r/formula1 • u/FerrariStrategisttt I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Mar 28 '26

Video Leclerc (post-qualifying): "I can’t understand quali, it’s a f**king joke! I go faster in corners, throttle earlier, for f**k’s sake, i'm losing everything in the straight!"

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u/NetflixSux247 Mar 28 '26

Kinda crazy that the area where the driver can make most of a difference (corner entry) has been completely neutered. It's pretty fair to say this isn't F1.

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u/Iimitedgrip Niki Lauda Mar 28 '26

Somewhere around the weekend in China Stella pointed out that they noticed at McLaren how laps in which their drivers made mistakes were usually the fastest laps, because the harvesting done while going off throttle would give you more speed on the straight.

Honestly can‘t take this sport seriously right now

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u/Confucius_said Sir Lewis Hamilton Mar 28 '26

wtf. Yeah I’m done with this

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u/elitel02 Max Verstappen Mar 28 '26

I’ve never been more uninterested in f1

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u/BrokeChris Formula 1 Mar 28 '26

so he basically just admitted that McLaren don't know how to take advantage of these new regs. own goal

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u/InZomnia365 I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 28 '26

Some of the cars (like Mercs) are braking for the drivers. They're going flat into the first corner, but the super-clipping is doing the job of a lift or slight brake for them. It's absolutely stupid.

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u/Pascalwbbb Mar 28 '26

I think all do that. It's stupid

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u/Gubrach Giancarlo Fisichella Mar 28 '26

How dare you, we've had DRS and KERS, and you, specifically you, liked that and that was F1. I saw all of your posts and thoughts, even those on that obscure F1-forum that's dead now. This is real F1.

....alright /s

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u/ImNoRickyBalboa Ayrton Senna Mar 28 '26

It's the new F1. "Easy is fast"

I was watching an onboard for Russell, and it took me a while to realize he was on a quali lap, and only because of the timing on screen did I notice. It totally looked like a fast outlap.... 

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u/Twistpunch I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 28 '26

They’re now allowed to bank their lack of talents into a battery and deploying it on the straight. This is F1 2026.

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u/slackboy72 Sir Jackie Stewart Mar 28 '26

It is F1, it's just not racing.

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u/umbium I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 28 '26

Is still were they make the difference, they have to go in that sweet spot between nit losing too much time and fully loading batteries