Ok, just before starting lap 49 from P10 Nico radios that he has a puncture and thinks he hit the wall, the pitwall replies pretty quickly the pressures look ok. Right before he passes the pit entry he asks what to do and the pitwall quickly confirms the tire pressures are ok.

Out of turn 1 they again confirm good tire pressures and tell him after turn 2 mode push, which he says he is already in, and is almost immediately passed by Franco. They then radio about his Pit In button being on and he tells them he’s tried to turn it off but it’s not working, they tell him to press it again. About mid lap they radio that the car is all ok, 2 laps to go at the line.

The next radio comms are about the yellow/double yellow and he’s instructed to stay right. He does but hits a huge pile of debris and reports it. The next sign board shows green flags.

He continues on and says it’s going to be red flagged at almost the exact moment he’s overtaken by Lewis and Oliver. A few turns later he again reports he hit something big, the team says they are checking the front wing, and the VSC comes out.

He immediately starts beating the steering wheel and radios something I can’t make out back to the team. It’s something like “man how have they not like?.. No way…” And the team interrupts him with "Yeah, swell. "

From there the comms seemed to all be instructions from the team on where he needed to drive and updates about how long is left in the race. Until- about halfway through the final lap Nico maybe talks, but there is no audio from him through the F1TV replay, just the team saying “yeah copy that Nico” and then telling him to stay close to the delta time. The only team radio from then until the checkered flag is delta and gap updates from the team, nothing from Nico.

The cool down and in lap don’t seem to show anything, and the final audio is the team and Nico apologizing to each other and Nico commenting the irony being it was his best race there, etc.

I plan on watching the onboard shortly to see for myself but I’m assuming there will be talk about it if something happened.

Thanks for this!

Happy the mechanic was ok but maybe that release procedure needs to be looked at.

I missed this, I’ll have to check it out.

He seems closer to Lando pretty much across the board this year. There’s certainly an argument to be made that they are the strongest driver pairing on the grid.

Team orders suck as far as competition is concerned. McLaren is also a hot mess when it comes to making decisions in real time during a race so maybe this will help them simplify things while they figure out how to run at the front again…

At the same time I hate it for Oscar. He’s been doing an excellent job this season and it sucks to have your progress stamped out mid season for the benefit of the team.

Cigarettes

the userbase comes off as a walled garden

I’m smoking weed about it.

I agree it’s super weird with the most recent race on top

Too late because of team errors, too soon because of team errors. McLaren has to get on top of the operational and strategical errors for either driver to have a shot at a WDC. The field is too close throughout the course of a season to squander away so many opportunities.

The same way they are covered now.

He isn’t wrong but at the same time that’s doing a disservice to not only Mick but also someone like Alex who has made his comeback run with Williams after being tossed around at Red Bull…

For all the calls to put Mick in the seat I’d ask why Toto, an often vocal supporter of getting Mick back on the grid, hasn’t filled the Mercedes vacancy with him? I think the truth many fans don’t want to accept is that the team principles just don’t rate him as highly as the fans do, even with his success in other series.

In a way it’s sad but it’s the nature of F1.

Idk if this is some misguided insult or a legit question.

There is zero need for monetization and corporate bullshit to infiltrate Lemmy. People see an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a newer social media and are quick to stink it up with the same old shit. Fuck that, I’m sick of it.

Lemmy does not have to be a carbon copy of the worst parts of the internet to survive. It is not a requirement to be a reddit clone or a cash generator or be profitable to be usable.

I saw, I was just venting frustration at that specific viewpoint.

It’s annoying that the same tired tactics are being applied to every corner of the internet.

“I think it’s important, for the ecosystem to thrive, that there be a way to have premium content to build businesses here,” he said. “That’s a fundamental belief.”

Hard pass.

There isn’t a need, that’s some bullshit. Maybe some want to monetize their platform, but certainly not all. Fuck this push for finding another way to charge people for shit at every turn being masked as creator support.

I hate it.

Just as @FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz mentioned yesterday, we have another day with a lot of air attack.
Not quite as bad as the record high attack 2 days ago, but still a big attack by the Russians.

It breaks my heart for the innocent people who can’t do things many of us take for granted. Sleeping comfortably in your own bed without the sound of AA countermeasures and explosions would be one example.

Russia has made it clear that they will target civilians and population centers, consequences be damned. It must be exhausting to live through that. It can’t end soon enough.

World news outlets are reporting another huge attack overnight so I suspect we’ll see another post like this tomorrow. I’m curious to see the air defense report for today/last night.

One of my favorite matrix games is playing “guess where it thinks the unread marker should be.”

I’m just as likely to be right as it is.

Matrix definitely has its problems. Recently I’ve moved to a private matrix install and a lot of the issues I was having went away. I think the matrix.org domain is overloaded and has a bunch of weird errors because of it. If your account or rooms are hosted there and you have issues I’d try running somewhere else and see if you have the same problems.

Like someone else said the clients have issues too. A lot of them don’t know how to report the errors they run into so they spit out garbage. There isn’t a single client that works perfectly but there are a few that are good enough to use if you aren’t using them for mission critical communication. It’s stupid but it is what it is.

Discord sucks ass and no one will convince me otherwise. I have no desire to support them and their constant nitro spam. I’d rather use something like matrix and see how it develops.

The scale of the attack and the success rate of repelling the attacks is incredible.

Though it means nothing to them, I feel for the Ukrainians having to relive these horrors every day and night. War is terrible enough when it’s military v military. Attacks on civilian infrastructure and population centers are despicable.

This can’t end soon enough.