Maxim Fastovsky

3 hours ago, George_D said:

and 2034?

Salt Lake

Why is stage 18 Hilly but stage 19 is Flat? the diagram of both stages looks almost identical

What is the competition format in the 2 new classes? i was looking at the full schedule and see something called windsurfing marathon, and only 3 days for the kite, but cannot find any good explanation anywhere

What an amazing summer for the Israeli soccer teams.   3rd place in u20.  Semis In u23 and now ticket to the Olympics.    The sad thing is that it will never translate to the adult teams and we will keep missing the euros and the world cup

I wasn't really paying attention to qualifying yet.   What's the status of Russia and Belarus ? I know IOC wants them to participate but are they in any qualifications events in any sports ? 

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

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?

1 minute ago, LDOG said:

5th place Qs.

What about South Africa? If they miss it might they miss the tournament? I know they don't usually accept continental quotas

What will happen if France finish the season top 4? The 5th place qualifies,  or another spot is added to the final tournament ?

6 minutes ago, orangeman said:

I never really got that argument anyway.  North and South America are one continent, but Europe is not just a peninsula of the Eurasian continent?  You can even throw Africa in there since the Sinai Isthmus is the same as the Panamanian Isthmus.  And let's not even get into cultural differences.  Besides, Europe gets more quotas than Europe anyway.  

Not even an argument...... it was never an issue, there were always separate qualification tournaments, with 24,32 and even next time with 48

1 hour ago, bestmen said:

America is 1 continent not 2 , they are 10 counties in southern part +20-30 in north , they can make groups just like others ,

hé no, they divided the cotiinent to ensure the qualif of USA , they play vs islands without any experience in football , that's why they qualify,they are always in 

they know  they have no  chance vs south american teams , this system of cheating is shameful 

Except that CONCACAF and CONMEBOL existed since 1948 and since 1958 when the qualifications started by continent there were different qualifiers for north and south america. (just like volleyball and norcaeca and csv)

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

At some point they don't have enough classics on the calendar left anymore to be replaced with random races though, so then they're done with turning F1 into...nobody knows what anymore  

Wait until they start implementing nascar rules, 3 parts to each race, you finish the season and then there is playoffs for some reason, and some other insane rules that i don't even understand (don't watch nascar, trying indycar but also complicated)

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Axing Spa, of all places, in favour of some faceless tracks nobody has any feeling whatsoever with....yeah, that sounds like Liberty Media alright. Next up is Monza being axed in favour of a race in Oman, Silverstone being thrown out to make place for some random streets in New York and Monaco being replaced by Dubai II, Street Edition.

Probably cairo street race in front of the pyramids, they are all about landmarks now (tried to pull off a manhattan street race for years)

19 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Having F1 race during NFL season in a city with NFL team? Raiders have like Top 5 fanbase in USA, nobody would take F1 over them

It's the day before an NFL game, even if it was a raiders home game (which can be an away game with 18 months advance notice), The only football on saturday's is college

And here is a map

29 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ugh, on a Saturday night, to make things more annoying and make the whole thing feel even more 'Americanized'. Give it a few years with Liberty in control and we're only racing in the desert and on American streets anymore.

 

Will a regular race have to go to make place for Vegas?

They said this week they want 30 race calendars, they will end up just racing all year round, but rumors that SPA is gonna get axed

in less the 3 hours a third USA race will be revealed in Las Vegas, it will run on a Saturday night, 2 days after thanksgiving 2023. I know it's a big hypocrisy to be happy about vegas after just saying that the saudi street circuit needs to go.... but with only 4 hours away, i can attend it and a race on a strip is intriguing, we'll see how the layout will look 

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

I think this is a great track for sim racing, but here in the real world the entire circuit just strikes me as a death trap.

Thank god Vietnam never happened

God I'm sick of those random street circuits.   Not even happy about the vegas one coming up next year.  This is such a dangerous track.   Thank god the Vietnam race never happened.  From the looks on f1 2020 game.  It was another dangerous and unnecessary track 

If red bull starting their reliability issues that didn't plague them last year this will be a long season for them, also hard to believe that Ferrari will continue like this the whole season but one can dream.   Mercedes will probably figure it out in the end like always

Mercedes are really behind Ferrari and Red Bull.....    and a big gap at that.   I wonder how long it will last

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not really kicking out, but at some point probably being forced to let their employee go. And getting in big financial (and so existential) troubles as well due to not having their Russian money anymore, which is basically what the 'American' team has been running on.

 

Although if they're actually opting to kick Mazepin out by their own choice, seeing Haas go down would be kind of sweet. Too bad for the other employees though..

They are talking about Mario Andretti taking over the team

So the American f1 team is kicking out the Russian driver?  Sweet 

Fivb taking away the men's world championships from Russia

Is Russia (OAR) out of the paralympics?