Auto Racing Thread

[Gabai]

Jeddah and Bahrain are in April so those are the most likely to get canceled. Question would be do they go somewhere else for those weekends or just leave a gap after Japan?

[6souls]

https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/4...-grand-prix-on

Australian Grand Prix avoids disruption after chartering planes to avoid using the Middle East as a half-way point for staff. As much as a quarter of the staff were expected to miss the race had travel not been resolved.

[Krandor]

The continual updates on how completely ass Aston Martin's car is is genuinely impressive.

The latest report is that the drivers have to limit the number of consecutive laps in the car or risk nerve damage.

[Obsidian]

To be fair that would probably be true for Lance regardless of which car he was driving.

[Obsidian]

So based on FP today, Aston Martin is just fucked this year huh.

Edit: They also only have 2 batteries left already, lmao. If one dies this weekend they are cooked.

[Krandor]

Most of the reporting going into the race is that their plan is to retire after the first few laps because the drivers couldn't handle a full race worth of the vibrations.

[synistar]

These regulations made the cars into death traps.

[Obsidian]

That crash for Max is kind of nuts. Just going dead straight, started to brake, rear locked up and sent him flying into the wall.

[synistar]

Race hasn't even started and Piastri out of the GP

[Krandor]

From the onboard it looks like the car unexpectedly boosted and he wasn't ready for it.

[Krandor]

Leclerc shot off like a fucking rocket goddamn

[Obsidian]

5 cars retired before lap 20, lol.

[Krandor]

Well Mercedes and George at least like the new regs

[synistar]

To the surprise of no one, Bahrain and Saudi GPs are reported to be cancelled.

[Salodin]

To the surprise of no one, Bahrain and Saudi GPs are reported to be cancelled.

Good.

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[Demosthenes]

Now cancel them permanently.

[Obsidian]

Maybe one day Oscar will actually get to start a race this season.

[Salodin]

Zak put everything into last year's car just so Lando could finally win it. Oscar gonna be forever a bridesmaid

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[Obsidian]

Looks like Wheatley is bailing on Audi, rumour is he's going to be the new TP for Aston Martin.

[synistar]

Suzuka is gonna be ass with these regulations. Average speed lost around 130R - 55km/h.