ROUND 17: π―π΅ FORMULA 1 LENOVO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2023
Circuit stats | |
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First Grand Prix | 1987 |
Number of laps | 53 |
Circuit Length | 5.807 km |
Race Distance | 307.471 km |
Lap record | 1:30.983 Lewis Hamilton (2019) |
2022 winner | Max Verstappen |
ROUND 17: π―π΅ FORMULA 1 LENOVO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2023
Circuit stats | |
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First Grand Prix | 1987 |
Number of laps | 53 |
Circuit Length | 5.807 km |
Race Distance | 307.471 km |
Lap record | 1:30.983 Lewis Hamilton (2019) |
2022 winner | Max Verstappen |
Farcical. That rule will change. And Perez is done. He cannot have that seat next year with this form.
Maybe this will get lawson a seat somewhere, with someone getting promoted from Alpha Tauri? I really hope so, lawson really deserves a seat.
What is even goin on with Perez today. Clumsy start resulting in early pit stop to drop to back of grid. Picking more penalties on the way. Retired. And now comes back and retires again after one lap.
Yea, what an absolutely shocking clusterfuck.
Checo is quick, and when heβs on heβs on, but these lows are not the right look.
Reminds me of Bottas' last phase at Merc, where he also went from leading the championship at the start of the year to appearing absolutely unfit for F1 at the end.
I heard this would be a 2-stopper; Logan getting them out of the way early so he can spend the remaining laps hunting down Max. /s
This was the problem with bringing F1 to the US. Americans drive like it's fucking NASCAR. Imagine if that seat had Lawson in it instead.
What the hell? How can be unretiring a car to serve a penalty, then retire it again be in the rules?
Because there is no definition of "retiring" in the rulebook. Which should have been on their radar years ago, you see it regularly how cars pull into the pits and the official tracking keeps showing them as "in the race" and not "retired".
They did a pitstop and served the 5 seconds and then retired the car. This is why he was out there for 2 laps
I just did a cursory search on the FIA's 2023 Sporting Regulations, and I couldn't find anything about the procedures through which drivers serve penalties, so...
The just showed a clip of the actual infringement - into the pits, overtaking Alonso.
Yeah I thought it was elsewhere on the track, but I caught that. Yeah...PΓ©rez needs to just retire today and get ready for Qatar.
Perez coming back in to serve his penalties? Or he could pick up some more on the way :P
He knows he'll be so dominant in the final few races that he couldn't be bothered to finish this one. /s
I kinda doubt it'll work out the way they want, the other teams definitely will have words. And if it works out that will be a change in regulations.
If it requires a change in regs, won't matter because the strategy will have worked when used.
Sargeant penalised for new car after Q1 crash https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.official-grid-who-starts-where-in-japan-as-sargeant-is-penalised-for-new-car.X4qn5ydpjjHBscTrUrMwn.html
the damage to his Williams was such that the team have had to build up what the stewards consider a new car for him. [...] it means the American rookie not only has to start from the pit lane, but also receives a 10-second time penalty.
But Will Buxton on pre-race stream said that Williams got penalized for starting work on his car too early?
EDIT: He did tweet this out: https://x.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1705774169374257291 (Nitter link) so maybe I misheard or something.
Either way, hopefully Sargeant's done in F1 after this race. He's basically the reincarnation of Nicolas Latifi.
I mean, unironically it'd still be more of a world championship than anything in the US. Plus, Formula 1 has historically been an all-European sport. Nothing wrong with returning to that.