There is no possible way Albon has been pulling some of these lap times with that car... 🤯

This isn't a picture of Interlagos.

When people tell me I'm lying when I say "the car isn't built for max" 😅

If you've never watched a Formula 1 race, go watch the Brawn documentary on Hulu or Disney+. Absolutely. Amazing. Formula 1 doesn't need Drive to Survive. Formula 1 needs to tell these amazing stories, genuinely, like this documentary. Keanu Reeves does an amazing job as well!

"Find the best way to beat checo" "OK Carlos, you need to box now to change teams, box now to change teams"

Want to know how fucked the cost cap in Formula 1 is? People in the sport don't talk about this because they can't. So I will :) Just had a loose conversation with a recruiter about a F1 race engineer gig. Their MAXIMUM salary was less than I was making last year as a part-time performance engineer in WEC on a LMDh team. Why aren't the team bosses advocating harder for increased cost cap to accommodate increased cost of living and inflation? Oh yeah... because the teams that are profitable, it's likely the bosses and shareholders can pocket a chunk of whatever they don't spend. Tag your favorite F1 journalist and try to get them to put this question forward in the next press conference - I am sure they can phrase it better than I just did.

Chile

Ran into Checo. First thing he says "Hey do you still not have a job?" 😂😂😂

"Pierre, please don't shift gears"

If anyone uses corner names for the Broadcast in Vegas, you're dead to me. I can just hear Crofty "AND LEWIS HAMILTON AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF VERSTAPPEN THROUGH TOP GOLF" 💀💀💀

Old dudes that have been watching Formula 1 for so long really add so much value to the discussion. Don't forget to look after people like this. 🙏😂

I'd prefer him lie to everyone, honestly. It's what we want to see. Everyone just smiling and waving and not having a personality. Drivers shouldn't have personalities they are there to race /s (the /s means sarcasm for those who aren't aware)

There's possibly a difference in kerbing usage, but look at how quickly the Red Bull settles 🤯

Can someone please tell Brad Pitt to stop using DRS through the apex of T5 and T13. No wonder the car balance is so shit! 🤣 Rookie mistakes.

I just rewatched the Yuki onboard lap with the radio. You can put your tinfoil hats away, weirdos.

If anyone is watching the Formula 1 race, Lance Stroll just overtook Lewis Hamilton. The TV director didn't want you to see that.

Preparing for Le Mans by watching one of the most important Motorsport documentaries of all time... For the first time 😬

Piastri is a menace 🤣🤣🤣

Checo asking Max about the fastest lap in the cooldown room 👀👀

I really want to see it but I really need to find some strong beers so I can just switch off and enjoy it instead of being like "that's not how that works 🙄"

A thoughtful response from Max in which I feel very similarly. I know I don't enjoy F1 in the same ways as many people, and that's okay. But in order for F1 to hang on to the new, booming audience, can we give them something more substantial to hang onto that will continue to captivate them for years to come... Not just a weekend per year. Formula One needs to do both.

Here are my thoughts on the 2024 Race Calendar... WE DON'T NEED 24 FUCKIN RACES 😡

The goobers in the replies: I CANT BELIEVE MAX FUCKING DID THAT Russell post race: Totally didn't see him on the inside, it was my fault It's safe to say no one on Twitter is likely to get the call to be a race steward any time.

The way the Las Vegas GP has treated the fans should make it absolutely clear what F1's priorities are. 1. Money 2. Entertainmen ... 5. Racing They don't give a damn about you as a fan. This should have been clear from the moment the tickets were released for Vegas.

Tsunoda crashing to help his sister team McLaren so Norris can have a cheap pit stop. Oh wait.

The pineapple of motorsports

Everyone's worried about who is worse. Hamilton Fans or Verstappen fans... You're all wrong. It's definitely Alonso fans 🤣🤣🤣 holy shit.

Don't take risks that result in disqualification. No fuel sample? Disqualified Underweight? Disqualified Ride heights too low... Disqualified. Ride height is a fundamental setup parameter that should be policed. No debate. It's not subjective. It's legal or not.

Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion would like a word.

I feel like it should be illegal for Spa to be a sprint weekend. Plz undo it.

Mercedes defending the undercut to one of their customer teams. Something is changing soon with that car...

No one: "Being a performance engineer at the track must be AMAZING, WHY WOULD YOU QUIT THE DREAM?" The Dream: 💀💀💀

Helmut to Liam Lawson. You're fired. Also you're hired.

I remember watching the telemetry during this "moment". Rear wheel speeds 📈... steering wheel 🤪... I was just on the intercom like "uhhhh GP...." Then we saw him carrying on. 😬 box box for new underwear 🤣

Is it just me or is he becoming one of the most likable drivers on the grid? I feel like we would have never seen this version of Valtteri at Mercedes, but now that he is engaging with social media, he seems a lot more than just another racing driver.

This is what real dominance looks like 😤😤😤 2015 Australian GP. 2nd year of the V6 engines.

I surprised the boys earlier with an interview at Turn 17 🤣

I think Formula 1 is too safe. Disagreements should be settled via combat. Usually swords. And we need more races on the surface of the sun. Only elite athletes would be up to the challenge. If you don't want to die, leave. 🫠

If only Fernando Alonso had fit the Intermediate tyre instead of the Medium, he would have won the Monaco Grand Prix. WILD. Here's a little preview from the race report:

I don't hate this. But the stewards have to make a call on THAT lap. Like. Immediately.

Just a reminder. Just because the sprint race at Interlagos is a good sprint race, doesn't make sprint races good. Interlagos is an amazing circuit and just goes to show you how the sport is going the wrong way with the sprints and street circuits 👍👍

Ted has noted that Red Bull is using FP1 not only to give some of their other drivers a chance, but also at least one of the Performance Engineers is Race Engineering the car !

It feels like RIC has to destroy TSU for the rest of the season or he's in trouble. Despite being very reasonable, I still don't think TSU gets enough respect. But imagine if he ends two people's F1 careers anyway? 💀

I only half understand the outrage regarding PER retirement. F1 engineers spend their entire lives reading rules, finding an edge, clarifying and then exploiting. Exactly what they did with PER retirement. If that identifies a problem with the rules and they rewrite it, so be it

I've read a lot of the replies and there is a HUGE misunderstanding about this discussion. The concept of "car development" and "car setup" are two completely different things, and they have different implications on the car and driver. Alex states the car isn't developed for Max, but he can extract more from it in certain areas due to the way he drives the car. A general idea is that "development" or "philosophy" is how all of the aerydnamics, tyres, and suspension are designed to work together. In general the goal is to make a car that has the highest level of performance that is reaosnable. Typically, your development drivers (not race drivers), will do most of the leg work on these topics in the simulator. Once or twice a month, the race drivers will come back in and confirm that these "developments" are indeed adding performance to the car (faster lap time, or fixing an undesirable characteristic). The next concept is "setup" - and this is taking the car concept that you have, and using all of the adjustment dials to suit the circuit conditions, tyre behaviour, and driver's preferences. These are paramters like toe settings, ride heights, heave (vertical) stiffnesses, roll stiffness, roll stiffness distribution (mechanical balance), and aero balance. This is a range of tools that have the same adjustment range for both cars. In general, if I driver can accept the exact same car with a sharper front end, they can go faster. The problem is the closer you get to this, the less stable and less predictable the car is. In my experience, in car development, you tend to focus on whichever driver has struggles with the current car philosophy, and do everything you can to help this driver. Because if you have added stability and confidnece for a driver who is slightly slower, the faster driver can simply drive that car faster. Regarding this topic, I am fortunate to have a lot of first hand experience. I hope this has helped to explain some of the nuance of the topic.

Ferrari could have made that work if they had listened to LEC a lap or two sooner 🙃🙃

If De Vries doesn't outqualify Latifi, they are both crap. No excuses.

In case anyone is following this account, it's not Hannah. Checked with her this morning 👍

If you're mad that you're upset that your F1 team isn't doing well, don't blame others or scapegoat people. This is one of the JOYS of motorsport. The ups and downs. The comeback stories: Falling from the top, rebuilding, and learning new things. Appreciate the journey.

They'll be running the spare steering wheel tomorrow.

"New Formula 1 fans that didn't realize what happens almost every 7 years fucked around and found out" 👍 It's not for everyone. But for everyone new to the sport in the last few years that's still here, we're glad to have you 🤝

When my old salary gets leaked tomorrow, please don't ask me for anything. I spent everything on my sick streaming setup so I can be broke for the rest of my life.

I think the pitlane exit here is about 300kph so it's quite dangerous.

Are Hamilton and Russell the BEST driver pairing on the grid right now? I think yes.

If you're wondering what stupid looks like. Here it is.

If you're in the "I only watch F1" gang, you are seriously missing out on so much amazing racing. Yes... There are a few classes on track, and there's a bit going on. But that just means ALWAYS action or a race happening. Not to be that guy, but there cars are actually able to race wheel to wheel 😮. I really wish I still had time to make content, because this championship is an absolute gold mine for interesting tech, tools, performance, strategy with lots of very interesting nuance! I've been engineering a car in IMSA for the last year and I'm still learning so much every day and realising how long I slept on sports cars. Don't be a dummy like me. Also. The Rolex 24 tickets are insanely affordable compared to the US F1 races. For a few extra bucks,you can literally walk down the pit lane and stand 10ft from the cars and see the mechanics work and drivers practice driver changes. Listen.... Just do it.

I think Sainz cost Ferrari a shot at the 2nd step of the Podium today after looking at this... It was good to see the two drivers fight, but I'd rather see Ferrari taking more points off of the others. Here's what I mean...

F1 race stewards don't want you to see these videos.

This is just a heads up - if anyone sees a Formula 1 car go over a bump on the track and starts going talking about sea mammals, I'm going to lose my shit.

Hamilton and Leclerc are disqualified from the USGP due to excessively worn rear skid blocks. This will arise from a rear ride height setting that is too low. BUT why would they end up with too low of a rear ride height? 🧵 It could be any combination of the following. 1. The rear suspension was too soft 2. The rear suspension was too low The rear ride height is your main "adjustment dial" for putting the rear ride height in the optimal window for downforce generation. This setting varies depending on the nature of the circuit (high speed corners vs low speed corners) A lower rear ride height is also good for reducing drag on a given car. 5mm of RRH can translate to a few kph - which is serious! Was this malicious? No. I don't think so They were trying to set up the car as best as they possibly could, but they just ended up slightly too low on the rear. They only had a SINGLE free practice session to setup the car, and may not have done a proper high fuel run. Keep in mind the skid wear limit is 1mm. In order to wear away 1mm of the legality skid, you need to be more than 1mm too low. But the skid wear is a very cut-and-dry legality issue, just like fuel samples etc.

"We weren't ready and the fans pay the price, you're welcome that we fixed it so quickly"

10 Years Ago... the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. Who do you see? It's wild... I can hardly believe this was 10 years ago.

Any time I watch footage from any other open wheel racing series, I just want F1 to do one thing... Just drop about 200kg from the cars 😫

Manage race fuel for over 100 actual F1 races - always flawless.... 4th race of @F1Manager - run both cars out of fuel 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love it here.

Cheers, Yuki 👍👍

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Do Formula 1 teams "sandbag" during winter testing? Sort of, but not the way you think. Here's a little thread discussing some of the points! 👇

That one's going to be in the Wikipedia for a while.

Pour one out for EngineMode11. Daddy Elon is too soft for the fraudmode11. 🫡

Alonso P3 reinstated. Can we all agree the FIA are too incompetent to be corrupt? 😅

Hannah is probably wondering why she has a bunch of missed calls from Toto.

Bernie Ecclestone gave Williams some special fuel for Sir Frank Williams' birthday, under the condition that they got rid of the evidence afterwards. This was my first race at the track in F1, and I remember in the debrief looking out the window to all of the smoke. Terrifying.

What are the actual objections to Andretti joining Formula 1? How does an additional team impact the payout structure to teams? Why not just get rid of the heritage payments to Ferrari - it's not like they are doing anything with that money.

I thought maybe Mercedes had closed the gap slightly, but I just looked at the race's fastest laps. VER on L61 set a 1:16.330, HAM on L62 set a 1:16:676 - only THREE tenths off (both SFT tyre). BUT HAM had DRS down to T1 worth 0.4 seconds...

I'm not sure who is the issue - SAI or his race engineer. But how many instances is that this weekend? I know the track is difficult there, but that is so fucking dangerous.

Anyone need a bottle of water?

I really wish Sky would get a live data person to help them out. They keep selling all sorts of really bad narratives and dreams during the race, then people just get pissed off because the NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE doesn't even happen.

If you answer YES to this poll, don't bother turning on your television to watch a race ever again. 👍

Anyone suggesting an outright balance of performance for Formula 1 can fuck right off 🤣

Hey @elonmusk I think your mates at @x accidentally deleted EngineMode11 and EngineBraking accounts. Thanks for sorting it out

The Las Vegas Grand Prix was good. That is all.

I was standing in the garage supposed to be watching the telemetry for Max's car, but I always watched the opening lap pretty closely. Not knowing I was about to share my first win in F1 with an awesome crew! 🥹

VER using a cheat code by going and queueing early so he can skip the final boss of T13 - CARLOS!

The F1 ship has sailed for me - I have no interest in a 24 race calendar. I quit at 21 races because I wanted to have a life. I am drinking from a firehose learning about endurance racing, and I love it. I get to do so much more than I was able to do in F1 at the track or in a factory capacity and I love the challenge. But it also infuriates me that the FOM, FIA and the teams themselves are fucking over the sport (including a large number of my friends) "because it's F1".

Just a reminder. You should have hated Andrew Taint way before this 😂😂😂

Multiclass racing is so good! I'm so glad Formula 1 adopted this format for this season 😍😍

Please. Ditch. The. Sprint. Format. No one wants it. NO ONE!

Yeah we should definitely sterilize the shit out of everything. We can spend 5 hours determine the new order from every track limits violation and any minor contact. Just leave it be. Also don't watch the N24 please. 😂

There is something unexplainably weird to me about F1 fans that day "we" when referring to a team they support.

I love how annoyed GP is on the radio 🤣🤣🤣

Ferrari reporting Mercedes for their mechanics not having their visors/goggles down? 🤣🤣 NOOO

20 Second Penalty for Intimidation - PER

VER + ALO in the GT3 would be "Simply Lovely"

This is something you never want to see being wheeled out on a Saturday night... 👀

Why doesn't Gasly summon the FIA instead?

I'm convinced there's a large part of twitter that don't want to see any wheel to wheel racing at all. Just check the results after the session. 👍

Dan finds the IP to Mercedes' car in winter testing and then ends up in HR again...

If you're not using a few of your jokers, you're not trying 🤠 if you get a few warnings before a penalty, send it!

If anyone is wondering how I use @f1multiviewer here's my layout. If you've got a F1TV Pro Subscription, there's no reason to NOT be using this. Here's a simple tour of my MultiViewer layout 🧵