Motor Sport

[louisbosco]

doesn't matter who goes where. but I'm questioning the motive for it to be announced this early, and better yet, the 2024 season hasn't even started. Heck the cars hasn't even been revealed.

[Brian]

@louisbosco
No different to football would have been found out sooner rather than later

Plus from Mercs perspective Russel moves up to spot 1 and Lewis will be in the shadow much like last season just now they can actually admit to it

Curious as to the end of this season as to who will move to Mercedes

[mclaincausey]

Even though it seems like a vicious move, part of the rationale for the early notification could have been to give Merc time to prepare. I also think a farewell tour will be kind of cool and bittersweet.

[goosehd]

…starting to wonder if there was some truth to the Red Bull/Hamilton rumours and he has been looking around for a while.

[Giles]

@mclaincausey said in Motor Circus ️ (Sport):

I also think a farewell tour will be kind of cool and bittersweet.

Go get your last title with Mercedes, that would be so brilliant. Especially if it went down to the last race of the season and Lewis won because the race director made the wrong call....

[mclaincausey]

I’d love that. Then honor the tradition of a former champion languishing at Ferrari

But seriously I hope he gets 9 or 10

[WhiskeySandwich]

I was thinking of subscribing to F1 TV this year instead of watching on HULU since their coverage is inconsistent. Anybody have experience with this? How do you watch?

[mclaincausey]

@WhiskeySandwich F1TV but I prefer the Sky commentary, so I do both and synchronize. We use our subscriptions to set up a pit wall so we can watch and hear all the different drivers and have the graphs and track views available. The little segment and sector view tracker in the app is my favorite, it basically gives you prescience because you can easily compare how people are performing within the sectors.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@mclaincausey good tip thanks man! And Alonso is the man

[mairuzu]

@WhiskeySandwich

I watch via an F1TV subscription and the excellent (free) MultiView app (https://multiviewer.app/). I’m not sure how it works in other countries, but I’m able to access the “International” commentary feed (which is the same as the Sky F1 commentary audio) as an alternative to the F1TV commentary.

[mclaincausey]

F1TV has both commentaries available. I think it’s worth having.

They need to make the WRC TV app worth a shit next.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@mclaincausey YESSSS

[Giles]

This is amazing...

Look at the aero on Max's car at the end.....

[A Former User]

@Giles that was awesome! Saturday the F1 game begins

[louisbosco]

9 more months of the dutch national anthem

[A Former User]

@louisbosco and that’s the way it should be

[louisbosco]

@Heavy_blue hope its a Ferrari year..

[A Former User]

@louisbosco well at least i hope there will be more spectacular moments.. but as a proud dutch citizen i’ll hope Max wins once again.. although i already watched since the late 90’s and saw how strong Ferrari was at that time. I’ll hope that will come again, someday! Next year Hamilton in a red seat let’s see how that will go

[WhiskeySandwich]

I'm getting psyched for this season, hopefully all the cars are really competitive. I'm partial to Red Bull thanks to my "extreme sports" history, but I'd love to see it get mixed up a bit more this year. Also, lookin' to Sainz to beat out next years Ferrari guys, although Leclerc has been impressive lately too...

[louisbosco]

@Heavy_blue yeah I'm keen to see Hamilton in red as well