Wow, what a sight! I've never seen a rainy race at Yas Marina before. And tell the commentator he's doing an excellent job! I enjoy his excitement, not too overbearing, not too timid. He's got the right balance. I enjoyed his excitement at seeing rain at Yas Marina for the first time!
Stilp had a fantastic race. Great mastery of the throttle under such tricky conditions! Pin did fairly well and showed her experience in keeping it tidy from start to finish.
Those are drives that instantly make me a fan of drivers in the feeder series. Sargeant did it with his drive in 2020 F3 Monza (I don’t care how he is performing now in F1, he was outstanding in F3, and in my opinion better than Piastri) and Haydrien David in Paul Richard, two or three years ago Stilp is still extremely rough around the edges, but the potential is definitely there
For decades young drivers drove in the rain. It made them learn to drive in the rain. It gave us F1 races that made our jaws drop how good some people were. The champions were the champions and they can do it all. But it gave people in the middle and the back a chance to make their talent shine and get better results than their car would otherwise allow. Driving in the rain doesn't have to be dangerous. The wet tyres are already there. Force them to increase the ride height and an F1 car today can still perfectly drive safe in wet. Same with fuel. Some drivers were masters with fuel management and it gave them an edge to make a car finish better than it's pure performance would allow. About every other racing series that exists shows refueling during pitstops doesn't have to be unsafe. Same with tyres. There were masters of tyres giving them alternative strategies that would leap them over drivers who wrecked theirs. Car designs and setups were build around the effect of the racing style of the driver on tyres because it was so influential on results. I don't even know why they still force a tyre change today since it's almost always a single stop and it by itself, it no longer has an influence on results anymore. Everyone who can also starts on the slow tyres because the fast ones don't give you enough advantage anymore that you can gain places with them. Same with this circuit. They removed a chicane before the hairpin where tons of overtaking was done and the hairpin drives like a corner now and doesn't feel like a hairpin anymore. They also removed another chicane followed by a difficult off-chamber corner and turned it into another boring slow long corner not requiring any skill. When a racing series keeps removing racing strategies, you end up with races where always the same cars and drivers get the same results. You've removed all variance and every week is going to play the exact same way on each circuit. Cars can't have their own different strengths anymore and drivers can't either. About the only randomness left in races are safety cars happening and randomly making some people losers and other winners. Slowly we're removing everything exciting from the sport in the name of safety but we end up with a situation where everyone watching is silently wishing for a safety car so something happens between the start and finish. If these young drivers aren't allowed to each find, refine and use their own skills in the car that sets them apart from others, why have them drive. Let's just place robots in the cars and every week the fastest car can win and dominate for a few years until a forced rule change can artificially change the order of things for a while.
As they circle around on Lap 3, waiting to be released by the Safety Car and begin racing, I’m expecting Pin and her TONS of experience racing in the wet in WEC to excel! She knows wet racing wheel to wheel, and she knows these tires! She’s in p12 now, so the coming laps will tell!
I'm watching this 3 months after the event and I wonder a few things. The commentator kept saying driver safety driver safety.. but surely driving the car in the first place puts the drivers "at risk". Motor racing is dangerous and always will be. Also, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, two of the greatest racing drivers of all time, were often referred to as "wet weather masters". Do you know why? Because they raced in the wet. They wern't scared to let them race because "oh something might happen if they race in the wet". Breaking news : Senna crashed in the dry. How will these young drivers ever learn if they have the opportunity taken away? Give them a standing start. If it was me - or my child - I'd be happy to let them race, as long as they understood the risks. These drivers should understand the risks even if they're only 15, 16, 17, it's the bystanders that don't seem to want to understand that motorsport is risky in the first place.
Wow, what a sight! I've never seen a rainy race at Yas Marina before. And tell the commentator he's doing an excellent job! I enjoy his excitement, not too overbearing, not too timid. He's got the right balance. I enjoyed his excitement at seeing rain at Yas Marina for the first time!
Stilp had a fantastic race. Great mastery of the throttle under such tricky conditions! Pin did fairly well and showed her experience in keeping it tidy from start to finish.
Those are drives that instantly make me a fan of drivers in the feeder series. Sargeant did it with his drive in 2020 F3 Monza (I don’t care how he is performing now in F1, he was outstanding in F3, and in my opinion better than Piastri) and Haydrien David in Paul Richard, two or three years ago
Stilp is still extremely rough around the edges, but the potential is definitely there
Very rare to see a wet race at Yas Marina.
Still waiting for rain in middle east in F1
For decades young drivers drove in the rain. It made them learn to drive in the rain. It gave us F1 races that made our jaws drop how good some people were. The champions were the champions and they can do it all. But it gave people in the middle and the back a chance to make their talent shine and get better results than their car would otherwise allow. Driving in the rain doesn't have to be dangerous. The wet tyres are already there. Force them to increase the ride height and an F1 car today can still perfectly drive safe in wet.
Same with fuel. Some drivers were masters with fuel management and it gave them an edge to make a car finish better than it's pure performance would allow. About every other racing series that exists shows refueling during pitstops doesn't have to be unsafe.
Same with tyres. There were masters of tyres giving them alternative strategies that would leap them over drivers who wrecked theirs. Car designs and setups were build around the effect of the racing style of the driver on tyres because it was so influential on results. I don't even know why they still force a tyre change today since it's almost always a single stop and it by itself, it no longer has an influence on results anymore. Everyone who can also starts on the slow tyres because the fast ones don't give you enough advantage anymore that you can gain places with them.
Same with this circuit. They removed a chicane before the hairpin where tons of overtaking was done and the hairpin drives like a corner now and doesn't feel like a hairpin anymore. They also removed another chicane followed by a difficult off-chamber corner and turned it into another boring slow long corner not requiring any skill.
When a racing series keeps removing racing strategies, you end up with races where always the same cars and drivers get the same results. You've removed all variance and every week is going to play the exact same way on each circuit. Cars can't have their own different strengths anymore and drivers can't either.
About the only randomness left in races are safety cars happening and randomly making some people losers and other winners. Slowly we're removing everything exciting from the sport in the name of safety but we end up with a situation where everyone watching is silently wishing for a safety car so something happens between the start and finish.
If these young drivers aren't allowed to each find, refine and use their own skills in the car that sets them apart from others, why have them drive. Let's just place robots in the cars and every week the fastest car can win and dominate for a few years until a forced rule change can artificially change the order of things for a while.
Gabriel Stilp is the man
Why is your commentator so defensive? It seems like he spends a significant amount of time in each race this weekend arguing with an imaginary viewer.
As they circle around on Lap 3, waiting to be released by the Safety Car and begin racing, I’m expecting Pin and her TONS of experience racing in the wet in WEC to excel! She knows wet racing wheel to wheel, and she knows these tires! She’s in p12 now, so the coming laps will tell!
Great series but the races are soooooo short. Literally a dozen minutes of racing or so between the endless yellow flags.
I'm watching this 3 months after the event and I wonder a few things. The commentator kept saying driver safety driver safety.. but surely driving the car in the first place puts the drivers "at risk". Motor racing is dangerous and always will be. Also, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, two of the greatest racing drivers of all time, were often referred to as "wet weather masters". Do you know why? Because they raced in the wet. They wern't scared to let them race because "oh something might happen if they race in the wet". Breaking news : Senna crashed in the dry. How will these young drivers ever learn if they have the opportunity taken away? Give them a standing start. If it was me - or my child - I'd be happy to let them race, as long as they understood the risks. These drivers should understand the risks even if they're only 15, 16, 17, it's the bystanders that don't seem to want to understand that motorsport is risky in the first place.
Cars with paint on them? Whaaaaaaat? I thought they had to be 95% carbon?1!11!!!1!1
Nakamura Berta ? A penalty on race one ? Why please ?