2019 Formula 1

[btimbit]

Picking 3 guys that retired stings but two in top 5 isn't bad at least.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

That was heartbreaking. Thank god for the safety car.

Better hope that Ferrari issue isn’t related to Australia. Renault not looking good. Raikkonen scoring points again, impressive. Haas seem to have worse luck than Ferrari.

Alfa Romeo currently best of the rest in the Constructors Championship.

[BagoPucks]

Thanks for doing this Flamesrule!

I for sure thought I was going to get shutout as I was watching the race. Going into the season, I was skeptical to see if young Leclerc has what it takes. I loved the way he battled back from the poor start and managed to keep it together. I think Ferrari may have found the driver of the future with him.

Bottas seems to have a chip on his shoulder and driving better this year. Midfield battle is very entertaining. I think F1 has definitely found a way to re-invigorate itself with the media creation (Netflix etc) and also bringing in young exciting drivers (Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris etc).

[jayswin]

Not sure if it's a problem on my end but I can't read that chart at all, Flamesrule. Grainy and small and can't seem to make it bigger.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Also for anyone, like me, who is desperately missing Ted Kravitz, he’s back next week. Ted’s Notebook, which is usually the last segment of the broadcast, is by far my favourite part of the pre/post race coverage.

There was apparently a lot of drama behind the scenes with Ted and Sky so unsure how much he’ll be featured this year.

[FLAMESRULE]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Grainy and small and can't seem to make it bigger.

I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere

Does this work better?

[J epworth]

That race was everything that could go wrong did go wrong for my predictions...
Had for quite a while the top 6 all in the correct spots, then Vettel had to spin, then Leclerc's engine had to spoil the party, and to top it off both Renault's died at the same moment



Oh well it was a great race to watch, Leclerc is going to win one very soon. Hopefully Racing Point brings some updates to China cause they had a rough weekend from start to finish.

[TheIronMaiden]

Adding the circuit to the standings is a nice touch FlamesRule.

[jayswin]

I'm a little confused as no one else seems to have trouble reading the graphs. I'm just viewing it on a laptop and it's so small I have to squint to barely make out my name and points (0 points!) and can't really read the others.

It doesn't seem to be clickable to another source. Am I doing something wrong? Is it automatically resizing for everyone else?

The first race graph was perfectly readable, it's weird.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I'm a little confused as no one else seems to have trouble reading the graphs. I'm just viewing it on a laptop and it's so small I have to squint to barely make out my name and points (0 points!) and can't really read the others.

It doesn't seem to be clickable to another source. Am I doing something wrong? Is it automatically resizing for everyone else?

The first race graph was perfectly readable, it's weird.

Open the image in a new tab.

[jayswin]

Oh yep, got it to work. It wasn't letting me for some reason. Thanks

[jayswin]

Thanks for all the work put into this, Flamesrule.

[brocoli]

That was a very entertaining race to watch. After watching the F1 series on Netflix I decided to watch this race and it did not disappoint. Tons of battles and a good race overall.

[Hi-Psi]

Damn, totally missed this thread before now but I'll be in for the next race!

[btimbit]

Pretty interesting to follow what it was that went wrong with Leclerc's car. Usually we see some kind of high tech failure but turns out it was just a good old fashioned dead cylinder

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14...blem-explained

[FLAMESRULE]

Here's a few racing nuggets...

F-E Mercedes debut: https://www.motorsport.com/formula-e...arano/4364074/

Mercedes Aero Package tweaks: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/t...-wing-43608370

Leclerc Engine Failure (similar to Btimbit post, but video): https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/l...video/4363918/

2021 Regulations Update:
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...for-2021-plans

http://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/26...eeting-tuesday

[DoubleK]

Shocker!!!! Ferrari threatening to quit F1.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Shocker!!!! Ferrari threatening to quit F1.

Well Sergio Marchionne is dead so I’m not sure how much weight those comments have now.

Although I’m sure his successor will echo similar sentiments.

I liked him though. Mostly because he was raised in Canada. His death was sudden and unexpected. Also, kind of random but he was born in the same small city in Italy as my mother.

[jayswin]

Are you serious? Are they just being babies? Like they'd actually leave.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

It’s about as real as Bettman threatening that the Flames will move. Except substitute NYR for Flames.

All the big teams do it for leverage to get favourable decisions when it comes to regulations, prize money split etc.