2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Imola, May 16 - 18

[ringo]

Give Doohan back the seat. Franco Crash-o-Pinto has shown us enough.
Jack was half decent and was close enough to Gasly.

[Hoffman900]

Nice to see a track actually punish drivers.

If they want to claim “best in the world”, then show us.

[renault rs26]

Nice to see a track actually punish drivers.

If they want to claim “best in the world”, then show us.

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

[f1isgood]

Nice to see a track actually punish drivers.

If they want to claim “best in the world”, then show us.

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

With the current cars being so close in performance, no track is good for racing.

[FittingMechanics]

Nice to see a track actually punish drivers.

If they want to claim “best in the world”, then show us.

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

With the current cars being so close in performance, no track is good for racing.

How is that? We want cars to be close in performance.

[Hoffman900]

Nice to see a track actually punish drivers.

If they want to claim “best in the world”, then show us.

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

With the current size and concepts of the cars, I agree. But good to see sloppy driving get punished

[FittingMechanics]

When the cars become smaller, Imola will be a better track for racing.

[f1isgood]

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

With the current cars being so close in performance, no track is good for racing.

How is that? We want cars to be close in performance.

For cars to go wheel to wheel and race for multiple corners, you typically need at least one car to have pace advantage at the very least in different parts of the tracks.

Close in performance forces procession because cars can't get close to be able to race. Add to that dirty air. It's just not good enough for racing. Only if you are driving a McLaren, can you pass.

[renault rs26]

Nice to see a track actually punish drivers.

If they want to claim “best in the world”, then show us.

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

With the current cars being so close in performance, no track is good for racing.

Imola wasn't good for racing in 2005 either when there was a big gap between cars.

[FittingMechanics]

But if you have pace advantage and you are ahead, you just drive away.

We don't have reverse grids. Bigger gaps in performance will mean less close racing and less overtaking (except when someone makes a mistake in qualifying).

[f1isgood]

Yes that's great thing about this track, but sadly it's a bad track for racing.

With the current cars being so close in performance, no track is good for racing.

Imola wasn't good for racing in 2005 either when there was a big gap between cars.

DRS helps a little bit lol.

At Miami imagine the first stint between VER PIA and NOR without DRS. Maybe VER might have even gotten a P2.

[ringo]

My preference is forgiving tracks. I don't care about the drivers being punished. When a driver gets punished we the fans get punished by watching these delays and truncated sessions. Let them race and make mistakes, the only punishment should be time loss, not an accident or destroyed barrier. If this were a knock out competition, yeah let them crash out for poorer driving, but for a race, I don't mind all runners finishing, but being able to let loose and try different lines on the track and take risks.

[Cs98]

This delay is ridiculous.

[Hoffman900]

My preference is forgiving tracks. I don't care about the drivers being punished. When a driver gets punished we the fans get punished by watching these delays and truncated sessions. Let them race and make mistakes, the only punishment should be time loss, not an accident or destroyed barrier. If this were a knock out competition, yeah let them crash out for poorer driving, but for a race, I don't mind all runners finishing, but being able to let loose and try different lines on the track and take risks.

Indy Car and NASCAR are very efficient and quick with cleanups. They have more and bigger crashes in a weekend or two than F1 sees in a year.

These delays in F1 would be half as long in those series.

I want to see drivers punished for sloppy driving and the FIA be more efficient in their cleanups.

[Szabi1112]

This delay is ridiculous.

Similiar accidents tomorrow will make it a night race. Lol