The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?

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WDC and WCC winners!

Sir Lewis Hamilton
13
20%
George Russell
3
5%
Max Verstappen
7
11%
Sergio Perez
1
2%
Charles Leclerc
3
5%
Carlos Sainz
0
No votes
Lando Norris
5
8%
Daniel Ricciardo
0
No votes
Fernando Alonso
2
3%
Esteban Ocon
0
No votes
Pierre Gasly
0
No votes
Yuki Tsunoda
0
No votes
Sebastian Vettel
1
2%
Lance Stroll
0
No votes
Nicolas Latifi
0
No votes
Alexander Albon
0
No votes
Valtteri Bottas
0
No votes
Zhou Guanyu
0
No votes
Mick Schumacher
0
No votes
Kevin Magnussen
0
No votes
Mercedes
13
20%
Red Bull Racing
7
11%
Ferrari
2
3%
McLaren
4
6%
Alpine
3
5%
Alpha Tauri
0
No votes
Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Racing
0
No votes
Williams
1
2%
Alfa Romeo
0
No votes
Haas
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 65
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PostRe: The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?
by Vermilion » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:32 pm

Neo Cortex wrote:Aston have announced their new team principal. The amusingly titled Mike Krack.


Probably a friend of the late NASCAR driver Dick Trickle.

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PostRe: The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?
by Rawrgna » Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:42 pm

twitter.com/MSportLtd/status/1482399145671467010

full reveal of the Puma and this livery would be straight Fire on the 2022 F1 car :wub:

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by Robbo-92 » Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:57 pm

2013 era Red Bull vibes from that! Didn’t realise Ford had switched to the Puma from the Fiesta for WRC though.

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PostRe: The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?
by Neo Cortex » Sat Jan 15, 2022 11:33 pm

Max binning it in the virtual Le Mans. Lol.

https://streamable.com/3hh62x

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PostRe: The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?
by False » Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:38 am

Hamilton and merc my predictions for 2022

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by False » Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:39 am

In my heart of hearts Russel and mcl :wub:

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by Robbo-92 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 10:56 am

Neo Cortex wrote:Max binning it in the virtual Le Mans. Lol.

https://streamable.com/3hh62x


:lol:

False wrote:In my heart of hearts Russel and mcl :wub:


It’d be great if Russell won the WDC, I’m partly voting with my heart which is why I went for Vettel :wub: Doubt the AM22 will be a WDC challenging car mind!

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by Neo Cortex » Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:23 am

The Max stans on twitter are hilarious, they claim the game glitched after he took off via running too fast over the kerb and the game made his car sink into the ground. :lol:

Nowt to do with his racing style at all. They then get super defensive saying the commentators know nothing about sim racing etc. You know despite people like 3 time Le Mans winner Alan Mcnish being there. :slol:

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by Victor Mildew » Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:46 am

Neo Cortex wrote:The Max stans on twitter are hilarious, they claim the game glitched after he took off via running too fast over the kerb and the game made his car sink into the ground. :lol:

Nowt to do with his racing style at all. They then get super defensive saying the commentators know nothing about sim racing etc. You know despite people like 3 time Le Mans winner Alan Mcnish being there. :slol:


:fp:

The car bottomed out on the raised part of the middle of that curb, like it would in real life. In fact he did that for real in catalunya last year I think.

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by Neo Cortex » Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:01 pm

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Neo Cortex wrote:The Max stans on twitter are hilarious, they claim the game glitched after he took off via running too fast over the kerb and the game made his car sink into the ground. :lol:

Nowt to do with his racing style at all. They then get super defensive saying the commentators know nothing about sim racing etc. You know despite people like 3 time Le Mans winner Alan Mcnish being there. :slol:


:fp:

The car bottomed out on the raised part of the middle of that curb, like it would in real life. In fact he did that for real in catalunya last year I think.


If I recall he forced Lewis to do that in Imola last year

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by floydfreak » Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:43 pm

Neo Cortex wrote:The Max stans on twitter are hilarious, they claim the game glitched after he took off via running too fast over the kerb and the game made his car sink into the ground. :lol:

Nowt to do with his racing style at all. They then get super defensive saying the commentators know nothing about sim racing etc. You know despite people like 3 time Le Mans winner Alan Mcnish being there. :slol:


and Alex Brundle who has tons of experience at Le Mans

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by Robbo-92 » Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:48 pm

Neo Cortex wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:
Neo Cortex wrote:The Max stans on twitter are hilarious, they claim the game glitched after he took off via running too fast over the kerb and the game made his car sink into the ground. :lol:

Nowt to do with his racing style at all. They then get super defensive saying the commentators know nothing about sim racing etc. You know despite people like 3 time Le Mans winner Alan Mcnish being there. :slol:


:fp:

The car bottomed out on the raised part of the middle of that curb, like it would in real life. In fact he did that for real in catalunya last year I think.


If I recall he forced Lewis to do that in Imola last year


Phhh, Lewis clearly put himself into that position to make Max look bad :capnscotty:

It’s ridiculous how much people feel the need to defend Max, or any of the drivers really, they’re humans, they make mistakes, they’re not robots who can perform the same action with the same outcome 1 million times in a row :fp:

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PostRe: The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?
by Victor Mildew » Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:53 pm

More teams have announced launch dates. Can't believe how close we are to seeing them.

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by Robbo-92 » Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:11 pm

twitter.com/f1/status/1483131502988652549



They certainly have! 3 out of the 10 teams have confirmed their launch date, how much of the launch car will make it to testing is another question I suppose!

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by floydfreak » Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:56 pm

Changes to F1 weekend timetable for 2022 ... Pit Walk eliminated

What will the new F1 weekend schedule look like?
F1 historically operated to four-day (Thursday-Sunday) schedules - and five days, namely Wednesday to Sunday, for Monaco - with the opening day in each case featuring media and administrative sessions and track activities commencing Fridays. From this year all events, including, crucially, the Principality's race, feature three-day schedules, with non-essential personnel not gaining paddock access on Thursdays.

Thus, no pitlane walkabouts for fans, with Monaco visitors being particularly hard hit...

The result is that Grand Prix weekends will start Friday morning, with ancillary stuff such as documentation, meetings and media sessions taking teams through to around midday depending upon specific timings for an event. Thereafter two free practice sessions - each of 90-minute duration and separated by at least two hours - will take place.

At most venues the first free practice session is expected to start at 13:00 local time, with FP2 run from 17:00 to 18:30. These sessions will be followed by further media activities and meetings/briefings, potentially keeping personnel trackside for 12 (or more) hours at a stretch. The good news - particularly for fans at events - is that F1 is reverting to two 90-minute sessions in place of 2021's two one-hour practices.

Then, according to the revised regulations, "a further free practice session (P3), lasting one hour and starting no less than seventeen-and-a-half hours after the end of P2, will take place on the day before the race", so from 12:00 on Saturday. The regulations continue: "The qualifying practice session will take place on the day before the race and start no less than two hours after the end of P3", so 15:00 (or later).

Qualifying follows the familiar structure and timings, so Q1 lasting 18 minutes with the bottom five cars eliminated (20 car entry), followed by a 15-minute Q2 session commencing seven minutes after the end of Q1. The final 10 cars will then go through to a Q3 of 12-minute duration. The Grand Prix proper shall not start later than four hours before official sunset, so usually 15:00.

However, the regulations make provision for driver interaction with fans: "Within a one-hour period finishing no later than one hour and 30 minutes before P3, all drivers must be available for fan activities (including, but not limited to, autograph sessions and fan forums) for a maximum period of 15 minutes each within the hour."


Three days packed full of F1 action, on and off the track
Accordingly, a typical weekend schedule during the 2022 F1 season will be:

Friday
09:00 – Media/documentation/scrutineering
13:00-14:30 – FP1
15:00-16:00 – Team representative media session
17:00-18:30 – FP2
19:00 onwards – Media/briefings

Saturday
09:00-10:30 – Driver/fan interaction, autographs (each team minimum 15 minutes)
12:00-13:00 – FP3
15:00-16:00 – Qualifying
17:00 onwards – Media/briefings

Sunday
13:30 – Driver parade
15:00 – Race start
18:00 – Media

Note: exact timings will vary within permitted parameters, particularly for dusk/night races.

The bottom line is that F1 believes the revised formats will this year save at least 24 days – two days for Monaco and one per each of the 22 'traditional' Grands Prix, in turn potentially saving teams hotel costs while enabling most personnel to enjoy additional time off between races. The downside for promoters is that tourism potential is reduced a day (at least) per race weekend.

These 'off' days may not translate to domestic time - particularly where flyaways and back-to-backs are concerned - but should make for less interim hectic while permitting a modicum of relaxation. The flipside is that Liberty may well decide to grow calendars even further, arguing that three-day formats are the silver bullet to 25 or more events…


https://racingnews365.com/f1-makes-majo ... e-for-2022

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PostRe: The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?
by Victor Mildew » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:16 pm

Ffs, the calendar should be reduced, not increased.

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by floydfreak » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:29 pm

3pm is far to late to a GP imo its not Le Mans but it is probably pandering too the USA market the later start. But a 4 hour time window before sunset is cutting it especially if the condition's are extreme like Malaysia

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by GrinWithoutaKat » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:39 pm

All I want for 2022 is to have more than two teams fighting it out. My gut feeling is that Mercedes will just be back to being their usual dominant self, but Ferrari's comeback last year was pretty impressive, and McLaren have been improving each season for the last few years too. If they can nail these new regulations, it's certainly possible. I also love Alonso's confidence that Alpine will be competitive, and Aston Martin seem to have been bringing the right sort of people on board ever since Stroll took the team over.

Really excited to see how Russel does at Merc too. It's always hard to compare drivers in different cars, but I've found it quite interesting how those that know the sport seem to talk him up more than Norris, who for most of the season was also seemingly outperforming his car, and doing it at the front end of the field.

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by Neo Cortex » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:40 pm

Give it enough time the calendar will only be in Amerca and Saudia Arabia anyway

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by Robbo-92 » Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:51 pm

floydfreak wrote:3pm is far to late to a GP imo its not Le Mans but it is probably pandering too the USA market the later start. But a 4 hour time window before sunset is cutting it especially if the condition's are extreme like Malaysia


Malaysia 2009 (although that was storm affected) and Korea 2010 spring to mind reading the 3pm starts, Korea 2010 Alonso nearly crossed the line when it wasn’t that far off darkness really!

Victor Mildew wrote:Ffs, the calendar should be reduced, not increased.


But money! :fp: They hit the sweet spot many years ago and don’t look like they want to revert back to that number either :(

GrinWithoutaKat wrote:All I want for 2022 is to have more than two teams fighting it out. My gut feeling is that Mercedes will just be back to being their usual dominant self, but Ferrari's comeback last year was pretty impressive, and McLaren have been improving each season for the last few years too. If they can nail these new regulations, it's certainly possible. I also love Alonso's confidence that Alpine will be competitive, and Aston Martin seem to have been bringing the right sort of people on board ever since Stroll took the team over.

Really excited to see how Russel does at Merc too. It's always hard to compare drivers in different cars, but I've found it quite interesting how those that know the sport seem to talk him up more than Norris, who for most of the season was also seemingly outperforming his car, and doing it at the front end of the field.


Hopefully 2022 will be really competitive, I’d be over the moon even if Vettel got another win this year!

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