ROUND 3: 🇦🇺 Australia


FORMULA 1 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2024


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 1996
  • Number of laps: 58
  • Circuit Length: 5.278 km
  • Race Distance: 306.124 km
  • Lap record: 1:20.235Sergio Perez (2023)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That Sainz guy is pretty good. Ferrari should think about re-signing him. Oh wait. 🙄

    Also: RUS binning it on the last lap in a race where SAI wins after a 9-race winning streak from VER? Looks like a pattern emerging.

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      7 months ago

      I legitimately think Ferrari should’ve picked Sainz over Leclerc. Leclerc is better on paper but he seems so deflated, like his heart just isn’t in the race anymore. Sainz however looks like he’s hungry for wins, he sees a chance to win and he will fight everyone (including his own pitwall) to get the win.

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      7 months ago

      The icing on the cake of a very nice race. I’m not too sad that I didn’t get enough sleep!

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    7 months ago

    Amazing race… So happy for Sainz!

    It did look like Max was not as dominant this weekend, he had to work for that pole (at least it looked that way)… Too bad that with the retirement we didn’t get to see more of an actual fight

    I do think Sainz just proved that getting 20 second advantage when you are first is a bit too easy (DRS for you and blue flag for any lapped cars seems to me like too much. I think just DRS would be fairer and make the races more interesting… Just my opinion)

    Finally, terrible camera work… WTF did we need to see Max walking around with security TWICE after his retirement??

    PS: go Yuki, points again while Ric all the way to the back… Yuki is never getting the call to Red Bull, maybe for good reason and he is a hot head, but I think it’s clear he is #1 in Visa we don’t care about the name as long as we get paid RB team

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      It did look like Max was not as dominant this weekend, he had to work for that pole (at least it looked that way)… Too bad that with the retirement we didn’t get to see more of an actual fight

      Very hard to tell, and it is unfortunate to some extent. It’s not a huge surprise for me however as Australia is a peculiar track where there usually are some teams that rather randomly perform much better or worse than expected.

      I do think Sainz just proved that getting 20 second advantage when you are first is a bit too easy (DRS for you and blue flag for any lapped cars seems to me like too much. I think just DRS would be fairer and make the races more interesting… Just my opinion)

      I completely agree, though I’m of the opposite opinion. Blue flags are necessary imo (there is no reason a lapped car should be allowed to defend against a race leader), but the leader getting DRS off cars he’s lapping is grade-A nonsense.

      PS: go Yuki, points again while Ric all the way to the back…

      Yuki took that incident in Bahrain personally! I don’t get why people keep underrating him, he beat three teammates last year and is on the path to giving Ricciardo a McLaren-level drubbing.

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    7 months ago

    I never like when victories are decided by mechanical DNFs, but nothing can take away from the superb performance of Carlos Sainz. Would’ve been exciting if Max and Carlos actually fought for it throughout the race though.

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    7 months ago

    If Norris came in sooner with his second stop, couldn’t he have overtaken Leclerc?

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      7 months ago

      It all depends on where they project him to rejoin. It’s easy for us to guess at but a lap one way or another may have been worse for him with traffic and added tire wear.

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    7 months ago

    Marko said in a post-race interview that Checo’s car was 2 seconds slower than Ferrari and McLaren at times. Which is not explainable and probably they had made some kind of error in set-up

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      At the beginning of the race Checo was complaining they got the setup wrong and had too much down force on the front tyres, so that probably.

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      7 months ago

      I think with 1 lap to go, the risk could be mitigated as people would have to pass the crash once

      Also, other than the Russell v Alonso crash, all the other spots were basically set