Formula 1

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The winner of todays Sprint race at the Emilia Romangna stadium was Max Verstappen from Charles Leclerc.
They will both be on the front row for tomorrows GP race.

Charles Leclerec spins off the track and off the podium.

Verstappen wins the race, Perez comes second and Norris gains the third spot on the podium.

Charles Leclerc get pole position in the Miami GP qualifiers
His team mate Carlos Sainz joins him on the front row.

High points from Miami - Danica's legs. Brundle taking the piss out of the usual wasters on the grid.

Low points - everything else.

Snoozeworthy race, crap track and awful TV Direction. The pointless "celebs" were even more annoying than usual, probably due to the amount of Colombian Nose Sherbert floating around that part of the world.

Roll on Canada in a few races time. One of my favourite Circuits.

The FIA are bringing in rules to stop the cars from bouncing.

This will mostly affect the Mercedes team, and will mean that their cars will have to have their suspension raised which will make the cars slower.

^They could not get much slower compared to the top teams

(16-06-2022 16:41 )Charlemagne Wrote:  The FIA are bringing in rules to stop the cars from bouncing.

This will mostly affect the Mercedes team, and will mean that their cars will have to have their suspension raised which will make the cars slower.

I thought that is the one thing that the FIA were NOT going to do, and continue to make it the teams problem, which - by the way - it is!! (specifically Mercedes) Not every team is effected by it, and Red Bull not at all by all accounts. Christian Horner is likely to go ballistic! Yappy Wolff/Hamilton 1 - the sport - 0 yet again if this is true??

^dont talk nonsense

every team is affected by it to some degree

its not just woolf and hamilton complaining

FIA consulted the sports doctors on this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/61833829

heres another article on the subject from next gen auto

Following the eighth round of this year’s FIA Formula One World Championship, during which the phenomenon of aerodynamic oscillations (“porpoising”) of the new generation of Formula 1 cars, and the effect of this during and after the race on the physical condition of the drivers was once again visible, the FIA, as the governing body of the sport, has decided that, in the interests of the safety, it is necessary to intervene to require that the teams make the necessary adjustments to reduce or to eliminate this phenomenon.

A Technical Directive has been issued to give guidance to the teams about the measures the FIA intends to take to tackle the problem. These include:

1. Closer scrutiny of the planks and skids, both in terms of their design and the observed wear
2. The definition of a metric, based on the car’s vertical acceleration, that will give a quantitative limit for acceptable level of vertical oscillations. The exact mathematical formula for this metric is still being analysed by the FIA, and the Formula 1 teams have been invited to contribute to this process.

In addition to these short-term measures, the FIA will convene a technical meeting with the Teams in order to define measures that will reduce the propensity of cars to exhibit such phenomena in the medium term.

The FIA has decided to intervene following consultation with its doctors in the interests of safety of the drivers. In a sport where the competitors are routinely driving at speeds in excess of 300km/h, it is considered that all of a driver’s concentration needs to be focused on that task and that excessive fatigue or pain experienced by a driver could have significant consequences should it result in a loss of concentration. In addition, the FIA has concerns in relation to the immediate physical impact on the health of the drivers, a number of whom have reported back pain following recent events.

Nice to see Alonso back on ther front row of the grid after so long