Jay 🏁

Jay 🏁

@jay.teamlh.social

#F1 | #COYS | Politics (centre-left-ish) Writer | Web Developer | Creator of teamlh.social; tifosi.social "I consider 2021 to be Lewis"

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#COYS 👏👏 Brilliant performance. Comprehensively outplayed, and almost entirely neutralised, what was an in-form Chelsea team, in their own crappy house. 👌👏👏👏🫡

Did we… win a game???!!?? 😭 “If I am dreaming, let me never awaken. If I am awake, let me never sleep.” - The Karate Kid Part II #COYS #THFC

By the skin of our god-damn teeth. If this isn’t the wake-up call of all wake-up calls to the owners, then I don’t know what is. You can’t run a “big six” (lol) on the cheap. Fair play to #WestHam. Not even going to gloat - they did their job. See you in a couple. 🫡 #COYS

It’s in journalists’ nature to compete with each other, but, they all need to unite on this issue. Having a competitor excluded may seem like a small win in the moment, but longer term it’s only hurting all journalists’ ability to ask meaningful questions. #F1

RobJFH@robjfh.bsky.social

Childish, but entirely unsurprising. 👶🏼🍼 #f1 #verstappen #japanesegp @wearetherace.bsky.social www.the-race.com/formula-1/wh...

Max should really ponder if embarrassing himself in this way is really worth it? Would it not have been easier to just answer the question? It wasn’t even that bad of a question. Better men have kept a calmer head in the face of much tougher questions than that. Weak. #F1

Sorry to the haters, but these regs are great. Cars can follow closer for longer and attacks are more sustained. Not only that, but two cars of equal pace can keep coming back at each other. This keeps battles going for longer and wears tyres faster. #F1

Artificial? No. The tools have changed. Instead of a static DRS zone, drivers now have more control. And much of the fighting we’re seeing isn’t “all battery” - battery deployment plays to strategy. Often times it’s deploy now, pay later. LOVING IT!

Best driver pairing on the grid and it’s not even close. There’s really nothing between them and it’s going to be like this all season. 😅😅🕺

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

Nice. Looks like Ferrari have closed the gap slightly… let’s see how that translates to race pace! The start will be interesting. Lewis surely leading into turn one, and maybe gets a bit of respite if George is suppressed by Kimi or Charles (perhaps doubtful, re. Sprint) 🤞

Lili@angellilix.bsky.social

🏁 QUALIFYING RESULT AT THE CHINESE GP #ChineseGP 🇨🇳 Lewis Hamilton - P3 #LewisHamilton 🐐💜🖤

So ultimately Lewis lost second fighting for first, but why not give it a go, eh? Was bossing it while the tyres lasted. And Charles, stop yapping. It’s a race. 😅🤷‍♂️ #F1

Car 1 is who now? 😅

F1Documents@f1docs.bsky.social

Grand Prix of China - Doc 24 - Summons - Car 1 (Max Verstappen) - Alleged impeding by Car 12 (Andrea Kimi Antonelli) #GrandPrixofChina

Was hoping Ferrari would be a bit closer given the nature of the track, but the Merc is a rocketship. 🚀 Pray for trademark fast start and superior race pace and tyre deg! 🙏🧎‍➡️🙏 #F1

As a person who spends as much time looking at numbers in the timing tower as he does looking at actual cars, this is actually a pretty important issue for me and #F1 needs to fix it as a matter of URGENCY. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Lawson vs Perez, similar energy. (Although, if this is Lawson’s attitude towards putting in 100% effort, then I suppose that explains why he’s so slow.)

Lewis seems very positive and hungry in his post-race interview. He’s encouraged! He knows he was quicker and he knows Merc aren’t *that* far ahead. He knows with a bit more car development he could be right in the fight. Haven’t seen that look in his eyes for a while. 💪 #F1

Lewis didn’t get the podium this time, but, never mind - just be encouraged that his race pace his back. It looked like he was the quicker of the two, which didn’t really happen last year. His time will come.

thierno@neon8ive.bsky.social

#Montoya predicted the podium correctly: Merc 1-2 and a Ferrari. I wish it were #HAM up there but encouraging signs from Ferrari. They just need to work on strategy, which is still a s#it-show

Charles post-race interview talking about how Merc not as far ahead in the race as in qualifying… I think the situation we have here is Merc is clearly a quicker car but on race pace Ferrari have quicker drivers. #F1

That was a fun race. Charles vs George in the early stages was constantly back and forth - just a shame Ferrari handed it to Merc far too early and easily. Both Ferraris off the line very quickly and Lewis rapid at the end. I think wins will come sooner rather than later. #F1

In all honesty, my biggest concern right now is the “super clipping”. Watching/hearing the cars just run out of breath and fall impotent at the ‘climax’ stage of a long fast straight, is so sad and depressing. #F1

Ok, so, two key takeaways: 1. Merc are clear. At least until June, which *might* remove engine advantage (I’m not convinced tbh). 2. Ferrari in the mix behind Merc despite having problems with energy deployment. So, possibly a clear number 2 team in optimal conditions? #F1

It’s the start of a very long season. I don’t think everyone needs to panic before the first race has even happened. Perhaps Ferrari boys are really going to be fighting for 3rd place trophies all year, which, isn’t ideal but that’s the way the sport goes sometimes.

As for Merc engine… other teams also have that engine and they’re not exactly troubling Merc at the front, so, it’s not all about compression ratios. Let’s just hope Ferrari can close a gap. And Kimi can at least keep things interesting.

HEARTWARMING ❤️🥲 Lack of Aston Martin running time, allows Fernando Alonso to reconnect with beloved anti Lewis Hamilton burner accounts.

Just watched the repeats of the two practice sessions. Interesting stuff. Almost impossible to reach any conclusions, but I’m hopeful for Ferrari. I think they qualify behind Merc and maybe McLaren also, but hopefully will swarm and pass at the start, as per testing. #F1

Waiting for Trump to call it "The War Of Peace".

Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social

An Omani mediator said last night a peace deal between the US and Iran was within reach. This morning, the US and Israel bombed Iran. No imminent threat. No legal basis. Another illegal war dressed up as “security” and “democracy”.

Who else remembers the days when the loser would simply communicate brief disappointment before offering dignified congratulations? Now it’s always “rigged” and “cheating” and “storm the capitol and I’ll make you all ICE agents!”…

Many of us love to hate on #DriveToSurvive and its 'fake drama' etc (and that's completely fair enough), but for me it's even about that. It really comes down to how stale it is by the time it airs. It's old news. Sure, there's additional insight (fake drama), but, who cares? It's over. #DTS #F1

Slightly contrary to this, I do sometimes like to watch old races/seasons (which is unique to F1 - no other sport exists where I want to watch old games in full). But I’m talking about much older. I don’t want to watch the previous season again right away.