Excitement = Much more multi millions of Dollars .

More people are watching this year .

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Glad to hear that MSC is going to be fine - he must be strong from years of physio. His neck shows a lot of effort on a driver’s weakest link.

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The HANS development has saved a lot of drivers in hard head-on hits. The sideways hits not as much - there’s no easy way to do that but halo seats in touring cars and stuff surrounds in single seaters.

Oh, BTW - 15 minutes to the F2 race on ESPN App (ESPN3 in some markets)


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For those with Motortrend+, the 12 Hour Mugello race was great! Lots of competitve live racing around the world :thumbsup:

Check out Motorsport TV too at https://motorsport.tv/ . I'm watching the 1960 24 Hour Le Mans highlights right now. :)

What is it about a safety car that you don't understand? :thinking: If referencing the Abu Dhabi race, the irony is that the first race of 2022 had very similar circumstances with the race pretty much over with a handful of laps to go until Gasley's car caught on fire bringing out the SC bunching up the field. Should the FIA allow racing to have gone on with a car on fire on the side of the track so that the gaps are preserved? LH and Mercedes were the beneficiaries of last weekend's race due to the SC.

Nice win by F1’s biggest whiner. Well he tried winning by complaining about everything Leclerc did. Leclerc is a pure gentlemen congratulating the winner. Unlike Max has ever done.

Bull vs Horse this year ...

Great summary. [emoji106] The whining boy [emoji480] at his best efforts, again.

What a final 10 laps....exciting!

Love the Video Gamer move when reaching the DRS line. Reminds me of American football as players have learned Video Game moves to burn the clock before crossing the goal line.

Even his own team had to tell him to shut up and drive and they will worry about the white line. :rofl:

NFL quarterbacks do it, receivers, pitchers, soccer players, tennis players, and basketball players. It’s universal, they all do it. They all complain about infractions real or not to get their way.

Congratulations to Max. Great win today. Can anybody say, "Championship number two" coming up?

He congratulated Charles right after the last race. He doesnt have the best personality, but he is a damn good driver.

He was the best gamer today no doubt and as they say “don’t hate the player, hate the game”. He was not the best driver today nor had the best car. He played the game well and got the W and that is all that counts. He will need plenty more to make up for the DNF. LeClerc is by far the best so far this season in the best car.

Not sure I get the gamer references. Good race today and good racing too.

The tactics switched when VER’s first pass on LEC was answered with a DRS aided re-pass. Clearly made sure to avoid any late-braking diving attempts and changed tactic to avoid next pass before reaching DRS detection line. Second pass stuck and maintained a gap so good car/good skill.

Yes VER is wired differently but gaining better tactical situational awareness as seen in the closing laps...

If anyone wondered if, during the chase, whether the yellows in last 2 laps were honored by either or both of them (or other drivers). Was hard to know from the broadcast, but Stewards left the results alone.

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Thx 77T, it was a very good race indeed and nice to see the benefits of the new aero spec. It really does make quite the difference.

I’m not going to answer a rhetorical question.

The virtual safety car just won another race.

The stats show the time gaps between drivers each time the race was stopped and if you have a look at the times you can see that Mercedes would not have been in the race.

Simply add on the seconds at the end of the race?

Once again V and R we’re going backwards during the race.:chuckle:

But V won and nothing would have saved Leclerc even if he had been the one in front during the last lap.:chuckle:

You must be very excited about that.:cheers:

Shorten the race to a tank full of fuel, throw some tyres on and let them race.

F1 is a fiasco in its current form.

You really must hate MV, always so much negativity :cheers:

The 'anti-racing' tactic, involving the DRS line is nuts.

Nope, it's simple Video Gamer tactics. Surely i'm not the only one who pays attention to eSports???????????

e...what?

eSports.

You know, the BILLION+ dollar industry. You might not know Justin, but bet you heard of Twitch (he sold it, good for him, great AWESOME guy too!). If you have not heard of Twitch that's cool, but eSports are where it's at for many millions of people globally.

If i was a guessing man, eSports has a better ROI and 'youth targeting' for both those who participate... and for sponsors too. Not for Big Oil of course. Maybe it's an age thing. How young are you Speedbird?

There are a few hobbies right now going through a transition as 'the kids' look at some things as 'for the old guys'. Was chatting with a friend in Europe during the F1 race yesterday, he doesn't watch F1 and says the engines sound like sewing machines.

More sponsors need to take a better position in eSports... for the benefit of their company's future. :smokin:

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Quick Google...

Revenue of the global eSports market 2018-2025
In 2021, the global eSports market was valued at just over 1.08 billion U.S. dollars, an almost 50 percent increase from the previous year. Additionally, the eSports industry's global market revenue was forecast to grow to as much as 1.62 billion U.S. dollars in 2024.

Income is less for players, sure, for now, yet so is The Circus and hardware/engineering costs. But WOW look at that growth trajectory! How is F1's growth trajectory?

I'm at a loss of words because I'm not sure you understand "rules" as they are applied for safety in a race. This isn't the "Cannonball Run" and a free for all. There literally were cars and marshalls on track pushing disabled cars in the pit lane.

From what I saw, VER was going to win this race regardless of a VSC or not and the reason why I say that is that while they were running in the middle part of the race Max maintained a gap of 1.1-1.4 seconds behind LEC. He was stalking LEC, saving his tires, maintaining the gap and waiting for the last 10 laps and LEC could not pull away. The trailing car is now able to maintain such a gap where previously the trailing car needed to be 2-3 sec. behind due to dirty air. The 2022 regs are working and the results are showing.

On that note, 2022 has been a great year so far for close, hard, but clean racing. RBR is the constant up front and the only change has been Ferrari for MB. It's fantastic to see LEC and VER battling and the mutual respect no only on track but between team bosses at RBR and Ferrari. Toto and Hamilton should take notes on how to be more professional.

Crashstappen is such a likeable fellow.

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I'm sorry, you can't compare soccer players to any other sport. They are several levels of ridiculous beyond any other sport :agree:

That’s a fair call out [emoji1787]. The flopping they do is legendary.

Anyone notice that a driver in a HAAS and who wasn't even in F1 last year beat Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes in a straight up fight yesterday and finished in front of him? Just curious because I've always been told that it's not the car by HAM fans.... :rofl:

So what would it take to get the cars back to v10 spec with at least 1200hp and as little aero as possible…..[emoji848] that would be a show… grisly, but a show nonetheless.


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I wish...this is something I would love for my 14 yr old boy who is F1 crazy for the last couple of years. He is constantly watching old F1 races of the past to hear and listen to the car's engine notes. He compares them to the cars of this era and he always says "I wish I could hear the old cars live"

Well, first they'll need to drop the facade of 'greening' F1... considering the MANY private jets, large qty of transportation, massive yachts....

You know, real fuel, etc. But doubt that'll happen as F1 has succumbed to many influences and sponsorship that have made the 'sport' it is today. Hey, lest's admit F1 was great while it lasted.

I've been having a great time watching carting, Nurburgring races, etc. as there's apps and whatnot. i do like seeing some of the repaving on the 'ring. :thumbsup: