As nothing else has been posted, I figured I'd open this up to discussion.
A brilliant race, I thought. Lots of fantastic battles. An intelligent strategy from Ferrari. Not too chaotic or arbitrary. Albon fighting on 40-lap old tires for a huge P7.
My observations are more on the community than the race...
This community was amazing this weekend. I was quite active in /r/formula1 and was apprehensive about a race weekend without them. But I don't feel like I missed anything being here instead. News about major developments got posted here, and the discussion was great. If other race weekends are this active, this is my new f1 home without doubt.
Moderation was great, warning people about stuff that's gonna be against the rules next week, while being chill about the fact that they're not finalized and everything was clear but just real non-confrontational. Thanks mods.
I thought a single discussion post for the weekend would be ok, but for me it wasn't. I was lost in the main thread by the time qualy started and struggling to find new comments or figure out what session a comment-chain was about. It significantly hampered my ability to follow things and I contributed less to the discussion thread as a result. In a change from my take when we were planning last week, I'm now strongly in favor of per-session discussion threads plus a post-race thread like this one. If the modbot situation isn't clear to the moderation team within a couple weeks of Lemmy v18 coming out, I'm willing to pitch in here to get a bot that can schedule posts for us in advance. With the big API changes coming in v18 of Lemmy, I don't think there's much point in trying to get it sorted prior to then. It's likely that any bot that works in v17 will be broken on v18, so I think we just get it going once all the modteam's instances are upgraded to v18.
It's interesting you should say this, as my impression of the sub was the it was dead! I imagine this is a teething issue for the fediverse but when I looked there was no race thread, so I started one! Now I look at Top - Week and see a whole bunch of stuff I never spotted before.
It was dead 2w ago, but really came alive this weekend. If you were missing posts after they were made, check your language settings and make sure BOTH eng and undefined are selected (or nothing selected seems to work ok as well). Overly restrictive language limits can hide lots of posts that don't specify language.
I took over this sub 16 days ago, when we had 36 users /month. Now we have 10x that and close to 3000 members.
The growth in the last two weeks has been insane.
Thanks for the shout out in your original comment. With any luck I'll be getting the rules set up later today. I'll make a post when I do. So far so good though, the general behaviour in this community has been great.
Cheers for modding. It's always good to get some rules out, just so we all know where we stand on how it'll work here. I think it's amazing howich interaction and discussion is on offer here given the juggernaut that is r/formula1. I loved hanging out here over the race weekend and after.
I'm glad to see that the gap between RB and the competition is slowly closing. Maybe it was a one off, maybe they expected rain all weekend and went with a setup that favors stability over performance, maybe it was a dead bird, maybe Aston's and Merc's upgrades really work.
Ferrari took a gamble and DID NOT FUCK UP. That was a refreshing change of pace, especially after being in full Ferrari fuck up mode all weekend (all year so far?).
The battle between Alonso and Hamilton was epic, as were the ones behind Albon who held onto his spot by sheer will and raw pace.
De Vries being De Vries, taking himself and K-Mag out on an open online lobby divebomb...
I enjoyed the race. Being honest Max was on his own race as usual, but not that far.
The fight ALO-HAM was very intense, many many laps doing qualy laps each other and putting pressure on the rival. ALO managed the gap brilliantly IMO given the circumstances (lift&coast)
Ferrari's dice was right in this race 😄 Very good and consistent race pace, just marginally slower than podium cars on a diferent strategy. Kudos to them.
Albon: Driver of the Day on merit.
Plenty of action in the race despite the DRS trains
He's such a cool cucumber, but he's really got the talent to take on Hamilton and not be afraid of the outcome. There's only a handful of drivers that wouldn't shy away from that, but he's definitely one of them.
(2 points for correct placement, 1 point for on the podium)
Once again the safe choices produce a bevy of points, and Laura extends her lead for the season so far:
Pundit (appearances)|Points|Average
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Laura (7)___________|____18|___2.57
Lawrence (6)________|____16|___2.67
Will (6)____________|_____9|___1.50
Jolyon (1)__________|_____6|___6.00
Rosanna (1)_________|_____4|___4.00
Alex (1)____________|_____4|___4.00
Sam (1)_____________|_____2|___2.00
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