F1 2024 Season

[pauldyson1uk]

Track issues curtail morning session
Morning session will NOT be resumed amid these track repairs, the FIA has just announced.
The lunch break has been brought forward and we'll now run for five hours in the second session from 11am UK time until the scheduled end at 4pm.
F1 confirm it was a drain cover that came loose at Turn 11 and are now expecting the repairs to be confirmed within the next hour.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Latest timesheet @ 13:30

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:30.424	C4	22
Lando Norris	McLaren	+0.832	C3	24
Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	+1.326	C3	54
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+1.605	C3	26
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+1.803	C3	31
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+1.849	C3	82
Oscar Piastri	McLaren	+1.904	C3	35
Logan Sargeant	Williams	+2.154	C4	58
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+2.455	C3	82
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+2.629	C3	31
Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	+3.291	C3	38
Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+3.380	C3	33
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+3.602	C3	34
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+5.193	C1	38
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+6.187	C3	37
Nico Hulkenberg	Haas	+7.085	C3	31
Yuki Tsunoda	RB	+7.650	C2	40

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Final Day of testing.
Who's driving when today?
We'll see 19 of the 20 drivers during the course of today with only Alex Albon running all through the day after team-mate Logan Sargeant's full day in the car yesterday:
Red Bull: Sergio Perez (AM) / Max Verstappen (PM)
Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton (AM) / George Russell (PM)
Ferrari: Carlos Sainz (AM) / Charles Leclerc (PM)
McLaren: Lando Norris (AM) / Oscar Piastri (PM)
Aston Martin: Lance Stroll (AM) / Fernando Alonso (PM)
Alpine: Esteban Ocon (AM) / Pierre Gasly (PM)
Williams: Alex Albon (All day)
RB: Daniel Ricciardo (AM) / Yuki Tsunoda (PM)
Sauber: Valtteri Bottas (AM) / Zhou Guanyu (PM)
Haas: Kevin Magnussen (AM) / Nico Hulkenberg (PM)

 

[pauldyson1uk]

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Red Flag again for the same drain has yesterday !

How the timesheet stands so far

Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:31.247	C3	11
Lando Norris	McLaren	0.861	C3	7
Alex Albon	Williams	2.601	C3	8
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	3.543	C3	8
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	4.802	C3	10
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	6.525	C3	5
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	8.260	C3	6
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	No time		9
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	No time		3
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	No time		2

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Possibly the same drain cover at Turn 11 that came loose yesterday to cause a suspension to the morning session?!

Either way, that's a concern that one of the covers has been brought up again by one of these 2024 ground-effect cars going over it.

This is a warning to other tracks to make sure their drain cover are secure, we saw in Vegas how much damage one can cause, what we don't want is a serous accident resulting in driver injury.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Latest timesheet @10:30

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:31.247	C3	52
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+0.236	C3	38
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+0.752	C5	38
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+0.791	C3	46
Lando Norris	McLaren	+0.861	C3	20
Alex Albon	Williams	+1.336	C3	25
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+1.806	C3	65
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+1.832	C3	42
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+2.281	C3	28
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+6.426	C1	66

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Latest timesheet @11:20

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:31.247	C3	69
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+0.236	C3	50
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+0.752	C5	49
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+0.791	C3	46
Lando Norris	McLaren	+0.861	C3	20
Alex Albon	Williams	+1.336	C3	35
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+1.806	C3	80
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+1.832	C3	55
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+2.281	C3	28
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+5.786	C1	70

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Latest timesheet @ 13:00

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:31.058	C3	9
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	+0.189	C3	71
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+0.425	C3	13
Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	+0.614	C3	53
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+0.638	C3	14
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+0.941	C5	49
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+0.990	C3	46
Lando Norris	McLaren	+1.050	C3	20
Nico Hulkenberg	Haas	+1.187	C3	20
George Russell	Mercedes	+1.457	C3	16
Alex Albon	Williams	+1.525	C3	47
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+1.995	C3	80
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+2.021	C3	55
Yuki Tsunoda	RB	+2.151	C3	19
Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+2.405	C3	7
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+2.470	C3	28
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+5.957	C3	70
Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	+7.597	C1	13
Oscar Piastri	McLaren	+7.996	C1	19

 

[Redplane]

Latest timesheet @ 13:00

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:31.058	C3	9
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	+0.189	C3	71
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+0.425	C3	13
Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	+0.614	C3	53
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+0.638	C3	14
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+0.941	C5	49
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+0.990	C3	46
Lando Norris	McLaren	+1.050	C3	20
Nico Hulkenberg	Haas	+1.187	C3	20
George Russell	Mercedes	+1.457	C3	16
Alex Albon	Williams	+1.525	C3	47
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+1.995	C3	80
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+2.021	C3	55
Yuki Tsunoda	RB	+2.151	C3	19
Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+2.405	C3	7
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+2.470	C3	28
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+5.957	C3	70
Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	+7.597	C1	13
Oscar Piastri	McLaren	+7.996	C1	19

Either Charles is messing around or Carlos is seriously putting the pressure on early. Seems he has well pipped Charles' times across all practice sessions unless I missed one. Im really hoping for some spicy driver battles at Merc and Ferrari.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Latest timesheet @ 14:00

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1.30.322	C4	24
Max Verstappen	Red Bull	+0.433	C3	18
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+0.837	C3	27
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	+0.925	C4	33
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+1.161	C3	71
Oscar Piastri	McLaren	+1.187	C1	53
Nico Hulkenberg	Haas	+1.364	C3	33
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+1.677	C5	49
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+1.716	C3	46
Lando Norris	McLaren	+1.786	C3	20
George Russell	Mercedes	+2.193	C3	31
Alex Albon	Williams	+2.261	C3	77
Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+2.573	C3	23
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+2.731	C3	80
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+2.757	C3	55
Yuki Tsunoda	RB	+2.876	C3	25
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+3.206	C3	28
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+6.693	C1	70
Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	+8.089	C1	33

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Either Charles is messing around or Carlos is seriously putting the pressure on early. Seems he has well pipped Charles' times across all practice sessions unless I missed one. Im really hoping for some spicy driver battles at Merc and Ferrari.

Ferrari looks fast, I know its only testing but they do look good.

 

[Ahmer Baig]

Max is on another planet.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Latest timesheet @ 15:00

Driver	Team	Time	Tyre	Laps
Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1.30.322	C5	45
Max Verstappen	Red Bull	+0.433	C3	49
Oscar Piastri	McLaren	+0.708	C3	62
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+0.837	C3	51
Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	+0.925	C3	71
Sergio Perez	Red Bull	+1.161	C3	53
Nico Hulkenberg	Haas	+1.364	C3	73
George Russell	Mercedes	+1.545	C5	55
Yuki Tsunoda	RB	+1.623	C3	39
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+1.677	C5	49
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+1.716	C3	46
Lando Norris	McLaren	+1.786	C3	20
Alex Albon	Williams	+2.261	C3	106
Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+2.573	C3	40
Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+2.731	C3	80
Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+2.757	C3	55
Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	+3.206	C3	28
Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	+5.889	C3	74
Daniel Ricciardo	RB	+6.693	C1	70

 

[Leg-End]

Ferrari hopium in full effect, don't do it to us.

 

[Balljy]

Ferrari were on the C5 with Red Bull on the C3, so although there's still the engine power and fuel load unknowns it's a quicker tyre. Mercedes could be sandbagging but again, they were on the C5 so seem a bit nowhere. Russell said he liked the car yesterday though so they could be hiding a chunk of pace.

 

[Redplane]

Ha Max not even bothering with practice start/safety restart practice.

Ferrari still looks good, impressive little lap from Russell. Still feels difficult to reach much into all this other than that it seems at least the ones closest to the top last season probably still are, save for AM who seem to continue to lose ground.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Bahrain GP schedule
Wednesday Practice 1 is at 11.30am
Thursday Practice 2 at 3pm.
Friday Practice 3 at 12.30pm
First Qualifying of the season at 4pm.
Grand Prix itself is at 3pm Saturday

 

[pauldyson1uk]

 

[Ahmer Baig]

Did anyone make F1 prediction league?

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Did anyone make F1 prediction league?

I did ask about Superbru, If nothing is sorted by Saturday (24th) I will sort one out, on Superbru.

 

[Ahmer Baig]

I did ask about Superbru, If nothing is sorted by Saturday (24th) I will sort one out, on Superbru.

Ok thank you.

 

[United Hobbit]

Has anyone tried to watch drive to survive yet? Trying but it's just crashing, have tested by trying one of the Sunderland documentary episodes and that's fine

Looking at the descriptions, Red Bull aren't even mentioned as having an episode about them, which you'd think would happen after such a dominant season, do they refuse to allow it or something?

 

[hp88]

Has anyone tried to watch drive to survive yet? Trying but it's just crashing, have tested by trying one of the Sunderland documentary episodes and that's fine

Looking at the descriptions, Red Bull aren't even mentioned as having an episode about them, which you'd think would happen after such a dominant season, do they refuse to allow it or something?

Working fine for me, first episode is all about Stroll / Aston. No real point following RBR as it's bit too predictable.

 

[ArjenIsM3]

Has anyone tried to watch drive to survive yet? Trying but it's just crashing, have tested by trying one of the Sunderland documentary episodes and that's fine

Looking at the descriptions, Red Bull aren't even mentioned as having an episode about them, which you'd think would happen after such a dominant season, do they refuse to allow it or something?

Watched one and a half episode of DTS on the plane to Manchester today. First time I've ever watched DTS. Found it a bit.. meh tbh. Lines of commentary that aren't real, stuff taken out of context.. it's all just a bit fake. F1 dipped in hype sauce. Or whatever

 

[dinostar77]

i found the NASCAR version of DTS on netflix a good watch. Especially as i know so little about it

 

[pacifictheme]

Watched one and a half episode of DTS on the plane to Manchester today. First time I've ever watched DTS. Found it a bit.. meh tbh. Lines of commentary that aren't real, stuff taken out of context.. it's all just a bit fake. F1 dipped in hype sauce. Or whatever

F1 dramatised for an American audience.

 

[The Firestarter]

You want to start from the front. because it means you've got the other 19 drivers. starting behind you.

 

[Redplane]

You want to start from the front. because it means you've got the other 19 drivers. starting behind you.

Will Buxton is modern day Cicero

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Alex Albon’s worrying prediction of a ’25-second lead’ and a ‘lap record’ (msn.com)

 

[Darkhorsez]

Yeah - everyone is predicting another borefest of a season unfortunately. I think it is interesting to see Ferrari and Merc performance improvements in hope for the next season. Got to find something interesting to look forward to!

 

[BenitoSTARR]

Hopefully Ferrari can maintain a good showing not won since 2007 (still don’t expect them to).

 

[pauldyson1uk]

After watching , some of testing, I fully expect Max and RB to be the front runners.
Hopefully Mercedes, Ferrari and one or 2 others will at least put some pressure on them, but I seem to remember saying the same last season, that panned out well !

 

[christy87]

After watching , some of testing, I fully expect Max and RB to be the front runners.
Hopefully Mercedes, Ferrari and one or 2 others will at least put some pressure on them, but I seem to remember saying the same last season, that panned out well !

The paddock seem to think Ferrari are the front runners of the group to challenge RB, as it looks like they have got the handling of the car right this year even in windy conditions, which should lead to less tire deg issues

 

[pauldyson1uk]

First FP of the season in on Thursday.
I have set up a Fantasy on Superbru, it was good last season, I see no reason to change it.

Join RedCafe 2024 Fantasy League, my F1 Predictor league on Superbru! You can find my pool here:

https://www.superbru.com/f1/pool.php?p=12771522

or by downloading the Superbru app and searching for the pool with code:

signarum

 

[Ahmer Baig]

Watched one and a half episode of DTS on the plane to Manchester today. First time I've ever watched DTS. Found it a bit.. meh tbh. Lines of commentary that aren't real, stuff taken out of context.. it's all just a bit fake. F1 dipped in hype sauce. Or whatever

Same here. Watched for the first time first episode and it was bit meh and underwhelming.

 

[Krits]

So it seems like Ferrari are becoming clear favourites to challenge redbull.
feck. Now I’m getting my hopes up. Why Ferrari, why? Such teases!

 

[United Hobbit]

First FP of the season in on Thursday.
I have set up a Fantasy on Superbru, it was good last season, I see no reason to change it.

Join RedCafe 2024 Fantasy League, my F1 Predictor league on Superbru! You can find my pool here:

https://www.superbru.com/f1/pool.php?p=12771522

or by downloading the Superbru app and searching for the pool with code:

signarum

Thanks for doing this, just joined, will send link to my Husband too as he was in the last ones. Hoping I win again

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Thanks for doing this, just joined, will send link to my Husband too as he was in the last ones. Hoping I win again

No worries, more in the better it is.

 

[RoadTrip]

So, if the races are on Saturday, does that mean that everything is essentially moved forward a day? Eg practice starts Thursday, qualifying Friday, and race Saturday?

Also are any of these races sprint weekends?