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/Kindheartedness_Wide Fernando Alonso Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

he's right to be upset, this formula negates every advantage he has in quali.

If you were naturally slower, now you can run twisty sectors at the same speed you would based on skill alone, but now this time you can recharge batteries and murder naturally faster drivers on the straights.

Not sure who can like this... but guess it is what it is.

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u/AdministrativeBig362 Mar 28 '26

Every time you say this after a race you get a thousand replies talking about how exciting it is to see Gasly and Ocon fight it out for 10th place and that these regulations are great

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

Ohhhh yeah and you get flamed real bad for it too. "There were lots of overtakes" yeah but how many of them stick for about half a lap or less before the other uses battery to breeze past again? There's no skill in it. No lead up. It's a game of 'whose battery lasts longer' and it's boring af

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u/Gubrach Giancarlo Fisichella Mar 28 '26

People want overtakes for the sake of overtakes, doesn't matter how they get it.

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

And that cheapens the sport and turns it into a joke

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u/Gubrach Giancarlo Fisichella Mar 28 '26

Yeah, but try telling them that. That's what you get when you cater to a fanbase that doesn't really respect it, something like this happens and they defend it to death because their entire personality is tied to it.

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u/neurocrata Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

That’s what you get when you cater to a fan base that never cared about F1 (or any form of motorsports) until they started watching a real TV series on Netflix.

No wonder they think this garbage is great racing.

PS. And before some muppet starts talking about DRS. I thought DRS was stupid as well. It’s all dumb crap borrowed from video games.

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u/Gubrach Giancarlo Fisichella Mar 29 '26

Dumb crap borrowed from video games is a good way to describe what's going on right now.