✅ b1eXch.to 🏁🏎️🏁 F1 MADNESS 🏁🏎️🏁 Discussion Thread!

[LTU_btc]

Wow, that's unexpected. Decided to go with same predictions, because why change something what isn't broken? But now as I understand nowwe will have tiesrs updated.
Antonelli is first Italian driver to win in 20 years. When Fisichella won almost exactly 20 years ago, Antonelli wasn't even born yet. First Hamilton podium for Ferrari and it's so goodto see Lewis happy again. Verstappen missed start moment 2nd race in a row - today during start he looked more like rookie than multiple time world champion.

Im very pissed off with the teams, i mean they have a ton of time to work on the cars for this new regulations, and some of them cant even put the cars for the start of the race, and others are having to retire the car.

Yeah, this is something what I don't like at all to see when teams can't even start race. Struggling under new regulations is quite common thing, but this time struggle reached new level.

[slaman29]

Laugh out loud at myself, @buway did you see that we got almost all the same picks and both ended up with the lowest points?

Well done to @LTU_btc, I need to start taking the winners odds market (BTW I still use Sportsbet to see the odds, does anyone can suggest a better place to look?) and put the winners in my picks. I just gambled and put same guys as last time. And mixed around. No surprise it didn't work

[Koal-84]

FIA is working to nerf the Mercedes, a lot of teams claims that they are "cheating" with the engine which for me is not true, but i believe FIA is gonna nerf it anyway a little for the health of the competition at mid season.

I don’t think Mercedes is cheating, especially since other teams are using Mercedes engines as well. But Mercedes dominance is still very strong, and only Ferrari can somewhat keep up. I think McLaren and Red Bull can still catch up a bit, which would also make the races more exciting. But we’ll see, in two weeks it’s the race in Japan.

[notblox1]

I had a feeling Antonelli could boom up in this race, and I think this could be his season, but I made a wrong prediction based on history.
Unless something changes this part of the season could be marked by team Mercedes domination.

Well how i can announce this.....our provisional winner is again LTU_btc via tiebreak this time and thanks to submiting first since he had the exact same picks than the others.

Wow! Congratulations to the new legend.
LTU_btc is becoming the notblox1 of F1 madness 
He already returned paid entry fees and he is now in profit after only two F1 rounds. 

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Laugh out loud at myself, @buway did you see that we got almost all the same picks and both ended up with the lowest points?

Buwa is "tanking" like the teams from NBA when they do it to improve for the next season, the problem is the next season comes and Buwa keeps "tanking". 

I don’t think Mercedes is cheating, especially since other teams are using Mercedes engines as well. But Mercedes dominance is still very strong, and only Ferrari can somewhat keep up. I think McLaren and Red Bull can still catch up a bit, which would also make the races more exciting. But we’ll see, in two weeks it’s the race in Japan.

For me they are not cheating, but in motor sport you have this problem you do everything right you are the best but if you are the best by far the federation is gonna need to nerf you for the health of the competition.

I had a feeling Antonelli could boom up in this race, and I think this could be his season, but I made a wrong prediction based on history.
Unless something changes this part of the season could be marked by team Mercedes domination.

I really hope in this two weeks and in the new window left by the cancelled arab Gps to see teams improving and cutting a little the gap.

[famososMuertos]

What a madness season.  : BTW they cancelled two GPs anyway.

This circuit worked well for these engines, but the reality is that F1 is about seeing the cars go at their maximum. If we don’t see a constant +350 km/h, it’s not even F2.

[slaman29]

What a madness season.  : BTW they cancelled two GPs anyway.

This circuit worked well for these engines, but the reality is that F1 is about seeing the cars go at their maximum. If we don’t see a constant +350 km/h, it’s not even F2.

Truely, madness in all this changes, I don't think I like it. I only can appreciate that results are very different, but can we really say this is F1? If I play PS2 and press nitro, can I really say I raced? I think many drivers secretly think this is nonsense. I didn't say its not fun, its just, not F1.

Laugh out loud at myself, @buway did you see that we got almost all the same picks and both ended up with the lowest points?

Buwa is "tanking" like the teams from NBA when they do it to improve for the next season, the problem is the next season comes and Buwa keeps "tanking". 

I feel bad sometimes as its not like we are doing much greater than him but then I remember he is one of the evils, so I feel good at the end

[darbitmobilerecovery]

What a madness season.  : BTW they cancelled two GPs anyway.

This circuit worked well for these engines, but the reality is that F1 is about seeing the cars go at their maximum. If we don’t see a constant +350 km/h, it’s not even F2.

Truely, madness in all this changes, I don't think I like it. I only can appreciate that results are very different, but can we really say this is F1? If I play PS2 and press nitro, can I really say I raced? I think many drivers secretly think this is nonsense. I didn't say its not fun, its just, not F1.

That is really difficult to me to take a position, from one side we have what the drivers feels and the reality which in fact is like you are saying, but in the other hand we had us, i mean the normal people who see the race, and we come from a long wait in F1 to see more overtakes, now we have a ton of it but are they really good? Well in one side yes and in the other no, and that is the main thing, for example i cant deny it was super fun the first laps of the sprint race when Hamilton figh against Russel like no tomorrow.

[Slissy]

Congratulations again to LTU_btc you are on fire with 2 wins in a row 😁

We got a new race in 2 weeks, then there will be another 5-6 long weeks befor we have a new race.. it will be exciting to see if the teams can make any improvements during this long break..

darxiaomi How will the rewards look like? Top 5 or 10?

[darxiaomi]

We got a new race in 2 weeks, then there will be another 5-6 long weeks befor we have a new race.. it will be exciting to see if the teams can make any improvements during this long break..

darxiaomi How will the rewards look like? Top 5 or 10?

Is what im expecting to see, i can feel the happines on Aston Martin having that 5 weeks to try fix their car and save the season. I really hope to see the teams improving and so we can have more equals fights for the next races.

About the rewards i dont decide it yet, im gonna do it when we reach the deadline for payment.

[notblox1]

So they really had to cancel Formula 1 Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix because of war in middle east 
I was hoping this was going to be postponed or replaced with other countries, but that is not going to happen.
This week we are taking a break from F1 but we are coming back on 29 March in Japan.

[slaman29]

That is really difficult to me to take a position, from one side we have what the drivers feels and the reality which in fact is like you are saying, but in the other hand we had us, i mean the normal people who see the race, and we come from a long wait in F1 to see more overtakes, now we have a ton of it but are they really good? Well in one side yes and in the other no, and that is the main thing, for example i cant deny it was super fun the first laps of the sprint race when Hamilton figh against Russel like no tomorrow.

That is a great great angle to talk about my brother.

Take another sport. Football is the easiest. What do we want to see? More goals? But is it really that simple? I can see lots of goals in Bundesliga but it is not as fun maybe even as watching middle clubs in La Liga play (to me).

I can see PSG score 5 every game but it is never as beautiful as even Napoli fighting Lazio.

Now imagine if they make the pitch shorter and the goal bigger. Is it really so fun anymore?

[KTChampions]

So they really had to cancel Formula 1 Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix because of war in middle east 
I was hoping this was going to be postponed or replaced with other countries, but that is not going to happen.
This week we are taking a break from F1 but we are coming back on 29 March in Japan.

It seems to me that a replacement would have been impossible even if these races had been scheduled for the end of the season, there was too much preparation to hold the event. Perhaps there are some positives to the break - other teams will try to close the technical gap to Mercedes.
By the way, I'm not at all sure that we'll be back from the break on May 3rd  It will be the Miami Grand Prix... who knows, maybe Iran will be successful in war (of some kind) by then.

[swogerino]

So they really had to cancel Formula 1 Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix because of war in middle east 
I was hoping this was going to be postponed or replaced with other countries, but that is not going to happen.
This week we are taking a break from F1 but we are coming back on 29 March in Japan.

It seems to me that a replacement would have been impossible even if these races had been scheduled for the end of the season, there was too much preparation to hold the event. Perhaps there are some positives to the break - other teams will try to close the technical gap to Mercedes.
By the way, I'm not at all sure that we'll be back from the break on May 3rd  It will be the Miami Grand Prix... who knows, maybe Iran will be successful in war (of some kind) by then.

Miami next which is a super long time to come for a race I would say but very helpful, in fact extremely helpful for the teams suffering like McLaren who cannot even start a race. They can troubleshoot problems and even find some more pace as there is ongoing battle between them and Mercedes as they are accusing Mercedes is not giving them the same power unit as the Mercedes themselves. Totto Wolf said we can't make happy anyone but I think he is lies, he doesn't look like most correct person on F1.

[darbitmobilerecovery]

That is really difficult to me to take a position, from one side we have what the drivers feels and the reality which in fact is like you are saying, but in the other hand we had us, i mean the normal people who see the race, and we come from a long wait in F1 to see more overtakes, now we have a ton of it but are they really good? Well in one side yes and in the other no, and that is the main thing, for example i cant deny it was super fun the first laps of the sprint race when Hamilton figh against Russel like no tomorrow.

That is a great great angle to talk about my brother.

Take another sport. Football is the easiest. What do we want to see? More goals? But is it really that simple? I can see lots of goals in Bundesliga but it is not as fun maybe even as watching middle clubs in La Liga play (to me).

I can see PSG score 5 every game but it is never as beautiful as even Napoli fighting Lazio.

Now imagine if they make the pitch shorter and the goal bigger. Is it really so fun anymore?

Yes is subjective like a lot of things in life and that makes impossible to all of us and to other to said clearly what is the correct output somehow.

The correct combination or ammount between fun and fight its when you feel like its the best you can see, taking your example from football we have that in Premier League for example where we saw a good ammount of goals but also teams fighting hard and every team have something to offer.

[darxiaomi]

Hi to everyone here, the other day i was reading some news and one of them really surprised me, the post was something related to the weight of this new cars and they point out Red Bull car is 20 kg heavier than the rest of the field or against the Alpine i dont remember it well, despite that i think that diference is HUGE in this sport if they can solve that i feel like we can see a much better RB and Max performance, the question is... can they fix it?

Here is one source.

[slaman29]

Yes is subjective like a lot of things in life and that makes impossible to all of us and to other to said clearly what is the correct output somehow.

The correct combination or ammount between fun and fight its when you feel like its the best you can see, taking your example from football we have that in Premier League for example where we saw a good ammount of goals but also teams fighting hard and every team have something to offer.

Of course everything is subjective but for me in sports, don't fix something that's not broken. Fix and focus on the broken things. Which F1 has a lot of. Don't start introducing funny ways to drive and race, just improve the existing one.

Fun and fight, 100% here. We all want fun but there needs to be fight.

About heavier car, sometimes heavy can be good, better torque for those high accelerates on the new ecars?

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Of course everything is subjective but for me in sports, don't fix something that's not broken. Fix and focus on the broken things. Which F1 has a lot of. Don't start introducing funny ways to drive and race, just improve the existing one.

Fun and fight, 100% here. We all want fun but there needs to be fight.

About heavier car, sometimes heavy can be good, better torque for those high accelerates on the new ecars?

Yes im with you but when the new management of F1 enters the room they were pretty clear they only want show and more viewers and that can only be made giving much more show to them, so they start drive to survive and start to introduce new things into the F1, the numbers support them as far as i know. Which is good and bad at the same time.

[vivekdhyani1]

Breaking : Jonathan Wheatley will depart from his role of Team Principal at Audi F1 team with immediate effect !!

Mattia Binotto will continue leading the team, taking over as Team Principal

[swogerino]

Breaking : Jonathan Wheatley will depart from his role of Team Principal at Audi F1 team with immediate effect !!

Mattia Binotto will continue leading the team, taking over as Team Principal

Not a move with a lot of sense in my opinion when Jonathan Wheatley is one of the best out there in the role he fulfills and Binotto while being a good one had a story of failure after failure in Ferrari team. This is just the beginning of the Championship and maybe they had some internal issues otherwise is a move that make no sense at all. Of course Audi is not doing as well as they are doing with their road cars which are a key market leader in Europe right now so I expected a whole lot better from them as they had one year to prepare for the regulations as they were not racing in 2025 while preparing for this 2026 season. Well what can I say except time will tell if this was a good move or not.