Posted on 09/18/2025 12:38:49 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2025 Live Thread, Circuit: Baku City, First Grand Prix: 2016, Number of Laps: 72, Circuit Length: 259 km, Race Distance: 306.587km, Lap Record: 1:11.097 by Lewis Hamilton (2021) Sunday, October 21, 7:00AM ET
Who looks to be strongest for this one?
I think one of the McLaren drivers will win. I don’t know which one. Verstappen would be my third choice to win.
Mabarker1 can answer that for you.
I’m here Brother. Thanks for this Race Thread.
Rest in Peace Sir 🙏🇺🇸🏁 You are missed by many.
If anyone would like to help then please contact either Myself or Carriage Hill and We can work out the details and We can go from there.
We’ve had the privilege of having Sir Chode as Our Ambassador to the world of Formula One for a very long time. I knew Charlie almost as long as I have been on FR so basically 25 years and I promised Charlie that I would take over and do to the best of My ability. Charlie was without any question the FR Master of Formula One World. As the FR Guru of F1 He probably had forgotten things about F1 than most of us will ever know.
Hopefully this answers the question.
Thank you for this appropriate new thread!
Some A-hole started a thread two days ago and has refused to reply to Mabarker1 or myself regarding the F1 thread or pinglist.
Let’s have fun this weekend!
RIP Sir Chode.
Mea culpa!
Happay to have you on board - if you would like to be on the F1 pinglist please contact Mabarker or Carragehill.
Let’s race!
We’ll get it worked out, somehow.
HAM fastest in FP2 this morning, NOR hit the wall at the corner of Bulbul Ave and Zarifa Aliyeva St (Turn 4).
FP2 best time order: HAM LEC RUS ANT BEA VER LAW OCO ALB NOR SAI PIA HAD TSU BOR GAS STR HUL ALO COL
WhiteHatBobby0701,
I’ve already put you on my Ping List.
Welcome aboard.
For two days three-quarters of the F1 press news stories have been about how much faster Hambone would be at Azerbaijan.
He didn’t manage to make it out of Q2.
Which shows how desperate they are to drag him across the finish line.
Happy to have you on board!
Qatar Airways Azərbaycan Qran Prisi Qualifying:
RED FLAGS:
Q1:
ALB
HUL
GAS/COL
Took 38 minutes.
Q2:
BEA
At 1 hour, 18 minutes into qualifying, Q3 has begun.
Q3:
LEC
PIA
That’s six red flags in qualifying ALONE. 3:41 remain when they resume. Only time for two laps.
Qualifying - only three drivers have set a time: SAI LAW HAD
We’re 12 minutes from 6 PM.
If they do not continue, 4-10 is this based on Q2: VER NOR PIA RUS ANT LEC TSU
Noting one thing is there is never any interviews with crew chiefs or using spotters/sectional reporters to note when the rain is. I’d set a reporter in Calamity Corner (Turn 4) to see what is going on there.
Three minutes until qualifying resumes at 17.54.
After their one out lap, there will be time for just one lap. This is the lap for pole.
Qualifying - Top 10:
VER SAI LAW ANT RUS TSU NOR HAD PIA LEC
He’s always been the media’s ‘little darling’, especially after the racist, BLM-inspired “we drive as one” crappola, years ago.
Sir Lewis, that is, Denver Broncos co-owner.
And it’s his influence in the FIA that forced NASCAR to ban the Cross of St. Andrew at the tracks. If it wasn’t for NASCAR, the Democratic Party would have banned all motor racing — drag racing and dirt too — with a 1955 bill by Richard Neuberger (D-OR) who on July 13, 1955 proposed a ban on motor racing. Weeks later, he got the AAA to shut down the Contest Board.
When Neuberger shut down the Contest Board in 1955, it led to what became NASCAR’s control of American motorsport in 1956 because Bill France settled the conflict between amateur sports car racers (SCCA) and the “temporary emergency committee” formed by Midwestern circuit promoters (became USAC). France formed the national governing body of motorsport, the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States, which was formed of those three, and later the NHRA, IMSA, INDYCAR, and WKA. Any United States driver who wants to race a sports car on an international event simply goes to Daytona where ACCUS is based and applies for his international licence.
This is why any American drag racer who wants to race in Australia in an ANDRA event simply gets an ACCUS FIA licence.
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