***The Official 2021 Formula 1 season thread***

[Monk BANzai]

hard to pick a fave livery..they all freakin hawt....

im interested in seeing Kimi and Valtteri battle it...and the wits of Lewis and Sebastien......Anyone who cant see a primal war between Mercedes and Ferrari this year needs to be shot.

And all the yadda about "him and Valtteri getting along" Hamilzai better perform else we going to see a situation of "ignored team orders" on the track. Valtteri is good. And Ferrari is looking better.

[janfar]

For livery, I give it to Torro Rossi followed closely by Haas and Sauber.

Ferrari looks set to take it to Merc, but I don't think Merc or RB has shown their full potential yet.

Everyone's already bitchin bout not being able to follow closely this year because of the amount of disturbance from the aero.

[DEVI]

Don't ignore RBR... expect them to be very fast as well

[kamakazi]

Those cars are pulling some serious forces around corners vs last year... First time observing drivers fighting the steering wheel to this extent... And that is just in testing.

[NR8]

The Toro Rosso livery is sweet. And Mercedes of course.

[teems1]

hard to pick a fave livery..they all freakin hawt....

im interested in seeing Kimi and Valtteri battle it...and the wits of Lewis and Sebastien......Anyone who cant see a primal war between Mercedes and Ferrari this year needs to be shot.

And all the yadda about "him and Valtteri getting along" Hamilzai better perform else we going to see a situation of "ignored team orders" on the track. Valtteri is good. And Ferrari is looking better.

Could be like the last few seasons.

Mercedes were sandbagging in Barcelona and will build up a lead in the first half of the season.

Ferrari and RB then switch focus to the 2018 challenger.

[16 cycles]

unless other manufacturers have come up with an answer for the MB powerplant...gonna be a MB dominated season...

will take in motoGP

btw - some history

The only man to have won premier class world championships on two and four wheels, John Surtees passed away aged 83, his family announced on Friday.

Surtees switched to car racing and Formula 1, taking that title in 1964 with Ferrari after winning the 500cc motorcycle title four times between 1956 and '60.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128463

[janfar]

Look at Force India's revised livery

[worksux101]

Feeling like i'm back in 2003...liveries remind me of Jordan, Prost, Minardi, BAR etc...

[Monk BANzai]

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Look at Force India's revised livery

yup.. BWT doing that injustice to cars years now....

[janfar]

Looks like Ferrari is right on the wing of Merc for this race. Lets see how bad it really is to follow and overtake this year.

[worksux101]

Rbr disappointing..they need a better power plant..hope vettel and kimi can make a race of it

[janfar]

Well... The race pace of the Ferraris were better than the mercs... Is just to get past if Ham gets a good start.

[janfar]

Homeboy Ricciardo seems to be out of the race before it even begins... Terrible start to his season


Update: starting from the pit lane after a reset.

[worksux101]

Boring start

Rbr - get stuck in, have fun...

[janfar]

Ferrari's back... Let's see if they can keep it up... Still boring, but that was only the first race.

[Monk BANzai]

Sticky tyres are Sticky

[teems1]

Well... The race pace of the Ferraris were better than the mercs... Is just to get past if Ham gets a good start.

Lewis got held up behind Max hence the overcut didn't work out. Major mistake by the Merc team to allow that.

What also sucked was the very few overtakes. Even after the race engineer instructed Lewis to get past Max, who was only 0.3 seconds ahead and Lewis had DRS, he was unable to pass.

Maybe when they go to a proper circuit and not a street one we will see more overtakes.

[worksux101]

To be fair to merc - if lewis wasnt whining as much then they may have kept him out a bit longer. Even if he stayed longer, the ferraris are obviously easier on the tyres so vettel wouldve simply outlasted him. Vet couldve stayed longer than he did if not for traffic.

Also, max is prolly the hardest to pass among the drivers.
What would upset hammy the most is how quickly new boy bottas reeled him in

[Monk BANzai]

To be fair to merc - if lewis wasnt whining as much then they may have kept him out a bit longer. Even if he stayed longer, the ferraris are obviously easier on the tyres so vettel wouldve simply outlasted him. Vet couldve stayed longer than he did if not for traffic.

Also, max is prolly the hardest to pass among the drivers.
What would upset hammy the most is how quickly new boy bottas reeled him in

lol yerp..Toto gonna have his hands full...Hammie has no one to blame but himself for that. "listen to the driver"...

good win by Scuderia...

[janfar]

To be fair to merc - if lewis wasnt whining as much then they may have kept him out a bit longer. Even if he stayed longer, the ferraris are obviously easier on the tyres so vettel wouldve simply outlasted him. Vet couldve stayed longer than he did if not for traffic.

Also, max is prolly the hardest to pass among the drivers.
What would upset hammy the most is how quickly new boy bottas reeled him in

lol yerp..Toto gonna have his hands full...Hammie has no one to blame but himself for that. "listen to the driver"...

good win by Scuderia...

His HAND full



Ferrari and Vettel can have that effect.

[Rory Phoulorie]

Interesting MB strategy discussion.

MotoGP race was better though.

[16 cycles]

MotoGP race was better though.

hearing that !

[worksux101]

amazing insight...hopefully the lack of overtaking sorts itself out

[teems1]

Look at Force India's revised livery

yup.. BWT doing that injustice to cars years now....

Seeing the pics from the FI launch, at first I was skeptical, but seeing it on track it looked far better. It would look even better in Singapore/Abu Dhabi under lights.

Also the 3 way battle between the FI, Renault and McLaren near the end of the race with each in their vibrant colours looked awesome on track.

[16 cycles]

motoGP Argentina this weekend..

Rossi's 350th gran prix race...his teammate vinales is currently fastest on track on free practice..

[janfar]

Who get to watch that epic Q3 this morning. This is going to be an epic race.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Should be a good race tomorrow.

[NR8]

Missed quali. Anybody have a YouTube/torrent link for it?

[janfar]

Sky should be running it again at 7pm. U can live stream it