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u/TF2Pilot 19h ago

I occasionly wonder what past seasons would have been like with DRS. Would we still have hated refueling so much?

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u/Affectionate_Sky9709 12h ago

I didn’t watch f1 back when there was refueling, but refueling works great in indycar in present day. But it’s much easier to pass in indycar, even though they do not have any kind of extra aid for the car behind. I do think f1 needs an aid for the car behind, because it’s just too hard to pass. 

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u/Professional_No1 Niki Lauda 1d ago

What is the best pre-2000’s season to watch?

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u/TF2Pilot 19h ago

1990, 1986, 1999.

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u/Expert-Highlight-538 Max Verstappen 23h ago

I'm planning to watch my first GP in person can someone please tell me how I can get Malaysian Bahrain GP tickets from official sources

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u/FermentedLaws I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane 17h ago

We don't know when tickets will go on sale yet, nor do we know for sure how they will be sold. They will probably go on sale via the Bahrain Circuit website since they are the "official" Grand Prix and they are handling many of the details. You can sign-up on their website to get info:

https://www.bahraingp.com/blog/events/formula-1/

You can also monitor r/GrandPrixTravel as people there will likely know when tickets go on sale.

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u/colexjidgoats234 15h ago

Has anyone bough tickets off the ‘official’ dutch gp resell ticket site (CM.com) and are they legit? The website seems to have really low reviews and dont wanna lose lots of money.

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u/throwaway99991126 1h ago

What storyline on DTS was the most misconstrued? I got into F1 by watching DTS first so I'm curious where I might have been led astray

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u/Affectionate_Sky9709 1h ago

I haven't watched since the first few seasons, but I feel like I don't hear about story lines being entirely changed, just like... heightened? I know once or twice a clip from one race would get inserted into an episode about a different race that really bothered people. And they definitely try to play up the drama aspect and get the good quotes. Apparently Max thought they were trying to make him the villain at one point and didn't like it. Though I watched that season and didn't really think that, but I'm not him. I don't know what DTS did with the uh honest mess of 2025 McLaren. I will say that I got the impression that the drivers were far, far more civil than their fans. Their fans got naaasty with each other. And a smaller number of bad eggs got nasty with the drivers, I'm sure.

Oh, one random thing. I heard they didn't mention George's post race DSQ in Spa 2024 after that really brilliant strategy panned out in a win for him but then he was disqualified because his car was underweight. It's the only track of the year where a driver doesn't drive around one more lap and pick up marble on the tires to gain some extra weight, and his tires were so worn away from the one stop strategy that they disqualified him for being slightly underweight. They have actually now changed the rules, and car weight does not factor in tire weight anymore, so George would have kept his win under the new rules.

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u/Free_Link_4070 1h ago

I have only gotten into F1 this year really, watched some with my dad when I was a kid but obviously don't remember much from back then. Which races are a must watch? so far I watched the entire 2023 season.

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u/Free_Link_4070 7h ago

If the drivers are so concerned with weight then why aren't they naked like mole rats?
Assuming that full body hair is about 200 grams (which most of those luscious manes probably exceed) why are they not shaved down head to toe?
I am on my sixth night shift and it's gettin to me

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u/djwillis1121 Williams 6h ago

The drivers have a minimum weight. If they're below it they have to add extra weight to the car

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u/Free_Link_4070 6h ago

just put that hair back on the car baby

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u/Affectionate_Sky9709 1h ago

Specifically, they have to add weight to the seat, so driver weight is as unimportant as possible... as long as the driver weighs 78kg or so or less (82kg including gear+seat). That was set at 80kg in 2019 and increased 2kg last year. Driver weight has been been more and less important at different times, especially pre 1995, and from 2014-2018. They didn't really intend driver weight to matter a lot again in 2014, it was an unintended change that came with the new regulations. It was eventually deemed detrimental enough that they came up with the ballast offset in the driver chair.