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If someone has made you feel stupid for asking a question about #Formula1, you're hanging with the wrong crowd.

Let's get a Q&A thread going. Ask any questions you have about F1, and we'll try to answer as best we (or our followers) can 👌

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The subreddit reacts

#F1 #MexicoGP

[Chris Medland @ChrisMedlandF1]

REVISED ORDER:

Verstappen
Leclerc
Hamilton
Antonelli
Norris
Russell
Piastri
Lindblad
Colapinto
Gasly

Gone back a lap as the next one wasn't complete before the red flag #F1 #MexicoGP

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Really hope one of the big teams notices him

#F1 #GTWorldEurope @GTWorldChEu

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Full album here: https://t.co/UrG2Uu8D0t

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This car sounds gorgeous but looks atrocious

(📸by u/Nimix_)

#F1 #AstonMartin

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SOUND ON! 🔊

The Aston Martin single seater V12 prototype testing at Paul Ricard

📹 by u/Nimix_

#F1 #AstonMartin #WEC

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@dvxglm102160 There is no official info about it, but the general consensus is that it's the Valkyrie's naturally-aspirated V12 with a blown diffuser

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SOUND ON! 🔊

The Aston Martin single seater V12 prototype testing at Paul Ricard

📹 by u/Nimix_

#F1 #AstonMartin #WEC

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@FormulaDirecta OP also took pictures, so keep an eye on the new feed in r/formula1

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This is what the new F1 circuit in Rwanda could look like.

Using satellite imagery, elevation data and perspective alignment of F1's official render, u/Nukedrop_Mods (@Nukedrop) has made an Assetto Corsa mod showing the track in action

#F1 #AfricanGP

https://t.co/y9UxUWZP3F

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No need to speculate on this

#F1 #SingaporeGP

[Jeppe H. Olesen @jeppe_olesen]

Following the software bug that left cars crawling on the formation lap at the Bahrain / Malaysian GP, there's a fair bit of misinformation going round about how engine modes work. So let's dive in.

Every car runs the same standard ECU, the central unit controlling the engine. It's made by Motion Applied, formerly McLaren Applied. Not the F1 McLaren. A different McLaren.

The ECU is loaded with two separate sets of modes: the team's and the FIA's.

The team's modes are their racing modes: qualifying, race, energy saving, recharge, "party mode", etc.

The FIA's modes are safety modes: VSC, wet running, etc. Sunday's bug was in the wet-weather energy management, which cuts maximum electrical deployment from 350kW to 250kW in certain sectors.

The FIA's software is developed together with the teams, and the same release goes to every competitor. Everyone runs identical safety modes, and everyone can see that they do.

The only way to load or update modes is to physically connect a computer to the car via the umbilical and transfer the configuration to the ECU. No over-the-air updates, neither from the FIA or the teams.

Which is exactly why Sunday's fix took time. The FIA issued updated software to all teams, and each team then had to install it on their own cars before the race could start.

Nor can anyone remotely activate a mode. Modes are selected by the driver on the steering wheel. When a driver asks for more power, the team doesn't flip a switch. They tell him which combination of inputs gets him there.

Same with the safety modes. If race control decides conditions call for one, it isn't a remote command that switches the modes. It's a message to teams and drivers to select it.

Once a mode is active, the software in the car makes decisions by itself, such as limiting deployment sector by sector. That's what went wrong on Sunday. Code already in the car misbehaving, not someone in race control pressing a button.

Tldr: Race Control doesn't have a remote control for engine modes.

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The subreddit reacts #F1 #BahrainGP

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Day 5: they still haven't noticed I'm not one of them

#F1 #BahrainGP

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@Ips_cali @Reddit @LandoNorris We could all be F1 champions if we quit social media

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Exactly 7 years ago today, a Redditor was allowed to sit in an F1 car. Today he won the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship!

@Reddit @LandoNorris

#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

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@Reddit @LandoNorris Lando's original post for those who are curious:

https://t.co/BIKwrUU0Ow

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From shitposter to F1 World Champion!

#F1 #AbuDhabiGP #landonorris

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Exactly 7 years ago today, a Redditor was allowed to sit in an F1 car. Today he won the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship!

@Reddit @LandoNorris

#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

[Jeppe H. Olesen @jeppe_olesen]

Another day, another round of fake news - This time accounts sharing photos of Toto Wolff boarding Max Verstappen's jet, claiming it's from Sardinia.

They're fake.

The screenshots are from a plane spotting video after the 2022 Zandvoort GP, where Wolff boards his own private jet, which have been photoshopped to look like Verstappen's jet.

The original post included an AI generated image of Wolff and Verstappen kissing, indicating that it was clearly a joke - but other accounts simply removed that image, and only reposted the others, reporting it as fact.

Below is the photoshopped image and the original screenshot from the 2022 video in Schiphol airport.

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Read the full announcement: https://t.co/YRHlbNFvbz

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Starting today, we're banning Twitter/X content from r/formula1. We urge all journalists, photographers, creators, and other F1 personalities to also make their content available on alternative platforms.

#F1

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Lando's comment on Lewis' post

#F1 #Ferrari #LewisHamilton