Something happened in the last 4 minutes that made it worse across the board, everybody's last attempt was worse than their previous lap.
On one hand, it's a great challenge. On the other hand I do wonder if it should be a night race or something.
Although funnily enough, despite the soft tyres struggling to do one lap, tomorrow will end up being an easy one stopper (M-H).
Everyone loves Sainz, even if they don't think they do.
Interesting. I did Hungary in 2022 and although I don't recall food prices I think it was the equivalent of £4 for a 440ml can - which I'm alright with given it's an event. That's like £6/7 here in stadiums and cricket grounds etc.
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Alonso's crying about the FIA being against the Spanish almost seems like a play to the people at home after he had a pretty bad weekend so far. I know people in Spain eat that shit up.
In reality when Alonso says Spanish people are treated unfairly, he is just talking about himself, lol. Sainz is trying to scamper away and not be a part of that conversation.
In reality when Alonso says Spanish people are treated unfairly, he is just talking about himself, lol. Sainz is trying to scamper away and not be a part of that conversation.
Especially if you have MBS a mobile call away! 👍
Americans are all lovely, but only that country could have the lack of self awareness and shame to build something like that, proudly display it, charge a fortune for it AND be videoed wearing a giant grin whilst "consuming" it.
We've had like 50%+ inflation last year and it doesn't seem to end this year either.
Luckily (for people not living here) our currency also worth nothing so you guys probably won't notice the price inceease that much.
There is no lack of self awareness going on here - it's just kitschy fun. Miami is pink flamingos, beach vibes, yachts and cocaine.
Probably, I can be a bit grumpy about America.
To me kitschy fun is a 2.99 pair of glittery sunglasses with no lenses. A fake boat in a fake marina that probably costs $10k dollars to hire for a weekend is...something else.
E.g. I don't trust them to have put cheap plastic deckchairs on them as a bit of a goof. I bet the loungers are made by real boat builders so that in theory it looks and feels like a real yacht on the inside.
It also feels like the worst possible mimicry of the Monaco harbour....none of the actual glamour or glitz, but it's also not a knowing sarcastic commentary on how that harbour itself is bad...it's just a bad plasticky knock off that's the worst of all worlds.
Anyway, I'll be quiet 👍 and go back to being mean about Horner, Verstappen and the terrible duo.
You watch the lack of coverage and lack of criticism this statement gets in the media by comparison.
Fully understandable it is hard to accept the "American way"
Spaniard here. No, not all of us eat that shit up, Alonso's claims are preposterous, see the lack of drama regarding Sainz, also a Spaniard. The problem is he almost got sentenced to death for an extremely slight touch in China, and then Hamilton ruins 3 people's races and he leaves scot-free. That inconsistency in refereeing is the real problem.
It's not really an inconsistency. They have always been more lenient on lap 1 turn 1 scraps, recently anyway.
Alonso was fully in contact with his team mate when Hamilton came steaming in.
I believe the common sentiment is Alonso is so wise and sagey that he knew someone, probably Lewis, was going to come steaming in the open gap on the inside causing him and Stroll to come together first. Just Alonso things.
Ironically had it not been for Hamilton also touching, and thus sharing the stewards' view of the blame, Alonso would have been entirely at fault for any of that contact and may have received a penalty.
We can either choose to believe that Alonso has some sort of 360 peripheral X ray vision that he was able to see Hamilton two car widths over through Hulkenberg and anticipate his movements - or that his teammate that is famously known for having zero spacial awareness simply turned into him
Either one is likely
I'm not Spanish, but my fiancée works in Spain and I spend a couple of months there every year. One thing I have noticed is that Alonso has a pull there that Sainz can't even attempt to match.
Spanish people really just love Alonso and when he says FIA is out to get him (this is hardly the first time) they are very ready to believe him. There's a lot of people there that still have a hard time with Hamilton after 2007 for example.
In the end, Alonso is a 2xWDC and singlehandedly put Spain on the F1 map, while Sainz is, as of now, merely the son of a WRC champ who's done well for himself so far in F1.
Spaniards like Sainz, but they love Alonso.
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I missed this. Was he put in a stockade and pelted with tomatoes instead?
I mean, if you're going to be a wise-ass with me at the very least try to be funny. Alonso's penalty in China was way too severe for what he did and that's the hill I'm going to die on, sorry.
Sounds more like you have a problem with spaniards than anything else.
Just the sheer concept of summarizing a 50- million-person country with such a wonderful variety of regions, personalities, and customs as one homogeneous unit is ludicrous.
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BBC feed seems to think he isn't there visiting any team specifically. Don't really see anything in that Twitter post saying McLaren invited him to the GP.
Let us take a second to remember...
Brown: 'Let's not turn F1 into a political sport'
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says the FIA is right to try to find a balance around drivers making political gestures at races as he feels protests and statements got "out of control" on several occasions in recent years.
"Politics is tricky by nature. That's what they're probably, at a macro level, trying to avoid is let's not have Formula One become a political hotbed for various topics. But it is damned if you do, damned if you don't, on some of these topics.
"I think that's what we're trying to avoid, let's not turn Formula One into a political sport. Let's just go racing and be respectful of where we're racing.
"There's not a one-size-fits-all in this world for political parties or political agendas, so I think there's a good way that every team, driver, can carry their values in a way that's noncontroversial.
"It's becoming a hot topic in all these sports. In NFL it was taking a knee, that started there. You've got the armbands in Qatar. I think those things can start to deviate away from sport, and that's where we need to find the right balance."
Geez I wonder which protest he had the most problem with 🤔Let us take a second to remember...
Brown: 'Let's not turn F1 into a political sport'
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says the FIA is right to try to find a balance around drivers making political gestures at races as he feels protests and statements got "out of control" on several occasions in recent years.www.espn.com
"Politics is tricky by nature. That's what they're probably, at a macro level, trying to avoid is let's not have Formula One become a political hotbed for various topics. But it is damned if you do, damned if you don't, on some of these topics.
"I think that's what we're trying to avoid, let's not turn Formula One into a political sport. Let's just go racing and be respectful of where we're racing.
"There's not a one-size-fits-all in this world for political parties or political agendas, so I think there's a good way that every team, driver, can carry their values in a way that's noncontroversial.
"It's becoming a hot topic in all these sports. In NFL it was taking a knee, that started there. You've got the armbands in Qatar. I think those things can start to deviate away from sport, and that's where we need to find the right balance."
