OT-Time to go F1 racing-Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2024 Feb 29-Mar 2 -OT

lousubcap

Schedule is below.  All times EST with broadcast channels:

02 Mar

Race

10:00 (ESPN)

01 Mar

Qualifying

11:00 - 12:00 (ESPN2)

01 Mar

Practice 3

07:30 - 08:30 (ESPN2)

29 Feb

Practice 2

10:00 - 11:00 (ESPNU)

29 Feb

Practice 1

06:30 - 07:30 (ESPNU)

Bahrain International Circuit

Can't wait for "Lights out!"

Ozzie_Isaac

Going to figure out how to watch these.  Looks like Ferrari might actually be competitive with RB?  Testing was pretty interesting.  Mercedes at least may be in the second group and have a chance of getting better based on driver’s comments about the 2024 car.

FrostyEgg

Let's gooooo! McLaren fan here, hoping they can move up the pack a bit this year.

unoriginalusername

Can’t wait 

Chief9

Gonna try to get into it this year.  Watched the Netflix series and enjoyed that.

Ozzie_Isaac

Awesome video showing real speed of F1

https://youtu.be/9pEqyr_uT-k?si=0U674G4W_2F41gZD

lousubcap

Thanks for that link.  Now to get yourself good to go live this coming weekend.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Thinking this is best bet?

unoriginalusername

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Awesome video showing real speed of F1

https://youtu.be/9pEqyr_uT-k?si=0U674G4W_2F41gZD

That was cool 

unoriginalusername

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Thinking this is best bet?

Have it and like it. Wish I had done it sooner 

lousubcap

Qualifying is in the books. Verstappen on pole followed by Leclerc and Russell.  
RedBull P1 and P5.  Ferrari P2 and P4 with Mercedes in P3.  

Ozzie_Isaac

16 laps in and Max is 26 seconds ahead ..... and then after all the pitting is complete still 6.1 seconds.

Ozzie_Isaac

I wonder what would happen if you put Max in an Aston Martin?  Is Max that good, is RB20 that good, or are they greater than the sum of the whole?

lousubcap

Some nice racing down the grid but Verstappen and Red Bull continued where they finished last year.  
And to put Verstappen's last season in perspective:
https://racer.com/2023/11/29/how-well-did-verstappens-2023-f1-season-stack-up-against-some-past-greats/ 
On To Saudi Arabia next week.  More later.

unoriginalusername

lousubcap said:

Some nice racing down the grid but Verstappen and Red Bull continued where they finished last year.  
And to put Verstappen's last season in perspective:
https://racer.com/2023/11/29/how-well-did-verstappens-2023-f1-season-stack-up-against-some-past-greats/ 
On To Saudi Arabia next week.  More later.

Apparently max lapped himself pace wise from last year total time 

lousubcap

Did some googling and this year Max's total race time 1:31.44; 2023 total race time 1:33.56.  
Race dynamics were different with flags etc but given the average lap time is around 1:35 then he definitely did lap himself.  I hope this is not another runaway season for Verstappen and Red Bull.