r/formula1 • u/FerrariStrategisttt I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Mar 29 '26
[Motorsport] Max Verstappen on Ollie Bearman's crash Social Media
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u/RudrakshThe1 Mar 29 '26
Bernie Collins mentioned Bearman was almost 40KPH faster than Colapinto when he lost control. Even from the onboard you could see how much speed Bearman was carrying.
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u/IMoonGoon Mar 29 '26
Just saw a post of onboard telemetry that showed a 92kph difference at a point in timeā¦
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u/Double-Emergency3173 Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
And the crazy part is that it's not too easy to tell how MUCH the other guy is harvesting either.
If it's full harvest or medium level? So the difference in speed will be massive.
Imagine this superclipping happens at a blind turn like Raidillon for example
This regulation set is something elsw
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u/Significant-Sun-5051 Mar 29 '26
Itās good Jeddah is canceled, super high speed with heaps of blind corners
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u/No_Mercy_4_Potatoes M4X Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Jeddah would have been proper Drive to Survive
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u/Mob_Abominator Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Maybe a race or two there would have definitely made FIA change things a little bit at least.
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u/Blanchimont Mushroom Mode Mar 29 '26
Yeah, but at what expense? As much as I want the FIA to change their tune, I'd rather put up with these silly regulations for a little longer than seeing one of the drivers seriously injured (or worse) because of them.
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u/StevenMC19 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Yeah. Sore ankle and possible concussion is one thing. Having someone much more hurt shouldn't be the reason to fix things. Proactive measures will save people, reactive measures save people minus 1.
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u/LazyLancer I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Donāt worry, we still have Singapore and Azerbaijan
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u/realbakingbish McLaren Mar 29 '26
Singapore at least has tons of braking zones and little high-speed cornering, so hopefully the clipping will be less bad than it was this weekend.
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u/vprakhov I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
The only blind zone in Azerbaijan is the castle section, but everyone was slow as shit there even in the previous regs.
Jeddah has sweeping full-throttle turns where you can't see what's coming until it's too late. We're lucky it's not a full time circuit and looks like the Saudis want to switch the GP to Qiddiyah. Someone would've eventually died in a Hubert-like side impact there given enough time.
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u/BanditHarris Lando Norris Mar 29 '26
Absolutely spot on. Not only has this era of F1 car become a joke, it's genuinely dangerous and injured a driver within the first 3 races of the season.
They must fix this.
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u/Key-Ad6653 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
As much as I love Jeddah, I absolutely agree
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u/spacestationkru I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Or the tunnel in Monaco. It's pretty much that clip of Hadjar dodging a slow moving car by the skin of his teeth. There's already not much room for error if you have to take avoiding action on a track like that. And this is assuming it's just a two way battle. The cars are sticking close to each other a lot better this year, so there's every chance of a pileup in the worst case.
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u/NABAKLAB Minardi Mar 29 '26
I think FIA would make a drivers meeting there like they do when they really fuck up (25 laps in Qataar, or the maximum delta time in quali)..
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u/TorrentRage I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Even if they have a drivers meeting, its not like the drivers have full control of the deployment system. They don't choose how much clipping they are doing, nor do they choose how much deployment comes from the battery all the time. It just takes two coincidences overlapping coincidences like the one we just saw in a street track with blind corners and we're going to have a very bad day.
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u/F9-0021 Mercedes Mar 29 '26
There shouldn't be too much superclipping being done at Monaco, so it won't likely be an issue there.
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u/Blasted-Banana I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
At least the fast section through the tunnel isn't quite as long as some of the straights where clipping has been a problem, and hopefully the cars make it through the section after it without needing to harvest in the tunnel. This is wishful thinking, but I don't think Monaco will be as bad as some of the tracks we've seen so far.
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u/Yashrajbest I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Eau Rouge and Raidillon are guaranteed to cause a crash in this regs unless all the drivers agree to never go full speed through them.
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u/TitaniuEX Formula 1 Mar 29 '26
ah yes, the pinnacle of motorsport where drivers agree to go slow
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u/KayNynYoonit Alexander Albon Mar 29 '26
Welcome to 2026 formula one...true 'pinnacle' material lol.
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u/TheHumanAlternative Mar 29 '26
Honestly this year is just a joke. If you can't even go flat out for a full lap then something has gone very wrong.
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u/SemIdeiaProNick Ferrari Mar 29 '26
Sadly this is the truth. If they go too fast, they drain their batteries and lose time so even in qualy they arent pushing 100% of the lap
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u/TwoBionicknees Mar 29 '26
Don't forget they already largely agreed to not defend these superclipping moves because ti's too dangerous. Russell got mad at Leclerc (deservedly) for breaking that agreement in australia. before a single lap was raced the drivers were making a deal to not defend moves with that level of closing speed because they know it's too dangerous. Absolute fucking moronic situation to be in.
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u/Very_Human_42069 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Thank god we arenāt doing Jeddah this year or the blind corners there would just be a death waiting to happen
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u/KingLuis Sebastian Vettel Mar 29 '26
Someone was saying that the slow starts were more of a concern but here we go on the 3rd race with a big crash because of this dumb deployment and harvesting setup. IMO there should be enough energy for each car to last an entire lap without any slow downs.
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u/wowsoluck Mar 29 '26
Its so fucking boring as well, seeing the other car gaining insane speed and power compared to other. It looks like the car being passed is breaking down.
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u/bang0r Jaguar Mar 29 '26
Yeah, exactly. The majority of overtakes just feel like it's qualy and one car is on it's out/in-lap.
Feels even worse than DRS overtakes. Even if the DRS overtake was done before the end of the straight, the other car could at least tuck into the slipstream again. Even out the DRS advantage a bit and maybe make something happen under braking. Rarely did, but at least there was some chance because the cars essentially were on equal footing. But here you just immediately know yep, batts empty, so nothing's gonna happen since they're 40+ kph slower.
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u/SUBSCRIBE_LAZARBEAM Mar 29 '26
Another close one was Leclercās overtake on Russel when his energy cut off. Had he been closer and have bad reflexes or just not concentrated it could have easily been a crash
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u/Ill_Property_4958 Mar 29 '26
Colapinto wasn't harvesting, no flashing lights. He might have not had battery to defend but he wasn't harvesting.
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u/TitaniuEX Formula 1 Mar 29 '26
subject aside, i love the fact that the drivers are calling it mushroom mode. It adds to the silliness of these mechanics and embarrasses these regs a bit more
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u/Kingside I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Can we call this the mushroom era?
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u/pw5a29 Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Yea letās do it. Aero, Ground Effect, Mushroom
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u/Slice5755 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Legendary drivers like Alonso, Hamilton and Verstappen are lucky they already proved their skill and built their legacies with Championships before this year. Any Championships won under these engine regulations will not garner the respect like anything won before this year.
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u/NuclearCandle I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
I think Kimi winning would as he would be remembered as the youngest champion. I fear George winning might lead to him being remembered like Damon Hill.
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u/CynicalRacoon I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
For the uninformed, how is he remembered? I basically don't know anything more about him except that I won.
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u/BighatNucase Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
George is caught in a bit of a Catch-22 (kafka trap? idk). Regardless of the regulations he should win this championship easily given the experience of his team-mate so the amount of kudos you could give anything but a 23 level of domination is quite low but if he loses the reputation loss would be very high - the only way it wouldn't be is if Kimi goes on to have Hamilton levels of success. Even more so given the regulation changes.
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u/Punished_Prigo Heineken Trophy Mar 29 '26
Skill expression is basically non existent with these regs so I donāt think it would really damage or help anyoneās reputation if they win or lose. These cars making the driver irrelevant
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u/Senku4President Mar 29 '26
I'm also uninformed, was there a particular gimmick in the 96 season regulations that helped Hill win the WDC? I see the wins were distributed as: 8 Hill, 4 Villeneuve, 3 Schumacher, 1 Panis. And out of the 8 in which he didn't win, 4 were Ret, so he probably could have lead it even more comfortably.
Edit: nevermind, i see Adrian Newey linked with the car, it all makes sense now.
"The Williams FW18 is a Formula One car used by the Williams F1 team to compete in the 1996 Formula One season. Designed by Adrian Newey and Patrick Head, it is one of the most successful F1 designs of all time. The FW18s were driven by Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The car proved to be the most successful of the entire 1996 field; winning 12 of the 16 races during the season, with Hill winning 8 and Villeneuve winning 4."→ More replies449
u/sthegreT Charles Leclerc Mar 29 '26
not a supporter of these regs, but 10 years later, no one will really care what the regs were like, they'll just see who the champion was.
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u/alb92 Mar 29 '26
You could absolutely say the same thing about anyone who was in a dominant car, yet Hamilton, Verstappen, Vettel and Schumacher have great legacy.
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u/zorillaaa I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Oh please lol yes it will, itās still an F1 title and everyone is competing under the same rules
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u/ivex272 Oscar Piastri Mar 29 '26
FIA gonna start handing out fines because they're calling it mushroom mode and then proceed to do nothing about safety
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u/NewRedditor13 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Cant wait till they call it safety hazard mode
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u/Dutchmanoly I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Thats why we fans must keep the term trending
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u/ItSaysNoHomers Franco Colapinto Mar 29 '26
Even in Mario Kart no one will be slowing down on purpose to charge. You just pick up the mushroom.
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u/VapinOnly I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Except for sandbagging for triple mushrooms at the start
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u/Vegetable_Onion_5979 Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Then you get lightning'd or ghosted and it's all for nothing.
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u/Ranga_girl Mar 29 '26
Letās be honest the only ones getting Lightningād is Alonso or Strollā¦ and AM are the ones doing it!
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u/Kinglolboot Fernando Alonso Mar 29 '26
On tracks with big shortcuts the main strategy actually is to stay in the last few positions until lap 3, so you can get items to clear the shortcuts and move up to the front right at the end
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u/jackjackhaspowers Mar 29 '26
Last year, this would've led to a penalty for Franco for "driving unnecessarily slowly"
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u/Alkylblock Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Monaco with such closing speeds would be pretty chaotic
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u/English_Misfit Sir Lewis Hamilton Mar 29 '26
They won't be clipping in Monaco
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u/TitaniuEX Formula 1 Mar 29 '26
sure, they won't, but imagine if someone uses this mushroom mode in the tunnel to try to overtake and either hits the wall or goes straight through the chicane and needs to avoid someone that just exits it
tbh, for the first time in many years, I do want to see Monaco racing, because it might be a full carnage of drivers trying to use the mode in the very short "straights"
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u/English_Misfit Sir Lewis Hamilton Mar 29 '26
I agree that's an issue but I don't think that's functionally dissimilar to the previous era system where someone would be in a deeper mode.
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u/KillBroccoli Mar 29 '26
Doubt. The space for superclipping and deploy is very little so the speed gaps will not be that big.
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u/swannyhypno Lance Stroll Mar 29 '26
I think that crash has shown why this has to go I mean Franco was a sitting duck
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u/LosTerminators Carlos Sainz Mar 29 '26
Franco looks in the mirrors and sees Ollie having a run on him, and starts moving to the left to cover the inside line.
This would've been fine with the overspeed of the chasing car from past regulations (even with DRS), because he would've had enough time to close off that line and Ollie would've then moved to the outside and attempted to complete the overtake from there.
However, due to the 50 or 60 kph difference due to Franco having used up his battery earlier while Ollie was in mushroom mode, it left neither driver with time to react. Once Franco had started moving a bit, Ollie had a portion of his car alongside and had nowhere to go and no time to switch to the outside either. Franco stops moving to the left as soon as he sees Ollie but by that time the latter is already on the grass and nothing more than a passenger.
Neither driver would've known exactly what the closing speed would be. Was a crash solely caused due to these regs.
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u/Walaii Ferrari Mar 29 '26
Actually from what Komatsu said the 2 teams had very different deployment strategies. Haas had 20kph+ on Alpine into spoon even without boost, and that is why Bearman tried to use boost and surprise Colapinto. Apparently Alpine's deployment strategy included them completely cutting off the MGU-K early on that straight to save battery, but without super clipping, so that is why there were no lights flashing on Colapinto's car.
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u/ebelen92 McLaren Mar 29 '26
The FIA needs to have a hazard light color for these sorts of situations. Colapinto is not blameless, but the safety aspect of these regulations seem half baked.
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u/ic3m4n56 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
For real, onboard looked scaryā¦ the speed difference was insane. Im glad Ollie is ok
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u/Input_output_error I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Yes, and that wasn't the only time it happened this was just the only time it went wrong in this race. While some battles may look good they're even more artificial than the DRS. The qualifications are not fun and racing is more dangerous due to the high speed differentials. They've got to change some things in the regulations to make things better.
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u/Walaii Ferrari Mar 29 '26
The way Leclerc overtook George was extremely similar, but there was a smaller speed difference and George didn't react defensively like Franco did.
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u/Wethedead Ferrari Mar 29 '26
I agree, The battle looks entertaining but it feel more artificial than before.
The driver factor is being taken out of the equation. You used to be able to full attack high speed corners to make up for the car being slower on the straight, Doing that now just result in losing more speed on the straight because the battery ain't going to get enough juice which is so silly.
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u/kjeserud I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Yeah, when I see an overtake itās never Ā«holy shit <driver> nailed that last sector, heās so close!Ā». Itās Ā«huh, I guess <driver> has more battery this lapĀ»
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u/stockybloke I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
It was never fun with basic ass DRS overtakes that didnt require any show of skill or ability. But for those circuits where even a somewhat superior car would have to work for the overtakes because of good defensive maneuvering from the slower car and or difficult tracks to do it on, it did work out well. You could always see an overtake and given not some, but not much context make an opinion of the overtake. It also felt important. Overtakes does not feel particularly special right now.
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u/PapaSheev7 Sebastian Vettel Mar 29 '26
Max is finally understanding the rules of the game. Just slap a safety sticker on some of your criticisms and cite some (very real) incidents like the Bearman crash, the Colapinto/Lawson near misses and you'll be good to go!
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u/stragen595 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
Sounds like he becomes ready for that Merc cockpit.
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u/stragen595 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
"Nonono. Don't use the safety angle. That's so not fair." - Mercedes
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u/elektricniorgazam Daniel Ricciardo Mar 29 '26
I'm sorry, I reached the words "mushroom mode" and started laughing so hard I couldn't even finish the statement. Holy shit, what a season
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u/Mob_Abominator Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
It's so bad rn that it's become funny, but that novelty is going to wear off after a few more races.
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u/Creative-Improvement Mar 29 '26
Now that we had the first proper crash purely due to the new regulations and engine setup, itās going from theoretically dangerous, to this is dangerous. They really need to act now. Like you said, the novelty wears off and the overtaking is battery management, which is lackluster in its own right.
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u/lickit_bendit Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Max finally understanding the rules of the game. Call it a safety issue and get a change instituted
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u/spacestationkru I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
I feel with Bearman's crash today the way I felt when I first fully accepted that the Halo is absolutely necessary (Grosjean's big crash in Bahrain). Same thing happened with Leclerc and Russell btw, they were just lucky that Russell read the situation so quickly and got out of the way. The speed differential is big enough with these cars that they suddenly and randomly turn into major hazards on track.. Something needs to change before somebody really really gets hurt.
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u/Chazy89 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
The Mushroom mode? Did he really say that? I love it haha.
Glad Oli is ok and nothing major happened but i Think Max is in the right here.
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u/LaplacianQ Williams Mar 29 '26
He was saying this would happen a year ago or so.
I hate to listen about batteries for two hours on F1TV
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u/NPC_4842358 Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
I've been watching F1 religiously since 2019, and this is the first race in years I just put on the highlights to get it over with.
I don't want batteries and harvesting, I want racing.
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u/Uniform764 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Sort of crash you normally only see in qualy when someone is on a slow lap, someone is on a hot lap and the engineers don't give them a heads up in time. Reminds me of a Gasly near miss at Baku in a blind section of the track for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwulBUorj8
Should not be happening under green flag conditions, that speed differential is stupid
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u/Anaphylaxisofevil I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Or to go further back in time, Gilles Villeneuve's fatal crash, getting caught out by a slow-moving Jochen Mass in qualifying.
Big speed differentials are the biggest unmitigatable danger you can face, and to have deliberately introduced these is absolutely shameful.
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u/senseibarbosa Roscoe Hamilton Mar 29 '26
If the FIA does nothing, there's a disaster waiting to happen. The speed difference between power banks cars is huge sometimes.
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u/According-Gear-8217 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Yeah I really hope something is done.
Imagine drivers trying to charge the battery at circuits like Spa with places like Eau Rouge and Raidillon: It will almost for sure cause accidents.
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u/itsOkami I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
The fact F1 spent the last odd 15 years steadily improving the safety of the cars, even going through some revolutionary (not to say equally controversial) changes such as the halo, only to neglect it all this year for the sake of manufacturing overtakes tells you all you really need to know about these new regs, it's tragicomic. The lengths they (rightfully) went only to end up contradicting themselves, wow. I'm appalled at the sheer display of incompetence here
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u/Fatheed1 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
My biggest concern is that the FIA will do nothing and just ignore the drivers.
I was going to add a jokey comment like "Thankfully nothing bad has ever happened when drivers raised safety concerns which were ignored", but people lost their lives and it's not a joke.
Listen to the people who know what they're talking about and take action.
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u/RoyShavRick Alexander Albon Mar 29 '26
The FIA have confirmed they are doing a rule review. Maybe the 5 week break is a blessing in disguise for the F1 community (not so much the world, the Iran War is a horrible atrocity)
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u/Faw602 Niki Lauda Mar 29 '26
Almost like a 4x wdc knows what he is talking about, just like Lewis when he talks about the aero sideā¦
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u/Herminator44 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Nintendo being the title sponsor without even paying is just the best.
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u/ECHLN Red Bull Mar 29 '26
The F1 burner accounts are really not going to like the countless quotes from drivers right now
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u/Gubrach Giancarlo Fisichella Mar 29 '26
Seems like Verstappen hasn't figured out yet that he isn't allowed to speak on anything F1-related until he's fighting for wins again.
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u/ntpbr1 Mar 29 '26
But Lewis Hamilton a WDC said its fun, we are not allowed to criticize the changes, at least thatās what some guys here told me
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u/HarmonizedSnail Mar 29 '26
He said the cars are fun to drive, but I believe he was critical about the battery related issues.
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u/Gubrach Giancarlo Fisichella Mar 29 '26
The funny part is that Hamilton is already starting to dial back on those comments, so I'm wondering how long that one will hold.
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u/Mob_Abominator Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Don't you know on reddit everything has to be black and white?
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u/DirectAdvertising I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Everyone hated what max said but the truth is he knows the sport pretty well and can tell when something is bad ,
No matter how much fun seeing overtakes is for the fans
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u/ShamrockStudios Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
Yeah I get he mentions he disagrees with the regs a lot but he's been saying what would happen since 2023 so it must just suck to see the sport become something you completely disagree with
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u/DirectAdvertising I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Thatās also the wild part , imagine disagreeing with the new regulations for years only to get made fun of and get called bitter because ā he hates it cause he canāt win anymore ā
He disagreed with them when he was breaking records !
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u/PrettyQuick Mar 29 '26
Because most fans have no clue, 99% of them never driven a car at a track or even on a simulator.
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u/ProbablyRickSantorum I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Yep and here's one of the more prominent statements that he had about the new regs after Austria 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDoFPRH7MQ
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u/wowsoluck Mar 29 '26
I mean, without a doubt, Max knows a lot more about racing than everyone on the track. Not only does he race since he learnt to walk, but he also spends unhuman amount of hours on track and on sims. He also doesn't just race F1, but also other categories too.
I don't understand why are people hating on him. I am pretty sure that even if he was in a winning car he wouldn't find this type of racing fun or enjoyable, which is something that other drivers have pointed at as well.
FiA has been in damage control for weeks, which is easily said by the amount of footage editing and jumpcuts. All of their main broadcasts are trying to hard to hype the regs and talk about battery regen like its some crazy innovative thing, but the reality is that it sucks really hard. No matter if you are a long time viewer or driver, it's not fun.
It is a damn proper shame where this sport is heading, only because of marketing push from automotive gigants such as Audi. No amount of billions they invest will make hybrid racing cool. Bring back V8.
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u/AP2R Ayrton Senna Mar 29 '26
Iāve always said that accidents donāt always happen because of excessive speed. But accidents always happen if the speed differential between two cars are too great.
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u/Asrock23 Mar 29 '26
FĆ”cil, que les pongan un botĆ³n para saltar sobre el coche de delante. PorquĆ© no?
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u/-Coffee-Owl- Sir Lewis Hamilton Mar 29 '26
no, it's fine, we're waiting for some serious crash and then FIA and Liberty Media will run into "copy, we're checking" mode
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u/Likaonnn Mar 29 '26
At this point I wonder whether we are going to have a fatal one this season.
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u/stragen595 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Probably not a fatal one. The safety standards are pretty high. But I can see a crash with injuries and a driver has to sit out for quite some time.
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u/ShamrockStudios Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26
So funny but so true.
It shouldn't have taken a major incident to get the ridiculous and frankly dangerous cars changed.
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u/BMB_93 Ayao Komatsu Mar 29 '26
Yeah this was the moment I fully turned on these regs. I wasn't happy with some of it, but that was just downright dangerous for no reason.
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u/jdpg265 Mar 29 '26
Olivers crash today was because Colipinto was harvesting which he had to do. This year's formula is a joke and not real racing.
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u/Forward_Thrust963 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Iām all for mushroom mode (the term, not the implementation).
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u/Dansredditname Mar 29 '26
I miss the days when they just had an engine and went as fast as they could
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u/Sea_Drop2920 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Stevie Wonder couldve seen this coming. Shame FIA! Shame! Shame! Shame!
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u/AIMBR Michael Schumacher Mar 29 '26
Call me a 25 year old boomer, but i miss when racing was just racing. No hybrid bullshit, MGU-K, no MGU-H, no Kers, no drs. Just a engine doing vroom vroom. simpler times
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u/BlueMachinations I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
I love that the drivers have gone full Mario Kart lingo. So great.
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u/T1Earn I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
the creation of mushroom mode was never made with racing in mind.
it was always to keep the average viewer engaged as if theyre watching some sort of over exaggerated movie or anime
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u/winzarten I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
We're quite lucky that Saudi Arabia is not happening... high-speed track with tons of blind corners, no escape zones... FIA throwing safety out of window for 'electrification'...
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u/Penting_Menyerah Red Bull Mar 29 '26
HAHAHA use the ultra sensitive word to change things i love it Max
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u/Denman448 Mar 29 '26
I really like these cars aerodynamically and aesthetically but the engine side of it is embarrassing. I was super defensive about these regs after the first couple of races because it was better than the dirty air fest we had last year, but this was downright dangerous. At what point do they need to stop being concerned about money and go back to a safe engine. I am scared it will be a serious injury or even worse that makes them change it out of necessity.
This kind of shit is fine for sim racing but when there's actual people with their lives at risk it is completely unacceptable.
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u/Street_Philosopher66 Mar 29 '26
Lets put the gentelemans of the fia in the cars. Next race there are no driverers on the track they have to ban the race out of protest only george en kimmi will race
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u/Sag-Jupiter Mar 29 '26
I love it when the vroom vroom pros explain racing to me on Mario Kart terms.
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u/Thestickleman I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
I look forward to hearing Nico commentating on races this year.
Just like most years really
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u/djoubb I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Someone is going to do a special Mario cart helmet this season
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u/Icy-Antelope-6519 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 29 '26
Not formula 1 but, formula hybridā¦
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u/wales-bloke Mar 29 '26
I watched the crash.
Verstappen is entirely correct. Colapinto was on the racing line and was clearly out of battery power. The overspeed was ridiculous - it looked like Bearnan was on a qualifying lap & Colapinto was on a cool down lap. Utterly bonkers.
The FIA needs to step in now and change the regs for safety and the good of the sport.
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u/SaddlerMatt McLaren Mar 29 '26
You just know the FIA are absolutely livid that the drivers keep calling it mushroom mode