Are there any followers of F1?
Just testing the waters.
The season starts is less than 2 months with testing to commence shortly.
Should be an interesting season since Hamilton jumped from Mercedes to Ferrari.
Big fan here. I am not so sure he made the right decision, but at the time maybe it was. First event is Feb 26-28. That is pre-season testing in Sakhir and regular season starts in Australia Mar 14-16.
I've not missed watching a race on TV since the 1993 European GP. I was on holiday (from the UK) in Florida at the time, and couldn't find it on TV. I'm really sad I missed that, I've heard many times that it was a classic Senna drive.
I even watched the race at Inidanapolis when only 2 ferraris, and a couple of other lower ranking cars, had the right tyre choice. I have to admit it was dull.
So yes, big fan here.
Processional racing too often.
We were paddocked next to McLaren in the 1984 Detroit GP, boy have times changed.
My first race as crew in 1978 was nearly run over in pit lane by Kiki Rosberg in a Formula Atlantic car.
Long time fan watching Ham since he started in karts.
One of my driver before my time with him was in the F1 F5000 race in the UK where a F5000 car beat the F1 cars.
2024 was the least processional for quite a while. When Max was dominating it did get a bit boring, but there was always a chance of an interesting race for 2nd place.
Hi,
Back in the Pique, Prost, Mansell days, I was a big fan, spent many late nights watching live GP races.
But for some reason moved away.
Now I'm V8 SuperCars, culminating each year with;
A NASCAR Drivers opinion of the Great race.
Thanks.. Tom... 
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Yeah, the only reason I pay for it is FORMULA ONE.
Made sure my F1TV subscription is active today. I have Feb 26 marked on the calendar for the pre-season testing in Bahrain.
The US is lucky enough to have three annual F1 races now so makes attending some a lot easier. Having COTA here in my city is nice.
Seems my cable provider gives me all but the first practice.
Ham seems to be having a good time in 2023 car
One of my racing cohorts sent me the new Tyrrell book the history of the team. He was with them ten years was team manager for the 6 wheeler. Always interesting to get extra details.
One of the projects he was involved with GoodYear sent an engineer and he built one of the first data collection systems. This was about the same time Pi Research started with data collection and display dash's for F1 and other high level motorsport projects. Then in the 90"s Pi started selling club racing data systems, they had been supplying Indy lights for several years. They did get squeezed out of F1 by build your own and other suppliers. But they moved to Indy cars and were bought out by Cosworth who had made the winningest F1 motors.
Cosworth dropped the club line and to get any assistance or buy parts you must have a service contract. I had been a field service tech for Pi so I supported races that there products were in use.
Well after a few months of testing and employee shuffle the 2025 race season is here.
Looks to be one of the more interesting seasons in along time.
Hope that Ferrari keeps the pace they start off well out of the box and then seem to come apart one way or another.
But there are a lot of rookies that should add to the entertainment.
First, Ferrari and McLaren have to get legal at least according to Red Bull. YES, with six rookies it should be fun.
Being legal is a common whine.
Many of us are wonder what was the RB trick over the last few years.
As it is often said it is only cheating if you get caught.
They would say that wouldn't they :-). I don't have a lot of faith in the honesty of Mr horner. I guess it's the same for all teams, but he seems to have been in a bit of trouble in other areas, it may just be gossip and speculation.
@koikeeper I think it's about the DRS and flex or a small opening. The FIA is sending a team to investigate the two teams (Ferrari, McLaren). Just causing that will be a distraction, so Red Bull gains a very tiny advantage.
IIRC, DRS will be gone in 2026, and they will have 'active aerodynamics'. I think that means the ability to open the slot in the rear wing whenever they want, no more one-second rule.
If all cars can always do the same thing, there is no advantage in terms of passing. I suspect that since the FIA mentions 'efficiency,' they are trying to make the hybrid engines more fuel efficient. I'm not sure if that is for cost reduction or some more subtle political reason.
More power from less fuel and lower lap times is the goal. Also, in 2026 the fuel load will be limited to 70 kg.
Teams are known to be very creative a lot of it could be gamesmanship. My friend who was manager of the 6 wheeled car says we ran the same two cars with 11 crew now they number in the hundreds. Gives you more brain power for extra projects.
Since development leads to rule changes the sport constantly evolves. Was never happy with DRS rule but since drafting went away with aero changes they felt some needed changes. With product development can now predict the life of a part to the minute the randomness of the 70's and 80's went away.
I guess I have issues with the whole green conservation thing, if your understanding is that you could be killed or seriously hurt while racing being green or conservative really doesn't fit the application.
But it is race season and will be an interesting and wild one.
I think Max the pratt is sandbagging it anyway
I really enjoyed this series of 4 x 1 hour programmes. Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story. I was apprehensive about the actor, Keanu Reeves, being the presenter, but he was great, he seems to know his F1 stuff (or was well briefed). I'd forgotten so much about what happened back in 2009.
Jenson and Lando are both from Somerset (a county in the UK where I happen to live). I'm torn this year between who I'd like to win the championship. I'd like it to be one of Lando, George, or Lewis.
I don't think we will know who has the best car for a few races. These days a car is either superiour on the straits or in the twisty bits. Stay tuned.
My favorite kind of racing but my TV doesn't get whatever channel it's on. 
I love the international venues and international drivers and national anthems for the winning team & driver.
Sometimes it seems like there are too many rules & regulations but I do appreciate that they enforce "clean" racing and there are consequences if you cause someone else to crash.
My dad took me to see The Long Beach Grand Prix (California) when I was young but I'm not 100% sure if that was an F1 race. The only bad thing about watching a "road race" in person is that you can only see one part of the track. And you can't the announcer over the sound of the engines when something exciting is happening on another part of the course.
I never really liked NASCAR going around in circles and it's worse now with all the cars being identical and not even based on a "stock car"...
I think I saw that 6-wheeled ELF, but not at a Grand Prix race. Maybe at a "historical" race at Laguna Seca. That was a fun event! They started with cars from the early 1900's and ended with "more modern" and faster cars.