Formula 1 @lemmy.ml itsmikeyd @lemmy.ml 2y ago

2023 Austrian Grand Prix Race Weekend Thread

Welcome

Welcome to the race weekend! Please use this post to discuss all the sessions for this weekends Grand Prix.

I suspect that this post will be a little more hectic with all the action this weekend. We'll look to change things up after this one if there is a demand for that.

Session times can be found here

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4 races in a row not in Q3 in the clearly fastest car. That's remarkably bad.
- Perez had the Yips
Damn Perez not looking good
Wow Perez fails to make Q3 AGAIN!
- front row when it mattered /s
Hulkenberg doing his usual in quali. P15 race finish incoming.
Orchestral live performance for the national anthem is always a pleasure
Albon, Albon, give that man a quicker car
Norris is looking quick here!
I'm at the dentist instead of watching FP1 😭
- Hopefully you're done before Qualifying starts.
  
  I'm back now!
Track limits is brutal, and I like it, but they need to be quicker.
- I don't. These track limits are too brutal. There has to be some margin for error
  
  The white line is the margin for error.
FYI, posts/comments from lemmy.world users seem to be federating to lenmy.ml slowly/erratically. I've heard of this happening all over the lemmyverse, not just between those two servers, but a few regular posters are on lemmy.world and so some weekend news might arrive slowly from them due to federation lag.
- Thanks for this. I think I'm missing some of the .ml comments too
Awww, Yuki it's ok! Everything is fine.
Track limits having no margin for error is crazy. People say that the drivers are able to stay out of the wall in street tracks but walls are easy to see. Lines on the other hand are difficult to spot from the cockpit. Getting penalties for going mere millimetres over must be sucking the joy out of drivers
Norris! The upgrades are working!
I really wish the F1tv app had PiP support...
- Can you not use the unnoficial multiviewer app?
  
  Not on my phone lol
This is getting ridiculous with the track limits
This thread isn't pinned for me?
- I'm aware that this is an issue for some, but I do not know why, or how to fix it.
  
  Is it a federation issue¿?
- Same for me, might be a federation thing?
From the Dutch broadcast:

0.8 seconds between no.1 and no. 20 in Q1, last year De Vries would have been 10th.
- Nah, he would have had a slower time last year
All eyes on Checo, he has to make q3 this time
- So weird to say this about a driver in the car that has won every race so far. But he has to, it would be amazing if he fucked up again.
- Ffs...
Piastri fastest without the upgrades and Max having to battle up the field? STOP THE COUNT!
If the Haas had race pace, they'd be scoring good points more regularly.
Hulk really has been exceptional in qualy this year.
Out again! Fuck sake.
Wow I did not expect Charles to get that close to Max. What a lap, but Max + the RB is just too good.
Perez doing the danger zone again
- Perez only 0.06 behind Verstappen! Looks like he is alive after all.
De Vries getting shot out back after the race.
I have to leave right before Q3 starts by the way :( This better be uneventful
Where did the Ferrari performance come from? They seem to be really on it this weekend
- Last year they nailed the Austria set-up as well. Maybe they just know what they have to here.
Gutted for Albon losing that lap.
Looks like there are going to be open seats at both Red Bull and Alpha Tauri…
How much of the gap between Lando and piastri was the updates and how much was Austria-spec Lando¿?

I find it hard to believe that McLaren have gained that much time from their upgrades
Nyck running out of races quickly.
- I really hope he got a Zandvoort clause in his contract because he won't be there on performance metrics.
  
  If he's not gone in a month or two he's pretty much guaranteed to be gone at the end of the season anyway.

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