F1 2024

[Quinny]

Bit early to start this, I know, but it would look daft if I created one called F1 2026 ... but the Spanish GP will be moving to Madrid that year. That'll annoy the Catalans.

TBH, I won't miss it as a circuit, but then modern circuits being such I'm not expecting much from Madrid either. Maybe they should stay in Barcelona and resurrect the MontJuic circuit...

Spanish Grand Prix to move from Barcelona to Madrid in 2026

Madrid will replace Barcelona as host of the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix from 2026.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

That looks like an absolute stinker of a circuit doesn't it? Can't be worse than Valencia...can it?

Montjuic would be incredible. A man can dream!

 

[The Pilgrim]

I've been itching to start this for a week or two so glad its up and running!

Not really sure how I feel about the Madrid news to be honest. Admittedly Barcelona isn't the best of tracks but they've given everyone what they want by removing that chicane at the end and now they've lost the race. The Madrid track looks OK, nothing great though and do we really need another street track??

Still, I guess it can't be worse than the Valencia track!

Destinations over quality of track is starting to become a real issue.

 

[Pbennyboy]

F1 .....ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

[Quinny]

F1 .....ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

OK grandad. Time for your tablets and afternoon nap.

 

[GreenThing]

F1 .....ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Best you stay away from this thread then.

 

[The Pilgrim]

Best you stay away from this thread then.

If only there was a clue in the title what it may be discussing!

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

F1 .....ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Every year this post turns up earlier and earlier in the F1 thread, it didn't arrive until a week before Easter when I was a lad!

 

[MickyD]

Every year this post turns up earlier and earlier in the F1 thread, it didn't arrive until a week before Easter when I was a lad!

And it was green fields as far as the eye could see.

I've been to three Barcelona GPs, including Max's first win - which seems a lifetime ago now. It's rubbish for overtaking, and it's a real pig to get out to and back from. If you get a train from town you've still got about an hour-long trudge to the circuit from the nearest station, usually in the sweltering heat.

I've also walked around Montjuic a couple of times and I think it would indeed be amazing to stage a GP there again. Bearing in mind the monstrous circus that is modern F1, though, I'm just not sure how they'd fit everything, and everyone, in! It's largely hilly, wooded parkland.

Jeez, that Madrid map looks sh/te, though - it seems to be in some god-awful industrial backwater. Presumably massive redevelopment is planned.

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

So Minardi/Torro Rosso/Alpha Tauri are henceforth called Visa Cash App RB. Had there ever been a worse team name than that?

 

[The Pilgrim]

So Minardi/Torro Rosso/Alpha Tauri are henceforth called Visa Cash App RB. Had there ever been a worse team name than that?

Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber?

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber?

At least we can just call them Sauber. What the hell do we call the other lot? The VCARBs?

 

[The Pilgrim]

At least we can just call them Sauber. What the hell do we call the other lot? The VCARBs?

Minardi? Toro Rosso?

 

[Mat]

So Minardi/Torro Rosso/Alpha Tauri are henceforth called Visa Cash App RB. Had there ever been a worse team name than that?

No, I was just reading the BBC season preview and came over here to say the exact same thing.

Commentators nightmare I expect, they probably won’t mention them now, or just go with “Ricciardo‘s car”.

Maybe VISA RB 🤷‍♂️

 

[Quinny]

It's not a great name, and I know people have been whinging about the team selling out to corporate sponsorship/ownership, but it's hardly a new phenomenon in Formula 1: Benetton Formula Ltd, anyone?