Alonso's new helmet for this weekend....paying tribute to the catastrophe at La Palma volcano. Image Unavailable, Please Login
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My thoughts exactly. It will be interesting to hear what she contributes in the commentary regarding ANYTHING having to do with F1.
Does anyone have the US market's TV broadcast schedule yet? They'll be competing against NFL football for TV time.
USA (Eastern) Day Session Channel Session starts Session ends Friday United States Grand Prix first practice live ESPN2 12:30 13:30 Friday United States Grand Prix second practice live ESPN2 16:00 17:00 Saturday United States Grand Prix third practice live ESPN2 14:00 15:00 Saturday United States Grand Prix qualifying live ESPNEWS 17:00 – Sunday United States Grand Prix live ABC 15:00 – We're hosed in the US for quali, unless you have that ESPN station. Better use streameast.live
Here they're grinding the nasty bump entering Turn 14. And there are plenty more throughout the circuit. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Austin bumps set to "complicate" USA F1 weekend, says Gasly By: Jonathan Noble Oct 19, 2021, 5:24 AM Formula 1 drivers should brace themselves for a "complicated"' weekend at the United States Grand Prix, with bumps at the Circuit of the Americas forcing setup compromises, reckons Pierre Gasly. Image Unavailable, Please Login Bumps at the Austin venue have been an ever-present during F1's tenure there, with instability of the land on which the circuit is built leading to an uneven surface. While work has been regularly done on the track to try to improve the situation, the COTA bumps were a major talking point at the recent MotoGP race there as riders complained about them. A request has been put in for a track resurfacing of the worst affected areas from Turns 2 to 10 for 2022 prior to MotoGP returning there. In the wake of the MotoGP issues, F1 race director Michael Masi has been in contact with the circuit and has asked for some work to be done on grinding down the worst of the bumps. But with the problem unlikely to be eradicated completely, Gasly thinks that the Austin weekend could be an especially tricky one, especially as the bumps were already quite bad when F1 last visited in 2019. "I think it could be quite complicated this weekend," said the Frenchman. "Having watched MotoGP a few weeks back, the bumps which were already pretty bad last time we raced there, seem even more severe now. "It will require some sort of compromise on setup, but we won't really know until we get there. "I'm not particularly worried about it, because our car is working well everywhere at the moment and we just have to avoid any problems waiting to ambush us, so that we can continue to close in on Alpine in the championship." Image Unavailable, Please Login A scenic view of the circuit Photo by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Images COTA was recently visited on behalf of the FIA by experienced US racing official Tony Cotman, who has overseen the design of several IndyCar circuits. Masi said that work was set to be done on grinding down the bumps to make things better for F1's visit. "What we have actually done is that since the 2019 F1 event a large part of the circuit was resurfaced to counter some of the issues that we saw in 2019," explained Masi. "The areas that were raised by the bikes are different areas to those that were resurfaced. "And Tony Cotman, who's one of the FIA platinum circuit inspectors, has been out to Austin already during the week, and done a report. "And the circuit doing some changes for us to sort of address some of the concerns. "They'll grind some bumps and so forth. But we've got some time to do it. So they'll do what they can within the timeframe."
Lousy pit stop, way too long. I always wonder whether those are the real drivers or it's just the backup driver with a different helmet. I'd think Max has better things to do than spend his time in NY shooting PR movies.
She's on a platform about 'American drivers in F1'. I'm certain I can refer to a bunch of articles from 5 years ago to sum up her opinion.
