F1 Japan 2024 race week

 Sebastian vettel done an interview and he talked about how it would be nice to be back in F1 given the right offer and a bunch of other things. Williams have said that they are going to give Logan the repaired chassis that Alex Albon broke and Alex is keeping Logan's car. I'm really starting to not like Williams though no hate to Alex. Charles has a tribute helmet for Jules, it's really nice.

Free practice 1 - Logan Sargent in the barrier it looked bad but thankfully he's ok. Nico Hulkenberg shown black and white flag when he was overtaking someone and went over the line for the pit lane. Many teams have brought updates. 

Free practice 2- it was pouring rain. Most team didn't want to go out. Logan was sitting out because of damage to his car . Everyone trying different tyre types. Only seven drivers got lap times on the time sheet because of the rain . So top three were piastri, Hamilton and leclerc.

Free practice 3 - both red bulls have slight issues in the beginning. Of course Max was fastest. Both Astons running upgrades. Daniel Ricciardo spun out on to the grass. Hulkenberg locked up and magnussen went into the gravel. 

Qualifying - 

 Q1 -unsafe release by George almost went into Oscar piastri and lance knocked out at the last second.

Q2- just over five minutes left and something is up with Carlos Sainz brakes. Hulkenberg went over track limits and got his time deleted

Q3- red bull front row for the first time ever at sazuka.

Race - it's 5 : 42 am and I am exhausted I have a feeling that I might fall asleep during the race. The Japanese national anthem is really nice. According to the commentators it's one of the oldest national anthems in the world. I really hope Charles, Fernando and Yuki do well.

It's the hottest it's been all weekend. Lap 1 two cars out. It's red flagged. It's Albon and Daniel Ricciardo. Both drivers are ok. It was just a brief touch that caused the crash neither were at fault it was a racing incident. The order they will restart is where they were after sector one. It will restart at 6:32 am my time. They will be restarting on the grid. I am so tired why am I doing this to myself. The alpines have a little touch at the restart but everything is ok and they are still driving. Lap 13 lewis is asking if he should let George passed.they swapped.

Lap 14 Zhou is out due to something up with his car. Lap 43 yellow flag Sargent went off in sector two but him and the car are fine. Lap 46 Carlos overtakes leclerc for third. Lap 50 bit of a fight between Russell and piastri. George overtakes Oscar on the final lap. Yuki ends with points at his home race. I wish Charles could have been on the podium but well done to Carlos. Charles is voted driver of the day and he is also my driver of the day.

IndyCar Firestone Grand Prix of St.Petersburg, Florida

 Qualifying - I think quali is split into two groups. it’s really windy. 13 drivers in the first group only 6 move forward. They use Firestone tyres unlike f1 who use Pirelli tyres. Pato 3rd , Marcus 2nd. Alex palou does not advance. Marcus Ericsson first. The 6 from each group become the Firestone fast 12.

Group two are now on track. In this group Dixon, Grosjean , Rosenqvist and Fittipaldi. Grosjean was 2nd , rosenqvist 3rd and Dixon 5th.

Q2 aka fast 12 which turns into the fast 6. The fast 6 is Q3. Gro 5th, ros 1st, pato 6th so a few of my favourites through to the fast 6. Colton Herta gets track record but was overtaken by Felix.

Q3 aka Fast 6. 4 of the 6 are drivers I like but pato and felix are my absolute favourites. 4 mins 30 seconds left and Romain was faster. 3 mins 35 seconds left and Rosenqvist fastest. 1 minute 15 seconds left and pato is fastest. As time runs out Newgarden and Rosenqvist overtake pato so he qualified 3rd.

                                                                        Race day

Can only watch the first hour because motogp is on. Never mind I will just watch motogp highlights later and I will watch all of IndyCar. Christian Rasmussen stuck in pit, his car won’t start. Rasmussen is back up and running. Lundgaard has a puncture on back tyre on lap one. Lap 25 nothing interesting happening so far. Lap 27 Marcus Armstrong in the fence. Part of an advert banner that was on the barrier got tangled around his back right tyre. Pato into 3rd on lap 33. Sting ray robb out lap 35 or 36. Don’t know what happened to him. Lap 37 pato p2. Lap 54 Ericsson has some issues and is stuck in the pits. Lap 69 Linus Lundqvist in the barrier in the same place as Armstrong. They are teammates as well. He’s made it to the pits though. Ericsson is officially out of the race on lap 72. Otmar the ex- alpine team principal is at the race. 14 laps to go I think something happened with romains car. He is out of the race.

The top three are josef Newgarden, pato o’ward and Scott McLaughlin 

F1 Australia race week

Practice one- it's half one in the morning . Carlos is back in the car. Fernando into the gravel a little but no issues gets straight back on track. Valtteri has a spin right after George had a slide in the same place. Alex Albon in the wall with damage to his car but he's fine it has caused a red flag.

Practice two- didn't watch it live because it was at 5 in the morning.more cars sliding of track during it. It was announced after second practice the Alex Albon would be using Logan's car as his was unable to be fixed and they didn't have a spare chassis with them this isn't fair to Logan it's not his fault Alex crashed.

It was also announced by WEC after second practice that Sebastian vettel would be doing a test drive of the Porsche 963 hypercar. Porsche Penske Motorsport announced this morning that the former F1 world champion will be testing the car as part of team preparations for the 24hrs of Le mans. The 36 hour test will take place in Spain.

Practice three- it's again half one one the morning I hate these races that are in the middle of the night for me. 31 minutes to go nothing happening. I fell asleep and missed the rest of practice and all of quali so my notes will be from you tube highlights videos. Red bull struggling a little.Lewis still having issues with that car.

Qualifying -end of Q1 Daniel's lap time deleted.Hamilton out in q2.q3 and alonso in the gravel for a second.perez demoted after quali. It was announced that Sergio Perez was given a three place grid penalty for impeding nico Hulkenberg so Perez will start p6

Race-no incident on the first corner for once.carlos takes lead lap two.maxs is having issues with the car. Maxes car is smoking quite a bit. Lap 5 max into the pit right rear brake is on fire max is out of the race yes.lap 17 Hamilton has engine failure bringing out a virtual safety car.lap 29 piastri told to swap places with lando which is shit for his home race.lap 58 George crashes into the wall causing a virtual safety car he is thankfully fine the car is on its side there should be a red flag but there's not. ITS A FERRARI ONE TWO CARLOS WINS THE RACE just two weeks after getting his appendix removed. After the race Fernando has been demoted to p8 after being given a twenty second penalty for the final lap incident involving George Russell, he has also been given three penalty points it's not fair in my opinion he was not even near George hopefully Aston appeal this. My driver of the day is Logan because he gave up his car without complaining the actual drive of the day is of course Carlos deservedly.

F1 Saudi Arabia race week

 Rumors are that Max is going to Mercedes, Adrian newy to Ferrari, jos verstappen wants horner out of red bull and so do the main bosses but Christian refuses to leave. Apparently the president of the FIA after the race in Bahrain tried to get Max verstappen to back up Horner but he refused. That same president is under investigation for interfering with race results in the 2023 season.

Practice one- about halfway through and nothing interesting is happening. Ten minutes to go and there are loads of plastic bags on track getting stuck in cars.

Practice two- Delayed start possibly loose drain covers in pit lane but no official explanation. It's was quite windy in practice one and hot but practice two is the opposite. Carlos is very sick but still driving. Ten minutes in and Fernando is fastest. Lewis almost caused a crash with Logan Sargent as lewis was in the middle of the track instead of being to the side.Lewis said that he was trying to avoid Carlos and didn't see Logan. alonso in first again at 34 minutes left. Russell and tsunoda almost go into each other. Fernando first in practice two.

Before practice three it's been announced that Carlos Sainz will not be racing anymore this weekend as he has appendicitis and is going to get surgery Oliver bearman will replace him this weekend.

Practice three - Oliver is doing quite well 15 minutes into practice 3 and he set the fastest lap. 28 Celsius and 24km/h winds

Sargent brushed the wall a little at one point. Zhou has bad crash and causes red flag with 15 minutes to go but he is fine thankfully from the looks of it. red flag ends with about 5 minutes left of practice.

Qualifying - George shown black and white flag in Q1. Zhou finally out on track with 1:50 seconds left of Q1 but it wasn't enough time to get around the track to set a time.

 Oliver under investigation for failing to listen to race director's instructions. 

Q2- Yellow flags Hulkenberg off to the side he lost power in his car suddenly. It's now a red flag. It's restarting quite quickly.

Q3- alonso fourth, leclerc second

Race - during formation lap gasly says he has a gear box problem. Gasly called into pit to retire the car lap one. Lap 6 or 7 Lance crashes into the barrier, big impact he was going 140 mph thankfully he's ok. Safety car called out. Perez almost went into Fernando in the pit. Safety car in lap 9. Sergio Perez five second time penalty for the unsafe release. Magnussen 10 second time penalty for causing collision with Alex Albon. He also got another 10 second for leaving the track and gaining an advantage. Oliver bearman my driver of the day. Lap 41 Norris gets black and white flag for weaving on the straight. Oliver bearman is 7th in his first race and is driver of the day.

F1 Bahrain 2024 race week

Daniel Ricciardo first in free practice one.

It's really windy and colder that usual. crofty keeps saying random facts like the different types of birds in Bahrain.

20 minutes into practice 3 lance was fastest. 25 minutes left in practice 3 and Christian Horner was called into a meeting with the president of the FIA and the boss of F1.

During qualifying it's really windy again and temperatures dropped again. lance was second in Q1. Russell has to go to stewards after qualifying due to not following race director's instructions. Leclerc fastest in Q2. 

Race day - yet again it's windy and the temperature is 18.2 c .Gunther is on sky sports.lance slides out a little on the first corner.lap ten Logan Sargent when off causing the second yellow flags. Charles leclerc keeps locking up.lap 20 Daniel locks up but is fine.

Lap 26 lewis says his seat is broken.

On lap thirty something Bottas was stuck in the pits for quite awhile due to issues with a wheel nut.lap 52 and Vcarb want Yuki to give up a place to Daniel.Max won by 22 seconds. Carlos driver of the day. Yuki eventually gave up the place but after during the cool down lap he nearly crashed into Daniel.

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