2024 Sāo Paulo Grand Prix - [QUALIFYING] discussion thread ⏱️
ROUND 21: 🇧🇷 Brazil
FORMULA 1 LENOVO GRANDE PRÊMIO DE SÃO PAULO 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Autódromo José Carlos Pace
- First Grand Prix: 1973
- Number of laps: 71
- Circuit Length: 4.309 km
- Race Distance: 305.879 km
- Lap record: 1:10.540 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1852799141090410502
See ya guys tomorrow.
It's easy to forget between all the times of praying for interesting weather that there is very much such a thing as too much rain.
RIP Williams mechanics. Hopefully Albon can still start on the front row.
Absolutely massive hit for Albon shiieeet. Glad he's ok.
Williams cars have taken so much damage this year.. It just doesn't end.
Aston Martin mechanics got a tough job ahead of themselves. Both drivers had hard hits against the barriers.
I'm wondering if we get some further starting grid complications with all these crashes so close to the race. There could be some tricky repairs and possibly either a quota penalty or just not enough time for the mechanics.
I wonder if Red Bull have anything to gain by changing the setup and starting from pit lane.
I think the weather makes it so hard to predict. Anything is possible!
Holy shit Verstappen's on 12th. With the grid penalty he will start 17th.
McLaren has mad plot armor this weekend.
No wonder Verstappen was trying to overtake stroll when they went out of the pits
Omg Norris, made it by the skin of his teeth.
Surprised to see Hamilton go out in Q1. Experienced drivers are usually expected to do better in wet conditions.
Tragic result for Haas cars after recent good performances.
Probably the best opportunity the Sauber cars have to get a good qualifying position. Unfortunate to see Zhou go out.
Norris escaping by the skin of his teeth
Damn Brazil always deliver unbelievable drama.
Is that
GlockStroll?!Lmao. Now nando in the wall as well
Damn, it has swung the other way. Game on for the championship
Spirit of Latifi lives on
Estimated start of qualifying at 16:00 (so in 23 minutes)
Bumped up to
16:1516:3016:4517:00 now.😭
This has been pushed 15 minutes out.
Edit, an even further 15 minutes more. Now estimating 4:30 local time.
I can't see this taking place today.
Absolute carnage of a session. I was on edge seeing Norris at risk in Q1, then Q2 was looking ropey with the first red flag. What a turnaround. Going to be a spicy race now.
Glad that its still wet
F1TV broadcast is up again.
Doc 48 says qualy will happen at 7:30 (local time) and the race will move ahead at 12:30 (also local time)
Beware that F1tv doesn’t yet show the updated race time.
https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/decision-document/2024%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Grand%20Prix%20-%20Change%20to%20Timetable.pdf
Now albon. Way way too many red flags in conditions that are challenging but not terrible. What is going on?
This is what happens when you have to stop the racing because of the spray every time it rains. Drivers are losing their ability to drive safely in the rain because they do it so rarely
Drivers have been complaining about the new tarmac all weekend, probably making grip in the wet even worse and more unpredictable than usual.
I'm expecting the race start to be equally dramatic. Although if there's fewer cars able to make their grid slots because of these quali crashes, we might get through the first lap without a red.
Edit - Russel on the front row. Definitely going to be dramatic.
Visibility on track seems awful from turn 14 to turn 1. So much fog/spray in the air.
Should be better in q2 with less cars
Aw man Colapinto.
What a qualifying for VCARB! Ocon P4!
Even with the crash Albon is P7, ahead of Piastri.
Noooooo I hope it doesn't mess things up for him.
Edit: No further action. https://mastodon.jeckyll.net/@f1bot/113418981983954981
Too many people are crashing. Conditions are difficult but not that difficult. Hell we have had worse conditions at Interlagos in the past and we had less crashes
Now pushed to 4:45 local time.
If it rains, Norris is fucked
It's happening! McLaren has been given a way out again. Lando now has to bring top form for the rest of the races, and they need to hope for poor performance from max to win.
This qualifying session has been a wild ride with norris barely going through, red flags and the both RB's out in Q2...
Now lets see Q3
Yuki throws his hat back into the race for the RBR seat
Me seeing Williams not going to in the race.
Lando may make it happen. He's only 44 points away from Max.
Why do we have wet tyres? If they not going to use them.
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That was a hard whack for Sainz. Rear end is in pieces.
Lando needs a fast lap ASAP before the rain restarts.
So what are the predictions for the wet¿?
Why does it seem like Norris keeps waiting so long to put a lap in?
Seems like there is a bump in turn 12 causing issues
Does anyone know what this cylinder/puck-shaped part is? I've seen drivers take it out along with the steering wheel when getting out. I don't remember seeing it before.
I think its part of the seat belt mechanism.
Going to be a very wet quali https://mastodon.nl/@_formula1_/113414540046519282
Start delayed
https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1852767602445083009
Thanks for this!
Is ruth wearing a sleeveless raincoat¿?
Of course, yet another controversial decision by the FIA, when the red flag is being pulled out after keeping it yellow until after Norris set a new time and Max just started on his lap.
How obvious does it need to get?
Bro you need to cool it with the conspiracy theories. And I say this as a max fan
A decision being controversial isn't a conspiracy. It's facts.
This you¿?
Yeah because if lightning strikes, and strikes in the same place again, and again, and again, then how much more obvious does it need to get?
It stops being a coincidence.
Norris was already through though and max was already in the bottom 5.
Do you get the tinfoil hat out only when a decision doesn't appear to go your way, or is there always an FIA conspiracy?
Read what I said.
I also don't like conspiracy theories (even though i said yesterday that the sprint VSC felt very manipulated), but the FIA's decisions on yellow/red/vsc have been just dangerous this weekend, waiting so long for a VSC yesterday while Hulk was so close to the track and now waiting almost a minute with the Stroll incident in this weather is just awful decision making by FIA.
They clearly waited for the drivers on fast laps to go through the chequered flag here, and only switched to red flag when they saw Max not improving on his last lap. I kinda understand why they do that, but yeah it's not the most safe thing to do.
The FIA is not even trying to hide it, they are doing everything in their power to make Norris win.