Kind of crazy for Sainz to get a penalty for a lap that didn't officially count...

Anyways this guy is pretty funny:

Felipe Massa considers legal avenue to dispute 2008 WDC results based upon Bernies recent interview where he revealed they knew they should have cancelled the 2008 Singapore GP results, which would have then given Massa the championship, but they wanted to avoid a scandal and give the championship to Hamilton so they didnt do anything

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/m...ome-/10453165/

This is probably fallout from the Bernie documentary (Lucky!). I haven't watched it yet. I hear that Bernie makes a few revelations. I also hear he's pretty salty about the current value of F1.

Manish Pandey is the director. You know him because he made the Senna movie.

He's also a regular contributor on Chris Harris' podcast. They did talk about this a few weeks ago, but I don't know exactly which episode.

Salty about the current value of F1? That's rich.

The sport was on a huge decline at the end of his tenure.

Since Liberty took over it has grown massively in popularity, fanbase and viewship.

yes - that's what makes it so funny

To be fair - I don't think anybody could have predicted the Netflix effect.

I think it's more than just Netflix. Liberty understood how to market to younger people. Social media, drivers developing a "brand" for themselves (they get to choose and keep a consistent number) etc.

Things like F1 highlights on youtube were freaking banned under Bernie.

Bernie wanted F1 to be for rich people only, and have minimal online presence. He was not growing the value of F1.

It's a joke that he wants to sue now. Fuck Bernie, he doesn't deserve any of it.

It's more than Netflix, but Netflix is like 80% of it... It also kind of became a meme during peak meme era with kids, and then they just really got into it. It's a weird phenomenon that will be studied later. It made them a fucking LOT of money.

I’ve been an F1 fan for 15+ years or so. Even more if you count watching with my mom because she was a hugeee Villeneuve fan and racing fan in general long before I cared

I’ve been back on board in the last 4-5 years because the quality of racing has improved so much. There was a period of 8-10 years where the racing was a joke

Netflix is a portion of it, but don't underestimate what they've been doing not only on Youtube (their highlight videos consistently hit 1M+ viewers), but also the social media presence both on Instagram, Twitter, etc.

It's a holistic approach they've done on promoting the brand, not just Netflix.

I follow Formula 1 on Tiktok, sometimes they have hilarious content

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYgQf4kJ/

Darth Toto for example

Their YouTube content is spot on

Whether it be F2/F3 highlights or just the concise qualifying/practice highlights whoever puts those together does a great job, max 10 minutes of all the content you want to see with no filler

Just a reminder F1 is back this weekend

Free Practice 1 Friday 2:30AM

Race day Qualifying happens Friday 6AM

Sprint Race Qualifying Saturday 1:30AM (so Friday night)

Sprint Race Saturday 6:30AM (outcome has no affect on race day)

Azerbaijan Grand Prix Race happens Sunday 4AM

Wild schedule

Race is 7pm for me and my wife is out of town so I can just grab some takeout and watch the race live! POGGERS

5 races in 6 weeks fuuuuuuck yesssss

baku is one of the worst for us. 4am start i think. i don't mind 6, but no 4

no probs w f1tv - just fire it up when i surface on sunday.

don't forget this is a sprint race weekend! love it or hate it, there's racing on saturday also

Just remember this is a spoiler thread, so don't come in here if you don't want to be spoiled! If something crazy happens I might be posting it!

This new sprint weekend setup is so busy lol dilutes qualifying so much I’m not a huge fan

Kinda agree about the sprint, but also fun to have three days of racing for stakes (quali Friday, sprint Saturday, race Sunday), vs Practice Friday, Quali Saturday, Race Sunday.

I read an idea on twitter if the quali should set reverse grid for the Sprint but standard grid for the race. That would be interesting lol. But risky for damage in the sprint to impact the race.

Great showing for Yuki dragging that boat up to Q3.

Disappointing pace from Mercedes, especially after all the hype the last week or two about their upgrades.

I like the sprint. Feel like teams and drivers who wouldn’t usually be competing in regular qualifying take unnecessary risks in order to try and land a better race day position lol

^ sprint this year does not impact race day position anymore.

Ohhh that’s what they meant there.

I saw that on their Instagram but the wording was so poor I was like wtf lol

Anyone going montreal grand prix? Accommodation pricing is crippling!

Oh yea so my uncle on my moms side who I don’t really know is going to the Vegas GP

Fucking 8k for 4 nights at a hotel off the strip.. BEFORE tickets

I heard at some point airbnbs in Vegas were much cheaper than hotels coz property owners weren't in the loop with the F1.