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2022 Formula 1 Season thread

CWallace said:
Juri Vips has been dropped from Red Bull's driver programme and as their Formula 1 test and reserve driver after using offensive language during an online game.

He remains employed by Hitech and will continue to drive for them in Formula 2.

www.bbc.com

Juri Vips: Former Red Bull reserve driver keeps Formula 2 seat despite racist slur

Juri Vips keeps his seat in Formula 2 despite being sacked by backers Red Bull for using a racist slur.
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Probably got it from Piquet. Not been a good week for politically correct language in F1!
 
So for US viewers, ESSPN has renewed their contract with Formula One through the end of 2025 at a reported $75-90 million per year. ESPN's current contract is $5 million per year, so this is around a 1500% annual increase.

Most races will be live on ESPN or ABC, but "a select handful" will be moved to the ESPN+ streaming service (so one will need a subscription to that service to watch). ESPN does re-broadcast the live races at a later time, so I do not know if that means ESPN+ if you want to see it live and then ESPN for tape-delay or it will only be on ESPN+.

Considering the new contract price, I expect this means that Qualifying and the Race will no longer be commercial-free, which is a bummer, but it shows how popular F1 is in the USA compared to five years ago when ESPN first negotiated the rights.

Amazon and Netflix both offered more than ESPN, but to their credit, Formula One realized that most everyone in the US has ESPN whereas this is not the case with Amazon or Netflix so it looks like the goal is to continue to grow that popularity by making it available on linear (cable) television.

I am a Disney+ subscriber under the three-year D23 special deal which ends in November so if the ESPN+ races are only available via ESPN+ I will probably just upgrade to the $19.99 plan that has Disney+, ad-free Hulu and ESPN+. Or I will just do ESPN+ via AppleTV Channels since that is easy to renew and cancel as necessary to have coverage during the races.
 
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Silverstone FP1 was wet and FP2 was dry.

FP1
1 Valtteri BOTTAS Alfa Romeo1:42.249
2 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.532s
3 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari+0.718s
4 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+1.552s
5 Mick SCHUMACHER Haas F1 Team+1.646s

FP2
1 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari1:28.942
2 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.163s
3 Lando NORRIS McLaren+0.176s
4 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing+0.207s
5 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+0.462s


Interesting to see Hamilton 2nd in both sessions. He's an excellent wet driver, so his FP1 performance is not surprising, but 2nd in the dry...
 
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CWallace said:
Silverstone FP1 was wet and FP2 was dry.

FP1
1 Valtteri BOTTAS Alfa Romeo1:42.249
2 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.532s
3 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari+0.718s
4 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+1.552s
5 Mick SCHUMACHER Haas F1 Team+1.646s

FP2
1 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari1:28.942
2 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.163s
3 Lando NORRIS McLaren+0.176s
4 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing+0.207s
5 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+0.462s


Interesting to see Hamilton 2nd in both sessions. He's an excellent wet driver, so his FP1 performance is not surprising, but 2nd in the dry...
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Trust me. By qualifying the Red Ball of Max will find some pace. Hope I’m wrong, but doubt it.
 
Looking forward to it live race weekend for a change. Shane the commentary will be from the Sky team.
Will be interesting to see if the improvements to the Mercs is genuine or if it was weather and fuel levels that made practice seem that way.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Looking forward to it live race weekend for a change. Shane the commentary will be from the Sky team.
Will be interesting to see if the improvements to the Mercs is genuine or if it was weather and fuel levels that made practice seem that way.
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David Croft, Natalie Pinkham, Paul di Resta, Anthony Davidson ... ? Right?

I liked Paul di Resta when he was on the US team.
 
CWallace said:
Silverstone FP1 was wet and FP2 was dry.



FP2
1 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari1:28.942
2 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.163s
3 Lando NORRIS McLaren+0.176s
4 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing+0.207s
5 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+0.462s


Interesting to see Hamilton 2nd in both sessions. He's an excellent wet driver, so his FP1 performance is not surprising, but 2nd in the dry...
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FP2
1 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari1:28.942
2 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+0.163s
3 Lando NORRIS McLaren+0.176s
4 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing+0.207s
5 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+0.462s


I'd love for that to be the race result as well...
 
Entertaining qualifying. Dry race tomorrow, so expect to see Max pick up the win.
Would have loved to see the Brits do a bit better. But it’s RBR season really.
 
If you have the MotorTrend channel (either on cable or streaming), the past two weeks they have been showing this year's Monaco Grand Prix Historique hosted by Tiff Nedell. Watching the second episode now and it's great to see all these old Formula One and WSC cars (1925-1985) running around the Grand Prix circuit.
 
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Great qualifying with constant changes at the top, good job Carlos, his race engine said he ‘put it all together like a smooth operator’ 🤣. The crowd were idiots though booing Max when he was interviewed, no idea why. Pathetic when they do that really.
 
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Pezimak said:
Great qualifying with constant changes ar the top, good job Carlos, his race engine said he ‘put it all together like a smooth operator’ 🤣. The crowd were idiots though booing Max when he was interviewed, no idea why. Pathetic when they do that really.
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Totally expected. It’s Silverstone. Max laughed it off. He is polarizing like other drivers have been over the decades. Love him or hate him. No middle ground.

Max is Lewis’ arch enemy in the Land of The Monarchy. Last years ending doesn’t help.

So, that why.…….. 😉
 
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