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FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2026 Live Thread.
Formula One ^
| 3.5.2026
| Carriage Hill
Posted on 03/05/2026 12:09:14 PM PST by Carriage Hill
Circuit: Albert Park First Grand Prix: 1996, Number of Laps: 58, Circuit Length: 3.295 km, Race Distance: 306.124 km, Lap Record: 1:19.813 Charles Leclerc (2024)
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Sports
KEYWORDS: chat; f1; hobbies; sports
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To: Paal Gulli
She’s kind of scary looking.
To: Carriage Hill
I have a Roku streaming subscription and I signed up for Apple TV through Roku. Found out that there seems to be no way to watch a “live event” after its already happened. So with F1 happening all around the world and so much of it in the middle of the night or other odd-hours and no way to record or replay live events, Apple TV is useless to me.
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posted on
03/06/2026 9:02:12 AM PST
by
motor_racer
(Who will bell the cat?)
To: motor_racer
F1.com is a way to do that, but at $10+/month. I just renewed my sub for this year, so there are many benefits and options with it.
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posted on
03/06/2026 9:08:55 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The perspective in that photo looks odd, like it was shot with a fish-eye lens, which magnifies what’s in the middle of the frame and shrinks everything else.
Then again, I’ve never seen her in the flesh, so maybe she is naturally scary-looking.
To: Carriage Hill
To: All
To: Paal Gulli
She seems awfully fit. She might hurt a guy like me.
To: Carriage Hill
Adrian Newey says he didn’t find out what a pickle Honda was in until November.
Newey says Honda bailed on F1 after the 2021 season and took a year away from the sport. And when they came back only about 30% of the original staff came with them.
They returned to F1 under the 2023 rules structure which put a budget cap on engine development. They still haven’t caught up with the teams that already had their 2026 engine programs in progress in pre-spending-cap 2022.
Apparently Honda didn’t bother to tell anybody how bad off they were until he (Newey) went to Japan last November to run to ground the rumors that they were WAY WAY behind in development.
One point I found very telling was that according to Newey, it’s not the KERS, it’s Honda’s ICE that sucks the worst.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/adrian-newey-aston-martin-honda-2026-f1-engine-issues-awareness
It would be a shame to see Newey’s masterpiece scuttled because — and through no fault of his own — Honda had forgot how to build engines.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
"She seems awfully fit. She might hurt a guy like me." Hurt me, beat me, make me write bad checks. :-O
To: Carriage Hill
I’m horrified!
No more Sky Sports. Those “presenters” are like a part of my family after being with them so much for 10 years. So now we we have so settle for Alex Brundle instead of Martin, just for starters.
I guess I will get used to it, just like when they dropped the “American” crew when ESPN got the contract. (In fact, I cannot even remember their names.)
To: Paal Gulli
Sad situation, but F1 will survive it all.
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posted on
03/06/2026 4:20:34 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Carriage Hill
To: Wayne07
Yes, heard about this. Pretty big impact on the drivers.
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posted on
03/06/2026 6:10:15 PM PST
by
Fury
To: WhiteHatBobby0701
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posted on
03/06/2026 8:16:04 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Carriage Hill
To: Captain Jack Aubrey
Miss Varsha leading the charge with a Briton — a Wisconsin Honda dealer — next to him.
F1 prefers emotionalism over logic where fans learn the inner workings which will give the fan a once-over on the cars. I miss being able to see Steve Matchett explain the new aero.
To: motor_racer; Carriage Hill
“I have a Roku streaming subscription and I signed up for Apple TV through Roku. Found out that there seems to be no way to watch a “live event” after its already happened. So with F1 happening all around the world and so much of it in the middle of the night or other odd-hours and no way to record or replay live events, Apple TV is useless to me.”
As Carriage Hill states:
“F1.com is a way to do that, but at $10+/month. I just renewed my sub for this year, so there are many benefits and options with it.”
I have an Apple TV (three actually) and when ‘Home” there is an F1 section — navigate there — and all the practices, P1, P2, P3, etc. show up and can be accessed at any time...
I opted for the 1 year subscription @ $89.99.
It’s a bummer for your F1 watching on Roku.
Cheers for a ‘interesting times’ race!
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posted on
03/07/2026 6:06:47 AM PST
by
BBB333
((The Power Of Trump Compels You!))
To: All
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posted on
03/07/2026 7:37:04 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: All
To: All
...Lift and coasting, energy deployment, batteries, super clipping - all terms modern Formula 1 now has to live with, but ones that have hardly been met with enthusiasm from either those inside the paddock or the fans.
Below are some of the most prominent reactions on social media, with users voicing strong disappointment over what they witnessed during the first qualifying session of the 2026 season...
There are more derogatory Twitter posts at the source story.
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