Re: 2023 Season Grand Prix Megathread

Finally the worst F1 season ever ended. I wish all our squad to have some ease off time and regroup in cople of months. 🫂

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@Blackbird90 wrote:

Finally the worst F1 season ever ended

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I agree, without Max maybe the best ever, but Max is there... (note: read Red Bull because although I'm sure Max is really fast, Perez cannot match the current F1 field imho)

@P4st3l1akI’m not talking about wins. Lando scored more points than any other driver other than max in second part of the season. I’m happy my driver did really well considering the first half of the season. As a would be happy for any driver to do so well regardless off their team

and as I remember it he needed Landos help to win 🙄.  I support a driver and not a team 

Woohoo Ferrari got one win this season…. Does that make up for all the Ferraring they did or all the LeCrashing that happened 😜🙄

I enjoyed this season, the amount of records broken and listening to the ‘Wilhelmus’.

But I understand others haven’t, just as I didn’t enjoy the seasons Hamilton kept winning. 

Who knows what next year will bring. If we have to believe Hamilton, more of the same….  Snipped from BBC article: 

The seven-time champion has a tendency towards being monosyllabic when things have not gone well in a race, and this time was no exception. At the end of a series of curt answers, he was asked if he could describe his mood at the end of the final race of the season.

"Not great," he said. "I just finished ninth. Two really bad races. Red Bull won by 17 seconds and they have not touched the car since August or July, so you can pretty much guess where they are going to be next year."

Personally I hope more of the Wilhelmus at the end of each race 🇳🇱🦁

Only about 94 days of speculation to go.

happy racing, P

I'll keep my opinions regarding Sulayem to myself.

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@P4st3l1ak wrote:
@ScarDuck14
I also support a driver, the one you always call that bad name 😉
Wel,, Charles always drives on edge of the car's possibilities, otherwise they wouldn't be so close to RB in qualies. I don't like him crashing the car either and I guess he wouldn't do it if car acted differently.
Merc drivers could have tried similar approach but they may not like to live on the edge 😉
But I feel sorry for drivers because most of hiccups were not their decisions. They should have a proper team behind them. But blaming culture seems to be part of Ferrari team (or it seems so from outside) and they all just covering their backsides and leave all decisions on drivers.

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Just to support Leclerc a little, he does have this unwarranted title. Up until April, these were his stats compared to other drivers,

Taken from twitter so needs to be verified but it's interesting reading if these stats are accurate.

As I have said before it’s simply a play on words. No more no less 

@TotosHeadphonesI feel I have to and often do write an explanation to anything I post that is just innocent light hearted ribbing🙄.

I avoid twitter and all other forms off social media other than here 

So then 2 new tracks that can claim to have held a sprint weekend

Why doesn't F1 just give more money to junior categories and F1 Academy so people have more entertainment, instead of pushing sprints?

I'd like to see F2 and F3 more often, not every 2-3 months only. It would also give more time for young drivers to shine on track and opportunity to get visibility and potential seats in F1.

Girls would also get chance to get into junior categories, not being kept in separate competition.

They really should but F1 is going down a very concerning path of becoming a F1 street series. It looks like we are set to lose Barcelona for a street circuit in 2026.