Live Stoner Chat Formula 1 2022 Season

[Zaaboot]

Any takers?
So this is is going to be an interesting one - we have had the biggest overhaulin rules and regulations determining the car in years - and what has come out the back of that.
Some crazy innovation - the engineers took the same spec and came back with 10 different cars, some wildly different such as the Mercedes, and some looking stunning in my mind such as the Ferrari and Aston. Ultimately testing does not show huge amounts, but I =feel that this year we have Benz truly on the back foot with their car bouncing around like a rabbit on crack!

What you lot think of the cars - any favorites?

 

[Zaaboot]

So then so then - we are at the start of the season, the last day of practice at Samir showed us that the Benz sucks balls (for now…I don’t see them being crap for long at all). What is intriguing in the Mercedes garage is the lack of pace from Hamilton, he does tend to play the car down something rotten prior to the season opener, but he looked awful yesterday, he did not look comfortable and they have yet to fix their unacceptable levels of porpoising. On the other hand, young Russel is owning it for now, he has a lot to gain from a good year against Lewis and before the start of Q1 we won’t really know but based on yesterday he is running a fair bit ahead of Hamilton kn it’s quality and long run simulations
You have the RB looking mighty - but when you have Newey on side you are going to have some clever and innovative new equipment on the car, and closely followed by the Ferrari which looks stunning!
the surprise from yesterdays running was the exceptionally quick times by Gasly who topped the timing sheets in the morning session and was not far of the pace in the afternoon running.

I think today, we will see some interesting running with all teams showing their true pace for the first time in this new era

wool woop 15:00 UK

Z

 

[Zaaboot]

So then, after and exciting qualifying session the pecking order has been loosely set.
Ferarri are going in tot he first race in Pole, it is many years since the team in red had a good start to the season and with their Exceptional driver line up big things are possible. The RB are up there with the Ferrari but the biggest surprise was the lack of porpoising on the merc’s as well as how bad McLaren are now after a sterling start to testing in Barcelona a few weeks back.

The story of the quali was the pace of the HaaS, after a piss poor showing for a couple of years now they sneaked in on the quiet and there is a car starting in the top ten.

stoke up your pipes, roll your doobries- before you know it will be lights out

enjoy the racing
Z

 

[Zaaboot]

After last weeks epic start to the season, and arguably a good result we are back at Jeddah, watching the practice yesterday and non of the cars seem as stable there as they did in Bahrain - the pecking order is similar, but Mclaren have nudged up slightly and Haas having issues after a great start.

Personally, i was very pleased with last weeks result for the Red Bulls - lets put it down to a little of Karma finding its way back
Both the Ferrari's hit their cars on the barriers in FP2 but still finished the days sessions top.
This circuit is epic, very very fast, narrow track, long sweeping corners - on paper a good track for the RB, but with 5 of teh top 10 from FP sityton on a Ferrari engine anything could happen in Quali today.

I am going to put my money on Leclerc getting pole, followed closely by Sainz and hopefully a Bernz in 3rd - dont care who, just want RB to get a bit more of the Karma first before seeing them up front

have fun

Z

 

[Zaaboot]

Pretty boring race, which was a shame as the track is epic - it has it all

interesting to see the RB of Max, I wish he would stop getting to the Checkered flag…

the upgrade pack the Merc bought along certainly worked but not enough

gutted for McLaren as a whole - they seem to have a sensible car but they are not getting anything out of it - sad really I was hoping they would be up there making a foursome up the front but alas we only have two