Auto Racing Thread

[Zetanio]

It was a fuckin dick move.

[Salodin]

It really was a dick move

Fun race and all it took was max DNFing, love the changes to the sport over the years

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[Demosthenes]

It was a dick move, though a part of me thinks Russell should have been prepared for "anything." Race to me was pretty boring, the stand out moments being Albon's defense and the hope of Russell giving Alonso a full attack. Max dropped out, but the front of the race played out basically the same. Commanding lead from Sainz to which there was no competing against. Not much else happened in the race. If the midfield had better dueling, we didn't see it.

[Zetanio]

Yeah, the clean air advantage upfront is truly mindboggling tbh. It feels like whomever is in first gets a massive boost until they start catch backmarkers 35-40 laps in.

[Salodin]

The new cars suck! But this was the best race of the season so far

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[Nitsuki]

It was a dick move, though a part of me thinks Russell should have been prepared for "anything."

Russell should have been prepared, that’s racing and mind games from Alonso at its finest. Dick move or not, Alonso’s experience played a key role in that and Russell has fucked himself in the last lap twice already.

[Krandor]

A 20 sec penalty plus losing points of his license means it went well beyond "dick move"

[Demosthenes]

Russell should have been prepared, that’s racing and mind games from Alonso at its finest. Dick move or not, Alonso’s experience played a key role in that and Russell has fucked himself in the last lap twice already.

It was 100% a dick move my Alonso. It was an irrational tactic that no sensible person following him would have expected. Telemetry outright shows Alonso damn near brake checked him. It's not mind games (which Alonso is usually good at) when you fuck around like a rookie.

[Obsidian]

We've also seen "dick moves" already, between Hulkenburg and Perez slowing people down intentionally. Neither of those received points penalties. This clearly went beyond being a dick.

[Zetanio]

Yeah. There's smart defending and there's whatever the fuck Alonso was thinking about.

[Demosthenes]

We've also seen "dick moves" already, between Hulkenburg and Perez slowing people down intentionally. Neither of those received points penalties. This clearly went beyond being a dick.

Huge difference between slowing drivers down and this, which was lifting + braking 100m before usual place (even when defending), dropping down one gear at a place that always been taken in top ger, then picking up the pace again. I say Russel should have been ready for anything because people crash in front of others all the time and you have to be ready to react at a split second's notice, but it doesn't change the fact that Alonso pulled a fucked up move. It is actually feasible that the tow breaking in such an unexpected manner and coming back can take shit out of the rear driver's hands.

I mean FFS it was sudden and slow enough that I could tell before the penalty that it was fishy.

[Zetanio]

I'm most shocked that gunther didn't drop some heavy curses in the post-race.

[Demosthenes]

I'm most shocked that gunther didn't drop some heavy curses in the post-race.

LMAO, I found Leclerc struggling to understand him hilarious.

[synistar]

In the most McLaren way possible, Pato O'Ward is awarded the win for the St. Petersberg Grand Prix 45 days ago.

Test software for the Push-To-Pass system was discovered in the Penske cars during the Long Beach Grand Prix warmups that allowed the Push-To-Pass to activate early resulting in unfair restarts. Newgarden and Scotty Mac were disqualified as a result for using the P2P early and their teams fined $25k. Will Power's car was fined for having the faulty software but did not activate P2P early.

At Long Beach, all IndyCar entrants had the P2P software checked and updated.

In another way to look at this, Penske (IndyCar owner) found out Penske (The team) cheated.

There will be no appeals - https://twitter.com/Team_Penske/stat...34015651729497

[Demosthenes]

Absolute scenes

[Demosthenes]

https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/...CaFrJxmRA&s=19

I'll die laughing if he ends up at Merc with Verstappen.

[Nitsuki]

https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/...CaFrJxmRA&s=19

I'll die laughing if he ends up at Merc with Verstappen.

I expect him in AMR, if Max goes to AMR i’ll be amazed

[Krandor]

I feel like he's going to Ferrari (Newey I mean obviously)

[Demosthenes]

I feel like he's going to Ferrari (Newey I mean obviously)

Eh. I dunno.

[Nitsuki]

I feel like he's going to Ferrari (Newey I mean obviously)

I’d be fine with this if Ham or Sharl wins a title. No offense, but as cool as it would be for Ham to get an 8th title, i’d love Leglerg to take one to break the mold of the last few title holders being consecutive winners sans Rosberg.