These conditions really bring out the chasm in ability between Stroll and Alonso.

Wow, Williams with the big balls strategy, nicely done

"There's a surprising number of cars out there, considering this is approaching biblical"

• Alex Jaques

Wow we need rain every weekend. This qualifying is nuts

Go on Albon!

What a clusterfuck that was at the end.

Lmao Toto reenacting Alonso's steering in the pits

Williams with 2 fastest sectors, just like we ll predicted.

how do y'all feel about race weekends with these later than usual session start times?

I hate them, give me my 8-9am sessions!
How about you Euros/Asians? Are these times better or worse?

This new wall in the wet is pushing drivers out on to the racing line when they rejoin.

If its wet during the race, this has some dreadful implications.

Perez has bottled it.

I'm liking these liquipedia pages, so much context. Plus the session times posted there.

Rawe ceek, here we come!

FIA: It's raining

Drivers: It's not raining

exactly as expected

I really want to like de Vries but he's so shit.

🟥 Red flag. Hülkenberg with engine issues

What a race by Alex Albon in that tractor, surely noone else is DotD?

Wow, Perez missings another Q3. Changing conditions give you some excuses, but overall that is not a good look against a team mate that is dominating the championship.

Hulk P2? Please let it happen!

wooow HULK!

Red flag, Piastri on the wall as Hülkenberg gets P2

Max only feels something when he almost bins it. He must be so bored up there.

What an action-packed FP1!

I know that this post is for the full weekend. Could we still have a separate race discussion? I think this would make it a bit better to keep an overview.

Decent race if you ignore P1. Good overtakes and battles all over the grid.

My first race weekend in the fediverse was pretty nice. Still lots to improve like the experience of refreshing the page and getting comments from other instances in a timely manner but it was fun.

See you next time 😊.

Sainz is getting a penalty for that surely

Who had Hulk starting P2 then?

🏁 Checkered flag as the rain increases

Nando win please!

Stroll just isn't cutting it on Aston Martin anymore. Maybe his dad can give him a cushy office job so we can get a competent driver.

So it's effectively over now with Hulk on the front row?

Q3 with lots of rain and getting worse

What’s great weekend. Canadian GP, US Open, and the Ashes. F in the chat for my wife and kids’ TV time please.

With the ongoing rain, that has to be the final classification. Great work by Hulkenberg and Alonso. Verstappen delivering as expected.

Unless the rain stops before the track is green flagged again. But it currently looks like it would take more than 7 minutes to form a dry line again, even if the rain stopped right now.

Leclerc eliminated because Ferrari decided not to switch to softs when he wanted to. Stop inventing!

I look forward to McLaren raising my hopes, and then dashing them quite expertly.

Could turn into a tough weekend for Ferrari with both cars (probably) starting outside the top 10.

Is it 0% chance of race before and during the race or just during?

I recall the weather prediction a few days ago said rain during the race is unlikely but there could be rain a few hours beforehand.

Can you sort comments by new in Jerboa? Otherwise difficult to find new comments.

Max just being able to laugh off nearly beaching himself on the kerb because God knows no one's catching him

Thanks to the mods for making this thread!

Hoping for a good race, though it's bit late in the evening for us Europeans

Oooh I do love a wet qualifying!

Oh boy, really hoping Alpine are just getting their mechanical issues out of the way before the race. Not a good sign with both cars bringing out the red flags...

Aw, man, went to commercial right as Gasly was about to tell everybody how he felt about Sainz being in the middle of the track.

Probably just me but this thread wasn't easy to find on chrome android or jerboa, even though it's pinned?

Classic Alpine

Does it rain everyontreal GP weekend?

2nd best qualifying after Monaco imo.

predictions:

• At least 3 yellow flags
• Alonso gets mad at someone
• Ferrari amaze us with a strategy we’ve never seen before
• George gets upset with Lewis
• Lewis gets upset with George

If the rain picks up now and the softs take 2 laps to get to working temperature, those who just came in might lose out heavily.

yay, full wets!

What is this race direction? We're missing albon and Norris soft lap. Who is in charge this weekend? Seems worse than other weekends.

Lol, Crofty couldn't wait to say red button.

wait, just tuned in, what the fuck happend?

::: spoiler LEC PER and STR out in Q2? This is interesting :::

That DRS hat

Ferrari doing Ferrari things..

I can guarantee Max is not letting anyone pass him on the outlap.

🟥 Red flag. Ocon stopped with some mechanical issue, told to stop the car by radio.

I noticed that two teams had different orange lights outside their box. I've never really noticed it, but I wonder if all teams have their own unique light (shape, flashing, animation).

I'd they do, this should so be a feature in the game as a customisation.

What's French for "clutch"? I don't know, and it appears Alpine don't either.

Anyone aware of any communities similar to r/motorsportsreplays or r/motorsportssteams?

Albon with softs

Wouldn't it be more desirable to just stay in the box instead of risking a crash? Obviously the lap times will not improve in the next few minutes, right?

🟥 Red flag. Gasly stopped on track, with a broken driveshaft

Perez should have finished his soft lap, would have been easily enough for Q3, what an idiotic decision to come in.

Starting to rain, and most drivers on softs

So one-lap-shootout coming up.

Q2, with more rain coming

Tsunoda has been an absolute menace haha!

Seems like lemmy.ml is having some trouble pushing out comments to other instances from this post 😬 Many comments here are missing on other instances

Might make sense to host these threads on a less overloaded instance?

Bwoah what a quali session. Too bad about the penalty for Hülkenberg, but still a very good result. The Q2 Albon gamble was also amazing, as well as both McLarens being up so high in Q2.

Big names dropping out, small teams rising to the top, constantly changing conditions, this is peak entertainment imo. And somehow Max always comes through and puts the car where it should be, it's so impressive.

Is this the "official" race discussion thread? I couldn't find anything on my instance so came here.

Great race start by the way. Should be a good one. Enjoy!

Disappointed with the lack of rain.

For those of us in Canada I hope one day we get coverage without Ads... That's my favorite part of the US GP weekends. :D

Amazing battle between Alonso and Hamilton!

Other than you know who, I have no predictions for how its going to play out!

Sainz should get even more then a 3 grid penalty. This was not only impeading, but crazy dangerous.

Alonso has to lift and coast, and de La Rosa in the Spanish broadcast hints that he has to save fuel due to the high race pace.

Perez is losing on the Ferraris with softer tyres. How?

Technical issues for Zhou, that was quick

That rejoin from De Vries is kinda spicy. Hope nothing bad happens during the race.

Russel has to retire with break issues

Good race. Sucks for Russell to have to retire after that comeback. Albon did excellent.

what's going on with Ocon's rear wing?

Hulkenfire!

Q1, everyone on inters

Sainz vs Perez was fun.

What happened to TSU? He pitted after the first lap?

Zhou got a curse on him damn.

Sky spending a lot of time showing us this corner...

RIP Ferrari engine :(

It’s not a race weekend until there’s some Ferrari drama

Oh I almost forgot we were in RAWE CEEK! Came here to see that the sessions are already going to be very wet. Hope not another one gets put into red flag hell again...

This is gonna be epic or a red flag fest

How do the marshal's know when to show their flags. Are they connected to audio to F1 central?

🌧️ It's raining in part of the circuit

Ferrari need to shake things up, move some of the Le Mans team into senior positions. Winning has consequences.

Not a great weekend start for Gasly and Alpine. Car sounded awful.

Gosh i hope it's raining tomorrow!

Where is Hamilton!?

Give me another Nando podium please!

FP2 will start 30 minutes earlier than scheduled (16:30 local, 20:30 UTC) and will be 90 minutes long.

lol. Both Red Bulls with inters, but it isn't raining (yet). They use them for one lap to prepare them for tomorrow. And Mercedes copy the strategy.

Piastri clips the wall

monaco marshalls would have cleared the track in a couple of seconds by raising that car by hands

Lewis is keeping up with Max. Oh wait as I type this he lost a couple tenths. Still, great pace of the Merc.

Ferrari with the new code language!

Interesting race and nice podium. Also happy for Albon, always nice to see him in the top 10.

Ocon pushes off Norris, and Stroll overtakes Bottas in the last lap

Awesome race for Albon

Through all the excitement, I completely missed that Lewis and Alonso are starting next to each other. I'm delighted for that prospect tomorrow, when Max diseappears and Hulk drops out of the points.

What was Norris' unsporting conduct?