Formula 1 Qatar Airways Qatar Grand Prix 2023

amq55 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:04 pm

Schumifan wrote:

So apparently track changes are possible mid-weekend. I know this is a much smaller change than the proposed chicane at Indy, but I wonder how the course of F1 in the US would have changed had they been this sensible in 2005

Wasn't it the teams that rejected the chicane in 2005?

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:04 pm

The reasoning was that one tyre manufacturer had issues and the other didn't. Which also happened to be one Ferrari were on and they were at the height of the Ferrari International Assistance days.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:06 pm

Sargeant knocking out the bollard

Schumifan · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:07 pm

amq55 wrote:

Schumifan wrote:

So apparently track changes are possible mid-weekend. I know this is a much smaller change than the proposed chicane at Indy, but I wonder how the course of F1 in the US would have changed had they been this sensible in 2005

Wasn't it the teams that rejected the chicane in 2005?

I thought it was Mosley and Ferrari, but it's been a while since I've read about it.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:19 pm

Schumifan wrote:

amq55 wrote:

Schumifan wrote:

So apparently track changes are possible mid-weekend. I know this is a much smaller change than the proposed chicane at Indy, but I wonder how the course of F1 in the US would have changed had they been this sensible in 2005

Wasn't it the teams that rejected the chicane in 2005?

I thought it was Mosley and Ferrari, but it's been a while since I've read about it.

It was mainly Ferrari saying no, Mosely wasn't even there but they had to get him on the phone to back them up eventually

Paul Stoddart's sweary rant is pretty famous but in it he makes it clear it was all down to the objections of one team and even he didn't want to be out there, but if he didn't get some points vs Jordan that year they'd lose a huge amount of money and Jordan reneged on a deal between the two of them to not pull out as well

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:25 pm

Sainz only got a warning for his dangerous blocking yesterday...

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:29 pm

Lot's of laps being deleted again...

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:34 pm

Mags, Williams, Stroll and Zhou out

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:34 pm

Stroll does it again

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:34 pm

Tsunoda out Zhou in

Tsunoda's radio :lol:

MotoKris1 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:36 pm

I wonder who will be now pushed by Stroll

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:41 pm

This is F1's worst track

No great corners, no picturesque scenery, track limits every 30 seconds and they can't make tyres that work here

*sigh* I wish they'd built the street track

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:50 pm

Lawson, Hamilton, Gasly and Alfa out

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:53 pm

codename_47 wrote:

This is F1's worst track

No great corners, no picturesque scenery, track limits every 30 seconds and they can't make tyres that work here

*sigh* I wish they'd built the street track

this is more a bike track, like that one in Argentina

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:54 pm

It's ok Lewis, we all hate this track too :lol:

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:02 pm

Thing is with proper grass and gravel runoff, most of these would just throw up a bit of dust and not actually cost them all that much.

Hamilton's first deletion was like an inch over the line with the front wheel.

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:05 pm

Piastri on pole!!

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:06 pm

Or should we wait ¬.¬

Schumifan · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:06 pm

Wow. Struggling to think of a bigger mid-season turnaround than what McLaren have managed this season

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:06 pm

so it means we might be seeing a driver getting his first win in a sprint before winning a GP proper

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