A good, engaging race! The milk man bottles it again at the end which was exciting at the time, but led to an anticlimactic finish. However I’m glad they followed protocol with the safety car instead of whatever it was that happen in that one particular championship-defining season ender that shall not be named a few years ago.
Also, I’d be pissed if I bought tickets for the stands in the hairpin and had to watch commercials for the stupid F1 movie all day instead of the race on the jumbotron.
I’m not sure how to confirm this, but the F1 movie trailer looked to be a digital overlay. A bunch of the ads around the track are overlaid for the broadcast.
Yes, there were digital overlays on the grass and such, that’s nothing new. And I suppose the they could have overlaid the movie trailer into the jumbotron just for broadcast audiences, it certainly didn’t seem like it. Especially since they didn’t do every single time it was show, only like 95%.
That would have been an epic last few laps! Oh well. Nobody got hurt.
Tell me, SN, which was more annoying. That abomination or Danica Patrick? 
Drove me crazy, and I was only half-watching most of the time! But I saw enough to know I saw too much.
Lance sure put on a good show for the home crowd.
Danica was easily ignored as I played Balatro during the preyap. But watching the race, that stupid movie trailer was all up in our face just about every time we saw the hairpin.
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Heh!
Danica is always the worst if Im equally undistracted. Tracted?
Is Danica on the US broadcast? Just one more reason I’m happy to use F1TV.
That was a hell of a race though. Austria could be even better.
She’s on a few of the sky sports broadcasts which is what ESPN shows. Thankfully they only let her be on the pre and post yap shows so she doesn’t much up the actual race.
So, who is going to Take One for The Team and go see this “blockbuster” movie and report back?
NOT IT!
If it shows up on netflix or prime and I’m bored and drunk, I might check it out. But I sure ain’t leaving the house for it.
I’m absolutely going to it - same director as the new Top Gun and fast cars involved, what’s not to love?
Is it going to be realistic to F1? Nope. Neither was Gran Turismo realistic to sim OR endurance racing, Top Gun realistic to fighter jets, or the Fast and Furious movies realistic to, well, anything. But they’re all entertaining as hell, and that’s what movies are for, to me at least.
You Da Man!
Expecting your review!
Someone started a thread about it in Cafe, and posted the trailer. I didn’t want to thread-shit over there, but it looks awful.
I read a headline (not the whole story since I don’t care enough) right after release saying it’s got like a mid 60s rotten tomatoes score.
I was there! I don’t really follow F1 at all, but it was exciting nevertheless. “Our” team was Williams, which didn’t do so hot, but oh well.
We did get a tour of the garage, which was cool:
It’s incredible how insubstantial the carbon fiber body pieces are.
Did you know that all of their tires are on “life support”? They all have electronic boxes maintaining temperature and reporting pressure. Just stacks and stacks of tires like this:
Got to see a bit of the backlot as well:
Montreal was quite nice.
How the fuck did you manage this kind of access???
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Sis works for one of the Williams sponsors. Good to have family in high places!
Got to meet Alex as well. Great guy! Very down to earth. My nephews got a few questions in.
That’s fuckin sweet! Totally jelly!
But yeah, tire heaters have been a thing for decades. And they’re pushing to do away with them, which I think is a shame.
I wasn’t too surprised that the tires had heaters–but I’d have imagined it to be a dumb electric blanket or something. But every stack had one of those boxes on it, no doubt hooked into a pager system that summons a tech in case one of them goes 1 degree C or half a PSI off.
Eliminating the heaters seems like a dumb idea. Best I can tell, it’s for environmental reasons, but come on. The amount of electrical energy needed to maintain the tires at temperature is utterly negligible compared to everything else going on in the race. It’s negligible compared to the embodied energy in the tires themselves, for that matter.
The level of technology was impressive, at any rate. Felt like half the garage techs were basically IT folks. The entire central part of the garage was dedicated to computers. I watched one of them use a laser rangefinder to dial in some adjustments for the body shell.