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2024 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX - LIVE THREAD
2/28/2024 | chode

Posted on 02/28/2024 2:02:53 PM PST by Chode

Bahrain International Circuit

First Grand Prix

2004

Number of Laps

57

Circuit Length

5.412km

Race Distance

308.238 km

Lap Record

1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: f1; formulaone; grandprix
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To: Chode

There goes chode talking to himself again...


21 posted on 02/29/2024 7:37:26 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Lockbox

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22 posted on 02/29/2024 8:47:38 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: EEGator

Okay, and I’m going to pick Hamilton to whine.


23 posted on 02/29/2024 8:52:21 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Seaplaner

I see you’re as bold as I am…


24 posted on 02/29/2024 8:53:50 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Chode

29 Feb 02 Mar 2024 Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir

Gulf Air Race sponsor
PosNoDriverCarTimeGapLaps
144Lewis Hamilton HAMMercedes1:30.37425
263George Russell RUSMercedes1:30.580+0.206s23
314Fernando Alonso ALOAston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:30.660+0.286s22
455Carlos Sainz SAIFerrari1:30.769+0.395s25
581Oscar Piastri PIAMcLaren Mercedes1:30.784+0.410s27
61Max Verstappen VERRed Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:30.851+0.477s25
727Nico Hulkenberg HULHaas Ferrari1:30.884+0.510s23
818Lance Stroll STRAston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:30.891+0.517s26
916Charles Leclerc LECFerrari1:31.113+0.739s26
1011Sergio Perez PERRed Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:31.115+0.741s26
1123Alexander Albon ALBWilliams Mercedes1:31.333+0.959s26
123Daniel Ricciardo RICRB Honda RBPT1:31.516+1.142s26
132Logan Sargeant SARWilliams Mercedes1:31.715+1.341s27
1420Kevin Magnussen MAGHaas Ferrari1:31.764+1.390s27
1522Yuki Tsunoda TSURB Honda RBPT1:31.881+1.507s29
1610Pierre Gasly GASAlpine Renault1:31.951+1.577s25
1777Valtteri Bottas BOTKick Sauber Ferrari1:32.001+1.627s24
1831Esteban Ocon OCOAlpine Renault1:32.027+1.653s25
1924Zhou Guanyu ZHOKick Sauber Ferrari1:32.048+1.674s28
204Lando Norris NORMcLaren Mercedes1:32.608+2.234s25

25 posted on 02/29/2024 9:27:22 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode
Some days there is more action off the track then on the track.

Speaking of that, who's serve is it in our game of Christian Horner ping pong game?

26 posted on 02/29/2024 12:10:24 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Lockbox

Horner six love...


27 posted on 02/29/2024 12:29:48 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

:) sounds about right


28 posted on 02/29/2024 12:43:01 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Chode
"trivia:what is the plank made of, and when did it change???

It's unspecified, or as termed in the TR, "free."

TR 3.5.9-h:

"The material of the plank is free, but it must be homogeneous with a specific gravity between 1.3 and 1.45"
Before the Senna crash it was made from a wood composite called "jabroc." Now the most common material is a glass-reinforced composited called "permaglass."
29 posted on 02/29/2024 1:38:41 PM PST by threefinger
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To: threefinger

permaglass yup, winner...


30 posted on 02/29/2024 1:55:06 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

If you haven’t heard, Christian Horner was exonerated on all WOKE charges. It was just a woman butt-hurt that Horner wasn’t using her correct pronouns.

The accusation wouldn’t have got any traction except for Adrian Newey, who now is back with a vengance.

In a sane world, the Adrian Newey designed cars will always win because he’s the greatest aerodynamicist motor sport has ever seen. The rest of the teams knew they couldn’t catch up without somehow disrupting Team Red Bull so they came after team chief Horner on baseless and trumped-up charges of sexual misconduct. But they overlooked the first rule of regicide: If you shoot at the King, you must not miss.

The first bespoke race car Adrian Newey designed won the IMSA GTP class two years running. The season after his second championship he moved to CART and his car won the CART championship AND the Indy 500 two years running.

So after his first four years of designing race cars, his designs had won four league championships and two Indy 500 trophys. Not a bad start, huh?

Since he’s moved to F1, Newey’s cars have won 12 WCCs (for three different teams) and 13 WDCs (for seven different drivers). He designed the 1st, 2nd and 10th most dominant cars in F1 history (2023 Red Bull RB19, 1988 McLaren MP4/4, and the 2022 Red Bull RB18, respectively).

Despite “only” making the the 10th spot, the RB18 still was no slouch since it won the both the WDC AND the WCC, AND Red Bull’s #2 driver came third in the WDC tally.

When the 2014 rules changes came, Newey’s cars had won both the WDC and the WCC the previous four seasons running. Unfortunately, 2014’s absurd “Tokens” system for limiting development locked in the engine dominance Mercedes showed up with at Melbourne that spring and didn’t relinquish for seven seasons. But now that engine parity has been restored, god once again is in his heaven, and Red Bull is on a tear, courtesy of Adrian Newey.

Part of his brilliance is that he’s also the team’s Technical Director. So when powerplant argues with aerodynamics that he needs more airflow, Newey is the referee. And his intuition for understanding the relative importance of such things to race results is why Red Bull’s cars usually having a higher top speed AND more cornering grip AND better tire life AND lower fuel consumption than the competition.

The only hope for the rest of the field is if Newey retires or is struck by a meteorite.

Unfortunately, the racing still sucks and that’s not going to change until they get rid of about 2/3rd of the wings on the cars and go back to cornering speed being a function of tire adhesion and not aerodynamic downforce. They keep monkeying with the rules to try to reduce the cars’ sensitivity to turbulence when in the draft of a leading car, but that’s a fool’s errand because wing-generated lift is directly proportional to drag. Which means the more downforce the wings make, the harder it will be to overtake. If you don’t believe me, ask anybody who’s ever flown into the wake turbulence of a jumbo jet on take-off.


31 posted on 02/29/2024 2:21:26 PM PST by threefinger
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To: threefinger

There’s a new round of “allegedly” improper emails “allegedly” from Chris Horner just “leaked” today.

The only possible reason these weren’t submitted to the investigating tribunal is that the charges are baseless yet they’re looking to drag out the “high-tech lynching” of Horner.


32 posted on 02/29/2024 3:15:16 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

100%


33 posted on 02/29/2024 5:57:39 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

https://www.thedrive.com/news/indy-500-tells-f1-theres-legally-only-one-greatest-spectacle-in-racing

This may bother some of you, but the greatest spectacle in racing isn’t the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, NASCAR’s Daytona 500, or the 24 Hours of Le Mans. I’ve attended all of them, and the Indy 500 has them beat in terms of atmosphere and pure significance. (Le Mans is the only one that comes close.) But it doesn’t matter how I feel about it, because the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” slogan is trademarked by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and has been since 1986.

Despite this, F1, NASCAR, ESPN, and even LL Cool J (yes, really) have all been dropping those same words during recent live TV coverage, marketing material, and in the case of the famous rapper, the opening of the Miami F1 GP—which, by the way, is far from being the greatest spectacle in racing. Indianapolis Motor Speedway management isn’t happy about this, of course, and has had to remind them about their protected trademark.


34 posted on 02/29/2024 7:11:18 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode
Don't want to steal Chode's thunder, but qualifying is finished and pole isn't a shocker. What also isn't a shocker is that Hamilton's current and future teammates qualified 2-3, but Hambone qualified barely in the top 10.

I wonder if Ferrari is having second thoughts about signing the pork chop?

35 posted on 03/01/2024 10:45:58 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo
Thank You, but go ahead and post results anytime i'm late, i have no issues of who posts what, thx...

29 Feb 02 Mar 2024 Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir

Gulf Air Race sponsor
PosNoDriverCarQ1Q2Q3Laps
11Max Verstappen VERRed Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:30.0311:29.3741:29.17917
216Charles Leclerc LECFerrari1:30.2431:29.1651:29.40719
363George Russell RUSMercedes1:30.3501:29.9221:29.48517
455Carlos Sainz SAIFerrari1:29.9091:29.5731:29.50718
511Sergio Perez PERRed Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:30.2211:29.9321:29.53717
614Fernando Alonso ALOAston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:30.1791:29.8011:29.54214
74Lando Norris NORMcLaren Mercedes1:30.1431:29.9411:29.61415
881Oscar Piastri PIAMcLaren Mercedes1:30.5311:30.1221:29.68318
944Lewis Hamilton HAMMercedes1:30.4511:29.7181:29.71018
1027Nico Hulkenberg HULHaas Ferrari1:30.5661:29.8511:30.50218
1122Yuki Tsunoda TSURB Honda RBPT1:30.4811:30.12912
1218Lance Stroll STRAston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:29.9651:30.20012
1323Alexander Albon ALBWilliams Mercedes1:30.3971:30.22112
143Daniel Ricciardo RICRB Honda RBPT1:30.5621:30.27812
1520Kevin Magnussen MAGHaas Ferrari1:30.6461:30.52912
1677Valtteri Bottas BOTKick Sauber Ferrari1:30.7566
1724Zhou Guanyu ZHOKick Sauber Ferrari1:30.7576
182Logan Sargeant SARWilliams Mercedes1:30.7706
1931Esteban Ocon OCOAlpine Renault1:30.7939
2010Pierre Gasly GASAlpine Renault1:30.9489

36 posted on 03/01/2024 11:12:40 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

F^*< Lewis Hamilton

so much for his brilliant input into what was wrong wi the car...


37 posted on 03/01/2024 11:15:01 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode
I'm here Boss- barely.

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The leftover from Thursday's Dental 🦷 Rodeo, removed Lower Left teeth to make way for Dentures. Almost time to take pain meds.

38 posted on 03/02/2024 6:54:10 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Chode
29 Feb 02 Mar 2024 Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir
Gulf Air Race sponsor
PosNoDriverCarQ1Q2Q3Laps
11Max Verstappen VERRed Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:30.0311:29.3741:29.17917
216Charles Leclerc LECFerrari1:30.2431:29.1651:29.40719
363George Russell RUSMercedes1:30.3501:29.9221:29.48517
455Carlos Sainz SAIFerrari1:29.9091:29.5731:29.50718
511Sergio Perez PERRed Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:30.2211:29.9321:29.53717
614Fernando Alonso ALOAston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:30.1791:29.8011:29.54214
74Lando Norris NORMcLaren Mercedes1:30.1431:29.9411:29.61415
881Oscar Piastri PIAMcLaren Mercedes1:30.5311:30.1221:29.68318
944Lewis Hamilton HAMMercedes1:30.4511:29.7181:29.71018
1027Nico Hulkenberg HULHaas Ferrari1:30.5661:29.8511:30.50218
1122Yuki Tsunoda TSURB Honda RBPT1:30.4811:30.12912
1218Lance Stroll STRAston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:29.9651:30.20012
1323Alexander Albon ALBWilliams Mercedes1:30.3971:30.22112
143Daniel Ricciardo RICRB Honda RBPT1:30.5621:30.27812
1520Kevin Magnussen MAGHaas Ferrari1:30.6461:30.52912
1677Valtteri Bottas BOTKick Sauber Ferrari1:30.7566
1724Zhou Guanyu ZHOKick Sauber Ferrari1:30.7576
182Logan Sargeant SARWilliams Mercedes1:30.7706
1931Esteban Ocon OCOAlpine Renault1:30.7939
2010Pierre Gasly GASAlpine Renault1:30.9489

39 posted on 03/02/2024 9:06:20 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: mabarker1

wish i could get them...


40 posted on 03/02/2024 9:08:05 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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