F1 Thread

[Le Chef]

Great win for Lewis yesterday, good to see him on top with Ferrari. Don't think much will come of it as things stand, though Ferrari do have some upgrades coming - just can't see beyond Mercedes. Really, really hope that if it is a Mercedes champion, it's Antonelli and not Karen Russell though, I find him unbearable. Like if LinkedIn invented a Formula One driver.

They brought the upgrades to Barcelona, I think Mercedes are due there next time round, nice to see him win tho, but yeah, probably a one off

[Daniel 7]

Great win for Lewis yesterday, good to see him on top with Ferrari. Don't think much will come of it as things stand, though Ferrari do have some upgrades coming - just can't see beyond Mercedes. Really, really hope that if it is a Mercedes champion, it's Antonelli and not Karen Russell though, I find him unbearable. Like if LinkedIn invented a Formula One driver.

[BG1973]

Yeah it"s weird but I think as drivers get more savvy it will settle and less position swaps.

[Yozza]

This has turned into Mario Kart F1 with the red mushroom boosts

Ridiculous

Mercedes are already flying

[Yozza]

Aston Martin have really dropped the ball with their new car..

Aston Martin will limit their laps at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix to avoid the risk of their drivers suffering nerve damage from vibrations coming through the steering wheel, team principal Adrian Newey said on Thursday.

Newey said vibrations from the Honda-supplied power unit were transferring to the chassis and placing a strain on Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll's fingers.

"That vibration into the chassis is causing a few reliability problems: mirrors falling off, tail lights falling off, all that sort of thing, which we are having to address,” he told reporters at Albert Park.

"But the much more significant problem with that is that that vibration is transmitted ultimately into the driver’s fingers.

"Fernando is of the feeling that he can’t do more than 25 laps consecutively before he will risk permanent nerve damage into his hands.

"Lance is of the opinion that he can’t do more than 15 laps before that threshold.

"We are going to have to be very heavily restricted on how many laps we do in the race until we get on top of the source of the vibration."

Aston Martin have been plagued by reliability issues which severely limited their laps during winter testing.

Newey said the team had some success in reducing the impact of vibrations on the battery pack which had affected the cars' performance during testing.

"The battery is the thing that we have been focusing on because that’s the critical item on life," he added.

"The transmission of that vibration into the chassis, we haven't made any progress on."

Honda HRC president Koji Watanabe said they were working to solve the power unit's problems but offered no timeline on a meaningful fix.

"I want to hurry up, but at this moment, it’s quite difficult to say when and how," Watanabe told reporters.

Aston Martin finished seventh in the 2025 constructors championship.

[SB]

2nd in race, 3rd in Championship.

[Scratch]

I was really hoping Yuki gave everyone a giant "**** you" and kamikaze'd into Norris as he went past to make it interesting. He definitely thought about it

Knowing Yuki's form this year, he probably tried it and missed.

[Harv]

I was really hoping Yuki gave everyone a giant "**** you" and kamikaze'd into Norris as he went past to make it interesting. He definitely thought about it

[Scratch]

2nd in race, 3rd in Championship.

[SB]

Strange gp today. Bit surprised that RB didn't at least try to back the McLarens back into Le Clerc and Russell, just to make it interesting. Seemed to be hoping that Norris would get reliability issues, which would be a long shot.

How’d Piastri go?

[Scratch]

Strange gp today. Bit surprised that RB didn't at least try to back the McLarens back into Le Clerc and Russell, just to make it interesting. Seemed to be hoping that Norris would get reliability issues, which would be a long shot.

[labourRed]

Yeah, but they lost their flexibility.

[Yozza]

What a balls up by McLaren yesterday....

[Scratch]

McLaren messing about with Papaya rules could scupper them. Trying to be too clever, knowing they had the best car. If the don't get the driver's championship, Brown should be booted out.

[Daniel 7]

Well - yesterday made things a bit spicy going into the end of the season. Max could end up stealing this if McLaren aren't sensible. They've turned a two horse race into a situation where neither McLaren driver might win it, like 2007 and Kimi.