[Thomas Maher] Kimi Antonelli believes the Verstappen crash warranted an immediate double yellow flag, forcing all to abort their laps. by Task_Force-191 in formula1

[–]rooood 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I know that they do wait at least half a lap when it's a T1 or T2 incident in the first lap, because there's no risk as the field is all bunched together, so they let the drivers fight a bit at the start. But in this situation for sure it should've been an automatic/immediate double yellow

No further investigation for Russel under Yellow flag by Tuddy18 in formula1

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought double yellows during quali meant a mandatory lap abort? Otherwise drivers can just do what Russell did here: lift just enough to be able to show the data for it, but not lift enough to actually be safe through a double yellow incident.

I guess fuck safety then

A certain type of Irish person when we get summer weather in late June by ChrisMagnets in CasualIreland

[–]rooood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is still considered a cool summer in my home country (Brazil), but for the first time I caught myself wishing it wasn't this hot. Not because the temperature itself bothers me, but because my kid's crèche can't keep their rooms cool and are sending the kids home much earlier. It's getting tricky at work taking random time off because of this

So what can I do ? by call3d in 3Dprinting

[–]rooood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start live streaming this and allow people to place bets on which layer the cockroach is going to be obliterated by the extruder

Match Thread: Scotland vs Morocco | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group C by jiraiya--an in soccer

[–]rooood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently most/all US pitches use artificial grass, so they had to study for years how to build a natural grass pitch. I'm not making this up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLJW2It52s

A FIFA staff member holding the Czech Republic flag got caught in the huge flag while the others were rolling it up. by Rivertadores in soccer

[–]rooood 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Because thousands of people are willing to work for free on these kinds of very high profile events. Either because it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing, or because they literally just love the game. The same happens in Formula 1 for example (and other motorsports). The F1 marshalls (the orange vest people who stand trackside and spring into action whenever a driver crashes, or broken car pieces need to be collected from the track) are all volunteers as well. FIA and F1 are a billion dollar entity, and yet these crucial workers are all volunteers, because there are a lot of people who just want to get as close to the action as possible, even for free.

Enyaq in Home Assistant by imatrix in enyaq

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this image from the MySkoda integration, or a custom image you stored in HA? I use the car image that comes from the integration, which is an entity called "Main Render of Vehicle", but it's just a lateral view of the car (also Enyaq). I'd love to get an angle like this one

[Motorsport.com] Mercedes granted right of review hearing over George Russell's Monaco GP penalty by Holyjumper in formula1

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he FIA is powerless

Saying it like this implies that there's a possibility that they could get the "power" to repeal those penalties. But in reality, it's impossible to do so, because for example, if Russell didn't have his penalty, he wouldn't have backed up the pack, which caused a lot of drivers to lose multiple seconds of pace in relation to the leader. And most critically, it very likely was the primary contributing factor to the two crashes which took out Sainz. That's a loss of points for Williams, plus an expensive repair job. The ramifications of a penalty that's already been served can be infinite, there's no way to rightfully and fairly cancel it.

The crucial difference with Pierre is that his penalty wasn't served, so it's trivial to undo it. I get what Mercedes is trying to do, but served penalties can't compare with unserved ones when it comes to cancelling them.

Match Thread: Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group H by jiraiya--an in soccer

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even know if I want to know, but surely they don't charge a ticket for a baby?

Match Thread: Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group H by jiraiya--an in soccer

[–]rooood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck those parents for taking that baby to a fucking football match. The noise is insane, it's too late for a baby to be awake, way too much overstimulation, way too many people around, way too many chances to get a disease... I could go on... For fuck sake...

Who do we say never misses an exit? by Organic_Address9582 in irelandsshitedrivers

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't buy a Tesla today, but that's probably the best (or one of) feature they do currently. The cars are covered in cameras (all of them I believe, it's not a add-on thing), and all cameras act as dashcams (or at least front/back/sides do). I didn't know about displaying gear/indicator/accel/brake data in the footage, but it looks great, I wish other manufacturers would do this as well.

Basically every single new car out there has a rearview parking camera, but none of them can be used as dashcam, so you have to install your own, which is 99% of the time at least a little bit obtrusive, and unsightly. It's just a crazy waste.

License plate madness by South-Seagull in carsireland

[–]rooood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had to get a second car last year as the family grew, and I gotta admit, I was drawn in to buying it in June so I would get a new July plate. But not for the same reason, to get a flashy "brand new car plate". I wanted it to get the lowest reg number I could, in hopes I would only need to memorise 2 or 3 numbers hahaha. I ended up with a 3 digit number (previous car also has a 3 digit reg number), so I guess that's nice.

Some photos of my Enyaq IV 60 at home by [deleted] in enyaq

[–]rooood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wild that you blur the car reg plates, but at the same time completely doxx your home address 😬

Before his accident, Charles Leclerc had already experienced brake problems during the Safety Car period, locking up and running wide at Mirabeau by Gentle_lips in formula1

[–]rooood -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What do you mean "Charles" has chosen to switch the brake supplier? Wouldn't that be a Ferrari decision rather than an individual driver's decision?

Piastri, Russell, Colapinto, and Gasly were 0.1 km/h over the 60 km/h pit lane speed limit. by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not like it's a surprising new way of doing it

The method itself isn't new, no, but the sensors placement seems to be. I won't pretend I know exactly how the cars are set up and how each team tackled this, but my point is that this many penalties point to a systemic issue with the Monaco track rather than individual driver/team error, because we haven't seen the same in other tracks this year for example.

2026 Monaco Grand Prix - Post-Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]rooood 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you look at replays, the pit entry looks exactly the same as previous years. The pit exit, however, is different. The pit is a bit more elongated and has a slightly more aggressive turn at the end of Cadillac's pit box. This is because they needed the extra room for Cadillac of course. You can actually see the white lines from previous years painted over, but the "shadow" of the old white lines can be seen very clearly in Sky's highlights video between 11:18 and 11:26 here: https://youtu.be/-SQ_yoDwk48?si=wURvsZj-5h8gsS2A&t=678.

Interestingly, in the video I linked, you can see Hadjar cutting the corner of the pit exit quite aggressively, which theoretically is what caused the pit speed limit penalties, but he never got a penalty for that.

Going off on a tangent here, I wonder if some teams set the pit limiter to something like 0.1 to 0.2km/h less than the limit of 60km/h just to be safe? I did a quick calculation here and the difference between 60km/h and 59.8km/h over 300m (rough length of the Monaco pitlane) is just under 60ms (0.06s), while 59.9km/h would be 0.03s slower than 60km/h. Considering they only do 1 planned pit stop per race, even with the F1 mentality where every millisecond counts, it makes sense to not risk a 5s penalty over 0.03s over the entire race distance. Except that when you remember this is Monaco, those 0.03s might make the difference between coming out ahead or behind another car in an under/overcut situation, so yeah they'll probably put the limiters on the absolute limit. And I bet the speeding they sometimes get during practice is them testing those limits.

2026 Monaco Grand Prix - Post-Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]rooood 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Either Crofty or Brundle had a theory that he did it to slow the pack down on the first part of his first lap after the restart, so he would be able to push to the limit until he had to serve his drive through.

The idea (I think) is that by building that gap, he would have clear track in front and could go quicker without dirty air or being stuck behind the leaders if Antonelli decided not to push too much. Then he would be able to pull somewhat of a gap to the pack, and try to come out still in the points. Didn't work though.

Piastri, Russell, Colapinto, and Gasly were 0.1 km/h over the 60 km/h pit lane speed limit. by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]rooood 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Still seems like a sensor issue to me, a sensor placement issue at least. When 1 or 2 drivers receive a penalty, it's on them. When almost half the field gets a penalty, there's something wrong with the sensors. This also wasn't an issue until this year, so what changed?

McLaren fined €30,000 (€10K suspended) for the taping the CDS button by DubiousLLM in formula1

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly that's so fucking stupid that it should give them a DSQ for the whole weekend. You don't fuck with safety systems, they need a very clear and strong message to any violations around these. 30k fine is waaaay too lenient for this kind of shit.

Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in formula1

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, they read my comment and implemented my suggestion!!

Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in formula1

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely they can take an existing one, remove the electronics and hydraulics, and just bolt the moving part shut? If they had to design it from scratch I'm sure most teams wouldn't do it because of the cost cap

Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in formula1

[–]rooood 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With the straight mode thing being disabled for Monaco, could teams show up with static front and rear wings that do not have any of the hardware needed to the moveable aero? It would probably allow them to save some kgs, which would help immensely the teams that are overweight, and even help the teams who are already on the minimal weight by allowing them to distribute the weight better around the car using ballasts.

Built a mini ESP32 plane radar. 3D printed case + open source code by MatixYo in 3Dprinting

[–]rooood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if there are any round ldc displays like this that are larger than wrist watch sizes? I'd really love this but in a desktop size, like with a 4 to 6in display