F1 2023 Belgium-Spa Francorchamps Pre-Race Thread

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Hi Joe,

What's today's intelligence about the weather for the week-end? I'm only living 100 miles south from Spa as the crow flies, but, considering how special the weather is there, might as well be 10.000 miles.
In my neck of woods, they say "alternating rain and sunshine" on Friday & Saturday, then sunny on Sunday.
What about Spa? (I know it's so uinpredictable there as to change at the last minute...)

Rgds

 

You know the weather forecast better than me...fyi.

The weather at Spa is constantly changing from hour to hour.

Once I see a forecast, I'll post it......but....take it with a grain of salt.

 

Yep, that's what I thought. At least most of the weathermen now say "sunny" at least for the race, with mild temperature (about 20° to 22°c) but that's only for the time being...and we are only Monday...

Rgds

 

Everyone aboard the Ferrari pain train. Choo choo!

 

since Alonso

 

always pack a poncho

 

Yeah, this one is gonna hurt......badly.

 

OMG Sprint......................

 

Spa doesn't seem like a great track for a Sprint format

 

Yeah, I'm with you there.

However, maybe the ratings say otherwise with regards to sprint formats.

 

Ignore them. They are wrong lol

 

The FIA is going to talk about engine equalization(is that the same as BoP like in WEC?) because Renault is STILL down on horsepower(like 20 to 33hp). 9 years of this turbo hybrid engine and Renault cannot get up there.

Other issues will be talked about as well.

 

Honda was looking for a partner not so long ago ...

 

sweet, maybe they can BoP strategy too so Ferrari has a chance?

 

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Ouch lol

 

Engine freezes are ********. This ain't a club series.

Renault demanded the turbo era and threatened their withdrawal from F1 if everyone didn't convert to them. It's not the other engine manufactures fault that Renault sucks at building the engine they demanded.

 

After we lost a second driver in 4 years at Eau Rouge -despite all the work carried out a few months ago- everyone in F1 was up in arms...now we are just a few days from the Spa GP -with on top of a that a high risk Sprint race- and it seems nothing has been done? Do we need a third one?

What few people know is that there was another fatal crash just after Eau Rouge on the Kemmel straight in 1992, my first racing instructor died there in a Rover cup event; Ian Taylor who owned the eponymous racing school at Thruxton where I went in 1986.

I wonder whether it started with an Eau Rouge induced chaos like the two recent fatalities or whether it was a door banging incident that went wrong...:

http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=231

https://www.historicracing.com/driverDetail.cfm?driverID=5253

 

funniest remains to me is pretty much every year Renault claims they have either bridged the gap or surpassed the rest.

How anyone gives Red Bull flack still for calling out these utter failures is beyond me. At the time they were given frankenstein engines using rebuild parts that would normally be discarded as a ''new'' engine, and paying through the nose for the ''privilege'' of that.

 

Sorry mate, but what exactly are your expectations? Cancel the race? What happened was extremely unfortunate, but at the end of the day, motorsports is dangerous. The last thing we need is a knee jerk reaction.

 

Choo Choo Charlie
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Of course not, cf what was done at Eau Rouge in 1994. Many top pro drivers have said the right hand curve after the bottom needs to be given more angle to slow things down a bit and thus prevent drivers from losing control over the brow...that blind brow...

 

Antoine Huberts fatal incident happened at Radillion and not at Eau Rouge.....fyi.