r/formuladank Chad Racing Team Nov 17 '24

Professional Sim Racer, Part Time Champ Excited for the races, but already dreading the 3-month wait after the season ends 🏁🏁

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u/Takagero Dont know F1 but memes are kinda funny Nov 17 '24

Well unfortunately it’s part of the game. The start of the season is always exciting for that reason.

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u/Sans45321 At the moment we don't think Nov 17 '24

I have my semester exams during the triple header

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u/happyranger7 Chad Racing Team Nov 17 '24

Oh.. that kinda sucks. But studies first. Wishing you all the best bro, hope you get time to catch up with the races later.

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u/Such_Trouble5434 BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

Where to watch the full races later?

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u/the_real_ifty BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

same, abu dhabi qualifying is during one of my exams. good luck bro

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u/Telsion Left at the Petrol Pump Nov 17 '24

Not well planned by your uni then. SMH

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u/mega_shock "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" Nov 17 '24

Same

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u/CPLCraft Question. Nov 17 '24

Remember to pause your monthly subscription folks

15

u/Maltajg Guenther Gang Nov 17 '24

Jesus my whole life has changed… thank you

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u/Nermcore 🅱️altteri 🅱️ootass Nov 17 '24

Winter break is for watching old seasons!

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u/captain_croco BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

Exactly. Can’t go cold turkey

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u/Left_Tip1732 The only Lance Stroll fan in existence Nov 17 '24

They priced F1 TV here so an annual subscription is basically the exact same as the monthly cost of the entire season. So I consider it a “free” off season of watching old races.

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u/0oodruidoo0 Alonslow True 2012 WDC Nov 18 '24

Annual is actually cheaper as well if you get it on the discount at the start of the season.

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u/Gadoguz994 No Charles, we are not interested, we know Nov 17 '24

Lately that break passes faster than usual, plus there's holidays so there's always something to do along with getting my daily fix of F1 by refreshing the Reddit and Motorsport pages

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u/Left_Tip1732 The only Lance Stroll fan in existence Nov 17 '24

It helps that they keep pushing the season further into winter. At some point they are just going to have a single off week until they get back to the 51 race season.

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u/Doorknob11 BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 18 '24

Easy to push the season back when the last 2 races are on Satans ass crack.

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u/SirLoremIpsum M*rk Webber Nov 17 '24

I'd you're struggling to survive without F1 in the off season maybe go outside jump in the car, put some music on. Windows down and go for a Drive to Survive...?

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u/Xedtru_ Mika ends his sa🅱️🅱️atical Nov 17 '24

Gotta look at bright side - at least this season outta nowhere was hella good and exciting. Remember expectations about new "Newey monster" everyone went in with and first demoralising results?

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u/Evening_Rock5850 not a Hamilton, but… Nov 17 '24

Yeah— this has been one of the best seasons in recent memory.

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u/0oodruidoo0 Alonslow True 2012 WDC Nov 18 '24

Not quite on par with '21 but this season and '21 are by far the best in a very, very long time.

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u/squeezyscorpion unfortunaly I still am a Ricciardo fan 🦡 Nov 17 '24

Daytona 24 Hours in January. should be the race debut for the AMR Valkyrie GTP/LMH

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u/0oodruidoo0 Alonslow True 2012 WDC Nov 18 '24

I think it's pretty concrete now, they're listed as full season entries in IMSA?

There's also Asian Le Mans series in a couple weeks at Sepang in early December. Everybody who watched F1 back a few years ago knows how great that circuit is - and four hours of action around there two days in a row for free is a great deal!

https://www.youtube.com/c/asianlemansseries

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u/wigneyr BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

Yeah but I’ll be able to hand the 3 month break now because these 3-4 week breaks every 3 or so races have conditioned me pretty well

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u/0oodruidoo0 Alonslow True 2012 WDC Nov 18 '24

Next season is better spaced out apparently.

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u/Ok-District2103 If my mom had 🅱️alls, she would be my dad Nov 17 '24

I still have some formula e :(

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u/Rinaldootje s🅱️interesting Nov 17 '24

That's why you use the off-season to catch up to other racing series and rewatch classic races.

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u/Ziegler517 "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" Nov 17 '24

It will be one of the shortest of seasons ever though.

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u/Eroda Traditions™️ Nov 17 '24

C'mon max destroy lando.

I have become a max supporter a destroyer of worlds!

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u/slartibartfast2320 BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

Just watch reruns of the best races... it helps a bit

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u/lll-devlin BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

Yeah the current schedule just “suck balls” mate.. Not sure whom is making the schedules up but they need to take some lessons from all major sporting events around the world that understand that you can’t keep doing events back to back and then place 4 (periods) in your schedule where you have 3-4 weeks of no action…

That is a Not a way to keep fans in a series… And no the logistics of travel and transportation is not a factor in these silly schedules!

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u/bwoah07_gp2 BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

F1 Manager will sustain me

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u/leteriaki BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

Laughs in Indycar

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u/OJK_postaukset 🅱️altteri 🅱️ootass Nov 17 '24

I did enjoy watching Winter Series last winter. Quite decent Spanish racing when there was absolutely nothing else

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u/gtripwood BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 17 '24

I remember when a break was actually a break and we didn’t have so much coverage back in the 90’s, I.e. we’d be finished by early November and have a full 4 months to wait

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u/Abdullah-Alturki Alonso deserved to be Champion in every season he has competed Nov 17 '24

Treat it as 3 summer breaks

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u/NatalieTheOwl STRANGE... IT GETS STIFF THEN GOES SOFT... STIFF, SOFT Nov 17 '24

I've struggled with 3 weeks. I've got through it by buying F1 stuff and watching Instagram reels of Charles Leclerc. I've got stuff going on in December and Feb so it's just January that I'll struggle with.

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u/mechanicalcontrols Alonslow True 2012 WDC Nov 17 '24

Where will we go? What will we do?

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u/0oodruidoo0 Alonslow True 2012 WDC Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 18 '24

There is Asian Le Mans Series, Daytona 24 Hours and Dakar during the break. AsLMS does have a big gap between the start and the latter part of the season, however. But LMP2 cars are pretty cool, they're as fast as the top class Hypercar sportscar prototypes, and the battling is top notch. And for a championship that has a lot of amateur drivers, one in each car, the driving standards are pretty good. 27 cars from 5 different makes are present in the GT3 grid. Everybody loved Malaysia when it was in F1, so I highly recommend checking out the Malaysia rounds in a couple of weeks of the Asian Le Mans Series!

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u/racingfan2 BWOAHHHHHHH Nov 18 '24

Tbf Drive to survive comes out like a month prior to the beginning of the season, that’s pretty good imo.

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u/rakeshmali981 If my mom had 🅱️alls, she would be my dad Nov 18 '24

This season was not enjoyable due to schedule, never felt like the season was going in full force. Always break and then speculations about Perez future.

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u/MrSnowflake “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” Nov 18 '24

Luckily with all these 2 weeks+ pauses we are prepared now.