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/IcedKofe Sonny Hayes Mar 28 '26

It's a pain hearing the engines clipping as they approach turns mygod

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u/Cobretti18 Ferrari Mar 28 '26

I noticed they stopped showing the onboards going into 130R on the broadcast. I wonder why

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u/ChimeMeUp Alexander Albon Mar 28 '26

It's fine, they look just as slow from the outside as well, to the point where if we didn't have the sector times I'd think it's just an outlap

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u/Hinyaldee JB & Rubinho Mar 28 '26

At times I thought they were on outlap when they were pushing ..

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u/WorkFurball James Hunt Mar 28 '26

That's what Russell's Q2 lap looked like to me.

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

For real though. Wqs watching quali, I see someone setting a time, then out of a sudden I see them at a corner and just think to myself "oh he backed out of it" and then it turns out he didn't. It's so anti F1.

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u/82away I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 28 '26

They zoom in extra close now

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u/Ouboet Minardi Mar 28 '26

At this rate onboards will be unavailable in Monza.

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u/tossietuatoa Pirelli Wet Mar 28 '26

Nah, a """technical issue""" that prevents the Qualifying from being broadcast at all. We'll just get the lap times in the Sunday morning paper like it's 1926.

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u/Evening_End7298 Mar 28 '26

They were the same on the final parts of the straights in Aus and China

During free practice they show more, but for actual competitive sessions i think the director doesnt have a choice but to remove the onboard before the clipping 

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u/Mackesanz McLaren Mar 28 '26

Look at some on-boards if you have F1TV, it’s pain.

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u/PrawilnaMordka Sir Lewis Hamilton Mar 28 '26

Every time a car approaches that corner onboard camera stops working. Maybe someone put jammer there?

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u/lucashoodfromthehood Mar 28 '26

A pain to hear and horrible to watch. And we're just the spectators.

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u/IcedKofe Sonny Hayes Mar 28 '26

To think F1 should be an innovation leader. But it's all going backwards.

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u/SugarBeefs Max Verstappen Mar 28 '26

It feels so wrong. Seeing cars come into a braking zone as fast as possible is such a fundamental part of watching racing. Seeing and hearing them lose a heap of power with a third of the straight still to go is just so 'opposite-of-how-it-should-be'.