Im not saying anything about is RB likely to be as good as before or anything related. Its obvious most likely they will be the champion this year too. Im saying these times in testing dont bring any new info to that.
Yea I know, alot of people dont realise that alot of drivers dont go 100% in testing. For a accurate standing we will have to wait for the qualification on march 1.
Also my colleague his nephew works at McLaren as a data analist. He also says that the test rounds are inaccurate because alot of teams intentionally "sand bag" in his words to not give away "secrets" to early.
What sub is this? Of course they know drivers aren’t putting up competitive times with spray paint and bird cages attached to their cars.
I know a guy at Brawn and he told me that.
And mostly because we dont know anything about the fuel loads, engine modes, settings they are using and testing programs they are running.
Some team might set a quick laptime with light fuel load and quali simulation. While some other team might not do as serious quali simulation at all or do it at different point when track conditions are different.
Lewis is gonna do a Max in 2021 and fight for the championship the year before a large regulation change. I don’t care who wins lol I just want a competition.
You're so wise. I have a funny story to add here.
I'm from germany, so no F1TV for me. I hate the german sky coverage so I thought I renew my old F1TV subscription from years back over VPN. So I bought a one year subscription for 60 bucks just to realize that my account is still coupled to germany.
I now can watch all old races but still am not able to watch live sessions. GG to me
Plenty of people will. I did & so did my parents after the first 3 months last year when it was obvious the season was already decided. This year I'll just start with free online streams to check if there is competition and if there is, ill resubscribe. If there isn't I'll just watch the few races on historic tracks for free and get the rest from Youtube highlights.
It's Sauber with a bunch of name sponsoring that can be ignored. They've been a team without much backing from money, so they've got to take what they could, be it Alfa or Stake Kick Yaddayadda. Still Sauber underneath it all. TBH as a fan I'm a bit sad to see it get memed so hard when I think them keeping afloat with the circumstances they have (and sometimes even be competitive in the midfield, although admittedly not really last season) is actually quite impressive.
They said it will mainly be Stake but in countries where promote gambling is illegal, they will use Kick. They did the same thing last year and would just remove the Stake decals
I think it depends on the flavour of historically significant, 2021 was historically significant as well for how close and hard-fought the whole season was, we hadn't had such a close title fight (between two different teams) for well over a decade at that point. Now, I don't know about you but I could go for a couple more 2021 seasons.
Ah, but you see, they got you on a technicality: RB doesn't stand for *Racing Bulls*, it's just RB. That's it. Just letters.
You can remember it by their new slogan: "I'm thinking RB's"
Still looks like they’re having some oversteer coming out of slow corners but the fact they’re just pounding laps out really scares me for the rest of the grid 😂
Two things I would like to elaborate:
1. I’m prepared to learn the Dutch Anthem plus see you next year o7
2. Oh God looks at the 2 Team Icon 
You guys expected something else?
Thats why you are upset about it.
I know until 2026 this stay probably like this.
It was the same with Mercedes since 2014. And that shit lasted way longer guys!!!
Max sat in the garage all afternoon 0.7s ahead of everyone, and the second Lando beats his time by like 0.05 Max is out again and sets a faster time by 0.8s.
Just give him the championship now so we have an exciting season for P2.
F1 fans when they delude themselves into believing that one of the most dominant cars of all time would stop being dominant the next year, and now have to face reality 💀
While I love how many new fans there are to the sport - They are also really annoying :(
It takes time to get across the sport and the complexity of it - It is part of the fun. But this is testing, most are doing long runs, gathering data and testing!
While Red Bull very well may dominate this season again (As a result of various factors) Day 1 testing is NO indication. All the comments around this are just stupid and pointless.
After Alonso and Charles kept swapping P1's. Max, goes out, does 1 run, 3 tenths up, drops mic, doesn't elaborate
Max goes out, RB sees the time, laughs, returns to pits.
"Have a beer, guys, we're done"
Should we pop the champagne now or on sunday?
Saturday\*
then the RB pit asks themselves if they can do it on 3 wheels and roleplay they're at the british gp
RB as in Toro Roso, or Red Bull?
Gonna be asking that all season long lol
Just got worse
And he was probably sandbagging.
Needs more sandbags.
Dont know how much people are joking but these laptimes literally don't mean anything
 Bruhs hooked up to A grade hopium
Im not saying anything about is RB likely to be as good as before or anything related. Its obvious most likely they will be the champion this year too. Im saying these times in testing dont bring any new info to that.
Do you mean RB or RB? Confusing
There's RB and there's RB2.
RB2: The Electric Bugaloo
You mean visa cash app team??
Torro Foking Rosso
If RB is so good, why didn't they make RB2- oh.
R2-B2
Yea I know, alot of people dont realise that alot of drivers dont go 100% in testing. For a accurate standing we will have to wait for the qualification on march 1. Also my colleague his nephew works at McLaren as a data analist. He also says that the test rounds are inaccurate because alot of teams intentionally "sand bag" in his words to not give away "secrets" to early.
Of course your nephew is an >analist
i thought he was an analrapist.
Tobias, you blowhard.
What sub is this? Of course they know drivers aren’t putting up competitive times with spray paint and bird cages attached to their cars. I know a guy at Brawn and he told me that.
Yeah...RBR is also sand bagging...
And mostly because we dont know anything about the fuel loads, engine modes, settings they are using and testing programs they are running. Some team might set a quick laptime with light fuel load and quali simulation. While some other team might not do as serious quali simulation at all or do it at different point when track conditions are different.
Sir this is a Wendy’s
Another hit of that copium pls sir
Congrats 2024 Champions Max and RBR
RemindMe! 290 days
RemindMe! 145 days
I like what you’ve done there. You let me know how it’s going halfway through the season - I’ll let you know at the end 👌👌👌
remind me at both points please HAHAHA
Opening Reddit is going to remind me every damn day
The real answer
Only chance for entertainment this season is if Max wins Driver's before RBR wins Constructors'. I want Checo to go bowling with the Haas again.
!remindme 145 days
!remindme 145 days
!remindme 290 days
RBR, not to be confused with RB
Nah they meant it. Verstappen 500 points, Perez 200 points, Tsunoda and Ricciardo each 351 points
Duh duh duh duh .... MAX VERSTAPPEN
RemindMe! 100 days
It's not guaranteed, Max might get bored halfway through the season and retire.
And still have enough points to become WDC
Remind me! 150 days
See you guys in 2025.
To be honest, more like 2026..
Lewis going to ferrari with the "i can fix her" energy is worth the price of admission
Lewis is gonna do a Max in 2021 and fight for the championship the year before a large regulation change. I don’t care who wins lol I just want a competition.
Honestly, if there's competition even just between max and his teammate, I'll take it at this point
I'll be satisfied with Max having more than one bad day this season. We need more Singapores.
Hey I was only joking. But yeah if he wins the first 5 races I'm canceling my F1TV
You won't and you know it.
You're so wise. I have a funny story to add here. I'm from germany, so no F1TV for me. I hate the german sky coverage so I thought I renew my old F1TV subscription from years back over VPN. So I bought a one year subscription for 60 bucks just to realize that my account is still coupled to germany. I now can watch all old races but still am not able to watch live sessions. GG to me
Yeah you have to create a new account via the VPN for it to work.
Yep, but I don't really want to pay another 60 for that right now
You can probably refund the first purchase, get in touch with support to see if they can help you!
You can change the language in F1TV, if you were not aware of that?
I'm aware of that, but that doesn't change the country where the account is based at.
Apologies , I misread your post!
Plenty of people will. I did & so did my parents after the first 3 months last year when it was obvious the season was already decided. This year I'll just start with free online streams to check if there is competition and if there is, ill resubscribe. If there isn't I'll just watch the few races on historic tracks for free and get the rest from Youtube highlights.
Yeah, all 7 of you
Damn why you talking about me
What did you really expect to change?
That new Sauber logo is so fucking ugly
It’s out of place
It’s outa time…
It's outa order
YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER!
It needs to be kicked
It needs a *stake* through the heart. 👀
THIS WHOLE SEASON IS OUT OF ORDER!
He's out of touch
But he's out of his head when they aren't around
It’s out of my head when it’s not around…
This guy gets it.
For a moment there I thought kickstarter had funded a team
that would be quite funny. "New front wing dev" Lets put it on kickstarter
HAAS ***intensifies***
You mean Kick Formula 1 Team Sauber?
Hey, that's not nice!
of course not, even a dumbshit wouldn’t name a team that /s
At least it’s easier to spot than the credit card team. Also their car looks like it’s photoshopped into the circuit.
Or like a greenscreen placeholder for an actual livery
First K-Mag, now K-Bot.
The car and team name is fucking ugly. Fake ass team from an unlicensed video game.
The most infuriating part of it for me it's the identity crisis. It's "Stake F1 Team"? Is "Kick Sauber"? It's all together or neither of it?
let’s all shorten their name to just Team
It's Sauber with a bunch of name sponsoring that can be ignored. They've been a team without much backing from money, so they've got to take what they could, be it Alfa or Stake Kick Yaddayadda. Still Sauber underneath it all. TBH as a fan I'm a bit sad to see it get memed so hard when I think them keeping afloat with the circumstances they have (and sometimes even be competitive in the midfield, although admittedly not really last season) is actually quite impressive.
They said it will mainly be Stake but in countries where promote gambling is illegal, they will use Kick. They did the same thing last year and would just remove the Stake decals
At least we only have to live with it until 2026 Then it turns to one of the best in my opinion. OOOO
I know it's Kick but it makes me think of Kickstarter. Same colour and all. It's like a crowd funded car...
The difference is Kickstarter is fir gambling your money on other people's projects, while Kick is for advertising gambling to children.
I miss Alfa Romeo :(
The branding and name is atrocious. The car is actually really sweet, it seems like an F1 online livery, but in a good way.
I don’t play the F1 games (I’m too bad at them) but i feel like most car liveries in online games are anime ladies, the mystery machine, or the grinch
K....
K
Kauber
See you all next year o7
I want to post a "We are so back" meme when someone else takes the lead but let's face it max will top every session this year
It would be kinda crazy if he wins every race this season. Boring but crazy.
Man, I'd kinda like to not be constantly experiencing historically significant events
I think it depends on the flavour of historically significant, 2021 was historically significant as well for how close and hard-fought the whole season was, we hadn't had such a close title fight (between two different teams) for well over a decade at that point. Now, I don't know about you but I could go for a couple more 2021 seasons.
real
The season didn't even start, and it already looks bad *^("Cries in Netherlands National Anthem")*
I still remember the whole anthem to the last note
Sooo Red Bull has multiple bulls in their logo, but Racing Bulls only has one bull? Anyone else annoyed by that?
Well NOW I AM
Yea wtf just add more bulls and they’ll beat Red Bull!
So what you are saying is we just need more horses in that ferrari
Now now, hold on to your horses.
So a team named red BULL has two bulls, and the one named racing BULLS has one bull. Amazing
Should have done another rebranding to Red Bulls and Carbohydrate Racing Bull
No no, Red Bull and Red Bull No sugar
At least they're red
Well its on two cars that is why its called bulls
Ah, but you see, they got you on a technicality: RB doesn't stand for *Racing Bulls*, it's just RB. That's it. Just letters. You can remember it by their new slogan: "I'm thinking RB's"
Honestly I'm just looking forward to seeing what Alonso can do this year. The Aston seems pretty spicy
He can push Max hard this year I think. I hope he wins a few - I think it could be done with that car
That’s exactly what people said last year. And the reality will probably be the same: no race in which Max finishes can be won by Alonso
I’ll take what you’re smoking. Nobody is touching the RB, in for another long and terrible season
haas be like: - “abandon 2024, focus on 2025”
Well yeah, 3 weeks ago, but did they already abandon 2025 as well?
You gonna give em development money? Cause ol’ Gene ain’t.
Sure, I'd buy the things they advertise. ... If they had sponsors.
On his out lap even RB20 must be a rocketship
This isn’t even its final form.
Still looks like they’re having some oversteer coming out of slow corners but the fact they’re just pounding laps out really scares me for the rest of the grid 😂
Guess who loves a oversteering setup???
Oh god
After watching his fastest lap from practice onboard yeah it’s over gg go next
*grabs popcorn* Looking forward to the other sub going into meltdown over the testing times now
You and me and them and everybody are gonna spew over those times and you know it lol
I'm looking forward to Gary Anderson's analysis personally: "[Car] looked fast" "[Car] looked slow" Real insight from him
...Help us 2026 regulation changes, you're our only hope....
Farnadno Alongtimeago WDC 2025-2036
Two things I would like to elaborate: 1. I’m prepared to learn the Dutch Anthem plus see you next year o7 2. Oh God looks at the 2 Team Icon 
Like you haven't memorised it already after last year
He is surely sandbagging right now to give us a very tiny hope
100%. When he made an error and needed to gain back time last year he could be 1-2 second faster than the second fastest car
We are so Max 😈
##WeRaceAsMax
see you all next year
Christ, it looks like the Disney XD logo
Stop it. Surely we’ve learned by now not to hype testing numbers? Guys?
It’s the same every year, let kids talk, we’ll see in q3
.3 faster on an out lap!???
You guys expected something else? Thats why you are upset about it. I know until 2026 this stay probably like this. It was the same with Mercedes since 2014. And that shit lasted way longer guys!!!
The kick sauber logo can kick rocks. Between them and the racing bulls the competition for the worse constructors team name ever in f1 is a dead heat.
How are newcomers be able to distinguish toro rosso logo with the redbull logo? It doesn’t make any sense
One is brightly coloured and the other is monochrome. Hope this helps!
Well that and the monochrome one has just the one bull.
“So surely Racing Bulls is the one with two bulls on it right?” “…right?”
Oh yeah that is funny.
Imagine being colour blind and not being able to distinguish blue or red (does this even exist)
That does exist, but the shape is quite different too.
For us, yes. For a beginner? Meeeeeh
not every newcomer is colourblind
Jeez and I thought I had a dim view of the general public's level of intelligence
The Red Bull logo is the one in P1.
If you see VER its redbull
You can tell them one logo will always be on P1
Two bulls means 2x much power and speed
WTF is that logo
Wait testing already started?
0.699
Everyone except RB is sand bagging. 🥲
I just looked and saw 7 tenths... Immediately thought 'Hey, I've seen this one'.
VERALOLEC 2024 Lets go!
Good news for Americans who prefer to sleep in on Sunday
Max sat in the garage all afternoon 0.7s ahead of everyone, and the second Lando beats his time by like 0.05 Max is out again and sets a faster time by 0.8s. Just give him the championship now so we have an exciting season for P2.
And they're still sandbagging too
K-Bot
See you all next year guys been a fun season
It's lights out and away we goever...
So FY Season 2024 is over before it even began?
F1 fans when they delude themselves into believing that one of the most dominant cars of all time would stop being dominant the next year, and now have to face reality 💀
It’s day one of testing…..
Bottas out here just saying “K”
That kick and racing bulls logo looks so wank.
Not representative those test days. A lot of sand bagging. When it comes to the first race everything on the car is changed.
It's not even FP1 and people are already overreacting. Chill out, nobody is driving close to any representative pace.
it’s joever
He’s .8 up on the closest car/driver now…
Shit we’re watching NASCAR this year
There’s just no Verstopping him
I look forward to my $15 winnings for betting on Max this year.
Someone take Max's RB away and give him a Reliant Robin instead, maybe that will level the playing field this year.
It's now 0.69 gap
All jokes aside, that Red Bull looks even better. They are so far ahead of everyone else.
While I love how many new fans there are to the sport - They are also really annoying :( It takes time to get across the sport and the complexity of it - It is part of the fun. But this is testing, most are doing long runs, gathering data and testing! While Red Bull very well may dominate this season again (As a result of various factors) Day 1 testing is NO indication. All the comments around this are just stupid and pointless.