F1 2023: Abu Dhabi GP - Yas Marina (Nov 26)

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Killed by Death

1. LEC
2. SAI

Nobody else matters!!!!!

[Killed by Death]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

[Davil]

Lots of exciting battles coming down to the wire.

P4 drivers.

P2, P4, P7 constructors.

Whoever says this season is boring is unable to see the forest for the tree.

[dfox]

Originally Posted by Davil

Lots of exciting battles coming down to the wire.

P4 drivers.

P2, P4, P7 constructors.

Whoever says this season is boring is unable to see the forest for the tree.

They're too caught up in the individual race winners to think about the bigger picture of what exactly F1 is... IE - casual watchers or outsiders.

Ferrari and McLaren - lets go.

[Davil]

Originally Posted by dfox

They're too caught up in the individual race winners to think about the bigger picture of what exactly F1 is... IE - casual watchers or outsiders.

Ferrari and McLaren - lets go.

Agreed on part 1.

Part 2. Alonso and Aston Martin let’s go!

It’s going to be an exciting weekend!

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Exactly => https://www.reddit.com/r/formuladank...ikipedia_page/

Should be straight forward for Max, any hold ups can be solved with some 'application' and he does after all refer to it as fun.
The beekeeper will be watching

[Car-Addicted]

McLaren names O’Ward 2024 F1 reserve driver
Having received full endorsements for the promotion from McLaren CEO Zak Brown and team principal Andrea Stella, O’Ward returns for another FP1 outing this weekend in Abu Dhabi at F1’s season finale as a precursor to a busy 2024
“I’ve always said it’s never a bad day when you get to jump into an F1 car, so I look forward to joining the reserve driver pool for next year alongside my driving duties with Arrow McLaren,” he said. “Thank you to Andrea and Zak for this great opportunity.”
https://racer.com/2023/11/23/mclaren...eserve-driver/

Whoopee another Mexican to hate on.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

McLaren names O’Ward 2024 F1 reserve driver
Having received full endorsements for the promotion from McLaren CEO Zak Brown and team principal Andrea Stella, O’Ward returns for another FP1 outing this weekend in Abu Dhabi at F1’s season finale as a precursor to a busy 2024
“I’ve always said it’s never a bad day when you get to jump into an F1 car, so I look forward to joining the reserve driver pool for next year alongside my driving duties with Arrow McLaren,” he said. “Thank you to Andrea and Zak for this great opportunity.”
https://racer.com/2023/11/23/mclaren...eserve-driver/

Whoopee another Mexican to hate on.

There will be 10 F1 hopefuls stepping in during the FP1 session:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...iZDB8BaN7.html

[M3WC]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

McLaren names O’Ward 2024 F1 reserve driver
Having received full endorsements for the promotion from McLaren CEO Zak Brown and team principal Andrea Stella, O’Ward returns for another FP1 outing this weekend in Abu Dhabi at F1’s season finale as a precursor to a busy 2024
“I’ve always said it’s never a bad day when you get to jump into an F1 car, so I look forward to joining the reserve driver pool for next year alongside my driving duties with Arrow McLaren,” he said. “Thank you to Andrea and Zak for this great opportunity.”
https://racer.com/2023/11/23/mclaren...eserve-driver/

Whoopee another Mexican to hate on.

https://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...&postcount=324

Pato would be great for F1. The kid is talented, very aggressive in an Indycar. He can replace old man Perez in the paddock.

[NickyC]

No Michael No!

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by M3WC

https://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...&postcount=324

Pato would be great for F1. The kid is talented, very aggressive in an Indycar. He can replace old man Perez in the paddock.

Carlos Slim Domit, son of billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, has Pato O'Ward on his radar.

Article of 2022:
https://www.informador.mx/amp/F1-Car...206140002.html
(English translation via Google Translate: https://www-informador-mx.translate....en&_x_tr_hl=en)

[M5Rick]

As FP1 starts half the field are the young newbies taking their turns in the cars including Hadjar and Dennis in the RB19's.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

The Racing Bulls seems to be an upcoming main name for the Alpha Tauri team in '24 with cash ap and visa as main sponsors (boring), shame if it is as my own choice of something like 'Boss Bull' would be more fitting as the main name.

[M5Rick]

Might as well get used to it, only a dodgy meal could slow him.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

The Racing Bulls seems to be an upcoming main name for the Alpha Tauri team in '24 with cash ap and visa as main sponsors (boring), shame if it is as my own choice of something like 'Boss Bull' would be more fitting as the main name.

Yes . And as we know , Abu Dhabi is the last race of this season.
This means : All the PU's will run with 100% of the ponies (or more)!

This is the moment to run with full power mapping !

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Yes . And as we know , Abu Dhabi is the last race of this season.
This means : All the PU's will run with 100% of the ponies (or more)!

This is the moment to run with full power mapping !

It will surely be a race on par with what we had in Vegas, Max and hopefully Checo if he can keep up, will make it a well overdue 1-2 for the Bulls and a huge fillip for the team with the new 20 car when March comes.

[GuidoK]

Originally Posted by dfox

George Russel had a 5 place grid penalty for a manhole cover destroying his car in 2019 Baku. His repair didn't involve quite as much as Sainz, so less penalty. He was racing for Williams at the time, but there's an obvious relationship between Merc and Williams.

Are you sure about that penalty?
If I compare the qualifying results from f1 to the starting grid, there is no penalty that I can see:
qualifying:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results....ualifying.html
starting grid:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results....ting-grid.html

I remember the incident with that big cover (or better sad, 'a' incident), but as RUS was a backmarker then, I don't remember penalties or not of course.

[M5Rick]

It's FP2 and 55 SAI loses it and crunches the front of car into the barriers with some force, so that's him done for the session.

[GuidoK]

SAI parks his car hard in the tecpro barriers....
Red flag FP2....

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

SAI parks his car hard in the tecpro barriers....
Red flag FP2....

Around 2 million spent at Vegas on 55 car underside repair and any guesses what this mishap will cost Ferrari, Vasseur's tongue must be nearly bitten through.

[M5Rick]

Red flag again this time for Hulkenberg who went backwards into the barrier with wing and suspension damage, not much time left to complete this session for the rest.

[M5Rick]

Go slow Mercs were holding up Max in pit lane so he overtakes them with Russell moaning.