Auto Racing Thread

[Nitsuki]

Expected, but now official: Tsunoda to Alpha Tauri

Nice, and expected, good for him. Now for Checo’s future...

[BerenTebogo]

Perez to RBR officially! Albon to be reserve driver.

I have zero faith that Netflix will do this season any remote source of justice

[Nitsuki]

Checo did it!! So happy for him! RBR gonna be strong next year.

[Nitsuki]

Pietro Fittipaldi’s twitter bio changed to “Haas F1 Driver”

Grain of salt and all, but no official statements yet, but they might drop Mazepin.

[Nitsuki]

With the upcoming F1 season at the end of the month, Drive to Survive season 3 is premiering this Friday. More Gunther Steiner cursing guaranteed!! And we get to relive RoGro’s massive crash again glad he’s ok, and gonna be in Indycar.

From preseason practice results (shamelessly stolen from The Race on youtube):



Grain of salt and all, but excited for Honda engines, worried for Vettel again.

[synistar]

I mean testing is mostly to check for aero and ensuring nothing breaks. We will see come FP1 in a week and a half who has improved.

Also Will Buxton everyone.

[Vil]

Grain of salt and all, but excited for Honda engines, worried for Vettel again.

Well no matter what, Seb at least gets to be in the best looking car. Do they award points for that? Why don't they award points for that?

[Vil]

More interested in the longest and fastest street circuit than designing one that looks like it might produce a great race, eh?

https://twitter.com/F1/status/1372473149745471488

[BerenTebogo]

The Grosjean DTS3 episode was good, but god damn they left out so many important parts of the season. Really annoying shit from Netflix as usual.

[Vil]

I watched the first 4 episodes, but was feeling tired, looked at the descriptions of the rest, and turned it off. I'll come back to watch the Grosjean one at some point, but I don't know about the rest. Bottas and Seb ones I liked.

[Nitsuki]

More interested in the longest and fastest street circuit than designing one that looks like it might produce a great race, eh?

https://twitter.com/F1/status/1372473149745471488

That shit looks like another Monaco with no possible overtaking spots except for one.

[BerenTebogo]

Will there be any coverage / recap on Sky prior to P1 or nah?

[Vil]

I wasn't expecting the guy to get his own episode or anything, but damn. I guess there wasn't any space with all the time they apparently spent creating fake feuds and stuff.

https://twitter.com/GeorgeRussell63/...67304562556930

[Nitsuki]

Wow fake feuds indeed, wtf was that mclaren episode?

[Mayareira]

He’s got every right to be annoyed.

[Vil]

Wow fake feuds indeed, wtf was that mclaren episode?

Obviously the bromance truly ended after the jamon incident. No, I have no idea when that video was, but I don't think the DTS producers and editors have any concern for a timeline when it comes to fabricating their own narrative.

[Nitsuki]

Hey man, Jamon from Spain is pretty damn god tier, so i would never want any incidents involving great meat.

[synistar]

For real fans, DTS S3 is trash. We all know the real stories and not the manufactured drama. Also BottASS memes.

In other news, Feels bad again for K. Mag in IMSA. His team (Chip Ganassi Racing) was leading in the 12 Hours of Sebring when in the final 90 minutes, Scott Dixon made a late cut towards the Pits when a GTLM BMW clipped him on the inside after he just finished a pass at the start of Turn 17(no penalty on this incident, could have been avoided but definitely Dixon's fault.) Ruined the right steering rod and the team finished last in DPi 2 laps down.

This follows up another end-of-race heartbreak when K. Mag's team was chasing for the lead in the 24 Hours of Daytona and cut a tire in the final hour.

Meanwhile that same BMW decided to plow through his competition after a late FCY and got subsequently penalized.

[synistar]

If any of you want to get teary eyed.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/po...ula-one-racing

[Vil]

New year, new team, same luck for Seb.

lmao @ Ferrari 1-2 in Q2... on softs.

Max taking pole by about .4? Damn!