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So here are my 2023 bold predictions

- at least one of the AT drivers will be kicked out before the end of the season
- a driver a good amount of people care about will retire at the end of 2023.
- Lance Stroll will return too soon, thinking he is god, and permanently damages his wrist(s)
- Another team will change hands
- Another team will exceed the budget cap but much much more significant than RBR did.

I don't think it was ever about safety was it? People were just sick of the downforce wash generated by the final corner not letting the cars follow close enough on the straight to make a pass.

As ever, they changed the track instead of changing the cars.

These cars will probably do better through there, but it's still a shit track.

Was it that corner where Badoer cleared the barriers in testing? (May have been the first corner; can't find out much information about it).

Badoer ruled out of action for two weeks

FERRARI confirmed on Monday night that test driver Luca Badoer will be forced out of action for two weeks following his horror crash in testing at the Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday.

The Italian lost a wheel on the main straight of the Spanish circuit and flipped over a tire barrier and will now be out of action for 14 days because of neck injuries.

Badoer spent Sunday night in the Catalunya General Hospital before being released on Monday morning. He was flown to Treviso, Italy, and underwent further tests at a hospital in Montebelluna.

Badoer will wear a neck brace to support his minor injuries and will rest at home for two weeks while Michael Schumacher takes over testing duties in Barcelona on Tuesday.

"Luca Badoer was released from the Catalunya General Hospital this morning," a Ferrari statement read. "He was admitted to hospital in Montebelluna, where he underwent further tests which confirmed there were no complications with his condition.

"He has been fitted with a neck support because of the whiplash effect of the accident. He has been told to rest for two weeks and was able to return home."

https://www.grandprix.com/news/badoer-r ... weeks.html

News on the F1TV team: Alex Jacques returns full-time as lead commentator, with Palmer and Hinchcliffe doing colour. Coulthard will do some guest appearances as well.
Sam Collins stays as technical expert and Buxton will lead the presenting team.

That happened on the main straight.

I'm very glad Will Buxton once again explained the concept of qualifying, in the first episode of the newest season of Drive to Survive. Season five could have been very confusing if not.

I did giggle at this, but recently, I had someone who doesn't follow motorsport say "Why does the fastest car start at the front? Why does the team that needs the least advantage to win the race get given the biggest advantage in qualifying" now I question how dumb the sport we follow can be.

#reversegridracesplease

Yeah when you think about it qualifying is an archaic format from the earliest days of the sport

Back then, starting in whatever random order (whoever registered with the organisers first, or something?) was dangerous as you had the fast cars trying to make their way past 2 second a lap slower cars as they dealt with a 5 second a lap slower car, and accidents were more common in an era where if you crashed, you died.

Putting the fast cars in front at least meant a few laps of field spread before they had to deal with lapping slower cars....

Allegedly, F1 used essentially the same qualifying rules from 1950 - 1996, but I would support a pre-1950 method of the drivers having to get to the clerk of the course on a Friday morning with a correctly-completed application form

Tracks should have a 200 meter wide main straight, where all cars can start side by side, thus making it fair for everyone. First corner could become interesting tho'

Huh, so either Channel 4 is using F1TV's commentary feed, or Ben Edwards is back?