Pick the Podium - F-1 - Aramco United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, October 21-23, 2022

[Retroram52]

Formula-One swings into North America for two races beginning in the United States and then the second is Mexico. One of these years I am going to make it up to Austin to see the F-1 race before I call it a career-Bucket List item. The Mercs claim this week-end will be the release of the final change to their cars so that they believe will be Championship level machines. We shall see. Funny, Alfa Romeo is claiming something similar.

Mercedes set to unleash ‘final step’ of 2022 updates in Austin, says Shovlin | Formula 1®

Mercedes will bring another batch of upgrades to the United States Grand Prix – their last in terms of aerodynamic changes this season, the team’s Trackside Engineering Director, Andrew Shovlin, has revealed.

www.formula1.com

 

[Retroram52]

Haas has a new sponsor for 2023.

Haas sign new title sponsor for 2023 in multi-year deal | Formula 1®

American Formula 1 team Haas have signed a deal with MoneyGram which will see the digital payment firm become title sponsor from next season and beyond.

www.formula1.com

 

[Hank Kingsley]

RB tossing out "What abouts" now, officially in deflect mode.

An ex-MB employee who is now working for the FIA. And who worked for the FIA before going to MB.

How could they have sat silently by when Jean Todt became head of the FIA? That's like Horner suddenly becoming the head of the FIA.

But not a peep about that when it happened.

 

[Retroram52]

Leclerc, Sainz, and Bottas are the top three in P2 at COTA. The Haas teammates are 10th and 11th. Nice FP2 results for Haas in America.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

That was a waste of one and a half hours for me. No qualifying simulation laps no fuck all.

I see Louis 9/10 up on Russell that you have no idea what it means because you don’t know what tires they’re running. I see Lewis two tenths behind Max and I have no idea what it means because you don’t know what tires they’re running. An educated guess would be Lewis might’ve been on a quick tire and Russell not but you still don’t know what Max is on.

 

[Retroram52]

Love the new 2023 Pirelli tires they tested today in an extended practice session.

2022 United States Grand Prix FP2 report and highlights: Leclerc tops extended second practice session in Austin as drivers test 2023 tyres | Formula 1®

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc posted the fastest time in FP2 for the 2022 United States Grand Prix – this session lengthened from 60 to 90 minutes for Pirelli’s prototype 2023 tyre test.

www.formula1.com

 

[Hank Kingsley]

FP1 and today's FP3 are the only real practise they get.

 

[forty_three]

RIP to a man who really changed the landscape of F1 in a major way.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Verstappen
Hamilton
Sainz
Perez

 

[forty_three]

VER
HAM
SAI
RUS

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Do parade lap changes count?

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Verstappen
Sainz
Hamilton
Perez

 

[Retroram52]

I'll go with:

Verstappen
Sainz
Hamilton
Perez

 

[obxyankeefan]

VER
SAI
RUS
BOT

 

[ckhokie]

VER
HAM
SAI
PER

 

[Hank Kingsley]

A lot of overlaps.

 

[Retroram52]

Race doesn't start for an hour and half. This the Texas race, so we are on US time!

 

[ckhokie]

Can we stop acting like Danica Patrick MUST be included any time there is a Motorsport event in the US? She sucks.

Yesterday she asked Max ‘what will it take to win this race from the 2nd row?’ even though Max is starting 2nd.

 

[obxyankeefan]

Can we stop acting like Danica Patrick MUST be included any time there is a Motorsport event in the US? She sucks.

Yesterday she asked Max ‘what will it take to win this race from the 2nd row?’ even though Max is starting 2nd.

The perfect answer would have been "Hope everyone else runs out of gas."

 

[Retroram52]

Wow, Perez jumps to the lead and Verstappen is 2 seconds back!