Bingo. Physical therapy and rehab knowledge really has been improving too. Steph Curry was constantly injured early in his career. This article has a lot of fluff, but there’s a paragraph on how they basically retaught him how to run and jump to avoid trashing his ankles:
Also consider how much harder athletes go on everything today than decades ago. They do for rehab and recovery too!
And I suppose some guys are on drugs.
https://twitter.com/itakecarphotos/status/1637519626052550656
https://twitter.com/m8_frg/status/1637519444904648706
https://twitter.com/JustNabz/status/1637519700346150913?s=20
https://twitter.com/sophiesoaps8123/status/1637517069708140546?s=20
https://twitter.com/_m8riam/status/1637519543915491331?s=20
https://twitter.com/phrrp/status/1637517284389552128?s=20
https://twitter.com/tchouamni/status/1637519392690024448?s=20
https://twitter.com/Ethan_Itz/status/1637519359294726145?s=20
https://twitter.com/charles_Ieclerc/status/1637519044923338753?s=20
https://twitter.com/ismisejenn/status/1637518670447386624?s=20
https://twitter.com/polepstn/status/1637514772987129858?s=20
https://twitter.com/SmittyRoyal/status/1637516854854836224?s=20
https://twitter.com/LeclercsLeftNut/status/1637612366996094976?s=20
etc etc etc
There was a moment in the highlights this week where an Alpha Tauri driver was passing a Haas. Or the other way around, actually I couldn’t tell. And I thought, “oh no, Luke called this weeks ago.”
Yeah. Made even worse by sometimes one car has the DRS open and you can’t see the rear wing at all!
There are only 10 teams. I don’t understand why they don’t just require each team to have an official unique team color. Limit it to the box of 16 crayola crayons, and you have colors to spare. The rule is that the primary color/base coat of the car must be the official team color.
Why would you even want your car to look similar to another team’s car? Trying to confuse opposing drivers on purpose? Just not caring?
Free paint job ideas for FIA:
All chrome. Just totally cover everything with mirror finish.
Zebra stripe
Giant driver’s face
Tuxedo
Canadian tuxedo
Make the teams bid for first choice of color.
Sure, but like. If Ferrari doesn’t get red, that’s a problem.
Then they’d better bid high.
Now those were some race highlights:
Everyone is driving nuts! Felt like watching a minor league game. Shame to not finish racing though.
It almost felt like a NASCAR race. It’s not a compliment, but not exactly an insult either.
They tried really hard to end the race under green flag conditions, but apparently it’s almost impossible for the cars to get their tires warmed up after sitting around for 30 minutes. So almost everyone locks up in the first few turns, and hits other cars and stuff.
I actually don’t mind this kind of ending to the race, either when it works and you get a real two lap sprint to the finish, or it doesn’t work and you get the crazy crashes and lucky escapes.
But I wish there was a rule for “minor” red flags to reduce the waiting time.
If the reason for the red flag is like this, to give enough time to clear up the crash debris and still allow racing at the end, why do all the drivers jump out of their cars as soon as they get back to the pit lane?!?
The race control needs to immediately announce the 10 minute restart warning, and make sure everyone is ready to go again without all the fucking around. The last three laps of the race took what felt like 45 minutes, but with only about 3 minutes of on-track action and 20 minutes of track clearing. Keeping the drivers in the cars and pre-announcing the 10 minute restart time would cut down on most of the faffing around.
Otherwise I enjoyed the race. Pity Sainz got a penalty with such a harsh result, but sometimes the rules come together in weird ways to overly punish someone who if they got the same penalty at the start of the race would have only lost a single place.
He drived but he didn’t survived.
I was worried from the way you worded it!
Only de Vries’ career metaphorically died.
I just realized Ferrari’s drivers are Charles and Carlos. Team Chuck!
Truly incredible interview with Geunther Steiner. These are among the most honest and open answers I’ve seen from any person of note. Interesting for a sport like F1 where they keep so many secrets, they won’t let you see the back of the steering wheels.
He admits what we all know. The car is what wins the race. Other drivers would win if they were in the Red Bull car instead of Max, and Max would lose if he were in a different car. Simple as that.
He also gives the most honest telling of how a ghost writer wrote his book. He only met with the writer a few times, and yet they were able to capture his thoughts to a scary amount. That’s a talented writer. I think we may not be appreciating ghost writers enough simply because we don’t know who they are.
I agree that interviews with Steiner are often very revealing. He’s got a directness that is a nice change from what you get from many of the other team leaders in F1. I don’t think his admission that the car is so important is a big reveal, I would bet that if one were to analyze interviews and commentary by drivers and teams in the modern era of Formula 1 (let’s say since the mid-90’s at least, maybe earlier) the majority of the discussion would focus on the qualities of the cars good and bad.
I agree that if you were to swap the drivers and cars you would see a lot of similarity in the best performing cars over a number of races compared to before the swap, but maybe not completely identical to how the season results play out because there is always a gap between how each of the two drivers in a team perform in a car so there is of course a difference the driver makes too. It would be so interesting to see this play out, especially over the course of a few races as the drivers adapted to the cars’ tendencies and on different tracks that expose different cars’ strengths and weaknesses. This is something I have dreamed about for a long time, I wish there was a way to make it happen. I say cut down the championship season by 3 races and then for the final 3 races of the year either randomly assign drivers to cars or invert the field where the drivers go in reverse driver order to the constructor’s championship standings. That would be such a cool way to add so much interest to end of the F1 season. Maybe even have these races contribute to constructor’s points for the season. Then you would truly reveal how strong a constructor’s car is - though the Red Bull does seem truly in a class of its own this year with all the records it smashed.
I just had two related and crazy ideas. Maybe this should go in Fix a Sport thread.
Right now let’s say the best car is 1 second faster than the second best. The top team develops a new car, and they improve by .5 seconds. Meanwhile the second best team improves by a whole second. That second best car is still second best. If you think about it, doesn’t the second place car actually deserve the constructor’s championship if you only consider the work they did that season? The top team is partially coasting and getting an arguably undeserved extra championship based on momentum from last year. Why should that count for this year?
We also all would love to see drivers compete with the same car. Attempts to do this in the past, have not lasted long.
So here’s how it can go.
First crazy idea. After a normal F1 season, the constructor’s champion wins a “prize”. They must produce and sell 18 copies of the car that just won the championship. They get a lot of money by selling 18 F1 cars $$$$. Then the next season everyone just races those cars. This levels the playing field for drivers that season.
It also levels the playing field in terms of technology. Everyone knows everything about the best car now. They have two full seasons to take that knowledge back to their own car. Then the constructors championship will just be measuring who was able to improve upon that the most in the two year span. Not so much carryover from previous years.
Basically the constructor’s championship and driver’s championship happen every other season, instead of the same time.
Second similar crazy idea because one team producing 18 identical F1 cars so quickly is obviously not feasible. That crazy idea is, the constructor’s champion each year has to give up all their secrets. Tough shit. The full schematics of the car, everything. All their engineering data goes to the other teams.
What are you going to do, not win? Come in second place forever? Ok, so you lag behind and hold some info back for a year or few to build up an advantage. But at some point you use that advantage and win. And that’s that.
With this second idea we never see all the drivers in identical cars, but we do see them in much tighter competition. We also see more teams pull ahead and fall back year to year. And if one team really does have engineers that can make the best improvements to the top car every single year, then so be it. They’ll keep winning, but arguably much more deservedly so than with the current system.
That’s a pretty big move!
I didn’t realize the season was starting, because we didn’t get @lukeburrage’s paint job rankings.
I think it’s an improvement on tell-which-team-at-a-glance over last year. Team green looks good. Is it just me or is the Ferrari red a little off color?