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Why the Monaco GP doesn’t suit F1 anymore 🤔 When we hear Formula 1, three things come to our mind (or at least mine): ✔ Michael Schumacher, ✔ Scuderia Ferrari and ✔ the Monaco Grand Prix. The Monaco Grand Prix is one of F1’s most prestigious races and is part of the Triple Crown (Indianapolis 500, 24hr of Le Mans, Monaco Grand Prix). However, there are growing concerns over it now. The 2024 Monaco GP safe to say was boring. Following the first lap incident and the race restart, majority of the drivers did not pit. The only good part of the race was Leclerc and Ferrari’s win. There are many reasons over the growing concerns. One of the major ones being the size of the cars. The street circuit features narrow streets with close proximity to the barriers, adding this with the current dimensions of F1 cars, they are simply too big to race in Monaco. Another one being the track not allowing for high-speed racing for teams and cars to show their full potential. We’ve seen that with how Red Bull performed this year. This issue often leads to where the starting grid determines the finishing order. With the car sizes being too big and the track being very narrow, overtaking becomes really hard even with the help of DRS, diminishing the excitement of a proper race. While Monaco’s rich history and its unique charm aids it in being in the calendar, the future of it remains unknown with the debate happening as the sport progresses. #monacogp #formula1 #f1 Video : First Lap Incident Source : Formula Planet in Instagram

Thanks Guanyu (周冠宇) for letting me in onto the world of F1 and watch you race up-close… what a humbling and exhilirating experience this has been! The origins of F1 racing go all the way back to the beginning of last century when in 1904 the Vanderbilt Cup was organized in New York in 1904. It was not until in 1906 that car-racing was really born when the Automobile Club of France organized for 2 days in the circuit of Le Mans a race of 65 miles with 12 different automakers. All cars had 1 driver-racer and 1 auto-mecanic on board. Rules were that no one other than those 2 could touch their car. Fast forward more than 100 years later, how the industry has evolved. With die-hard F1 spectators attending live or broadcasted races covering 24 events in a year covering 24 countries spanning 3 continents globally from Europe to the US, Asia and the Middle-East, F1 saw total revenues exceeding USD 2.5 trillion for the 2022 calendar year. The exhilarating races, the superstar status of the drivers, and its global appeal and with the addition of the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the US catching up, competition and the battle for sponsorship deals intensified driving the bottom line. Starting as the test driver for the Renault F1 team in 2020 and the Alpine F1 team in In 2021, Zhou Guanyu is the first and so far the only, Chinese driver to start a World Championship Formula One race competing with the likes of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. GO ZHOU GO… 🫡

F1 2024: Buckle Up for the Thrill Ride! Testing starts in Bahrain on February 21st, and the Grand Prix roars to life on February 29th. Let's get prepped! SILLY SEASON Mayhem: 1. 2024 Marks Lewis' Last Year with Mercedes!  Will he deliver a championship send-off?💔 2. Leclerc & Norris Secured: Ferrari and McLaren hold onto their teams. 🧑🤝🧑 3. Haas Shakeup: Steiner is Out, Komatsu takes the wheel. Can they turn things around? 🇺🇸 4. 2025 Driver Market Heats Up: 12 drivers on the move - POPCORN anyone ?! 🍿 5. Toto Extends Reign: Mercedes boss stays put. Can they reclaim the throne? 👑 Branding Bonanza: 6. Visa Cash App RB F1 Team: A mouthful, but a major partnership! 💸 7. Stake Kick F1 Team: Alfa Romeo rebrands with a new sponsor. Will their performance improve? ️🪀 Other Hot Topics: 8. More Races, More Mayhem: 30 red lights, 24 Grands Prix, 6 Sprints - race day, ALL DAY! ⏳ 9. Horner Investigation Ongoing: Scrutiny continues for the Red Bull principal. 10. F1 Academy Gears Up: Puma & Charlotte Tilbury join the future of racing. ✨ 11. Madrid Revs Up: Get ready for a Spanish Grand Prix debut in 2026! 🇪🇸 Most excitingly, this marks the beginning of MY journey writing about media, branding, and FORMULA 1! Buckle up, everyone, because I'm bringing you the hottest takes, insightful analyses, and maybe even a few (hopefully funny) puns. Who's with me? #F12024 #NewSeasonNewEra #LetsGoRacing

https://lnkd.in/e4Pdm6bG Congratulations to Charles Leclerc and Ferrari for winning the F1 in Monaco. The Championship becomes more interesting, unfortunately the races not. The more equal the race cars the less action we can aspect on the track. The qualification become, in special on street circuits, more important in the whole weekend since overtaking is nearly impossible. Why not make some changes to make it like with DRS more interesting: Why not prohibit a tire change within the first 10 laps of a race? Or, introduce Tracksplit to circuits so overtaking give drivers a little bit more hope during a race. Although it still would be hard in Monaco, at least there is a much bigger opportunity to make an attempt. Now it is boring to watch and for drivers to race.

#GRRnews. Four-time F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel is all set to test a works Porsche 963 hypercar, run by American outfit Penske Motorsport, at the Motorland Aragón circuit in Spain. #goodwood #goodwoodelevenses The Goodwood Group #autos #autosport #automotive #automotiveindustry #automotiveinnovation #cars #racing #sports #classiccar #classiccars #motorracing #motorsport

Our favourite races from F1's turbo hybrid era https://lnkd.in/e5-Muuce Hard to believe, but today (March 16) marks the 10th anniversary of the first grand prix of the 1.6-litre V6 turbo-hybrid era. It proved to be an inauspicious beginning as there were five power unit-related retirements at the curtain-raising event in Australia, with Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, and newly-crowned four-time champion Sebastian Vettel in his Red Bull among the early casualties. Mercedes, though, went on to dominate for eight seasons, since when they have been usurped by Red Bull and Max Verstappen over the past three years following the introduction of new aerodynamic regulations at the start of 2022. Without a doubt, though, there have been some great races over the years. From the 206 grands prix to date, we have selected a few highlights. As for you, our loyal readers, what have been your favourites? Please let us know in the comments section below the article (...).

My new article for LastWordOnSports.com is out!! We have reached the halfway of the season, which has been quite intriguing so far with six different victories. A season still totally open both from the point of view of the drivers' championship and the constructors' championship. In this article, I wanted to recap what Ferrari has managed to bring to the track so far. Click the link below to read the full article! #F1 #Ferrari #Motorsport #CharlesLeclerc #CarlosSainz #ScuderiaFerrari #Maranello #FormulaOne https://lnkd.in/dR_QrqdV

Bono, le mie gomme sono sparite. It's the Italian translation for "Bono, my tyres are gone". Similarly, there are rumors that Bono has also gone with Lewis to Ferrari. #Curiosity101 ↖ Can Lewis Hamilton win a drivers championship with Scuderia Ferrari? Let's look at the stats of various drivers during their tenure with Ferrari: Till date - 44 different drivers have raced for Ferrari. - 20% of them - 9 different drivers won Drivers' championship. ( Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen ) - 2 drivers managed to win 2 drivers' championship: Alberto Ascari, Niki Lauda. - Only 1 driver was able to win 5 championships - Michael Schumacher. ⚡ But till now, no one has ever been able to break the superstitious pattern of 7 Drivers' Championships. - Will Hamilton win his 8th World title with Ferrari and be in that 20%? Only time will tell. (Comment your thoughts as well) Do follow #Curiosity101 to hear such curious aspects. #Formula1 #F1 #LewisHamilton #Ferrari #Curiosity101 #Championship

How F1 strategy "headache" opens up intriguing Japanese GP https://lnkd.in/eSV6c6GZ Formula 1 is braced for one of those rare occasions in Japan where tyre strategy has been blown wide open by all three compounds being good options. Teams all too frequently bin off one of the choices – either because the soft is too aggressive, the medium falls into no-man's land, or the hard is too conservative – but this weekend's race in Japan has left what Pirelli's head of car racing Mario Isola says is a real "headache" for strategists. With high-degradation Suzuka making a one-stop pretty much a no-goer (unless we end up with a lengthy safety car period at the perfect point), F1 teams are going to be burning the midnight oil tonight trying to work out how best to plot their way through the various soft/medium/hard combinations that are in play. The cooler-than-usual temperatures of an April Suzuka race mean that the soft tyre – which is comfortably quicker than the medium – has enough life in it to become an option for the race – while a rougher track surface has kept degradation high for the other compounds. And with the medium and the hard not being too far apart in terms of their performance, things appear to be much more open than they usually are. The most logical and safest route is to run a medium/hard/hard, as those two compounds have offered the best consistency so far during the limited practice running. But, as Isola explains, the soft has thrown a spanner in the works because it could deliver a pretty significant advantage if it is used at the start. "The soft is 1-1.2 seconds per second quicker than the medium," he said. "And that means that if you want to get the advantage at the start of the race with a compound that is giving you a lot more grip, you take it. "Sure you have a shorter first stint, around 10 laps, but then you can plan a strategy with the soft/hard/hard - especially with a powerful undercut." But this combination is not an option that all the teams can run to, with allocation choices already leaving Red Bull, Ferrari and Aston Martin with only one hard available for the race. That means the medium has to come into play for them, and degradation could need to be managed more, especially if the track is made greener on Sunday morning with light showers expected to sweep through Suzuka (...). #formula 1 #F1 #tyre #tire #motorsport

#formula1 #GRRmodern. It has now been thirty years since Michael Schumacher won his first F1 world championship; the first of what remains an equalled record of seven titles. #goodwood #goodwoodelevenses Formula 1 The Goodwood Group #f1 #drivetosurvive #grandprix #autos #autosport #automotive #automotiveindustry #cars #racing #sports #classiccar #classiccars #motorracing #motorsport