Formula 1 2024 – WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS

If he’d looked left he would have seen his team mate steaming into him from that side too! C*ck!
but you can’t criticise the bosses son.

Race On!! 🤣🤣

come on Lando!!!

Can someone punch Crofty!!! 🤬🤬🤬

I’m shouting very bad words at the telly about Crofty!

Absolutely tremendous stuff that
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First time in a long time that I have watched a race  from start to finish. I actually quite enjoyed it for once. Well done Lando.

Very nice 😁

Yes!  Great for McLaren and Lando!

**** AWESOME!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳😱😱😱😱😱

Get in!!

F1 living up to its reputation of being boring and predictable with Max running off into the distance.

Yes Lando! Beat him on true pace.

That was fun! Dropping Max by 7 seconds was awesome

Just seen the yt highlights, very dusty here.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/why-donald-trump-at-f1-miami-gp-mclaren/

Lucky charm for Lando? 😄

The smell of trump was so overpowering Lando had to drive that fast for the wind to clear it

I think it was the allure of all that orange that drew him in to the McLaren garage.

Well done Lando!

Nice race. Refreshing to see Max genuinely struggling in that car.

I’m going to make a wild prediction, too, based almost entirely on how relaxed Hamilton has looked for the past week or so: I’ll put a couple of quid on Ferrari making a Newey announcement at Imola. There, I’ve said it.

Great result! See, Newey quits and the team falls apart.

Anyone else struggle with red text on a black background for the Ferrari whinge radio? It’s known to be one of the least accessible colour combinations for text, so I’m surprised they went with it.

Anyone else struggle with red text on a black background for the Ferrari whinge radio? – Glad you mentioned this, I thought it was my eyes. I gnored it the first time but then they were having whole conversations I couldn’t properly hear or read.

Yeah, it’s a good idea to have conversations in team colours , less impressive in the actual real life though. I thought it was just my teeny telly that made it harder.

nickcFull Member
Yeah, it’s a good idea to have conversations in team colours , less impressive in the actual real life though. I thought it was just my teeny telly that made it harder.

There are a few naff graphics at the moment.  My personal bugbear is the “BATTLE FOR 5th” that they sometimes show.  Fine, highlight the two drivers names, but why hide the timing & tyres at exactly the most critical time?

the worse graphic is the little floaty box super-imposed above the cars as they are racing side-by-side

Painfully dreadful!

the worse graphic is the little floaty box super-imposed above the cars

the worse graphic is the little floaty box super-imposed above the cars as they are racing side-by-side

My wife watches maybe 1 in 10 races, she really likes it. I reckon it must be pretty annoying if you’re racing to have a wee floaty sign with your initials on it hovering over your car. Very distracting

While we are at it, my own personal bugbear is when they switch to the driver’s POV as an overtake is happening. You can’t see what is going on. Either the car in front disappears from view or you sit there looking at an empty track and suddenly the nose of the car behind appears. It gives you know idea of what is actually taking place.

The line they draw when in drivers-eye view, with a measure of the distance to the car ahead, is a smidgen more annoying than the driver name that floats above the car. But it doesn’t appear often.

Maybe they’ll bring in ghost car graphics, so they can show far ahead/behind they are. Then how many lives they’ve got left. 😀

I wish they’d show overall times behind the leader for everyone, would save me having to add several interval times together.

Let’s be honest, it looks shite, but the current cars look pretty shite anyway so we may as well go all in.

*Checks calendar *^

No, it’s not April 1st

It does look ****, but if it’s a choice between a wet race with cars that look **** or no race, I’ll take the cars that look ****.

Hmm they appear to have picked to wrong day to test those.

thols2
It does look ****, but if it’s a choice between a wet race with cars that look **** or no race, I’ll take the cars that look ****

Exactly

nixie
Hmm they appear to have picked to wrong day to test those.

I believe they’re also re-evaluating Bernie’s sprinker idea 😉

Not gonna claim to be an expert on such matters, but it doesn’t look like they work brilliantly

There goes a 2 second pit stop when the track dries out!

That looks quite a lot less spray though

I know its hard to compare, we don’t know track conditions or speed, but I think the idea is just to reduce the amount of spray, not to try to eliminate it altogether

I would imagine just the car moving over the surface will create a certain amount of spray regardless of what comes off the wheels.

How the hell do they chance wheels?

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 I think the idea is just to reduce the amount of spray, not to try to eliminate it altogether

It’s not possible to eliminate it, some of it comes from the diffuser, but they don’t know how much. They are testing different packages to try to understand the problem better. It may prove to be impossible to reduce it enough to race in really wet conditions.

There are shots online showing the mudguards do push the front wheel spray outboard quite nicely compared to running without. However the rear axle is still kicking up a massive rooster tail from the diffuser etc.

edit – pic, front car only has guards