Not as exciting as I had hoped, but still a decent race.
I don’t see Red Bull stoping at just 12 consecutive wins, it’s going to be a season for the record books.
I genuinely could see them winning every remaining race. They’re rapid in race trim and it’s not even close.
Good point. Red Bull should replace Checo with whoever is second in points to ensure continued dominance.
Piastri with another solid race which for me, proves his quality. He has been on the pace immediately when given the upgrades and I have no doubt he can take a win either this season or next (assuming McLaren keep up the car development)
Max knows a lot of stats, he’s pretty good at those quizzes they play on the f1 YouTube channel. In the interview it looked like he already knew Nico’s record was 7 before he asked
Congrats again but is anyone else getting bored of this? Putting me off the sport to be frank
In terms of race wins, yeah it would be nice to see some variety. But if you ignore what's going on with Max, it's still exciting to watch the rest of the field changing round race after race. AM, Merc, Ferrari and now McLaren keeping us guessing who else is going to be on the podium, and Checo being a bit of a wildcard keeps the races interesting at least.
I get your point but it's a bit difficult to ignore the most significant position in a race especially seeing how significant of an event it was that someone other than Verstappen picked up pole in qualifying yesterday
I don't mean this in a disparaging way, new fans are just as important and their passion just as valid as grizzled ones.
But this era of domination isn't new or unusual. Honestly, before Red Bull, it was Merc, then Red Bull. Every regs era has been dominated by a team. Some have been closer than others, but generally there's always been one which is 90% better than the rest in terms of wins. It only changes towards the last couple of years before a regs change.
I would argue the cost cap makes this a new type of domination. They are setting records before the summer break and they will keep extending them well past
As someone who has sat though years of Mercedes domination I am happy for a change of leadership. The past three seasons have been more exciting in general as well. Get back to me when Resbull wins the 8th consecutive constructors in 2029.
Yes, this.
It was Lewis(2014), Lewis(2015), Nico(2016), Lewis(2017), Lewis(2018, Lewis(2019), Lewis (2020).
WTC? Even more boring, merc all the way. With the wdc we at least had Nico once.
And now people are moaning after 2 years? Come on, deal with it. It sounds more and more like chauvinistic bs if you look at the stats objectively.
The rest in f the field has been pretty mobile. McLaren coming up through the ranks. AM slipping down. Mercedes clawing out what they can. Ferrari Ferrari-ing. Plus Williams popping up out of nowhere. The overall, a pretty good season if you take out the front runners, which prob makes most seasons more interesting anyway
I started watching during Merc dominance, so it’s nothing new. I’m more excited for the fight for P2 every race now. We’ve genuinely got 4.5 teams in contention for it every race, and it’s been incredibly competitive so far.
This is better than HAM VER BOT or VER HAM BOT every race
Perez since he doesn’t seem to be able to lock out second place.
Technically only 1 Aston is fighting for it too, so it might round out to an even 4
It honestly doesn't bother me. Formula 1 is just as much an engineering competition as it is a driving competition. This is just the nature of non-spec series.
Not to mention the fantastic competition behind RB.
Not at all. The fight for podium is pretty tense now that Mercedes and McLaren are more equal.
Sometimes it really seems like Max is playing a video game and everyone is in Race mode, but he's fucking doing "Time Trial"...
Just temporarily block the community whenever you haven't watched the race yet to avoid spoilers. Formuladank as well if you're subscribed there. That's what I did on Reddit and I do it here as well.
Sounds like what I’ll do. The mods on Reddit were stubbornly against any spoiler warnings. Hoping we could have that here.
Max is honestly just practicing to overtake slower classes once he switches to endurance by now
All victories for RB until the end. No wonder why Domenicali is on favor to let in 4 to F1...
Man, this season is too boring. But it's not his fault. He is unstoppable and Red Bull is a step above everyone else. The fight between the other teams is cool though. Aston Martin dropped off a lot.
Can’t we just throw a NSFW tag on spoilers?! I’m with you! I just fired up Lemmy + Grand Prix and now I’m bummed! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I had a second reddit acct that wasn’t subbed to f1 and had it blocked on all to avoid spoilers when I couldn’t watch it right away. I’m gonna have to do the same here. I’d really like a rule about spoilers within 48 hours of the race….
I agree! What is the argument for spoiling the outcome? How does it help the community or the f1 instance?
Reddit tried it some years ago and noticed that putting the results behind spoilers stifles discussion. So they reversed the rule.
I am also annoyed by it when I get spoiled but other sources are just as likely to spoil me. Newspaper feeds, YouTube, probably spoiled me more often than Reddit.
NSFW tag means anyone with NSFW disabled is excluded from the community entirely after races.
I have nsfw disabled since I browse this account in public. I’m not going to enable it just for this sub. I’ve stopped using other subs that do the same thing because I can’t access any content anymore.