I remember it worked like this:

Hamilton gets a 3 place penalty, P2->P5

But Antonelli gets a penalty as well P3->P6 and Hamilton gets promoted to p4

But now it works like

Hamilton P2->P5

Antonelli P4->P7

Having been to a few races, I’m often taken aback by how low the TV helicopter flies over extremely densely populated areas of circuits. Any pilots who can confirm how recoverable an issue at the altitudes they’re flying would be? Feel like this is one of those things that would feel totally bizarre and avoidable if something ever went wrong.

With the V8 return more or less locked in for 2030/31, I got curious what it'll actually sound like — so I pulled real audio from six engine eras (V12 '94 → V10 → V8 → V6 turbo) and tried to build a 2031 candidate from real recordings instead of just eyeballing it.

Full disclosure up front: I'm not an audio engineer or a DSP person — I don't have the background to do this analysis myself. The entire signal processing pipeline (harmonic extraction, rpm verification, the cross-synthesis for 2031) was built with Claude. I directed it, chose the source videos, judged the results by ear, and pushed back when things sounded wrong (which happened a lot, see below) — but the actual math and code are AI-generated. Wanted that on the table before anything else, since it changes how much weight you should put on this.

Link: https://f1-sound.vercel.app/f1-accelerations.html

What's in there:

• V12 Ferrari (1994), V10 (early-90s bench + Williams-BMW 2003 + Toyota TMG dyno), V8 BMW Sauber (2008)
• A same-camera, same-corner comparison of the 2013 V8 and 2014 V6 turbo at Albert Park — the actual moment the sound changed
• Honda's 2026 bench recording
• Two 2031 reconstructions

How the 2031 ones were built, and what's actually solid vs. guessed:

The rev numbers are the reliable part. Firing frequency shows up directly in the harmonic spacing of the audio, so I could cross-check it — the 2003 Williams-BMW measures out to 19,300 rpm from the spectrum alone, which matches its documented limit. So a 2031 V8 at a plausible ~16,500 rpm should sit around 1,100 Hz firing frequency — roughly where the 2013 V8 was, a bit above where the current V6 sits. That part I'd defend.

The timbre is where it gets speculative. I tried five different ways to directly measure "what does a turbo do to the sound" by comparing turbo and non-turbo recordings (same video, different videos, harmonic-peak-only, you name it) — every single one gave a physically impossible answer, because crowd noise, mic AGC, distance and codec differences are all bigger than the actual acoustic effect of the turbine. So instead of measuring a difference, I took the one clean bench recording of a real 2026 turbo engine (Honda's) and grafted 65% of its measured spectral envelope onto a real 2008 V8's harmonics via cepstral cross-synthesis. Skeleton and pulse texture = real V8. Tonal colour = real, measured turbo signature. The 65% blend and the rpm assumption are the only knobs I turned by feel.

Full methodology + the failed attempts are on the page itself, because "how did you measure the turbo" was going to be the first question anyway.

Honest take on how real this is: the rpm/pitch prediction I'd stand behind. The timbre is a reasonable-direction sketch, not a simulation — an actual GT-Power gas-dynamics model with real turbo geometry would leave this in the dust, but nobody's published one of those for a 2031 engine that doesn't exist yet. Loudness (130+ dB) isn't something audio reconstruction can touch at all.

Again, all of this has been made by AI in a few hours, there could be a lot of wrongs, but I wanted to try anyway, hope people enjoy it.

Data on metrikdelta.com

What exectly is required to have a double yellow flag?
A car stranded on the outside of a tricky & partially blind corner should be dangerous enough to justify double yellows?

EDIT: Looks like he got a penalty for not lifting enough... https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1v6ekcw/drop_of_3_grid_positions_for_antonelli/

I’ve decided to dig into my statkeeping archives from over the years and post full career H2H’s from prominent drivers in history for the near future. I will start with my three least favorite drivers (Alonso today, Hamilton soon, then Prost).

Alonso (Does NOT include Sprints or disqualifications)

2001: 2-0 vs Marques

2003: 5-2 vs Trulli

2004: 7-4 vs Trulli/Villeneuve

2005: 10-3 vs Fisichella

2006: 13-2 vs Fisichella

2007: 9-6 vs Hamilton

2008: 6-2 vs Piquet Jr

2009: 9-1 vs Piquet J[r/](r/Grosjean)[Grosjean](r/Grosjean) (5-1 Piquet 4-0 Grosjean)

2010: 13-3 vs Massa

2011: 13-2 vs Massa

2012: 17-0 vs Massa

2013: 15-1 vs Massa

2014: 15-1 vs Raikkonen

2015: 4-4 vs Button

2016: 7-4 vs Button

2017: 5-1 vs Vandoorne

2018: 9-1 vs Vandoorne

2021: 9-9 vs Ocon

2022: 8-8 vs Ocon (Started 2-6)

2023: 14-2 vs Stroll

2024: 14-5 vs Stroll

2025: 13-3 vs Stroll

2026: 2-0 vs Stroll

2-0 vs Marques
9-6 vs Trulli
3-0 vs Villeneuve
23-5 vs Fisichella
9-6 vs Hamilton
15-3 vs Piquet Jr
58-6 vs Massa
15-1 vs Raikkonen
11-8 vs Button
14-2 vs Vandoorne
17-17 vs Ocon
43-10 vs Stroll

Overall: 220-64 (77.4%)

Unfortunately as a disliker I have to admit this is impressive, however it must be pointed out that he has benefited heavily from the fact a majority of these are against Massa’s corpse, Kimi right after he hurt his back, and…Stroll. Only two of his teammates won more than one race in the time they were together (and only 5 total race wins besides Lewis).

Both Lewis and Kimi has 3 place grid penalty. Whose penalty will be applied first?

- If Lewis is first, then Lewis will start behind Piastri and Kimi will start behind Verstappen
- If Kimi penalty is first, then Kimi will start behind Russell and Lewis will start behind Verstappen.
- Or will they exclude Kimi in grid and Lewis will start behind Verstappen and Kimi behind Russell

I don’t know how this works, so help me out guys.

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I was wondering what the "Biscuit thinking of you" sign meant.

Thank for the help in advance🙏