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[Liquid]

F1 is one of the few sports to feature microphones for the athletes/players. I'm sure if sports that don't have microphones would have a similar amount of tantrums.

Which shows that as much as fans always want to know more, sports might be better off without it.

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[Dennisch]

On a serious note, F1 is turning into a football match. I'm so done with all the constant whinging over the radio.

This. They tell on each other like a bunch of little kids, or like footballers asking for a card for the opponent. And apparently Russell did this on overdrive at the stewards.

The penalty was absolute nonsense as they were both not on a fast lap. You can now screw someone over by pretending to go fast and just drive onto their gearbox and scream that it was dangerously slow driving.

 

[Pupik]

That 1980 to 1982 run I didn't know of, but it's really impressive if I'm thinking about it!

Points only down to 6th, raging unreliability and only around 16 races a season. That's only around 100 distinct points positions for a season. Compare that to 2024, with 24 races plus Sprints, that's 288 individual distinct points positions.
Will have to go on a proper deep dive into those seasons eventually

It did take a bit of brain-racking on my part.

Upon further research, the sequence actually ran to six years in a row from 1977-82! (21 five times in a row then 26 in 1982!)

More teams, more drivers switching in and out of them (running out of money, talent, or luck) as well.

 

[sillybilly]

The penalty was absolute nonsense as they were both not on a fast lap. You can now screw someone over by pretending to go fast and just drive onto their gearbox and scream that it was dangerously slow driving.

I mean it did look like George had to make a pretty severe correction to his speed and direction so I would think that it looked like dangerously slow driving to me.

When I saw it I thought George was on a lap and thought it was going to be slam dunk penalty...

Even 'not on a fast lap' it was a pretty sketchy part of the track to be moving so slowly...

I have been frustrated for the last several years with the amount of incredibly slow driving during qualifying - regardless of safety it looks like a freaking joke, and I"m not having a go at Max, it is ALL of the drivers taking the mickey with silly slow times around the track.

I mean just how crap are the tyres???

I think they should consider Indycar offset timing line for qualifying so they don't need to waste time on track on a cool down lap, just dive into the pits and keep out of everyones way...

 

[Har1MAS1415]

More teams, more drivers switching in and out of them (running out of money, talent, or luck) as well.

I know

 

[PorscheFan91]

Re the radio chat, I feel the worst era was the one where the team principals could talk to race control as it just felt like the equivalent of players crowding around the ref in football.

I tend to mainly watch onboards these days (so happy these finally made their way to Now TV this season!) and it's interesting how angry radio messages really make up the vast minority of chat. Indeed, I've followed Yuki's onboards the most this season probably and for someone with a reputation for being ultra angry all the time, most of the time he's just getting on with the job.

I feel Seb put it best:

 

[Jimlaad43]

Hmm, now where can I find a show that uses real F1 footage, dubs over misleading audio at various points and twists the truth to push a false narrative?


Oh wait it's called Drive to Survive.

 

[PorscheFan91]

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Hmm, now where can I find a show that uses real F1 footage, dubs over misleading audio at various points and twists the truth to push a false narrative?


Oh wait it's called Drive to Survive.

Amen to that!

I can’t watch it anymore - I thought the first couple of seasons were brilliant but it’s just reality TV schlock now.

Saw a headline on the BBC sports site focusing on Max’s beef with George and it does feel like the sport has gone full WWE now thanks to Drive to Survive.