2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread
ROUND 2: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 50
- Circuit Length: 6.174 km
- Race Distance: 308.45 km
- Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
- 2023 winner: Sergio Perez
Has someone else noticed that from certain camera angles the colours are off, most visibly on the mclarens?
Yes, I've noticed that too. Especially when the McLarens and Ferraris are side by side
Edit: think it's just the camera for corners 1 & 2
Yes this was bugging me too! How strange.
There is one corner they look rather red.
NGL I prefer that colour over the papaya
"I hit the wall."
"Can you bring it back?"
"No I hit the ****** wall"
What a snoozefest
Really? Found it pretty interesting so far. Quite eventful.
Yeah I enjoyed it. Good racing up and down.
Has KMag fucked the stewards' wives?
Didn't Steiner say something about a Viking cum back when he was TP?
Apparently he pissed in their cereal as well
Bearman 🐐🐐🐐🐐
He's possibly scored more points today than some drivers will in this entire season.
I think he'll score more points today than Sargeant over 2 seasons.
Amateurish from stroll
Aaaaaand Max already has a gap you could fit half the F2 grid in
Bearman up to 9th. He's absolutely killing it.
Edit: aw he lost the position
Edit: He got it back 💪
Two things.
Are the stewards asleep¿?
They're taking really long.
And now there's no jump start penalty for Norris at all
Both under investigation now.
Took their own sweet time
Fingers crossed for McLaren today!
If that Norris start is not a jump start then I don't know what is
The jump starts are based on telemetry, if he was behind the sensor in his box and moved and was still behind, no jump start. You can technically start moving early, so long as you don't cross the sensor before the lights go out.
I hope this is not going to give others ideas though. Don't want to see the guys line up further back just to try and get more momentum before the lights.
His start was massively compromised as a result, since he stopped and started again.
Arguably defined his race v Piastri all told. I think it was right to not penalise him tbh
I agree that it was detrimental to him this time around since he lost focus and actually started far after the others because of it. I'm still interested in seeing if the decision was made because he actually fucked his own start or if it was because the sensors didn't detect the jump though. If it's the sensors I believe it could open pandora's box as it would be a definitive advantage to get even the slightest of rolls before dropping the clutch.
I think the rule of thumb is if you catch it and stop before starting again you're broadly OK. It happened in 2020 IIRC with the same result but for the life of me, I can't remember who
This is not the rule. The rule as it currently exists is completely based on if the sensor detects movements which are greater than the amount specified by the regs. If Norris had started moving 0.05 seconds before lights out but moved a low enough distance as to not trigger the sensor, it is considered a legal start even if he made no attempt to 'catch it'.
Yep that's exactly my concern. This seems abusable. Drivers could theoretically stop further back from the grid and use that distance to get the car rolling before fully dropping the clutch, limiting tire slip. Someone posted the rules about grid placement and while there is a rule against sideways position or angle, there isn't anything about being further back. It's probably not going to happen but I personally would try that short rolling start in practice just to see.
Its happened before, I remember Bottas 2020 in Hungary. As far as I know, the timing for the final lights out is random so you can't reliably time it.
Yeah I remember him having a crazy 0.00something reaction time. I even remember Vettel straight up saying he didn't believe that in post races interviews. It was probably a case of perfect anticipation more than reaction.
Trying to find it, I think your thinking of Japan 2019, but I'm not sure.
I was just looking back at Hungary, and he was reacting to something in the car. Same forward, stop, start that happened here.
Ahh might be I was just going from memory. Was Bottas though.
The above comment is referring to Austria 2017 where bottas made an incredible start. It was certain he had predicted the lights and not reacted. He started moving almost simultaneously with the light going out.
I am aware of this. He moved an awful in the race so I don't get how he didn't cross the sensor. He looked past the white line when the lights went out.
Come on Oscar...
Kick must be kicking themselves now
10s penalty for Magnussen? No penalty for Norris?
Interesting decisions.
KMag absolute the train engine
McLaren and Mercedes didn't double stack because...........
gambling on another s/c i guess?
Did they have enough space to double stack without impeding?
i mean, you can slow down the second car before hitting the pits and then crawl in the pit lane, only needs a 5 second gap or so
If you have no one behind, sure, but you can get a penalty if you cause the car behind to slow down.
Another disaster pitstop for Kick Sauber..
Well, at least we got a new race leader..
Lpine lol
Well played KMag, well played
Did something happen to Magnusson at the end? I thought I saw him drop about four places in a couple of seconds but no mention of it on the commentary
He had 20 seconds of penalties so that's probably it.
Oh haha yeah I forgot 😅
Let's see if Bearman can make some early overtakes on those softs
Nope.
Well. He made some overtakes on the hards at least
What happened with Gasly's car? Missed it.
Gearbox issue I think