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« Last post by Jericoke on Today at 04:17:01 AM »
I watched some of the qualifying for Indy today and was struck how useless their hybrid system is. I don't know the details but I assume it's similar to the F1 system with an internal combustion engine augmented by a battery charger by regenerative braking.
All well and good until you realize oval racing doesn't really involve braking.
So over the four laps required for Indy qualifying, the drivers had access to a battery good for about 1/2 a lap.
How is this going to work over race distance? 1/2 lmao of push to pass charged up only with every pit stop?
Interestingly pole was won by Schwartzman, a rookie, who has sportscar experience. I don't know his exact race history, but I wonder if he has hybrid experience other openwheelers, such as Takuma Sato, don't have.
I expect mastery of this new system might determine who wins the 500
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« Last post by Jericoke on Today at 04:03:50 AM »
I disagree on Pirelli being a zero. Their job is to provide tires that make the race interesting (and safe and fair). The c6 wasn't meant to be a useful tire, it was there to limit choices to the c5 and c4, which did spice the race strategy up.
Otherwise everyone would have started on the c4 and swapped to the c3 at lap 20.
The tires weren't the 'best' tires, but I believe that Pirelli did their job.
As for Zeroes, Aston Martin just can't catch a break this year. Even with their absolute steal in qualifying they still finished both cars hopelessly out of the points.
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Sulayem's close family has significant McLaren shares. One of my former employers would have declared that a conflict of interests (and thus excluding Sulayem from re-election). Conflict of interest is a slippery concept.
I wish Sainz Sr all the best in his campaign, if he chooses to conduct it.
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Heroes
Verstappen - What was that pass on lap 1? Incredible! Between that and unbeatable straight-line speed, Max had command all race.
Albon - The Williams had no right to be up there. It may have had help from the VSC/SC interventions, but that last stint was so quick - and it is a rare driver able to force Leclerc of all people to make a boundary overstep mistake.
Hamilton - Speaking of, it would have been so easy for them to have let driving frustrated turn into driving into the very low points at the back of a DRS train. Instead, both Hamilton and Leclerc. I'm giving Hamilton this one because of how beautifully he handled the last three laps of the race, but their success required both of them to show electric performance in a car that's not really up to that standard at this time.
Zeroes
Pirelli - C6? Cnothanks. It lasted about 4 corners. It was a pure distraction at Imola. It's hard to imagine any track, except maybe Monaco and the newly-resurfaced Suzuka, where it would last a whole lap and therefore be worth bringing again.
Sulayem - More attempts to stifle legitimate criticism and shut down safety conversations, masquerading as being more lenient about several issues that shouldn't be penalised at all, and still retaining the swearing regulation that prevents the drivers from answering some questions at the press conferences truthfully. (Yes, this is going to be Sulayem's "jar of lard…"
Briatore - The driver swap was a mistake. Given the level of disruption Alpine's already experiencing, it would have been a mistake more or less regardless of who was exchanging seats with whom. I feel like that disruption, not the names of the people in the seats, is the real obstacle, and Briatore's just making it worse.
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« Last post by Dare on May 16, 2025, 11:58:29 PM »
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« Last post by Dare on May 08, 2025, 08:58:32 PM »
From what I've been reading on other sites it looks like Briatore is running a timeshare scheme with the 2nd Alpine seat.
Doohan had 6 races now Colapinto has got 5 races, Jack's backers reportedly paid $10 mill, wonder how much Franco's sponsors have had to put in pot to get him in car?
If Colapinto is no better then who can we expect to be in the seat for the next 5/6 races? 
Wonder if Mick Schumacher has any money left in the pot to make a bid. 
10 million is peanuts for the Schumacher fortune
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« Last post by Jericoke on May 08, 2025, 07:22:22 PM »
I wonder if this is why Sainz Sr said that this year's Dakar might be his last.
Would be pretty bad ass if the FIA president was an active competitor. Wayyy too much conflict of interest, but would still be very cool.
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« Last post by cosworth151 on May 08, 2025, 05:16:25 PM »
I wonder if this is why Sainz Sr said that this year's Dakar might be his last.
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« Last post by John S on May 08, 2025, 02:27:44 PM »
From what I've been reading on other sites it looks like Briatore is running a timeshare scheme with the 2nd Alpine seat. Doohan had 6 races now Colapinto has got 5 races, Jack's backers reportedly paid $10 mill, wonder how much Franco's sponsors have had to put in pot to get him in car? If Colapinto is no better then who can we expect to be in the seat for the next 5/6 races? Wonder if Mick Schumacher has any money left in the pot to make a bid.
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« Last post by Jericoke on May 08, 2025, 02:11:12 PM »
With the amount of damage FC did at Williams he'll need to clean up his act!
Hard to single Colapinto out for crashing the FW46: Sargent and Albon couldn't keep it on the road either. The FW47 seems to have fixed whatever the issue was, and surprise surprise, Williams is getting good points. In ice hockey, the 'best' goaltenders usually put in some time playing for bad teams, making them work harder, and being much more successful when finally on good teams. I wonder if that's true for racing drivers going from bad cars to good cars having a leg up on drivers who have always had 'good' cars?
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