm for his season. Not going to be too critical of him for missing out in Quali (as he seemed to suffer largely from similar issues as Norris did in Sprint Quali with lack of rear grip) and his Quali was always going to be hampered by his unfortunate 3-place grid penalty. Hopefully he can recover well as I think he's otherwise pretty quick at Miami.

It was surely an impressive performance from him in the sprint race but he should be scoring some points in the main races too. Yuki has been outperforming him consistently this season.

 

[DejaBrew]

It was surely an impressive performance from him in the sprint race but he should be scoring some points in the main races too. Yuki has been outperforming him consistently this season.

Don’t disagree with you. Hopefully he’s starting to turn his season around.

 

[MARTINE]

Its a great race halfway through.. hope Piastri gets a podium

 

[MARTINE]

Its a great race halfway through.. hope Piastri gets a podium

Why did I post thst

 

[cjd600]

Why did I post thst

All the luck went to the other side of the garage. Poor Oscar.

 

[jastel]

Good for Lando to get a win...remains to be seen if it is an ongoing thing...

Best Quote -

Brundle - MAG has his own seat at the stewards office!

 

[travelislife]

Problem is that 4K is only available via supported devices. If you're using something else, then you'll only ever get the HD stream.

Kayo sent me a free Hubbl (Hubbl | TV and streaming made easy) as even though my TV is 4K and is listed as supported it would always pop up and say 4K not supported when I started watching. Miami is first weekend I have had it and 4K picture is a massive step up. But there is some bug that Hubbl Kayo app doesn’t appear to have all the same content. So I had to watch the Qualifying back in HD through normal TV app.

 

[cjd600]

Kayo sent me a free Hubbl (Hubbl | TV and streaming made easy) as even though my TV is 4K and is listed as supported it would always pop up and say 4K not supported when I started watching. Miami is first weekend I have had it and 4K picture is a massive step up. But there is some big that Hubbl Kayo app doesn’t appear to have all the same content. So I had to watch the Qualifying back in HD through normal TV app.

Weird it doesnt have the same content...good to know

 

[travelislife]

Weird it doesnt have the same content...good to know

Yea I dunno. Maybe I was ‘driving’ it wrong! It’s a completely different interface.

 

[docjames]

Geez Norris lucked out - took all of Piastri’s luck and then some.

Car was fast enough to hold the position though so did what he had to once he had track position.

Love Verstappen complaining about front grip - that’s what happens when you aren‘t running in clear air out the front!

 

[jastel]

Kayo sent me a free Hubbl (Hubbl | TV and streaming made easy) as even though my TV is 4K and is listed as supported it would always pop up and say 4K not supported when I started watching. Miami is first weekend I have had it and 4K picture is a massive step up. But there is some bug that Hubbl Kayo app doesn’t appear to have all the same content. So I had to watch the Qualifying back in HD through normal TV app.

I'd be happy with the HD stream, mine keeps going to blurry looking VHS quality from the 1990's.
Its not buffering...though it sometimes does this as well...but just cough picture.
Dont have 4K TV anyway.

 

[moa999]

Reportedly Max's car had quite a bit of floor damage from the bollard, so maybe a reason Lando was able to escape so easily after the restart

 

[serfty]

I'd be happy with the HD stream, mine keeps going to blurry looking VHS quality from the 1990's.
Its not buffering...though it sometimes does this as well...but just cough picture.
Dont have 4K TV anyway.

My 2 year flirtation with Kayo died last year when they basically eliminated most discounted subscriptions. It was sometime painful to watch anyway as 5% of the time it would go into the buffering wheel of woe/wait. (This at their end - nothing wrong with our internet speeds.)

So I did without last year as I was not going to spend $360 PA on adding Sports to our Foxtel.

Three months ago, Foxtel basically eliminated all optional packages, seemingly force moving all existing subscribers on to "Platinum Plus", which is basically everything other than "+Netflix". The new subscription includes 4K where available, sports and movies. We don't have buffering issues with Foxtel.

We were "grandfathered" for an additional $3 per month - this is more than $50 per month less than that for new subscribers. (I wonder how long that will last.)

 

[MARTINE]

Reportedly Max's car had quite a bit of floor damage from the bollard, so maybe a reason Lando was able to escape so easily after the restart

Should not date a bollard - swipe left