The 2024 running motorsports thread

Maybe if it was explained to them slowly in one-syllable words.

 

They need to remember that motorsports is not a team event, no matter how much the engineers want to turn it into that.

 

The whole point was he got to pit sooner than he otherwise would because they wanted to help him fend off the guy in third. If they had known he wanted to go out on his own, then he could have been told to do his own damn work on the track and lots of luck.

 

Except that it is.

If you want NASCAR, watch NASCAR. Lando was only in first because they tried to help him hold onto second and screwed his teammate. He wasn't there on merit.

 

Yeah, but he was in first place.

 

And he could have stayed there, if he wanted to destroy his relationship with the team that was trying to help him.

Thankfully, he was eventually smart enough to understand the mistake he was making and he did the right thing.

 

His pit crew trying to help him by doing their jobs getting him out of the pits in first only to say "we did too good of a job."

I miss the F1 days of Senna and Mansell.

I shoved my wife out of the way at the start of a charity 5K once because she was holding my up. She understood. It was a race.

 

Like when Senna pulled over to let his teammate win the Japanese Grand Prix?

 

Or when Senna and Prost crashed each other out despite being teammates?

 

Which still happens all the time.

Seriously, if you guys want to turn this into something it's not, knock yourself out. Lando was stealing a win by hosing his teammate. He eventually thought better of it. He has acknowledged that what he did was stupid and he's embarrassed by it. If he let Piastri past like he was supposed to, they could have raced the rest of the way. Instead he threw a fit and made everyone look bad.

 

Two things:

1. I like F1 because it feels like a different way of playing sports. The idea that a podium means so much and how the mid- pack finishes and jostles is just different than American sport. I enjoy that it's different.

2. Absolutely, the lost idea is that if Lando lets Piastri by, then he could race him all he wanted after, and would've had 20 laps to do so. And he could made up seven more championship points by doing that. If I were the team, I might be pissed that he was so short-sighted that he couldn't see that.

Edit: I imagine there would've been team orders in Lando's favor to Piastri if Lando had been that much faster in that scenario.

 

The more I watch F1, and I’ve watched since 1962, the more I find it a very expensive sham.