2024 Qatar Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
2024 Qatar Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
ROUND 23: 🇶🇦 Qatar
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS QATAR GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Lusail International Circuit
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 57
- Circuit Length: 5.419 km
- Race Distance: 308.611 km
- Lap record: 1:24.319 Max Verstappen (2023)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
Debris on track on the straight not being picked up seems dangerous.
Oop looks like a Sauber ran over it as I was typing. Hamilton puncture.
Incredibly sloppy race direction.
Sainz puncture!
That's a mega blunder by race direction.
This is a brand new feeling for Ferrari. "Did somebody else just fuck us? Only we fuck us!"
What the actual fuck is happening lol
I think they replaced those race directors with some people from the WWE.
There's absolutely no way on earth that the finishing order on track will be the finishing order given by the FIA 3 days from now. How on Earth does this absolutely ridiculous organisation still helm this sport? Are they all fucking drunk??
Zhou in the points currently. Please make it stay, racing gods 🙏
10 second penalty coming in tomorrow morning for being just an all around upstanding dude, dropping him to 11th place.
Outstanding move from race control...
This could alter the outcome of the WCC. What a bunch of incompetent fucks.
Feels like the point. To force it to last race
What a shitshow
Race stewards: hold my 0.0 beer.
Now that's a shit show.
Fuck this I'm turning it off.
Pff. This is what happens when you fire two race directors....
Punctures from the straight inc!
Should have thrown a VSC
"I knew he was gonna do it" - well Alex he was on the inside, that's kinda on you
I think it's more a case of Stroll doing Stroll things.
False start, puncture, speeding in the pitlane penalty for Hamilton. What an awful day for him.
Gasly in P5 going underappreciated. Alonso has also had an excellent recovery drive up to P7.
Dang Russell's race went from bad to worse with that pitstop. Free podium for Piastri.
What is going on
Wew what a start.
Great start for Verstappen. Norris also got the jump on Russell.
Unfortunate for Colapinto. More damage 😭 At least it wasn't his fault.
A real shame for this mirror to not be picked up under vsc. Now a safety car is needed and I don't see how they cannot go through the pitlane
Penalty Paradise
I like Albon but this weekend he was driving like a dick
The commentary being salty about British drivers being punished is so delicious. They complain it's inconsistent but honestly it's the first time I think British drivers are being punished to the same degree as others have always been.
I have no problem with the safety ones being penalised like that, they are really lax with it most of the time.
The problem is that because the stewards change all the time their harshness keeps changing.
For the stop go - as long as everyone else gets checked and similarly penalised then it's fine. Norris SHOULD have lifted, if even a token lift.
I do agree that with changing stewards it's stupid. But when you look at how Norris went unpunished for literally creating an extremely unsafe situation after the aborted start it's high time they start giving out harsher penalties. And I'm undoubtedly biased myself but it's always British drivers who get away with that bullshit it seems.
Idk what Vaseline Hamilton usage. But if you compare the 5 sec penalty for a false start with the last few races that's kinda ridiculous how low that is.
Tsunoda dropping down the order like crazy. Overtaken by 4 cars now.
Incredible that a race with so many things happening somehow has been this shit.
Norris must be getting close to a track limit penalty by now?
Well that was certainly something.
This race has been a lot more dramatic than expected. Wonder what happened with Perez.