Formula 1 FIA World Championship 2023

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 Pérez repeats last year's pole in Jeddah 

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PÉREZ   

 

5th career win!

[heywoodu 16,004]

Lovely drive by Perez, took his chance at the restart brilliantly  

 

Too bad Aston Martin fucked up Alonso's podium by having a piece of equipment touch the car during the 5-second penalty, but also rather bad of race control/the stewards to wait until after the race to give Alonso the 10-second penalty, which they could very easily have given right after the safety car. Something NASCAR does way better than F1, pit stop infringements and such usually result in a penalty within a minute or two.

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Alonso’s penalty has been reversed apparently…

 

 

[AmericanHero40 241]

Who here been to an F1 race? i'm thinking about going to the one in canada, the prices in america are outrageous, even though vegas is very close to me. But how fun is it? is it worth the extreme admission price? it seems like it would be fun but at the same time i would see only one part of the track. Anyone have any experience with that?

[AsensioWillemsen 174]

Feels like another pretty boring season, where Red Bull is way too dominant for comfort and Perez should not be able to challenge Verstappen. Here to hope Alonso can snatch a race once more. It has been ages.

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9 minutes ago, AsensioWillemsen said:

Feels like another pretty boring season, where Red Bull is way too dominant for comfort and Perez should not be able to challenge Verstappen. Here to hope Alonso can snatch a race once more. It has been ages.

From what i read, people think that RB's lack of tunnel time will come back to hurt them later in the season, so if Aston Martin (and Ferrari/Merc? ) can keep it somewhat close maybe it can get closer in the second half of the season

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2 hours ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Who here been to an F1 race? i'm thinking about going to the one in canada, the prices in america are outrageous, even though vegas is very close to me. But how fun is it? is it worth the extreme admission price? it seems like it would be fun but at the same time i would see only one part of the track. Anyone have any experience with that?

I've been to Spa twice, which was kind of fun, but it was hellishly warm and Spa is notoriously awful in terms of infrastructure around the track, especially at the height of the Verstappen-hype it was just....too much. Tens of thousands of people and basically one little road towards the one highway.

 

I'm not sure about the support program in the North American races. If it's F1 only, I wouldn't go, personally I'd be more happy to see F2 and F3 as well since they usually have a bit more action.

 

In terms of visibility: there should be big screens on several places to follow the race, but once pitstops have started, it might be a bit hard to really keep track of how things are going.

 

I know this all doesn't sound too positive  But it is still a nice experience overall, especially Montreal does seem like a nice place to go to for a race.

[AsensioWillemsen 174]

From 3-4 to maybe nothing for 

 

A bad day. If this stupid stuff goes through. This circuit is not suited for a standing restart with two laps to go.

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This last restart looked more like Hunger Games than F1 racing. Ehh…