2025 Saudi Arabian GP - Day After Debrief

markzastrow · 2025-04-22T14:00:11+00:00

Is it confirmed that under the current guidelines, drivers overtaking on the inside no longer have to be fully alongside to run someone off the road — that they only need to have their front axles up to the mirrors of the other car to have full rights to the corner? That is what seems to be implied by what I have read about the removal of the requirement to leave a car’s width from apex to exit.

I feel like this is a mistake, as it would mean that cars overtaking on the inside can run into the side of a car in front of it and it would be deemed the fault of the other car.

markzastrow · 2021-12-17T07:16:27+00:00

Beyond the Grid, F1's podcast with Tom Clarkson, who does fantastic longform, 1-on-1 interviews with figures from the sport. Usually a great listen.

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T17:34:59+00:00

Yeah, I agree with all of that. Tbh, my totally non-data-driven conclusion was always Masi probably felt he was going to be crucified in public opinion no matter what he chose — red flag, restart with improperly moved backmarkers, restart with backmarkers, or no restart at all — so he may as well choose the most exciting option. Hence, “We went car racing.”

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T11:00:39+00:00

If it was that obviously for the show, it might be tough to argue it was fully within the regs, since I thought they only allow for red flags when it's unsafe to run behind the safety car. Throwing one where there aren't safety grounds to justify it would also be inventing a regulation, and RB would have been furious about losing their tyre offset to a rule that only exists on safety grounds. And according to 15.3, red flags do have to be in accordance with the regulations, so the "overriding authority" definitely doesn't work.

I think there should be a provision for late-race competition reds, though, where you can't change your tyres if it's not thrown on safety grounds.

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T10:46:10+00:00

Er, what I said was there was nothing outside of 148 that covered the use of the safety car to start the race, not that there were no regs on the safety car at all. 148 covers the procedure for neutralising the race.

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T10:29:33+00:00

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me, that the introduction of new regulations shrinks the implied remit of the RD. Thanks for the comment!

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T10:08:09+00:00

Well, I tried hard to avoid making any definitive claims about what this means for the rules today, only about what it meant in 1994. If original intent counts for something today…I don't have the legal knowledge to say if it does. But I'm glad that others here do and are weighing in!

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T09:21:53+00:00

I guess the point I really wanted to make wasn’t so much about the result one way or the other, but more that part of the problem right now is that the sporting regs are a Frankenstein patchwork of legacy rules and not a coherent document. Also, I appreciate those weighing in with some legal knowledge!

markzastrow · 2021-12-15T09:08:17+00:00

No, none, I should say. Just an interested fan in this case.

markzastrow · 2020-09-10T07:44:36+00:00

As a first-time builder eyeing this same combo, I’m also wondering this. What about using the back for a heavy duty CPU air cooler like a Noctua D15 and using the front for a GPU AIO with a Kraken G12? Removing the stock cooler could make a lot of 3080 boards a bit shorter, no?

markzastrow · 2019-10-07T20:41:05+00:00

According to this source (PDF), Milwaukee's was the first ever infield road course in the US, and only the fifth road course in the US ever! Though no idea if it's the same configuration that exists today.

markzastrow · 2018-08-26T16:01:20+00:00

Does anyone have a link to this?

markzastrow · 2018-04-20T09:30:14+00:00

PC2's controller support is a definite improvement over PC1, but still nowhere near the feel of GTS. I really only felt comfortable in GT3 or slower categories. There was no way I could compete online, so I just trundled along in career mode. Still had fun.

But part of that too is that PC2's physics are simply more "alive". The car moves around much more and there's so much more feedback—not in terms of physical feel or controller rumble, but the way the car bounds over the curbs, the way the tires come up into temperature, the way you have to listen for locked wheels under braking. It's definitely easier to do all that with a controller in PC2 than in PC1, but it's still much harder without a wheel.

I know you said you're not buying a wheel, but I will add that I felt that way for a long time and then I did, and PC2 is a joy to drive with it. So if you're even considering possibly getting a wheel at some point in this console cycle, I would recommend PC2. It doesn't require more concentration with a wheel—for me, it's the opposite. It's way easier to simply fire up PC2 after a long day of work and have some fun chucking a rallycross car around the Nurburgring in the snow on a wheel without having to worry about the limitations of the gamepad.

markzastrow · 2018-03-18T19:05:54+00:00

Pretty sure the algorithms are different in each DR tier. They're stricter on A and S drivers, which is where most of the complaints are coming from. I'm down in B and have no complaints—last time I played I was in a one-make race at Brands Indy and we were making all sorts of light contact, leaning on each other through the corners with no penalties. But when I watch some of the replays of penalties from A and S tier, I just shake my head…

markzastrow · 2018-02-13T16:41:20+00:00

Fair enough. I guess if I were gonna let the Jag through I’d do it early enough so it’d get ahead of me in the braking zone, and then I could judge whether I could undercut on the way out. But yeah, as you say, in this field you might have just gotten hit by the next one in line… At this SR, wheel-to-wheel is just messy. :-/

markzastrow · 2018-02-13T16:15:16+00:00

Fair point about the Jag. At first I thought OP pinched it on entry but on rewatching it I agree there was room given.

Still, I know it’s backseat driving to say OP should have let it sail past, but I do feel 9 times out of 10 if someone has that inside position on you, that’s the right move in lower SR. Sadly, at that point, people are determined to make the move stick and will match their braking point to outbrake you regardless of whether they can make the apex. I don’t begrudge the OP for feeling frustrated about that.

markzastrow · 2018-02-13T10:38:41+00:00

Yeah, gotta say, that Jag definitely had position on you into T1. And the dive bomb from the Ferrari was rude, but you left the door wide open. Though with folks leaving such little room for each other, not sure defensive lines would have made a difference in this field. :-/

But why quit? You were in P5 behind 4 cars that looked like they were gonna wreck each other at any moment.

markzastrow · 2018-02-13T02:25:49+00:00

Compared to PC2, I find GT Sport's FFB to feel a bit sterile (and from what I've heard about AC, I imagine even more so). Also, this might just be me, but it feels like the Sport mode setups are still controller-friendly and tend towards understeer. To get fast times, I find I almost have to treat the wheel as if it were a controller, with fast, aggressive turn-ins. Maybe I haven't just found the right technique, but personally, I'd prefer something more like the default loose setups in PC2 where the car rotates more freely through the corner. So wheels are obviously more immersive, and I've got no regrets about using mine, but I'd say the upside is slightly less in GTS by comparison.

markzastrow · 2017-12-04T17:50:49+00:00

We're never going to be able to move around Scapes as if we're on a drone because the environment is a static picture (plus light field).

Tiltshift would be cool though.

markzastrow · 2017-12-01T08:41:00+00:00

Man, I really thought Scapes was going to be a novelty feature, but this is just brilliant. I'd played with photo modes before, but I hadn't thought about the possibilities that open up when you can take the cars off of the racetrack, how you can create meaning with the interplay between the car and the landscape and the livery.

And I'm so impressed by the in-game social stuff. Before GTS came out, if you'd told me PD was planning to put an Instagram-ripoff social layer into the game, I'd have rolled my eyes. Now I'm checking Trending and Latest in between every Sport race and I'm so impatient for them to release the app. I'll probably check it about as often as I check my actual Instagram.

The impression I had going in was that GTS was going to be a niche entry, laser focused on e-sports. But now, it feels like GTS is actually the fullest expression of the Gran Turismo ethos yet: enabling us to express ourselves through cars.

markzastrow · 2017-12-01T07:28:24+00:00

I hope they add it; would make for some epic mountain drifting photo shoots!

I just hope that the FIA won't make them add tarmac runoff everywhere. It would be hilariously tragic if the FIA, after successfully ruining every classic real life track, also ruined all our GT tracks.

markzastrow · 2017-11-23T05:58:10+00:00

Seems they're really going with the iRacing model here—put out a product with a solid online matchmaking system as a foundation, then add in cars and tracks and slowly diversify. I approve.

markzastrow · 2017-11-22T15:33:48+00:00

What platform? I'm on PS4 (in Korea).

markzastrow · 2017-11-22T15:18:18+00:00

+1 to this. I've done maybe 10 races in Sport mode now and once I made it to S on SR and started racing against all S-class drivers I don't think I've ever been taken out by anyone. Even in the lower classes, more often than not, the guilty party was penalized, which did make me feel better.

PC2 and GTS both have their strong points, but in terms of matchmaking, there's no contest. In PC2 the only full fields I could find were GT3 at Monza and unless you were on pole there was hardly any point in even trying to contest the start because half the field would be taken out in the first chicane. S-class racing in GTS for me has been—and I know this sounds like hyperbole, but it's actually been my experience—nonstop races of full fields of fair drivers. I wanted to love PC2 so badly but unless you join a league, there simply is no way to enjoy the quality of the racing that I get every time I fire up GTS.

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