BTW.. The fastest lap this year was faster compared to last year
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Haven’t seen the race, just read some headlines. Has the bubble burst for McLaren, as they both failed to take the lights. Even though they have the same engine as Kimi & George.
The German anthem followed by the Italian has played 89 times on an F1 podium — Schumacher and Vettel made this a regular occurrence.
Today, for the first time ever, we heard the reverse: Italian, then German.
Congrats Andrea Kimi Antonelli 
I still have the same thing when they talk about Kimi
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Strange how Max’s car suddenly lost power coming out of that corner, but then he’s had problems all weekend.
What with poor qualifying in the Sprint And the GP. And then failed starts, where the car didn’t want to get going.
Maybe it’s time to rethink using a Ford based engine, and look at another engine supplier.
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yeah, they should have sticked with Honda 
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I agree, but looking at the problems Aston are having with Honda. Maybe they should consider Renault as a replacement supplier at the next engine contract change.
I’m just about to watch a film based on one of the most famous F1 battles in history.
The 1976 WDC between Nicki Lauda and James Hunt.
Which sparked my interest in F1.
First of all, congratulations to Kimi on his first Formula 1 race. I believe he’s the second-youngest driver to have achieved this.
As for the race itself, I have to say it was a great race and promises plenty of excitement for the races to come.
At the start of the season, there are currently, in my opinion, two camps among the teams. One camp consists of Mercedes and Ferrari, where Mercedes currently has even more power and is therefore still unbeatable in the race. Ferrari is surprisingly good, in my view. And both cars are equally good. And I have to say “mea culpa” to Lewis, whom I advised to quit last season. You can tell he’s fired up again, and Charles won’t have it so easy in the team anymore. But that will spur both of them on to peak performance.
The second camp consists of everyone else. They’re all still having serious problems with their technology. And I don’t see McLaren and Red Bull as the third and fourth forces yet.
Aston Martin is surprising. I had expected more from Adrian Newey’s car, since he’s considered the car designer of Formula 1.
But it was only the second race. And I hope that some teams do their homework and use the involuntary downtime in April—caused by the race cancellations—to at least solve some of their problems.
Otherwise, it will remain a four-way battle between two teams.
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An original sounding F1 car, just pure energy.
I think the downtime, should help Red Bull and Aston Martin.
Because they need to fix Max’s power dropouts, that caused his slow getaways in China, and for Aston Martin’s, they should get Honda over from Japan, and find out why the engine is vibrating so much. That the car becomes a bone shaker.
And maybe tweak some of the rules, while overtaking is great. It’s getting to the point where the overtakes aren’t as good as they were using the DRS system.
As we saw, with the Ferrari’s the minute Lewis got in front of Charles, by the next corner Charles was back in front of Lewis.
Whereas last season, once you’d done the overtake. Then the leading driver could go after the next car in front of him.
But with these new regs. You can’t pull away as the car hasn’t got the power it used to have.
Mick Schumacher hasn’t quite found his footing in the IndyCar Series yet.
In the first race, he was forced out in the opening turns after sliding into a rival’s car—though it wasn’t his fault, as he couldn’t swerve out of the way in time. In the second race, he managed 18th out of 25.
And now in Arlington, he finished last. The street circuit in Arlington, however, is certainly a killer track for a rookie in IndyCar—completely bumpy and uneven. It’s hard to drive. It’s just not Formula 1, where everything is flat.
Well, he’ll need some more time. Still, it’ll be exciting to see if he can make it there.
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Nothing new there as such, he struggled in F1 and that’s not because of his father either.
I think most of the time, he was always in the bottom 5 of the grid.
Not 100% on this, but when Mansell left F1 and went into Indycar, he actually won it, on his 1st or 2nd attempt.
With Max and Hadjar, it’s still the drivetrain that’s causing problems. When starting up, the engine kind of stalls—at least that’s what I saw with Max. And the electric motor’s power control doesn’t seem to be working optimally yet either, because the motor occasionally sends too much power to the rear axle, causing the rear end to break out. That’s how I’d interpret it. As a result, the conservative drivetrain isn’t properly tuned to the electric system yet, and the car could become unstable to drive, losing grip on the rear axle because too much power is suddenly released from the electric motor, causing the wheels to spin.
As for the new rules, I don’t think we can say much yet. Because right now we only have two teams that are even close to competing at the same level. And for me, there can never be enough passing maneuvers, because they’re the icing on the cake in a race. In the past, we’d already have the so-called “string of pearls” after the first three laps, and the result was practically a foregone conclusion.
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From a German perspective, we’ve already had a Timo Glock in the IndyCar Series. And if I remember correctly, he was also named Rookie of the Year for a season.
But Mick just hadn’t had many opportunities yet to gain experience and prove himself at a higher level.
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Michael Schumacher once said in his opinion. The people that don`t survive in Formula One they go to Indy. People coming from Indy hardly survive in Formula One. Pretty harshly said probably. Pretty much the truth. 
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There might actually be something to that.
When I think of former Formula 1 drivers like Romain Grosjean, Marcus Ericsson, and now Mick.
But there was also Montoya, who switched to IndyCar after winning at least seven times in Formula 1 with Williams.
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this weekend:
Max Verstappen will be driving his GT3 car at
the Nürburgring Nordschleife for NLS2.
This race is also part of his preparation for the
24 Hours of Nürburgring (14-17 May)
雷 Schedule -21 March:
8:30 -10:00 am → Qualifying
10:20 - 11:00 am → Pit Walk
11:10 - 11:30 am → Grid Walk
11:00 - 11:40 am → Starting Lineup
12:00-16:00 pm → Race(4 hours)
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