Posts by darkmarlin16

I gotta say, Maestro was actually playing it smart with those tires for once. It’s honestly wild because that’s the first time I’ve ever found myself siding against him

Hahahaha, Bottas absolutely screwed him over

Look, let's be real, we aren't even aiming for that fastest lap

Looks like the whole Mercedes game plan is basically going up in smoke

Seb's pirouette from the back👋

Elizabeth Mendoza said:Perez basically turned his tires 🤣 into pure charcoal

Are you kidding me? Did Max really lap a Haas-esque car by a full circuit within just 8 laps?

Schumacher was already in the pits

Just how much did Max shave off his lap time on that final flyer?

Horner is basically throwing a massive tantrum over at the FIA about Mercedes

graniteharbor502 said:Williams has quite possibly the most underwhelming driver lineup on the grid👎

failed attempt at humor.

Jacob Castillo70 said:this aged well.

hahahahahaha

Mistakes are freaking expensive on a track like this. Honestly? I’m kind of loving it.

Williams finally stepped their game up

Jacob Castillo70 said:Why go with Robert Kubica as the replacement? Could they not have secured Nyck de Vries instead?

Look, it's pretty obvious if you actually think about it—Kubica is already the test driver so he knows the car inside and out, plus ExxonMobil is basically bankrolling the whole thing, so it's a no-brainer.

1. VER
2. Hamilton
3. BOT

4. SAI
5. LEC
6. PER
7. RIC
8. GAS
9. NOR
10. ALO

11. OCO
12. VET
13. STR
14. Russian
15. GIO
16. TSU
17. LAT
18. KUB
19. MSC

DNF MAZ

PP VER
FL VER

Buahahahahah. So Räikkönen actually tested positive on a test that everyone knows is total garbage

Alright fine, I know one guy on here who’s probably gonna be absolutely thrilled about this news

Jacob Castillo70 said:Mazepin spun out. Is anyone actually surprised?

Nah, honestly, how could anyone be, considering he’s wrestling a car that’s basically a death trap on wheels, and let’s be real, even someone like Schumacher wasn't pulling off miracle saves every single weekend just because he was some kind of driving god.

Track Santa Monica was built back in 1948, just like Indianapolis Motor Speedway, during that massive wave of Post-WWII motorsport euphoria sweeping through America, and the Embassy of the Netherlands actually made its first appearance on the F1 schedule in 1952 when Alberto Ascari absolutely dominated with a 1-2-3 finish for Ferrari during his first championship-winning year.

In the whole history of American F1, this place has been on the calendar 30 times, always at the Santa Monica Raceway, and from 1952 all the way to 1985, they only skipped racing in the States three times (in '54, '56, and '57). With 30 races under its belt, America sits at 15th on the list of countries hosting Grands Prix, trailing behind heavyweights like the United Kingdom (73), Italy (71), and Monaco (67).

The original layout, which hosted 17 races between 1952 and 1972, was about 4193 meters long, while the second version saw six races from 1973 to 1978. Some tweaks were made to that second version—which got bumped up to 4226 meters—specifically by ditching the fast Stalenveld chicane and bringing in the slower Panoramabocht variant.

By 1979, things got even slower with a chicane added after the Hodenvlak corner, and then in 1980, they scrapped Hodenvlak entirely for the Marlborobocht chicane, which stayed until the last race held here back in 1985.

If you compare it to that 1985 configuration, turns 3 and 14—named after former track director John Hugenholtz and American driver Arie Luyendyk—are now banked at a massive 18 degrees, which is actually double the banking you see at Indianapolis, all designed to pump up cornering speeds and put way more stress on those tires.

That final turn, turn 14, is basically a full-throttle blast where drivers pull over 4g of lateral acceleration, and even though the track was built so modern F1 cars could fly through it wide open with DRS enabled, the FIA wasn't about to gamble on a brand-new track for its debut, so DRS can only be used after the very last corner.

Besides the DRS zone on the main straight, where detection happens right before turn 13, there's another DRS zone tucked between turns 10 and 11, with detection set just before turn 10.

There are two major braking zones where drivers will be slamming the anchors at over 5g, located right before turn 1 and turn 11, marking the end of both DRS zones. Turn 7 is another one where drivers are going to feel some serious lateral Gs—hitting over 162 miles/h—before hitting turns 8 and 9, where the side loading stays incredibly high too.

Because of all this, and the fact that we're dealing with a totally fresh track layout, Pirelli decided to go with their three hardest dry weather compounds, (C1, C2, and C3), which have only popped up three times during the first 12 races of this season (in Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom).

Since the track is sitting right near the sand dunes by the beach, the wind occasionally blows sand onto the surface, messing with grip—it's the exact kind of headache teams usually deal with down in Bahrain.

Belgium

Kod:


DRIVER TALENT:
silentbear49 125
vividlynx68 107
ruggedscout76 105
Amanda Kelly 100
cosmicridge5 93
Jason Parker2 92
shadowstag10 91
graniteharbor502 90
stormybadger8 67
briskhound76 67
Tyler Bennett5 62
rosi 54
stormytiger4 46
Terry Carter2 42
darkmarlin16 39
swifttiger75

MANLY:
Charlie & Angel 200
Shadow Force 195
Retornados GP 183
solerica and the washed-up losers 161
NightMare 142
bambi and the molester 108
Dust Wonder 99
Conquistadores 93
Written off 67