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How the f**k does Mercedes get any ADUO. If RBFPT is supposedly the best ICE, then I expect to see Max and Isack on podium frequently once they get the chassis weight down (6-7kgs overweight it is said).

The FIA will not release their methodology in arriving at the ICE calculations (in video.) At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they rationalized it as why the RB22 is competitive currently at 7-10kg overweight. I digress…….
 
He's enough for me to not watch them. I've nothing against him personally, he just comes across as an overenthusiastic breathless British accented infomercial salesman.

Then what does that make "Crofty"? 🤮?

I was ok with Diffey when NBC had IndyCar, but he was getting tiresome toward the end, before the series moved to Fox.

I can see Buxton eventually having the same effect.

June 7th was Red Flag Sunday.

If Kimi develops a nasty rash, or gastro issues from his swim, he only has a week to recover. Ewww.
 
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If there is a reason to keep Moanaco on the roster, this just kyboshed any valid reason, it is a race that has no reason to exist, other than to validate FIA/FOM/Liberty are a college for clowns.. They have tried every stupid idea to try and justify, then used some fake asphalting company.. Paid too much for the work, got scammed, and are proud of the race???
 
And penalties
I thought a bang and a red race car and 16 wasn't that subtle.

I'll get my coat.
Where are the clowns, the big tent, the clown shoes?? Red nose..

Saw that clip of some Alpine PHD with the meter wheel determined to prove that the FIA fubar-ed.. Apparently the offenders were short-cutting the pit lane entry, this affected the average time between 2 loops, and gave the FIA an incorrect average speed of 60.1... I guess some PHD at the FIA used last year's loops, and forgot there was a new team..

I don't know, it just seems odd..
 
Thanks guys. 🙂
I watched the 5+ hour long Sky feed from start to finish after the final, skipping through the commercials.

How was the commentary in Montoya land?

I was surprised to see Liam start from the grid and finish as he did. It seemed like one minute the floor was off his RB and the next minute he was in the formation lap.

George sure did get a raw deal, but even if they didn't want him in, why didn't they just wait 5 seconds once he was in the box and avoid the whole mess? It surely would have been a better outcome. It seemed very un-Mercedes to me.

Amazing to see Kimi go 5 straight. Championship bound.
I guess in driving F1, experience and skill is no match for youth and bravery today. ✌️
 
Why the FIA just cannot have a radar gun at the pit lane start line and just read the meter...

Then you wouldn’t be able to measure the speed as 60.0111 km/h. Although, TBF I’ll check with our youngest child. They are proficient with Radar/Lidar. 😉
 
Why the FIA just cannot have a radar gun at the pit lane start line and just read the meter...
Radar sounds simplest but I guess you could have multiple cars close together and get errors or something. I assumed they used telemetry from the cars, maybe that's not accurate enough either.
 

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It is like Oprah, everyone gets a car, truly a sad day when we give points for just showing up... It should be points to 5th place, 5 4 3 2 1.. 1 point for the winning constructor...

Time to stop treating F1 like a child's egg n spoon race,where everyone is a winner.. This is F1, peak of the "sport" if you cannot build a decent car, and hire decent drivers and engineers, tough, go and run a padel team...


I grew up in a era where the winner got a certificate and a cup of hot chocolate for winning the race, 2nd to last, got nothing, lucky if you got a glass of warm orange squash.. We did not mollycoddle or baby, winners got prizes.. We turned out ok... Why we need prizes for 10th??? Why not a prize for finishing? Stop treating f1 like it is kindergarten sports.. Adults need to be adults.. Or we ban children from F1, by child that anyone younger than 36... That seems to be the age children mature now..
 
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How the f**k does Mercedes get any ADUO. If RBFPT is supposedly the best ICE, then I expect to see Max and Isack on podium frequently once they get the chassis weight down (6-7kgs overweight it is said).
ADUO only assess the ICE and not the hybrid system. Mercedes advantage appears to be in their harvesting and deployment of electrical energy. The peak power is capped, but each team is able to control how it is used, and that is where Mercedes is leading the pack. We've seen McLaren show signs of catching up with Mercedes as their mapping as improved, but their reliability has been awful.
 
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I totally agree with the conmee sentiment, it does not make a lick of sense, but then nothing in F1 does...
That means Kimi won 5 races running a superior EV than the rest of the grid? The Mercs have a better EV than anyone else... But what this ADUO says is that it is ok to have a poor engineering team, it is ok, we still love you, and forgive you for hiring crappy PHD's, not their fault, but to make it fair, you can have 1 upgrade, others can have 4... We as the FIA/F1 want a fair system, so punish 1 team and reward incompetence of others..
 
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ADUO only assess the ICE and not the hybrid system. Mercedes advantage appears to be in their harvesting and deployment of electrical energy. The peak power is capped, but each team is able to control how it is used, and that is where Mercedes is leading the pack. We've seen McLaren show signs of catching up with Mercedes as their mapping as improved, but their reliability has been awful.
Yeah, I'm aware after doing a bit more reading and watching some videos. But if electric is so important and makes such a difference it should be part of the evaluation. Just from PR/optics, it makes no sense that the team that has won all the races to date gets ADUO while in that same span the team that has barely scraped together two P3 podiums would get none.

Just look at the current standings. Based on ADUO, the top three teams are going to get some amount of upgrades, bench time, and additional cash. Any normal person would look at this list and conclude Red Bull is the team that needs the ADUO the most. Mercedes is leading RBR by 172 f**k**g points after just six races and somehow THEY get upgrades and Red Bull gets nil?!??!

P.S. I'm just yelling at the clouds lol. F1 is such a circus. I try to focus on just the racing (I don't watch DTS), but MBS shenanigans, ADUO nonsense, steward inconsistencies, rules/penalty inconsistencies make it hard to watch sometimes.

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Make it make sense? I understand the water cannot be wet, but cannot understand how Toto gets all the love, and Red Bull gets nada.. So my thinking is Mercs have the better EV, so they should have no EV upgrades, all the others get EV upgrades, but the FIA/F1 want ICE, but ICE are not winning events.. Only cars with superior EV are.. So improving the ICE that maybe will win races is that the plan??
 
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