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2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread

ROUND 1: 🇧🇭 Bahrain

FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2024

Circuit stats

First Grand Prix: 2004
Number of laps: 57
Circuit Length: 5.412 km
Race Distance: 308.238 km
Lap record: 1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)
2023 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map

51 comments

Imagine getting to know the sport through DTS and this is the first race you watch, talk about a reality check lol
- "Who is this Max Verstappen, they did not show him in DTS!"
  
  Wait.. Max isn't in the latest season of DTS at all?
I went on to do other stuff around lap 35...I get why Max hates 24 races if you only need 12 or so to become WDC.

RBR already miles ahead and getting an update in round 4 (Japan). Grim outlook for neutral fans of the sport.

Congratulations to Max for winning his 4th championship.
Aaaaaaand it looks like a repeat of last season.
- If you only look at the winner after the fact, maybe.
  
  I thought the midfield was exciting last year, but other than a few reliability issues which are expected in the first race, I felt like this race was much less interesting than Bahrain last year. It's only the first race so hopefully it gets more interesting.
  
  Copium
I wonder how many races in a row Max will win. If someone from the future time traveled to today and told me he ended up winning every race until 2026 I would not even be surprised.

Hell, if you told me he would win every race until his contract expired in 2028 and he leaves for WEC I would not even question it.
- Every race is still a crazy thing. A touch here or an engine blow up there and he doesn’t win. Perfectly normal.
  
  I keep waiting for something like this happen but the RB is a pretty solid car, doesn't feel like that is going to happen. Feels like it's more likely that he makes contact with someone and that's what causes him not to win.
  
  The cars are more reliable than ever (Max finished every racing lap last year), the FIA are prone to red flagging every hint of serious rain and we don't have any crazy reckless drivers on the grid prone to crashing out competitors. Max also faces zero competition from his teammate, and Red Bull has no interest in having a second driver that can seriously challenge him.
  
  I'm not saying it will happen, but the odds are more in favour of it in the current era than in any previous era of dominance.
Man that was boring. Barely anything happened even in the midfield. At least last year there was more action behind Max. Hopefully it's not indicative of the rest of the year. At least F2 was exciting.
Boooooring... I really hope things shake up a bit so there is at least some competition for the first place

The fights of the rest of the spots were entertaining... Love to see Sainz with elbows out

RB team orders to swap Ricciardo over Yuki was complete BS favoritism... Daniel had not shown any dominance over Yuki in the entire race, and even if he had, the call came too late and predictably accomplished nothing but poison the team... What a stupid thing to have done
- They were on different tire strategies. Yuki held up the swap long enough that Daniel lost his tire advantage.
  
  Half a lap? Lol
I assume I will need to focus on inter team drama and silly season to find something interesting to focus on. It's looking like a tough year

Max did not look very tired at all when he got out of the car.
- He sounded like he just finished a leisurely drive
I didn't expect much and am still disappointed. Is there any way to watch the following races with the F1.tv commentary (Jacques, DC and Palmer) on F1.tv? I could only select different languages.
- I think you can set the audio to international.
  
  Thank you, I will take a closer look next race.
- With F1 TV you can yes
  
  For me it’s even the default. Surprised it isn’t for you.
  
  The downside is that their audio is super low so in races like this I almost fall asleep. Sometimes I switch to the Sky broadcast because it’s a bit more hyped up but then they drool all over Russell and the like and I switch back.
  
  For FPs and qualis their broadcast is the best. Or on races with interruptions. You get quality segments instead of ads.
  
  I guess it depends on where you are watching? I'm in Germany so the german audio is always selected by default but I can't listen to those guys for a hot minute. Last year I could only select them or the international stream with the f1.tv audio I like very much. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention to the settings. But good to know that it still exists, thank you.
Purchasing 1 year of F1TV was a mistake.
Would love for the grid to be actually competitive to Max. For once.
- Better yet just give max the title and tell him to take a hike for the rest of the season. It seems pretty close behind him. Last 3 2 seasons would have been crazy fun if max was not there. There has always been a great melee for P2
  
  Don't you mean the last 2 seasons? Because 2021 would definitely not have been good without him
Tbh I'm no longer watching F1 this year. I watched the qualification summary on YouTube and saw that it's going to be more of the same of what we had in 2023....Red Bull far ahead and everyone else fighting for 2nd and 3rd. ..

Booooooooring!!!!!

Might as well give Max the title and let him stay home so we don't have to see him. And just let everyone else race for positions 2 - 10... .
- Another "sport" I watch (Age of Empires II) did this, where someone hosted a tournament and banned the top player to find out who the second best player was. The top player had been dominating and won every tournament for years at that point.
  
  Brilliant. F1 should seriously do this. Who wants to see Max win all the time and tell us how great the car is?
I guess the battle for 1st is still non-existent. At least the battle after Max is getting closer and closer
But if you close your eyes...

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