Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) F1, 2022

Indeed... I'm looking forward to Qualifying this evening! We need a good mix on the front 3 rows.
I suspect "Mr Saturday" will be up in the front....

Thoroughly enjoyed the racing. Ferrari needs to find a few more MPH to thwart Red Bull. I thought for sure Charles would get by him, but not to be. And Mercedes seems to have made some improvements, but has a ways to go yet.

Very surprised there weren't more black flags. Tricky track!

Not happy with the Americanization of the race ( And I am an American). Football helmets on the podium? And the police escort with sirens?

One of the best moments for me this weekend was during Martin Brundle's grid walk when he approached an interesting looking chap who he did not recognise and introduced himself being from Sky F1 and asked the gentlemen who he was. The response was "I am a social media sensation!" to which Martin replied "Well, thank you Sir and modest too!"

Yes that was a bizzare grid walk and not a good omen for the future.

The concert the night before it started was terrible, it looked like a 60's party without mushrooms and acid apparently! Lots of careful camera angles to avoid showing it was a tiny crowd.

The grid walk was a mess. Venus Williams just blanked him. You could see the gaggle of sochul medier influencers everywhere. He could not move, I bet he had a few choice words off camera afterwards.

The best one for me was when he met Pharrell Williams who just insisted on repeatedly pointing out that he was here with Richard Mille (namecheck those sponsors like a bi!ch baby) so often it was embarrassing.

The actual race with cars was more interesting than I expected but they will need to upgrade the safety aspects. It was good to see them have to work harder off line and the passing places were a bit limited but still good with the unforced errors etc.

I do worry that the sport is headed for an overhaul on the marketing, PR and Influencer side which is going to make it a bit gawdy. Not long before we have cheerleaders and pop-ups on the screen like those old MTV videos.

Thank god for SkyQ, it makes it worth the monthly fee to be able to select which bit you want and FF the rest. Good result in the end. George played the long game and did it well.

Now Hamilton blathering on about the jewellery rules and being "I am bigger than the sport" is once again just unnecessary. That and walking to the grid half naked, which is still better than the paintball number he had last week. Oh how times change. Am I stadler or walldorf ?

I was hugely disappointed by the Miami event: shallow sums it up.
A pointless grid walk amongst pointless people, unimpressive race with insufficient camera positions and as a result too many long shots.
If this is the shape of things to come I will go elsewhere for my enjoyment.

Peter, you have summed it up perfectly there as shallow as the water all those boats were "floating?" on I'd say.

I also couldn't believe the football helmets on the podium too, I suppose we should just be happy they weren't expected to race in them as well!

The only way I can endure it is to record it and FF everything apart from lights out to flag drop, I have grown so weary of the commentators preamble crap tbh I can no longer suffer it

As for the grid walk it seems as relevant as William and Kates visit to the colonies - it's over lets move on.

Probably the most unimaginative race track ever, just abysmal and the B & Q car park comment was spot on whoever said it. PaulyG no offence intended

yup, a bit too much razzamataz for my taste, but then I'd be european!

Highlights... Zac Brown offering Mario Andretti a drive!
George Russell...
Ocon and Mick S, and the Astons had great drives from the back of the field - combinations of good strategy & speed when it was needed. TV coverage didn't help with following what was going on though.
But that was about it for Miami.

Looking ahead, though Mercedes are still working to understand their car, we're * * this close to a 3 way/ 6 car fight at the front.
The Barcelona upgrades for Merc & Ferrari are going to be interesting, on a smooth track that the teams know very well: this year's cars will be able to follow each other through bends, so the race might not be the usual procession.

Chaps, yes I totally agree however you must remember that it was in the USA and they have a totally different way of doing things. Unfortunately with F1 being run by Americans we can only expect more of this sort of rubbish. Why oh why do we have to put up with these so called celebrities' walking around just raising their profile. As a life long F1 fan, I just hate all that nonsense. It will be very interesting if F1 ever returns to RSA but now on to important topics, will Ferrari alter their wing angle to get a little more top speed at the potential cost of loosing a little grip----I wonder?

For those lovers of the Red F1 team.

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Hint look at the photo showing the underside of the engine cover.