r/formuladank • u/Gjab If my mom had 🅱️alls, she would be my dad • Jun 29 '24
🌈 ben Sulayem 🌈 I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING
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u/VerstopteWC BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
Confronted me with the fact I usually spend 80% of the race looking at the timings
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u/theskyprod I like Norris and i sniff bike seats Jun 29 '24
Lmao. Sometimes I forget to look at the cars
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u/Nids_Rule BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
The amount of times I’ve stared at the timings and see Norris and Ham pull fastest lap and pull 0.3 seconds behind Ver. Someone explain, been watching this sport since 2008 and I STILL DONT GET IT?
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u/The_Bored_General Suck my 🅱️alls mate Jun 29 '24
I got into this habit when Max was like consistently 20+ seconds ahead last year and still do it sometimes even now that there’s some action
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u/Nielles Left at the Petrol Pump Jun 29 '24
I think we have to pay extra for that
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u/Stitchesglitch BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
You have to press the red button if you're a Sky or Sky Q member.
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u/Abdullah-Alturki Alonso deserved to be Champion in every season he has competed Jun 29 '24
Pastry's lunge broke the data tab
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u/IRefuseToPickAName BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
The graphic was never programmed to show Max in 2nd so it crashed
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u/ConsiderationBrave51 BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
Spending 2-3 laps with alpines 😐
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u/Humble_Tomatillo_323 BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
… in a race that doesn’t reward for less than 8th place and the placement of this race doesn’t count toward the race order either. I realize that each team needs coverage for their sponsors… but good grief
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u/The_Bored_General Suck my 🅱️alls mate Jun 29 '24
Saying that I genuinely don’t think I saw Sauber once that entire race. Very few appearances from Toro Rosso or Haas unless they happened to be overtaken by someone else
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u/nlevine1988 BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
I know it's an unpopular opinion among F1 fans but I think all finishing drivers should get points. Feels bad that a driver that finishes 11 every race will finish behind a driver that gets last every race except 1 10th place finish.
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u/LickingSmegma BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
Apparently the teams and F1 are talking about making all positions get points. Seeing as there are plenty of battles in midfield now.
Curiously, in Indycar just starting in the race gets a driver one point. Because there are a lot of drivers, and some might not qualify for a race on a track with fewer pits.
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u/cyrancide my driver bAd:snoo_disapproval: Jun 29 '24
as a degenerate williams fan, as soon as they brought it back I did not wanna see it again 😔
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Jun 29 '24
Piastri could be diving on Max for all I know during that seemingly 5 minute period where they replays of people not even getting overtaken lmao
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u/San4311 🇳🇱 I’m DUTCH so I support AMX 🇳🇱 Jun 29 '24
Tbf, 'luckily' nothing much happened when the timings went byebye. 3 laps of racing, 20 laps of nothingness. Honestly, I was kind of excited for this Sprint as the Ring tends to provide good racing. Oh well.
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u/LickingSmegma BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24 edited Jun 29 '24
It seems to be the consensus that sprints work well at tracks with considerable tire wear. Three and a half straights with five vaguely speedy turns between them don't quite tax the tires, so idk why Austria was in sprints at all.
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u/maincryptology BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 30 '24
Same as the Spanish GP. 4 laps of racing. F1 is much closer now, Instead of 1 lap of good racing we get 3 - 4.
I can’t wait for WEC at São Paulo.
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u/San4311 🇳🇱 I’m DUTCH so I support AMX 🇳🇱 Jun 30 '24
Atleast Spain was somewhat exciting toward the end with the McLaren playing catchup (but Max being Max and just holding out). Nothing happened, but there was atleast the prospect of something happening vs Max just driving away at 30s.
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u/maincryptology BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 30 '24
Lando made a mistake or two at the end. The last couple of laps were ok.
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u/TheSadman13 Checo’d Out Jun 29 '24
I remember when they decided this was a good idea in Starcraft II - it wasn't.
It's for sure more exciting not to know everything at all times, but the casters need to be aware of that and do more of a "radio-cast" than they're used to, which they didn't, hence why it wasn't a good show.
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u/Shoryugtr #stillwecry Jun 29 '24
Wish I could give you more updoots, because you nailed the weird feeling I had during the graphics loss right on the head. They also probably don’t know how to do radio-style commentary, much less switch to it on the fly.
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u/kittenbloc Clean air is king 👑 Jun 30 '24
Alex Jacques was clearly annoyed by the absence and tried his best to give the intervals.
I guarantee everyone that this was not some grand conspiracy but rather it was something stupid like a software update. like someone somewhere insisted on rebooting the system at 3 am PST.
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u/PizzaCatLover Claire Williams is waifu material Jun 29 '24
God damn do I miss 2011-2015 StarCraft 2, esports peaked there
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u/jizzfromthebalcony Stop Inventing Jun 29 '24
“For fucks sake Jonathan stop resetting the wifi in the broadcast room during the fucking race” “But my game is lagging”
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u/scullys_alien_baby Lizard person Jun 29 '24
I used to do some work for a wildlife nonprofit and their whole set up was a dumpster fire. Randomly their gift shop point of sale system would stop processing payments after like 3:30
Turns out the gift shop shared an internet connection with the owner's house and their son was unplugging the connection because he thought it was making him worse at counter strike
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u/WhoThenDevised Nico Hüüüüüüüülkenberg Jun 29 '24
Live graphics are behind a premium plus subscription paywall now.
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u/123usa123 follow the Sainz Jun 29 '24
Is this confirmed somewhere official? This is bullshit if this is true. I’m watching the replay of the sprint and was like where the f- is the driver timing?
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u/WhoThenDevised Nico Hüüüüüüüülkenberg Jun 29 '24
Don't know if you're serious but no mate, this is the shitposting sub. No worries, it was just a glitch.
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u/123usa123 follow the Sainz Jun 29 '24
Whew. I’ve already had to upgrade my ESPN to be able to get the full race weekend. I was like f- man, am I going to have to pay more?!
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u/WhoThenDevised Nico Hüüüüüüüülkenberg Jun 29 '24
You will more than likely have to pay more some day soon but today is not that day.
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u/Jot_X BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
Gotta give props to the German commentary team, they updated us pretty well about the times at the front through the whole sprint
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u/archielotsofnumbers Not A Monaco-Based Youtuber Jun 29 '24
I had to switch to driver cam to see what was happening at the front
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u/WoahhShamalama BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
They accidentally(?) uploaded the sprint replay without commentators or graphics and it felt therapeutic.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
Man, they need a new TV director. So BAD; last 2 seasons have been shit for how it's televised and the camera cuts.
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u/offoutover BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
I like that OP used the grainy B&W version of Oliver for this meme and not the Technicolor 1968 version.
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u/CrazyNodle BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
German commenters said there were problems with the Driver Trackers/ GPS so the graphics couldn't be shown
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u/ReignInSpuds yes Im a DTS newbie, so what?1?! Jun 29 '24
Austria still sending their finest failed art students, I see. Next they'll blame the entire problem on the Germans.
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u/ovine_aviation BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
It would be easy to have a number next to the times. In red, yellow or grey. A yellow 4 means mediums and 4 laps used. A grey 7 means hards and used for 7 laps so far. A red 0 would be a fresh set of softs.
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u/cascadecanyon BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
No. You will have good design and visual story telling and like it regardless of polygon count.
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u/Nixxxerman BWOAHHHHHHH Jun 29 '24
I noticed at one time that the Intervals was not matching what I was seeing on the track. After that they stopped showing the info panel.
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u/Thirpyn Question. Jun 29 '24
Driving me nuts seeing them zoom in on a random mechanic and not seeing the battle between the leaders and then not even the timing tower