Formula 1 2022

[Plecain]

Originally Posted by MrH

So much for that. 2 cars went over the track limits during qualifying and the Stewards did nothing.

Yeah, looked that way to me, too.

But they did nail Tsunoda and Zhou, so maybe the others were OK.

Going to be interesting - Bottas/Alfa in 6th and Magnussen/Haas in 7th.

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[MrH]

The grid:

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1 Leclerc Ferrari 1:30.558 133.689 mph
2 Verstappen Red Bull 1:30.681 0.123
3 Sainz Ferrari 1:30.687 0.129
4 Perez Red Bull 1:30.921 0.363
5 Hamilton Mercedes 1:31.238 0.680
6 Bottas Alfa Romeo 1:31.560 1.002
7 Magnussen Haas 1:31.808 1.250
8 Alonso Alpine 1:32.195 1.637
9 Russell Mercedes 1:32.216 1.658
10 Gasly AlphaTauri 1:32.338 1.780
11 Ocon Alpine 1:31.782
12 Schumacher Haas 1:31.998
13 Norris McLaren 1:32.008
14 Albon Williams 1:32.664
15 Zhou Alfa Romeo 1:33.543
16 Tsunoda AlphaTauri 1:32.750
17 Hulkenberg Aston Martin 1:32.777
18 Ricciardo McLaren 1:32.945
19 Stroll Aston Martin 1:33.032
20 Latifi Williams 1:33.634

Is Ferrari back ?
Mercedes got some catching up to do
Bottas! Next to Lewis.
The Mag ! Is Haas back? Shuey jr 12th
What happen to McLaren, Astin Martin.

[hi5.0]

Interesting qualification results... Alfa Romeo and Haas better than expected. McLaren disappointing. See if HAM's ungodly luck holds out and Mercedes sandbagging more than usual this time.

[torquemada]

remember the last time at Band Camp....when Ferrari had the strongest engine in the grid?

[MrH]

Yep. All of the Ferrari cars doing well.
Maybe they snuck that 2019 rocket engine in.

[Homemade WRX]

Originally Posted by torquemada

remember the last time at Band Camp....when Ferrari had the strongest engine in the grid?

Yeah, they paid some people a bit north of them to help them make more power...or so I've been told

Fixing to head to the pub to watch the race. F1 culture over here is quite different from the 'green' masses that are starting to watch it in the US. Obviously die-hards are up to speed, just many more of them here.

[MrH]

Max and Leclerc are DRS each other to death for the lead.

[MrH]

Both Redbulls bit the dust near the ends.

Leclerc
Sainz
Lewis

[Plecain]

Hamilton's luck continues. What I wouldn't give to have his luck.

Great job by Haas and Alfa.

Red Bull needs to hire whatever Honda engine gurus that they haven't already hired.

Fun race to watch. The best recent one I remember.

Five Ferrari engines in the top 10.
Two Mercedes.
Two Renault.
One Red Bull (Honda).
Of the engines still running at the end, the bottom six were Mercedes.

Could be an interesting season.

[MrH]

Pos Driver Team Laps Gap
1 Leclerc Ferrari 57 1h 37:33.584
2 Sainz Ferrari 57 + 0:05.598
3 Hamilton Mercedes 57 + 0:09.675
4 Russell Mercedes 57 + 0:11.211
5 Magnussen Haas 57 + 0:14.754
6 Bottas Alfa Romeo 57 + 0:16.119
7 Ocon Alpine 57 + 0:19.423
8 Tsunoda AlphaTauri 57 + 0:20.386
9 Alonso Alpine 57 + 0:22.690
10 Zhou Alfa Romeo 57 + 0:23.064
11 Schumacher Haas 57 + 0:32.574
12 Stroll Aston Martin 57 + 0:45.873
13 Albon Williams 57 + 0:53.932
14 Ricciardo McLaren 57 + 0:54.975
15 Norris McLaren 57 + 0:56.335
16 Latifi Williams 57 + 1:01.795
17 Hulkenberg Aston Martin 57 + 1:03.829
18 Perez Red Bull 56 Did Not Finish
19 Verstappen Red Bull 54 Did Not Finish
Gasly AlphaTauri 44 Retired

3 Honda engines failed near the end of the race
1st Ferrari 1-2 since '18 Singapore
Good job by the Mag in the Haas
Even though Lewis got 3rd Mercedes were 30-40 sec behind the leaders when the saftey car came out.
Looks kike the famous McLaren-Williams battle from years back is going to be fought at the back of the pack.
Aston Martin stinking it up too.

Pecking order si far

Ferrari
Redbull

Mercedes

Alpine
Haas
AlphaTauri

Alfa Romeo

Aston Martin
McLaren
Williams

[Fierysun]

Happy to see RB eat it after their BS 2021 title win.

[MrH]

Look like fuel pump failure for RedBull.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/w...ilure/9188330/

[Plecain]

I'm watching FP2 now, looking at the in-car feeds.
Hamilton looks like his helmet is going to come off from the porpoising.
Sainz is having a little bit of it, but nothing like Hamilton.
LeClerc is just serenely motoring along, and is also quickest so far.
Verstappen's car looks good, too.

[torquemada]

and Haas is made of glass

[Homemade WRX]

Originally Posted by Plecain

Red Bull needs to hire whatever Honda engine gurus that they haven't already hired.

Just to update you on 1-2 month old info, those are still Honda engines. We had nothing to do with them.

And also public now was fuel pump failures for RBR. Not sure if Gasly's failure is public or not yet.

[torquemada]

Originally Posted by Homemade WRX

Just to update you on 1-2 month old info, those are still Honda engines. We had nothing to do with them.

And also public now was fuel pump failures for RBR. Not sure if Gasly's failure is public or not yet.

not exactly failures; the pump created some sort of negative pressure in the tank, and the engines starved.
Other teams had the same, while testing, and sorted this problem out, whereas RedBull had not made long enough long runs to run into this problem while testing...rookie mistake

[Plecain]

Saturday - FP3.
On-board with Hamilton - he's not getting pounded around like yesterday. OTOH, he's not quick. I suspect they raised the car to help with the bouncing.
Based on the fact that he's doing more than one push lap, he can't be on really low fuel, either.

[Plecain]

Hamilton P16 in Q1 and the race.
Didn't see that coming, especially with Russell at P4 in Q1.

[MrH]

Shuey Jr had a pretty bad crash in Q2.

[MrH]

Wow, Mick took too much curb an slammed into the wall.

These street tracks are just too dangerous

[hi5.0]

Looks like a good fight for this race and the season seeing how qualifying went. Think HAM would have done better in a HAAS - never thought to think that.

[MrH]

One Mercedes powered car in the top 10.
Is it the engine doesn't like E10 fuel?

[MrH]

Times from today's qualifying session for the STC Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1 Perez Red Bull 1:28.200 156.590 mph
2 Leclerc Ferrari 1:28.225 0.025
3 Sainz Ferrari 1:28.402 0.202
4 Verstappen Red Bull 1:28.461 0.261
5 Ocon Alpine 1:29.068 0.868
6 Russell Mercedes 1:29.104 0.904
7 Alonso Alpine 1:29.147 0.947
8 Bottas Alfa Romeo 1:29.183 0.983
9 Gasly AlphaTauri 1:29.254 1.054
10 Magnussen Haas 1:29.588 1.388
11 Norris McLaren 1:29.651
12 Ricciardo McLaren 1:29.773
13 Zhou Alfa Romeo 1:29.819
14 Schumacher Haas 1:29.920
15 Stroll Aston Martin 1:31.009
16 Hamilton Mercedes 1:30.343
17 Albon Williams 1:30.492
18 Hulkenberg Aston Martin 1:30.543
19 Latifi Williams 1:31.817
20 Tsunoda AlphaTauri No Time

[speedyHAM]

I love that there is good competition between teams this year. It makes everything so much better to watch. With the rules changes I had feared that one team would be super dominant.

[MrH]

No Shuey Jr. Can't get the car fixed.
No Tsnoda. Drive train issue

Ocon almost walled Alonso.