*****Official Formula 1 Thread*******

[KC native]

Everyone else gets an official thread, so I want one too.

I've seen several people make mentions of F1 on here. So, I'm giving us a thread. No more Speed bs coverage. NBC looks like they are taking it serious and will have some good coverage.

With DVRs now, it's no longer a pain in the ass to watch the races. So watch them and discuss

And if you don't watch F1. You suck. Best racing on the planet.

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Following is this week’s coverage schedule for the Rolex Australian Grand Prix on NBC Sports Network:

Date Program Time Network
Friday, March 15 Practice #1 12:00 a.m. NBC Sports Network
Friday, March 15 Practice #2 1:30 a.m. NBC Sports Network
Sat., March 16 Qualifying 2 a.m. NBC Sports Network
Sat., March 16 Qualifying Re-Air 1:30 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sunday, March 17 Australian Grand Prix 1:30 a.m. NBC Sports Network
Sunday, March 17 F1 Extra 4 a.m. NBC Sports Network
Sunday, March 17 Race Re-Air 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
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More practice times for the entire season can be found here.

2013 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE (Subject to change, all times ET):

Date Grand Prix Time Re-Air (NBCSN) Network
Sun., March 17 Australia 1:30 a.m. 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., March 24 Malaysia 3:30 a.m. 3 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., April 14 China 2:30 a.m. 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., April 21 Bahrain 7:30 a.m. Noon NBC Sports Network
Sun., May 12 Spain 7:30 a.m. 2 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., May 26 Monaco 7:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. NBC
Sun., June 9 Canada 2 p.m. 7 p.m. NBC
Sun., June 30 United Kingdom 7:30 a.m. Noon CNBC
Sun., July 7 Germany 7:30 a.m. Noon CNBC
Sun., July 28 Hungary 7:30 a.m. 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Aug. 25 Belgium 7:30 a.m. Midnight NBC Sports Network
Sun., Sept. 8 Italy 7:30 a.m. 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Sept. 22 Singapore 7:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Oct. 6 Korea 1:30 a.m. 4 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Oct. 13 Japan 1:30 a.m. 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Oct. 27 India 5:00 a.m. 1 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Nov. 3 Abu Dhabi 7:30 a.m. 6 p.m. NBC Sports Network
Sun., Nov. 17 USA (Austin) 1 p.m. 6 p.m. NBC
Sun., Nov. 24 Brazil 11 a.m. 4:30 p.m. NBC

[kstater]

Holy shit. Haven't seen anything like that in a while.

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[kstater]

Think that gives them the constructors championship lead too.

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[ReynardMuldrake]

That was a crazy race. Nice to see Colapinto and Bearman in the points. McLaren now has the lead in the constructors. Piastri is the real deal.

[DJ's left nut]

Leclerc duffed that win so badly.

You can't let Piastri get you from three car lengths back for the lead. He had to defend that pass better than he did.

And had he done so, he wouldn't have been in the shit with Sainz and Perez.

Leclerc has to be better than that if they're gonna win a Constructors. And they certainly won't win a Drivers that way.

Just cannot let that move happen.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Leclerc duffed that win so badly.

You can't let Piastri get you from three car lengths back for the lead. He had to defend that pass better than he did.

And had he done so, he wouldn't have been in the shit with Sainz and Perez.

Leclerc has to be better than that if they're gonna win a Constructors. And they certainly won't win a Drivers that way.

Just cannot let that move happen.

It was a great move by Piastri but Leclerc didn't defend much at all. I don't think he was expecting it. He should have been anticipating that move. It reminded me of that Leclerc overtake of Perez at Las Vegas last season.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake

It was a great move by Piastri but Leclerc didn't defend much at all. I don't think he was expecting it. He should have been anticipating that move. It reminded me of that Leclerc overtake of Perez at Las Vegas last season.

Reminded me of Piastri on Norris the week before at Monza.

He keeps doing these dive-bombs that nobody even tries to defend. And after last week, I just don't understand how LeClerc didn't expect it.

No question it was a great move from Piastri but Leclerc has to defend that. He has to expect it and with only one real option for Piastri after coming from that far back, he can't be surprised by it.

Be better Charles. You're my boy but you messed that race up.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

So much more fun to watch than it was when the only suspense was whether Verstappen’s margin of victory would be o/u 10 seconds. Second half of the season has been great.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Nice race by Lando today, but the commentary was atrocious. They confused the Ferrari cars more than once, Kravitz said that Piastri was on 33-year-old tires, and Crofty praised Piastri for undercutting the Mercedes as we watched him pull out behind them. Somebody praised Franco for scoring a point from P11. And when one of the drivers said the car was a sauna, Kravitz [?] said "Actually, it's more of a steam room." The **** you think a sauna is?

[WhawhaWhat]

Yeah they were pretty bad today. Race was fairly boring.

Now there's almost a month off until COTA.

[DJ's left nut]

I spent the whole race just annoyed at how badly Ferrari duffed Q3.

Sainz crashing out trying to...start. LeClerc going off in the first turn and having his lap deleted. Hell, Ferrari having to wait for a single lap to begin with because they burned an unnecessary set of softs in Q1 (which they ALWAYS do for some strange reason).

Guys - you need to beat 5 cars in Q1. You could probably do that in friggen reverse - could you please try to save a set of Softs so don't have to go out there with that much pressure on a single lap?

It's at least the 2nd time you've blown that in Q3 this year.

Ferrari should've had 2 cars in the top 5 today and at least one of 'em on the podium. They duffed an easy chance to pull closer to Red Bull in the Constructors.

Additionally, I'm pretty sure we established that McLaren didn't do enough when they had an opening. Verstappen getting 2nd ahead of a hiatus says they've probably found enough form to hold Norris off just long enough to keep 1st in the Driver's.

1 DNF could change that but man, nobody breaks anymore. And nobody so much as bumps into each other either - 9 straight races without a safety car? The odds of a DNF from Max are pretty damn long.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake

Nice race by Lando today, but the commentary was atrocious. They confused the Ferrari cars more than once, Kravitz said that Piastri was on 33-year-old tires, and Crofty praised Piastri for undercutting the Mercedes as we watched him pull out behind them. Somebody praised Franco for scoring a point from P11. And when one of the drivers said the car was a sauna, Kravitz [?] said "Actually, it's more of a steam room." The **** you think a sauna is?

This was the race LeClerc should've had last week. I don't understand why they didn't have him push in the first segment and push that gap out to 10-12 seconds of Piastri.

Instead they played the tire game, left the gap around 6-7 seconds before they got undercut (which pulled it down to 4ish) and then LeClerc had a miserable out lap that put Piastri in position to try that pass.

All of that came from them being too passive in the 1st segment. We know these tires are showing better deg rates than teams are expecting. And today Norris just said "Fine - I'm gonna drive the damn things hard and build my gap..."

Teams should've been doing that the last 8-10 races since we really learned these Pirellis are durable as hell.