If you’re in an area where you can’t really pull aside, there should be no penalty, as long as you get out of the way at your first opportunity.
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2026 Formula One Season Thread
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If you’re in an area where you can’t really pull aside, there should be no penalty, as long as you get out of the way at your first opportunity.
This is Formula 1, not formula baby karting, blue flags are for which beaches have the fewest turds.. Not required at the highest level of European motorsports...
Blue flags rob us of a great fight, back markers are like pawns on a chess board, often in the way, but useful in defence...
I would rather not have blue flags, if you as a driver want blue flags, race in F2---F99..
No Blue Flags in F1...
Blue flags rob us of a great fight, back markers are like pawns on a chess board, often in the way, but useful in defence...
I would rather not have blue flags, if you as a driver want blue flags, race in F2---F99..
No Blue Flags in F1...
Madonepro
macrumors 68000
Many of us in this thread know exactly how that feels.
How to tell the thread that you've never driven a racing car, without saying it. Just put it this way, your last sentence is nonsense. Not one F1 driver would agree, and the track is a safer place for them...
CWallace
macrumors G5
Rumors are about that Williams is ready to more than double Carlos Sainz's salary from $13 million to $30 million in order to secure his services going forward (his current contract expires at the end of the season) even with Sainz having few options available to him (Audi have confirmed they are keeping Hulk and Gabby for 2027, Haas is arguably in a worse place than Williams and there is likely competition for Colapinto's seat at Alpine should it open, which is no guarantee). Speculation is the offer is meant to both motivate Sainz to commit to the team while they (continue to) rebuild as well as if Sainz walks due to how bad Williams is now, who can they get other than a rookie who would not be able to develop the car nearly as effectively as Carlos.
sports.yahoo.com
Rumor: Williams Ready to Drop Millions to Keep Carlos Sainz Amid Audi Lockout
Carlos Sainz’s long-term future in Formula 1 has been one of the most hotly debated topics of the 2026 season. After taking a leap of faith to join James Vowles’ rebuilding project at Williams, the Spanish driver recently admitted that…
I want to say a point... Lap 9 of the race, the blue flags became an issue, drivers did not know who the blue flag was for...
My point, blue flags are part of the safety system within the event, along with yellow, red etc, they are used to warn drivers about to be lapped, faster car behind...Safety issue..
So if the blue flag system that says blue flag car 2 in the car, and at the race in Hungry, the in car system just showed a blue flag, no number, this creates confusion..In other words the system at that point renders the track unsafe, the flag cannot be trusted...
So why was the race not red flagged until they could figure out the issue, then restart standing start?? If you have a failure in a safety system, red flags are used to prevent an issue, red means stop, no go--go to pit and stop...
I think the race director panicked, he/she lost their minds, and hoped that nothing would happen, but if you are going to use a system like blue flags for safety, and that system fails, what should you do??? Red flag seems the obvious answer????
My point, blue flags are part of the safety system within the event, along with yellow, red etc, they are used to warn drivers about to be lapped, faster car behind...Safety issue..
So if the blue flag system that says blue flag car 2 in the car, and at the race in Hungry, the in car system just showed a blue flag, no number, this creates confusion..In other words the system at that point renders the track unsafe, the flag cannot be trusted...
So why was the race not red flagged until they could figure out the issue, then restart standing start?? If you have a failure in a safety system, red flags are used to prevent an issue, red means stop, no go--go to pit and stop...
I think the race director panicked, he/she lost their minds, and hoped that nothing would happen, but if you are going to use a system like blue flags for safety, and that system fails, what should you do??? Red flag seems the obvious answer????
I have no doubt "teletubby" engineers is accurate, I see this sort of reliance on the tech more and more, and the loss of education and the ability to revert back..
A colleague at work, her daughter just passed her driving test, so mom and daughter went shopping, and daughter was driving, and then it came to parking.. Daughter, 18, refused to park, and mom asked why.."Where are the lines?"
The car she did her training in, and the test in, had the reverse camera and the red/yellow/green lines/boxes.. She had never been trained or experience in a car without the aids.. Daughter had a licence but maybe not..
That is the problem F1 has, we have an industry that is 99.99% made up of folks that are ipad gen, that grew up in a 64bit era, that have never seen or used analogue equipment..They are used to GPS trackers and cannot understand the relationship of car to track to time and speed..
The best example of how to explain this, is in the the movie "The Dish" in which the tracking station lost Apollo 11, and through complex math tried, then someone realized that actually we have all the information, it was here, it is going there, and at X speed.. And done, back online and pay check in the mail...
But the hot shot 20 something with a PHD in math working for Red Bull or William's, can they work with raw data and figure out where the car should be in x or y seconds?
Like in the scene from Hunt for Red October, when the navigator has 2 poo's in his pants when the capt does not order a turn as the chart says he should.. The navigator is trained to do x at y, and cannot understand there are options..
In F1, which seems to have a love hate, that is loves to hate safety, when the a safety system fails, they fail to perform.. Instead, panic and omg, what to do... No the engineers are not the problem, the teletubbies are race control, a failed safety system, you red flag... No other option, you would think.. Maybe Toto wanted to say that, or deflected his anger at..
2nd.. Did Kimi A just push George under the Merc catering team bus in his statement that George flubbed his start as he topped the turbo early? It was 100% a driver error and not anti-stall??? Did Kimi A just roast George as a hack, a Wednesday 4th ball flubber in the afternoon 4 ball??
A colleague at work, her daughter just passed her driving test, so mom and daughter went shopping, and daughter was driving, and then it came to parking.. Daughter, 18, refused to park, and mom asked why.."Where are the lines?"
The car she did her training in, and the test in, had the reverse camera and the red/yellow/green lines/boxes.. She had never been trained or experience in a car without the aids.. Daughter had a licence but maybe not..
That is the problem F1 has, we have an industry that is 99.99% made up of folks that are ipad gen, that grew up in a 64bit era, that have never seen or used analogue equipment..They are used to GPS trackers and cannot understand the relationship of car to track to time and speed..
The best example of how to explain this, is in the the movie "The Dish" in which the tracking station lost Apollo 11, and through complex math tried, then someone realized that actually we have all the information, it was here, it is going there, and at X speed.. And done, back online and pay check in the mail...
But the hot shot 20 something with a PHD in math working for Red Bull or William's, can they work with raw data and figure out where the car should be in x or y seconds?
Like in the scene from Hunt for Red October, when the navigator has 2 poo's in his pants when the capt does not order a turn as the chart says he should.. The navigator is trained to do x at y, and cannot understand there are options..
In F1, which seems to have a love hate, that is loves to hate safety, when the a safety system fails, they fail to perform.. Instead, panic and omg, what to do... No the engineers are not the problem, the teletubbies are race control, a failed safety system, you red flag... No other option, you would think.. Maybe Toto wanted to say that, or deflected his anger at..
2nd.. Did Kimi A just push George under the Merc catering team bus in his statement that George flubbed his start as he topped the turbo early? It was 100% a driver error and not anti-stall??? Did Kimi A just roast George as a hack, a Wednesday 4th ball flubber in the afternoon 4 ball??
Paul1964
macrumors 6502
I wondered what Kimi meant by "hit the top of the pack" but then another video explained why that could be a problem and why anti-stall would then get involved.
While the battery is charging there is load on the engine and a certain amount of throttle needs to be applied to maintan the revs. When the battery is full that load disappears and then much less throttle is needed for those same revs. The vid showed that Russell's throttle was in the lower position so when he dropped the clutch there wasn't the torque available to launch.