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[Distraction]

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Ferrari will race with special colors for the Miami Grand Prix, nothing like this has ever been seen for a Ferrari.

It should be a blue or light blue Ferrari.

Yeah, Ferrari has announced their special colours for the Miami GP. 



Truthfully I can't say I'm a fan of this kind of a design for the car. It reminds me of BMW Sauber F1 colours.    I liked that car though but I mean these colours don't fit a Ferrari. Because Ferrari is famous for its red colour.

When it comes to special design I loved the special one by Red Bull for the 2021 Turkish GP. 



Anyway we have a break of a week before the Miami GP and then we continue from where we left. There is going to be another sprint race by the way.

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[swogerino]

some news

South Korea and Thailand have announced that they will apply to the FIA ​​to have a grand prix in their countries. An emissary will go to analyze the projects and decide on any candidature.

Ferrari will race with special colors for the Miami Grand Prix, nothing like this has ever been seen for a Ferrari.

It should be a blue or light blue Ferrari.

Why are they doing such move,they have always raced in red from at least 1997 the year I started watching F1.This is a very and not at all common event for them so unless they are doing it for a special event it does not sound logical at all,even aiming at marketing it does not make sense as Ferrari sells the cars based on passion of buyers and are not relying on such strategy like changing color to boost sales.I don't get it why they do it.

[Republikcoin.com]

It seems that this week's Jerez MotoGP Race will be much fiercer than the previous round because from what I saw in Free Practice1, the Marquez duo managed to occupy first place. However, in the Practice that had just finished I saw Bagnaia set another new record to occupy first place and take him through to Q2 for tomorrow's qualifying. And on the one hand, there are also several riders who have won wildcards, such as Dani Pedrosa, who will be joining the race on Sunday, so this race will probably be much more exciting than the previous series.

[Velvet78]

@Distraction, thanks for sharing the photos.    I must admit that I didn't also like it. The racing suit is not bad but I can't say the same thing for the colors of the car. I'm really curious about whether there is something special with this blue for Ferrari. Because I don't remember them using these colors even for once but I would like to find out the reason of this.

Coming back to the season, Ferrari drivers didn't have a good weekend in China. The qualifying session didn't go well and they had to make an extra effort to climb some positions. Still I can't say their finishing positions were impressive. This time there was no Ferrari car on podium. I hope to see at least one of the drivers finishing on podium in Miami.

[coinlocket$]

according to some sources in Italy the negotiations between Newey and Ferrari have already been taking place for some time.

Talk about it had already started in the first week of March and someone has already started talking about possible contracts between the Redbull engineer and Ferrari.
Newey has rejected Ferrari several times in the past, preferring other teams. The expected role would be head of technical supervisor.

According to the press, other teams are trying but Ferrari is in pole position to get his genius.

[el kaka22]

Ferrari could make any kind of marketing they want, they are a team that everyone loves and yet gets no happiness for supporting them. Ferrari has been like this for a long time as well, they tried their best chance with Vettel back in the day but they ended up still failing like that as well. This is why I believe that we are going to see Hamilton not do anything as well, look at how bad he got against Russell as well, dude becomes bad as soon as he is not racing with a teammate that doesn't just play nice.

All in all, Ferrari is making me mad as you can see lol, and I think it's quite weird that they keep spending all this money, even extra money compared to other teams, and they end up not being that great, what are their engineers doing every season and how are they managed so badly.

[coinlocket$]

what was said a few weeks ago has become reality.

Nico Hülkenberg will leave Haas at the end of the season.
The rumor from a few weeks ago spoke of his probable arrival at Audi starting from 2026 and this is the first step in that direction.

At the moment there is no information on who will take his place on the American car.

[retreat]

some news

South Korea and Thailand have announced that they will apply to the FIA ​​to have a grand prix in their countries. An emissary will go to analyze the projects and decide on any candidature.

It seems that South Korea and Thailand see the potential of F1 to bring tourists to their countries and how hosting this sport in their countries can increase the prestige of tourism in their countries. I feel that South Korea could be the strongest candidate to hold an F1 race, because they have the money and infrastructure that is more supportive of holding an F1 race.
I remembered that my country is also building a circuit which is planned to host F1 in 2026, but I don't know whether it will pass the FIA ​​selection or not because this circuit is close to Singapore which also hosts F1.

Ferrari will race with special colors for the Miami Grand Prix, nothing like this has ever been seen for a Ferrari.

It should be a blue or light blue Ferrari.

Yeah they will race with special colors at the race in Miami later. Honestly, I really like this color, it's like taking Ferrari back to the old days where their team used light blue as their daily color. And this also reminds me of McQueen's colors when he joined Dinoco lol.

[Distraction]

what was said a few weeks ago has become reality.

Nico Hülkenberg will leave Haas at the end of the season.
The rumor from a few weeks ago spoke of his probable arrival at Audi starting from 2026 and this is the first step in that direction.

At the moment there is no information on who will take his place on the American car.

Nico Hülkenberg has already been announced by Kick Sauber F1 team for the 2025 season! 



If it is true, Bottas and Zhou are both out of the team by the end of this season. One of their members has been decided by this signing but we don't know who Hülkenberg's teammate will be there.

Yeah, Hülkenberg might sign for Audi maybe later but at least for one season we will watch him at Kick Sauber. While there is an opening at Haas maybe we might see Bearman being given a chance, what do you think? 

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^  Oh nice.  Good to see more mainstream guys get into crypto casinos and sports betting sites.

Anyway did you guys hear the news?  Looks like Adrian Newey will leave Red Bull as he is disgusted with the thing that's going on in the team.  No dates were said but it seemed like he could like anytime.  There's something going on behind the scenes that we're not privy to.

Next race...

2024 F1 Miami Grand Prix Schedule
Track:  Miami International Autodrome



May 3:  Practice 1  12:30 - 13:30
May 3:  Sprint Qualifying  16:30 - 17:15
May 4:  Sprint Race  12:00 - 13:00
May 4:  Qualifying  16:00 - 17:00
May 5:  Race  16:00

[Republikcoin.com]

Today's Jerez MotoGP Sprint Race was really quite dramatic with a group crash at Turn 5 for several riders in the front row at the same time. And it is not yet known what the cause is, so those on the podium today are really unexpected riders like Quartararo who started the Sprint from grid 23 but was able to finish in the top three. Likewise, Marquez, who started the Sprint on the first grid, had to swallow the bitterness of a crash while leading the race, this was completely unexpected. Because there are many riders who experience crashes on the last lap like what happened to Zarco at the last corner even though he had time to re-enter to finish the race to the finish line.

[swogerino]

Today's Jerez MotoGP Sprint Race was really quite dramatic with a group crash at Turn 5 for several riders in the front row at the same time. And it is not yet known what the cause is, so those on the podium today are really unexpected riders like Quartararo who started the Sprint from grid 23 but was able to finish in the top three. Likewise, Marquez, who started the Sprint on the first grid, had to swallow the bitterness of a crash while leading the race, this was completely unexpected. Because there are many riders who experience crashes on the last lap like what happened to Zarco at the last corner even though he had time to re-enter to finish the race to the finish line.

Good to know we are going to watch a race of MotoGp,I thought this to be a boring weekend without F1 and for me without F1 any weekend is a boring one yet with a MotoGp race I can call this one a less boring weekend.In fact during this season I have not seen a single race of MotoGP and I would love to watch Marquez in that Ducatti and see how he is doing.If he crashed while leading the race,that can be called unexpected yet a crash in a motorbike race is never unexpected for me,even more when you are used to push like crazy like Marquez did when he was at Honda.Let's hope the race of tomorrow will be better than the Sprint and we will see more action.

[Velvet78]

If I'm not wrong Kick Sauber F1 and Haas teams both are going to part ways with their both drivers at the end of this season. As Kick Sauber F1 has already announced one of their drivers I wonder who the other one will be. Hulkenberg is an experienced driver. Therefore maybe his teammate would be a young talent. Just like the Bottas - Zhou duo.

About Haas I have also heard about Bearman rumours. But Haas had better improve their car more to give him a more decent car. Otherwise having an unstable car and an unexperienced driver both might not be for their advantage.    Haas haven't started too badly though maybe they can get better in time.

[panjul07]

Today's Jerez MotoGP Sprint Race was really quite dramatic with a group crash at Turn 5 for several riders in the front row at the same time. And it is not yet known what the cause is, so those on the podium today are really unexpected riders like Quartararo who started the Sprint from grid 23 but was able to finish in the top three. Likewise, Marquez, who started the Sprint on the first grid, had to swallow the bitterness of a crash while leading the race, this was completely unexpected. Because there are many riders who experience crashes on the last lap like what happened to Zarco at the last corner even though he had time to re-enter to finish the race to the finish line.

Marquez did the same mistake as what he did in Amerika 2 weeks ago, crashed when he was leading but lucky him today that he could finish.
Hope he wont do it again tomorow in the main race as I want to watch great competition between Jorge Martin, Marquez, Pecco and Acosta.
So many crashes today in the sprint race which is something surprising, again I hope there wont be too many crashes tomorrow.
With the result today, Jorge Martin add 12 points in the standing and he is leading with 29 points now to the 2nd position Pedro Acosta.
Marquez remains in the 7th position with 39 points, 53 points behind Jorge Martin (92).

[FanEagle]

some news

South Korea and Thailand have announced that they will apply to the FIA ​​to have a grand prix in their countries. An emissary will go to analyze the projects and decide on any candidature.

It seems that South Korea and Thailand see the potential of F1 to bring tourists to their countries and how hosting this sport in their countries can increase the prestige of tourism in their countries. I feel that South Korea could be the strongest candidate to hold an F1 race, because they have the money and infrastructure that is more supportive of holding an F1 race.
I remembered that my country is also building a circuit which is planned to host F1 in 2026, but I don't know whether it will pass the FIA ​​selection or not because this circuit is close to Singapore which also hosts F1.

I feel like those are nations that are growing more and more and more in tourism, both didn't even have a place in tourism maybe 30 years ago or so, now when you look at it, we all feel like they are amazing places to visit and would love to see them.

When you think about that, adding f1 to their country could mean at least tens of thousands of people, imagine getting 40-50 thousand more people there, and that is just at that moment, after that we are talking about both marketing with these people and also all the people who went there and came back telling how beautiful those places are, meaning even the race is over, other people will come because of it as well. So these are all important factors, spending a few million dollars on this could be an amazing deal for everyone.

[coinlocket$]

Nico Hülkenberg has already been announced by Kick Sauber F1 team for the 2025 season! 

oh I missed this part. Interesting.

Anyway, changing the subject, fun sprint race today for Moto GP.
About ten riders slipped on a damp track, it looked like an elimination race.
As always, Martin's talent prevailed in the end.
Marc Marquez's first victory on the Ducati isn't that long away, it could even come tomorrow, if he manages to finish the race.

[joniboini]

Today's Jerez MotoGP Sprint Race was really quite dramatic with a group crash at Turn 5 for several riders in the front row at the same time. And it is not yet known what the cause is, so those on the podium today are really unexpected riders like Quartararo who started the Sprint from grid 23 but was able to finish in the top three.

I think the majority of the news that I read agree that the main culprit is the track condition[1]. Basically, the track is not completely dry so it is very easy to slip, not to mention if they use dry tires. Some riders went as far as complaining that the race should be stopped and restarted until the track condition improve, but it sounds like the track organizer feels that some cleaning is good enough to solve the issue. Turns out they need more than that. CMIIW.

[1] https://www.the-race.com/motogp/what-caused-motogps-shocking-15-crash-jerez-sprint/

[Koal-84]

Another bad weekend so far for Bagnaia, so it will be difficult to defend the title, this year Martin is now the absolute favourite for the world champion title, a very big surprise this year is nevertheless Acosta and I assume he will ride in the KTM factory team next year.

[swogerino]

Another bad weekend so far for Bagnaia, so it will be difficult to defend the title, this year Martin is now the absolute favourite for the world champion title, a very big surprise this year is nevertheless Acosta and I assume he will ride in the KTM factory team next year.

I think we are early to judge who will be the strong favorite,even Marquez is showing that he is there,he just needs just a very little bit more time and he maybe winning his first race and once he does so it means that he will be fighting for the title too.I have not seen any race and tomorrow I am going to watch the race just to see how things have changed,there are people saying that he can win his first race tomorrow as today he was leading the sprint when he crashed out of nowhere,it means he does not feel that much comfortable with his new bike but once he gets ahead of it,he will be winning races and even Championships.

[coinlocket$]

I just saw that Quartarero managed to get penalized and lost the podium.

INCREDIBLE Pedrosa achieved the podium in this way.
This makes us understand how low the level of the other drivers is..

Many complained about the condition of the track which was spitting out water. 15 crashes in 12 laps I think is the all-time record or in any case one of the races with the most crashes in history.