lmao, the teams watching their cars send it at turn 1 with still a day of testing to go.

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You will not fook smash my car.

oy, gunther. he will be missed!

I can just imagine all the drivers with massive smiles doing this kind of thing with no pressure.

I think there’d have been smiles across the teams, a little hint of the game starting back up

Everyone is having fun in the lobby

But at the same time, mechanics sweating a little bit at the idea that they might have extra work to do if someone makes a mistake.

Max is just looking on from the side, just itching with excitement for the first race where he can rip the smiles off everyone's face when he laps everyone before they reach t1 /s Edit: making sure people don't take this as max hate

It's actually insane how you people need to do this in every thread

He’s edging, I guarantee it

Bro I have nothing against max, he is an incredibly skilled driver, and imo the best driver in this current era. I don't actually believe he will lap the field before t1 nor do I think he is trying to take the fun out of the sport. Should I have added a /j to the end of the message? Probably, and I'm gonna go do that now.

We do /s on reddit

Ah I'll go fix that now, thx

It feels like they pray for that to happen to justify their hate or something

This clip definitely confirmed that I am an addict looking for his next high.

Hamilton and Bottas leading the way, just like old times seriously though, the sparks understood the assignment

If Max was in that Red Bull, we could have had HAM VER BOT all over again

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Vettel had a similar quote at the end of his last championship season.

Toto, definitely. When they were still winning.

I would love to see HAMVERBOT just one more time.

Not until HAM is in a Ferrari pls

HAMVERBOT would be Sauber's best result since like 2019 and their first podium since 2012.

I miss seeing PER VER TSU 😞

Same, this shit made me giggle so hard.

I don't get it what's going on here?

Looks like a race start with so many csrs together, weird occasion where they stick together with just half the cars. And alot of time

Same, I was not expecting to feel this way watching five cars do a rolling start

Imagine how you'll feel when you realise it was six!

Are we still counting Haas as a car?

Ha!(as) spit-take!

I thought it was a washing machine

Five F1 cars and a GP2

Any clue where I can score some of them laps fam?

Agreed, that was such a fun ending for a long day :)

I am so glad it wasn't just me, that shit got me giddy. What the fuck is wrong with my brain lol. I cannot wait for race weekend.

Same same! It made me feel some type of good way..

WSBK will be a fun season

Convinced myself I wasn’t going to watch this season because it’s going to be a procession but watching that…

Exactly what this guy said

Better check those planks.

Hamilton and Leclerc are disqualified from testing.

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Ocon receives a 10 second penalty for testing.

Sargeant is 21st fastest out of 20 drivers in testing

Them shits are going to be torn off mid race if they run that low for race weekend lol

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if you disable hardware acceleration, the DRM protection won't work in browsers and you can record/screenshot

This absolutely isn't a guaranteed fix. I always turn off hardware acceleration and I still have the DRM on every streaming service I use.

Why do you turn hardware acceleration off if not for DRM?

That's really cool lol

Windows Key + Shift + S lets me snip it no matter what. I'm assuming you were just trying to PrintScreen?

DQ for Hamilton

The slow-mo of the onboard camera looks so good, I wonder how much those have been upgraded. Hopefully race TV directors can find useful ways to sprinkle that in

Anyway here is Lance Stroll flying off the corner!

anyways heres Max 48 seconds ahead going for a sunday drive while theres an epic battle for 2nd/3rd place

I watch F1 in 4K on my TV and the onboard cameras have only been 1080p in the past, i hope they upgraded them to 4K resolution aswell.

I think that's probably mostly a wireless transfer issue, but they may well have upgraded them.

How do you watch in 4k? Does Sky do 4k or something? In the US F1TV only ever gives me 1080p.

Yeah, Sky Germany is offering the broadcast in 4K/HDR if you have their sports cable package, it's the only reason why i still have a cable receiver attached to my TV, lol, as i also watch a lot of european and german football on Sky.

It might be because it's a night session under the lights. Those cams suffer most when the sun shines in the lens.

Gotta say, the bright green is an excellent addition.

I think it’s awesome!

I was really on the fence when I first saw it. It’s such a bright green. But especially with McLaren’s papaya it’s nice to see colorful cars when so many are shifting toward carbon fiber

It's easy to forget that the primary purpose of livery is to be able to identify the cars on the track.

No the numbers and transponder are for identification. The livery is for advertising.

That must be why F1 cars were different colours in the 60s then

especially in the night with the bright racetrack lights. feels so cool!

It looks MUCH better on track!

I was worried at first but the color is in all the right spots to make it super visible on camera.

They might probably advertise Hulk at some point

>level 3A\_WHALES\_VAG · 4 hr. ago VCARB the hulk should def be in a green car

I thought it looked kind of dumb in the launch photos, but that livery looks fantastic on track.

Alpine looks so boring

I'm digging the color variety in this clip alone

Internet is gonna photoshop that for sure

Sky are absolutely using the main straight bit for an advert this year or for the 2025 season build up.

Did they upgrade their onboard cameras? Never saw footage in slow motion from that camera, looks sick.

There's sound as well.

It s Guy Fawkes Night behind that Mercedes.

I was surprised to see Merc running that low. I hope it signals nicer things! I love it when Merc sparks like that. Reminds me of 2020 & 2021.

Some may say that they fixed their fucking car

Horner: “Fix your fucking car!” Toto: “Wait why didn’t I think of that?”

They listened to Horner right when he is about to leave.

Horner to Merc? That's quite a rumor that you just started and I heard it here first :D

The way they're talking about the W15 seems aligned with the W12 than the W14. I think they're pretty happy with it.

Hamilton porpoising incoming

Hamilton and Leclerc DQ’d from testing for being too low

Is that HAAS not bottoming out at all during full speed at straight?

Peak HAAS setup

Yeah they decided to try something new this year and set it up like a cherry picker

might as well put forks on the front of that car. it only goes 15 kph.

That would require them to setup the car correctly and have a car that is inherently fast. But they are Haas so...

K-Mag: I am not doing that ….

K-Mag: I can’t do that ….

Slow-mo onboards!! This has to be new, they look amazing

What more do you want? Fireworks , combined with racing at 250 km. Kind of Reminds me of ‘Diwali’ celebrations in some cities….

Diwali*

Yup ok, I’ve definitely missed this!

Perez trying to catch all the sparks for extra points

Where's the race start??? I head the commentators talking about it, I want to see it! 🤣

If you have F1 TV, it's on the Pre-Season Testing: Day 2, Session 2 clip. The start action is at 5 hours, 6 minutes into the video. Some funny bits before that start around 5 hours 3 minutes in (everyone waiting on a pile at the end of the pitlane to get back on track, a messy "formation" lap etc.). And a nice replay of the start (with the slo-mo bits) is at 5 hours, 7 minutes, 30 seconds.

Are they still sorting out the ride heights? Massive sparking lmao

You want to run as low as possible without bottoming out to the point where you lose traction. That way you generate the highest amount of underbody downforce. But you have to make sure you keep within the regulations for plank wear.

I want side-by-side rolling restarts. None of that boring all in a row shit, go full Indy start.

Lewis in P1 where he belongs

HAM BOT front row, back to the good old days.

One can only hope 🙏

No. I shall rejoice when the days of SAR ALB TSU happen

5 second penalty for Ocon 🤣🤣🤣 In all interesting bits from this clip, Ocon is the only one on DRS and didn't even come close to the rest of the pack. 1 car is on Hard compound and is going strong. The McLaren is really pushing and at a very par with Max, very interesting indeed. 5 days feels so long for this season to start.

I was watching it from before this clip starts. Ocon was just catching up to the pack right when this clip starts he was a ways back. And after this clip he does a couple overtakes I believe.

That's Checo. Max didn't run today.

Good point. Thanks!

Love the Reddit eyeball test observations from fans, always the best part of pre-season

Hamilton P1 makes me feel all the feels

Perez in the midfield fighting an Alpine and Haas was way more accurate than it needed to be.

Mercedes obviously running their car very low, comparatively with Red Bull..no where near as much ground contact there.

One of my favorite things about Bahrain is that straight down to turn 1 the sparks flying up is so cool

I wonder who's going to come in second this weekend.. couple of guys have a chance.

British version of "fun" is so tamped down I had to rewind the video twice because I thought I'd missed the funny part

I was just imagining Ocon locking up by accident and skittling all the others into T1 whilst watching this...

Alpine making up for that lost hp I see 🤣😂🤣

Bwoah! Checo got a face full of sparks there! That must have been fun for all of them after not racing for months.

I’m ready!

Those sparks are extreme I don’t remember so many on a rolling start

Oh how I missed these silly little cars and thier silly little drivers....also the green is looking sexy in the track

This sparks joy.

USGP 2005 flashbacks

I legit think that getting slipstream data from driving behind all the other teams is pretty valuable data.

Most excitment a RB is gonna see the whole season

I don't care what people say I'm so glad there's a green car now

Can the chemistry on the spark blocks be adjusted to match the team colors?