f1-games

[fallow breach]

DP has main GP pole in Brazil, then it's Norris, Bearman, Piastri and Verstappen in the top 5.

With this sprint win and P4, Xenon are officially Constructors' Champions of 2027!

Btw there could (probably will) be aero reg changes in 2028

[floral apex]

another title

[fallow breach]

I tried to run Sao Paulo and i got an interesting result first time around. DP come across to block Lando, he sends him into the wall, bringing us both down to the back. Then DP tried to overtake Lando later in the lap, he takes him out, DP DNFs, Lando goes onto score a point, while Bearman wins and Piastri is P2

DP already has the title so should he just concede the DNF and move on?

osc is p2 again by 10 points in the championship if we go with this result

[floral apex]

i guess?

[fallow breach]

outside of DP's DNF it's a great result tbh

• Bearman sees his first win
• Piastri takes a podium to take back P2 in the championship
• Verstappen on the podium for just the 2nd time this season
• Gasly P6

Championships after Brazil:
[Xe] DP 467 🏆
[Xe] Piastri 330
Norris 320
Bearman 248
Russell 178

[Xe] 797 🏆
568
265
182
168

[fallow breach]

its another red trophy

[keen brook]

Sargeant locked up.

It's unbelievable.

Jeddah is a joke in this game.

Jeddah should be pure chaos, then Sargeant even locks up in a place where it ends in the wall, but of course it was his outlap.

So he was driving too slow that the lock-up does anything.

I call it already, nothing will happen in the race and all 22 cars will finish.

Whilst Qatar had 7 DNFs.

[fallow breach]

i agree for a different reason to you

[fallow breach]

but then again, different game too

[keen brook]

Tsunoda went wide into the wall.

Tsunoda out of Q1

Erm, what have I said just a few seconds ago?

[fallow breach]

DP takes pole number 71, and Piastri is P4. Norris P2, Bearman P3.

[floral apex]

The 1-3 got demoted to a 1-4

[fallow breach]

ugh why are mclaren fast

[keen brook]

OK, we can't get a 1-3, what do we do instead?
a 1-4

[fallow breach]

Albon was best of the rest in his Aston Martin, then Verstappen, Stroll, Perez, Russell and Leclerc

[keen brook]

I notice already quite some interesting changes in the packing order.

[floral apex]

red bull in 2024:

[fallow breach]

portimao went.. a direction in 2026

[keen brook]

Haas and RB look really fast.

[fallow breach]

13 drivers making wing changes at the red flag restart is just

[keen brook]

Aston who I didn't even notice, were above Ferrari last season, have a massive downfall.

And Ferrari currently only has 1 driver.

[floral apex]

lol wot

[fallow breach]

how does that check out

[keen brook]

Well, Verstappen seems to be far off Piastri.

Oh and always only 1 RB does well, the other one is bad.

In Bahrain Zhou was way ahead of Magnussen, now it's Magnussen who's in Q3 and Zhou in 21st.

Seeing how Haas is doing I'm now pretty sure they had a decent car in 2025 already.

Which says even more about how shit their line-up was.

Yes, I know, 1 weekend and 1 quali might be a bit early for an analysis.

But I'm really surprised about Haas and RB, especially Haas.

As they also have a quite strong line-up with Russell and Pourchaire.

[floral apex]

Pourchaire being good? impossible!

@fallow breach would understand

[keen brook]

Well and also Aston surprises me.

Especially Tsunoda was insane last season.

But so far they have a horrible 2027.

Saudi Arabia qualifying result of my My Team career

[fallow breach]

there's a reason we call him poorchaire

[keen brook]

poor chair

starting grid for the 2027 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

[floral apex]

of course still no pole

[keen brook]

Strategies are for both .

It's lights out and away we go!

Vesti spun into the wall.

Vesti out

Leclerc locked up into the wall.

light damage

Hadjar went wide into the wall.

light damage

crash

Pourchaire and Magnussen

Magnussen light damage

Magnussen gets a 5 second time penalty.

crash

Tsunoda and Zhou

Tsunoda out

What have I said with nothing happening in Jeddah?

Now I finally get a race in Jeddah that is pure chaos.

New strategies are for both .

It's lights out and away we go!

Hadjar and Magnussen front wing change under red flag

now both no damage anymore

no penalties given

crash

Sargeant and Pourchaire

Sargeant terminal damage, Pourchaire light damage

no penalties given

[hollow hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-wow-you-dont-say-michael-office-wow-michael-scott-gif-11124235989547302113

[keen brook]

Sargeant front wing change

now only severe damage

Zhou locked up.

Verstappen locked up.

Sainz spun into the wall.

Pourchaire front wing change

now no damage anymore

[keen brook]

light damage

[fallow breach]

DP is P1 and Piastri P4 with 5 laps left.

It's not the McLarens between them. It's Albon and Verstappen. Ffs Piastri you can't even beat an Aston?!

[floral apex]

the 1-3 boutta become a 1-4

[keen brook]

crash

Verstappen went wide into the wall and then hit Gasly.

both out

[fallow breach]

At this rate he's gonna get swarmed in races and lose places instead of staying or gaining

[keen brook]

New strategies are for both .

[random storm]

Melbourne Lap 6, Charles Leclerc battles the rain and his teammate Hamilton for first place

[keen brook]

It's lights out and away we go!

[floral apex]

remember when you said nothing would happen in the race lmao

[keen brook]

Verstappen gets a 5 second time penalty.

[fallow breach]

[keen brook]

yes

Jinx worked perfectly.

Lawson locked up.

almost into Pourchaire

[fallow breach]

Lando is P5 and Bearman is P14

In mine

...lets just say bearman got sent off trying to pass DP on the opening lap (or at least it was early on)

then DP pit for wing replacement on lap 4 dispatching Piastri into the lead by 1.2 seconds over Max.

Surely he doesn't pass.. right? I mean, he's out of DRS, he only has two podiu-

Verstappen took the lead from Piastri.

Fast forward to when Oscar pit, he came out behind Max, and Albon somehow jumped Max.

[floral apex]

hUh

[fallow breach]

They were all behind DP who unintentionally pulled the 3 lap undercut again

but yeah

albon is p2

[floral apex]

i think i pulled a 3-lap undercut once in one of my f1 23 saves

[fallow breach]

Verstappen passes Albon for P2 on lap 15.

[floral apex]

it was full wets to inters
and i took a gamble and switched to inters early

took the ais about 2 laps to do the same

[fallow breach]

DP is uhhh yk... only 25.3 seconds ahead

[floral apex]

except mclaren who decided not to switch at all

[fallow breach]

[keen brook]

Gabriel Bortoleto wins the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix! And it's even a 1-2!🥳

current championship standings

[fallow breach]

DP wins in Portimão! 31.4 seconds separate him and Verstappen in P2, then Albon in P3 and Piastri in P4. Norris was 5th from Ocon, Stroll, Perez, Leclerc and Hamilton. Bearman finished P15.

[keen brook]

Saudi Arabia pit stops of my My Team career

current DHL fastest pit stop award standings

We didn't pit at all in that race.

We only changed tires under both red flags.

[floral apex]

Man's giving the other teams a chance at the pit stop competition

[keen brook]

Gabi's rating went up.

[fallow breach]

sim or race Vegas?

[floral apex]

sim vegas

[fallow breach]

la(sim) vegas

[floral apex]

lol

[fallow breach]

istg if Piastri is off the podium and lando wins again idek what i'm gonna do

[keen brook]

Saudi Arabia F2 qualifying result of my My Team career

[floral apex]

i can just throw on a random mock German or British Accent for no reason whatsoever

[green maple]

I got the f1

[floral apex]

You got the F1 indeed

[keen brook]

Saudi Arabia F2 sprint race result of my My Team career

[keen brook]

nice

the GOAT of the Codies F1 games

[floral apex]

My save's gonna get filled with a lot of genersted drivers lol

Cuz a lot of the real drivers would have retired by now

[keen brook]

Saudi Arabia F2 feature race result of my My Team career

[green maple]

Can't wait to drive

And lose 😭

[keen brook]

current F2 championship standings

[fallow breach]

hey canada you sure about the simming thing?

It's DP, Piastri, Albon, Norris, Sainz, Tsunoda, Gasly, Leclerc, Stroll and Russell in the top 10.

Perez and Verstappen make a Red Bull 11-12, then Hamilton P13 and Bearman P14.

second thoughts about the sim because its almost definitely gonna throw the lead away

i'll race vegas bc theres a chance we keep this

i'm gonna see what would happen if i retire, then go for a proper start

scrap that again im just going

[floral apex]

lmao

itll be a win if you can make it to parc ferme with the same number of front wing components as when you left the starting box in

[floral apex]

finally a 1-2

[fallow breach]

...nevermind Piastri just took me out, this is the retire test

Norris would win, 1.001 ahead of oscar 😭

whyyyy 😭😭😭

but i want to finish. i don't want to say i retired from 3 races in 2027

Top 3 stay as they were, but PIERRE GASLY IS P4.

Sainz is still P5, Norris falls to P6, then Stroll, Leclerc, Tsunoda and Perez.

[floral apex]

pierreeeeeee gasssssssslyyyyyyyyy

[fallow breach]

bruhhhh how do i keep messing this up??? I took oscar out accidentally and crashed myself the next corner 😭😭

[floral apex]

bruh

[floral apex]

DP73 ahh result

[fallow breach]

tbh im gonna lock in

if oscar fails i'll be a bit annoyed bc the car is meant to be quite a bit faster than the aston/ferrari/redbull

if he gets beaten by lando the only annoying bit is the fact lando gains on oscar in the championship

For now though it is a Xenon 1-2

[red wadi]

Okay, so Pellegrini Motorsport’s HQ is WAYYYYY too big for it to only be a single car LMP2 team👀

[fallow breach]

👀

why did i type 4 eyes 😭

[floral apex]

a bunch of secret projects?!?!?!?

[red wadi]

Yes some big stuff coming up, including something big with the 49k Arena👀

[fallow breach]

what if pellegrini motorsport becomes an f1 team 👀

[red wadi]

Tbh, F1 really depends on how the LMP2 team and secret projects are working out

[floral apex]

nah they're gonna host a soccer team

wait wheres the hq located

[keen brook]

Oliver's rating went up.

[red wadi]

Bratislava

[red wadi]

STOP LEAKING ALL THE DAMN PLANS😭🙏

Slovan Bratislava and Slovakian National Team reach deal with Pellegrini Motorsports
Both the best team in Slovakia and the Slovakian National Team have reached an agreement with Pellegrini Motorsports to play in the currently unnamed “HQ Arena”. Pellegrini Motorsports will become the main sponsor of both teams

[floral apex]

sunwest racing points per year

[floral apex]

man i just saw the capacity of the place and i was like "yk what this is a soccer stadium"

and i just connected soccer to pellegrini cuz of his wife

this time i remembered that fact

[fallow breach]

wonder how mine would look

s1 would be hilarious

the bar thats like 300 tall but basically entirely DP

[floral apex]

i just noticed how after 2024, we've always had at least one driver score more points than our entire 2024 points total

[red wadi]

It’s going to be a multi-purpose arena, because Pellegrini Motorsports has some big plans. Including opening so called “talent development facilities”

[floral apex]

when they were teammates max and kimi each scored more points than our entire 2024 points total

[fallow breach]

what was your 2024 total for reference

[red wadi]

And they are currently working with a certain country to open a “talent development facility” in a certain country👀

[floral apex]

BREAKING: 2036 Summer Olympics to be held in Pellegrini Racing HQ in Slovakia

[red wadi]

Pellegrini being a billionaire is helping bro so much

[red wadi]

[floral apex]

449

[red wadi]

Imagine watching the summer olympics and Pellegrini Motorsports start testing one of their cars lmao

I’m definitely revealing a few projects soon haha

[floral apex]

2036 Bratislava Olympics and its primarily held in the racing team hq

[red wadi]

[floral apex]

they gon hold the marathon at the Slovakiaring

[fallow breach]

i think the xenon pit crew have messed up the 1-2

[red wadi]

The HQ is HUMONGOUS, like it could basically just be multiple apartment buildings since Slovakia’s economy isn’t the greatest but no some rich guy decided to put his racing team in a futuristic looking HQ with an insanely big arena

[fallow breach]

DP pitted on lap 6 into lap 7 and came out P2 behind Oscar, proceeded to overtake him on lap 7 back into P1. Piastri pitted on lap 7 into 8 and came out P4 behind Lando (Tsunoda is P2 and still hasnt pitted)

[red wadi]

I should think of a logo for Pellegrini Motorsports ngl

[fallow breach]

silhouette of a twingo

[floral apex]

mans carrying Slovakia's employment rate fr

[red wadi]

Especially now that they sponsor the football national team AND Slovan Bratislava

[red wadi]

Fr

[floral apex]

"why does Slovakia have such a high employment rate?"
"This guy" points to a picture of Pellegrini
"So he must be the president or something right?"
"Nope"
"What"

[red wadi]

(And Pellegrini said he wants to sponsor the olympic team AND the ice hockey team for maximum exposure)

[red wadi]

“He used to be their main sports guy, now he’s their main businessman”

His dad (former president in the lore) watching as Romeo singlehandedly does what he failed to do

[floral apex]

pellegrini: the most influential man to never be president

[red wadi]

Alright time to make Romeo a good guy who genuinely starts helping the population with Pellegrini Motorsports

[red wadi]

Fr

[fallow breach]

Lap 9, the order is DP from Norris, Piastri, Albon, Sainz, Leclerc, Gasly, Stroll, Verstappen, then Russell P10. Then it's Tsunoda, Perez, Bearman, Hamilton, Ocon, Pourchaire, Sargeant, Hulkenberg, Hauger, Fittipaldi, Zhou and Magnussen.

[floral apex]

the slovakian president: this guy is doing my job

[red wadi]

Romeo Pellegrini and Pellegrini Motorsports to start teaching programme to boost employment rated for Pellegrini Motorsports
The Slovakian superstar has just announced that he will start a (for now) nationwide teaching programme that will help people with learning all about different racing car and how to work on them, Romeo said that the mega HQ could help people with finding work and boosting the Slovakian employment rate. Romeo said that he is willing to take people from the ages of 16 to 67 for various jobs inside the company, from working in the media team to working on the cars and with the team on track

[red wadi]

Romeo fr smh could end up just taking the president’s job the way he’s helping the country😭🙏

[floral apex]

"why is slovakia the best country in europe?"
"this guy" points at pellegrini
"is he the president?"
"no"
"is he even a politician?"
"no"
"what the fu-"

[fallow breach]

DP leads over Norris and Piastri by 26.7 and 28.8 seconds respectively

[red wadi]

“He is just some rich motorsports guy”
“WHAT THE FU-“

[fallow breach]

"yeah hes a billionaire from winning 8 championships in f1"
"WHAT"

[floral apex]

the billionaire that should exist irl fr fr

[red wadi]

“And his motorsports team is somehow helping the population”
“That’s crazy”

[red wadi]

Fr

Also the “for now” indicates that Romeo wants to start the teaching programme in undereducated nations

[fallow breach]

its giving the "be like ___" meme but add romeo

[red wadi]

[fallow breach]

be like romeo

he helps people

hes rich

[floral apex]

be like romeo but its actually a serious thing

[red wadi]

But that’s like a future plan because he first has to convince said nations

[floral apex]

president of sudan: so why should this rich slovakian guy handle our education system

[red wadi]

Dude spends his money helping his home country, in which mind you he barely lived because of him spending most of his time post age 17 in Brazil and Curaçao

[floral apex]

romeo is the type of guy to do a better job at improving the world than half of all politicians

[red wadi]

The biggest problem is, how many people are willing to work for Pellegrini Motorsports. Even though they have A LOT of job positions, like PM doesn’t only hire for working in the car but also for like cleaners in the HQ

[red wadi]

Romeo is the type of guy to piss everyone off in wrestling and later in his F1 career but becomes the world’s sweetheart and actually starts improving it

[floral apex]

i wonder if drugovich will still hate him after this

[red wadi]

Well I’m actually cooking some lore, mostly because it became a bit of a plothole thanks to Drugo finishing 3rd in Spa in S9 but the lore will probably drop tomorrow

Actually i’m just gonna drop the list of nations where Romeo wants to start talent programmes and the motorsport teaching programme

PM Future Plans Of Scouting Talent And Personnel
T means Talent, P means Personnel
Curaçao (T, P)
Malaysia (T)
Trinidad and Tobago (T, P)
El Salvador (P)
Brazil (P) (Potential nation for extra factory)
India (T, P) (Try to boost motorsport popularity in the country)
Slovenia (P)

[red wadi]

And like personnelwise, obviously you can’t just employ a thousand people per nation. The main goal is building a diverse team that could potentially even start helping people find jobs by hiring said person for a few months to boost their experience

So yeah Pellegrini Motorsports will be much more than “just a team”

[floral apex]

Pellegrini Motorsports: More Than Just a Team

[fallow breach]

I could see them having a social media bio like "Championing motorsport and education"

[red wadi]

That’s a fire motto actually

[red wadi]

That’s also fire

They would 100% do that

[floral apex]

pellegrini would be that one billionaire and CEO that everyone wants to look up to

[red wadi]

The diversity starting with the drivers was such a smart move as well, Kate trusting the process also sends a message to women trying to enter the sport. Because Kate nearly joined the already well established Iron Dames

[fallow breach]

why am i so fucking good at coming up with stuff for other peoples lore but not my own 😭

[red wadi]

He’s like that one CEO people just don’t hate and is actually a good person

[fallow breach]

Current sponsorships

[floral apex]

at least none of them are expiring in fking 2100

[fallow breach]

Xenon-Polor could be an interesting name moving forward actually

i might rename for 2028

[floral apex]

DP Xenon Polor Racing

[floral apex]

score verstappen points during a race weekend

nice

[keen brook]

penalty points after the 2027 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix:
Magnussen 13 (+1)
Hadjar 11
Zhou 9
Bortoleto 7
Hamilton 7
Tsunoda 7
Pourchaire 7
Hülkenberg 6
Russell 6
Bottas 6
Sargeant 6
Gasly 5
Vesti 5
Wenzel 5
Albon 4
Ricciardo 4
Verstappen 3 (+2)
Norris 2
Pérez 2
Alonso 2
Sainz 1
Bearman 1
Stroll 1
Ocon 1

[red wadi]

Ngl Romeo is the type of guy to pretend he sees the Iron Dames as rivals and then start collabing with them for mainly helping women talents, Pellegrini Motorsports will 100% join Formula 1 Academy

[floral apex]

bro magnussen

[red wadi]

(Yes that’s one of their other projects, trying to enter F1A in 2034)

[fallow breach]

13???

[red wadi]

Irl accurate Magnussen🙏😭

[floral apex]

abbi pulling jr gonna dominate the series 🔥

[red wadi]

In the most atrocious livery known to man (they put the LMP2 based livery on the F4 car😭🙏)

[fallow breach]

ngl i kinda wanna have something happen in my lore that takes out one of the european races (bc why not, spice up the calendar)

[red wadi]

Pellegrini Motorsport aims to be a 50/50 team by 2036 (in LMP2), something that’s definitely not impossible but heavily depends on how well the scouting goes and if Kate can perform well in the few races she’ll race (bc let’s not forget she’s currently a reserve)

But if PM enter F1A by 2035 it’s definitely easier for them because they would enter a whole new field they could potentially sign drivers from

[keen brook]

championship fight after the 2027 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

Lol, Sainz's looks like it's going down.

[red wadi]

Also better livery reveal tomorrow, I forgot to take the screenshot today

[fallow breach]

Current XDPU 2027 championship standings into Qatar (23/24):
[Xe] DP 519
[Xe] Piastri 357
Norris 348
Bearman 248
Russell 178

[Xe] 876
596
266
204
194

[floral apex]

bro stop lacking on the livery reveal

[red wadi]

It’ll drop tomorrow don’t worry haha

Also Pellegrini Motorsport will give Kate Loving the LMP2 car for a private test in her hometown of Donington, Kate will also drive in the 6 drivers test in which all 6 drivers will drive the car for a few laps so they can get used to the Ligier LMP2 car

[floral apex]

Pellegrini-Ligier

[red wadi]

Anyways enough of my lore, i’m gonna sleep

[fallow breach]

Qatar time. Should i sim this one? I tend to get a little annoyed driving the car in Qatar (definitely so in s3)

[red wadi]

With bro’s stake in Ligier, it could potentially be a future name👀

[fallow breach]

I am simming.

[floral apex]

virtual leclerc

[fallow breach]

Too late to change now (unless i wanna do a full length gp)

[red wadi]

And PM will also announce 2 new employees whom joined from a team Pellegrini used to drive for 👀

[floral apex]

I am stupid ❎
I am simming ✅

[red wadi]

Anyways bye and gn

[fallow breach]

virtuarles

[fallow breach]

gn

I still do qualifying on these simmed ones though so we get a decent start.

Any predictions?

[floral apex]

1-3

[keen brook]

yeah

same prediction from me

[floral apex]

dont disappoint us dp ai

[fallow breach]

more like please disappoint mclaren ai

[floral apex]

mclaren ai pls be ass

that might be borderline of1d cursed

[fallow breach]

bruh

this is how confident our 2 teams are, none of us went out at the end 💀

[floral apex]

ONE
ONE!!!!!!

[fallow breach]

usually i'm the only one of them that stays in at the end if im far enough ahead

[floral apex]

you shouldve pressured piastri to take another lap

[fallow breach]

but bruh all of us stayed in

unfortunately cannot do

DP, Norris, Bearman, Piastri was that top 4

bc obviously nobody beat them

[floral apex]

mclaren ai you never cease to disappoint
even when we want you to

[fallow breach]

Checo was best of the rest in P5, and then Leclerc, Verstappen and Russell

[floral apex]

cHecO?!?!?!?!?!?

[fallow breach]

the co-dominance is so prominent xenon socials talk about mclaren now

[fallow breach]

yup

checo

reminder, albon is retiring after 2027 which will open up an aston martin seat

Worst case scenario we get another 2026->7 situation where the only change is the team with the outgoer getting a rookie in

[floral apex]

bRUH

who let mclaren take over

[fallow breach]

WE CAN'T EVEN GET ONE OF THE TOP 2 SPOTS ON SIM NOW

FFS

i am hoping and praying the aero regs screw mclaren over big time

xenon have saved all the aero parts (they had like 90k r&d points saved when the announcement of the change was made)

[floral apex]

i bet that was relatively easy

[fallow breach]

we only needed to use like 20k

now we're back up to like 75k i think

around there

[floral apex]

f1m's R&D system is so much more in depth than the f1 game's

i wonder why the f1 game lacks wind tunnel and CFD time when theyre a key part of f1 R&D

verstappen went p4 in australia and has failed to recover ever since

[keen brook]

Tsunoda went wide into the wall and out of Q1.

[floral apex]

yeah the 1-3 is now a 1-4

[keen brook]

Then Vesti spun into the wall and out of the race.

[floral apex]

and theres an off chance of the 1-3 and 1-4 combining and becoming a 3-4

[keen brook]

Then Tsunoda and Zhou came together, taking Tsunoda out of the race.

[floral apex]

bros just gonna start saying every race will be boring to see if the reverse psychology works on the game

[fallow breach]

what the fuck am i looking at on my game screen.

[floral apex]

bruh.

[fallow breach]

why is VERSTAPPEN ahead of DP.

[floral apex]

alright got to run abu dhabi then

[fallow breach]

MAX WAS 6TH ON THE GRID, I WAS POLE.

[keen brook]

And then Verstappen went wide into the wall and then hit Gasly, taking both out of the race and getting a 3 place grid penalty for Australia.

[fallow breach]

this is exactly what i was dreading about simulating.

i only did it to avoid the frustration of constantly oversteering the corners

(my issue in qatar in s3)

and instead, the DP that chokes poles is back.

ay fuck that i gotta win abu dhabi by like 35 seconds

mclaren arent even that far ahead of us. they have a fucking rookie. Why are they simming a perfect weekend.

[keen brook]

Gabi's win in Jeddah

[fallow breach]

monaco was the fluke sim i fear (the simulated 1-2 for xenon)

[fallow breach]

such was my plan

ffs that ruined the perfect podium or dnf season

[floral apex]

damn mclaren

[fallow breach]

59 points we arent getting back

seriously bruhhhh

9 minutes to go abu dhabi quali

norris on provisional pole 4 tenths of a second ahead of dp

fucking how

[keen brook]

That photo finish in Jeddah was insane.

And again we completely dominated the race, whilst Gabi and Ollie only were only 0.045 seconds apart, Ollie was over 20 seconds ahead of Leclerc.

[floral apex]

jeddah is like the home of photo finishes

[keen brook]

yeah

Bottas and Esteban irl

[floral apex]

i had that one race where Max and Yuki where only 0.009 seconds apart

[keen brook]

I think there also was another one irl.

[keen brook]

damn

[floral apex]

bit late on that screenshot there but it was close

[keen brook]

Imagine Ollie would've gotten Gabi on the line.

They would have equal points then.

As Ollie already got the fastest lap on the last lap even without getting past Gabi.

And Gabi got the fastest lap in Bahrain.

So they have each 1.

[floral apex]

i got that a few times with max and kimi

[keen brook]

well

I didn't.

So it would've been nice to have it at least once.

[floral apex]

one driver wins
the other one wins the next one and they end up on equal points

...and then verstappen runs away with the title after that

[keen brook]

Meanwhile for me Gabi wins and wins and wins.

[fallow breach]

DP from Norris, Piastri and Bearman. Verstappen best of the rest then Sainz, Leclerc, Stroll, Gasly and Russell.

[keen brook]

Then like 1 or 2 times Ollie gets a win.

But mostly it's Gabi winning.

Just to put it in numbers, Gabi has 19 wins and Ollie only 2.

[floral apex]

THERE'S the 1-3

[fallow breach]

I have a hunch landos still gonna keep p2 in the championship

if he does thats a bit infuriating

pulling it from right under oscar's feet

with the 34 pointer in qatar and all

[keen brook]

So in Australia Gabi could have the same amount of wins than Ollie, just with a 0 added behind the 2.

[fallow breach]

he's 4 points ahead of oscar heading into abu dhabi

[fallow breach]

been a while

welcome back xenon 1-3
we dearly missed you in an era of lando norris wins

WHAT??

[keen brook]

Our car is already extremely dominant and for Melbourne we have a new rear wing.

Maybe that can get us our 1st pole as our DRS should become stronger.

[fallow breach]

PIASTRI P1, BEARMAN P2

ME AND LANDO BOTH TAKE PENALTIES AT THE LAST, I START P10, LANDO P12

[keen brook]

And Melbourne is like 90% of the track DRS zones.

oh wait

I forgot the forecast.

[fallow breach]

i just know piastri's gonna bottle inherited pole and go to like p6

[keen brook]

rain for every single day

Friday rain, Saturday rain, Sunday heavy rain

So that will be the 1st test how good, or not good, our car is in wet conditions.

[floral apex]

goddamn

are we sure its not a typhoon going on?!?

[fallow breach]

By the end of lap 1, DP is P2 behind Piastri. Verstappen is P3, then Stroll, Bearman, Russell, Leclerc, Sainz, Albon and Norris.

[floral apex]

damn rapid gain

Max has completed 128 races with the team

he finished in the points in all 128 races

[fallow breach]

Damnn

also retract what you said about rapid gain bc...

lap 4,

DP and Verstappen crash

Verstappen out

DP took a 10 second penalty

Everyone pitted, he served it then and he went down to P20

Still under SC on lap 5 obviously

[floral apex]

bruh dp what the quack are you doing

you should be taking out norris, not verstappen

[fallow breach]

Piastri leads from Stroll and Bearman. Pourchaire P4, Gasly P5, then Leclerc, Russell, Norris, Albon, Tsunoda, Perez, Sainz, Ocon, Fittipaldi, Hamilton, Zhou, Sargeant, Hulkenberg, Hauger, DP and Magnussen.

[floral apex]

rip 1-4 i guess

[fallow breach]

i mean...

[floral apex]

unless you just verstappen sao paulo your way up

[fallow breach]

dp came back from a p10 red flag restart in china within a lap

and he also went p10 to p2 on lap 1 of this very race

Lap 7

[floral apex]

Max has an 88% race completion rate as a Sunwest driver

[fallow breach]

Lap 9

DP and Norris collide

DP has partial wing damage + 10 sec pen

[floral apex]

ok i was joking when i said you should take out Norris

[fallow breach]

technically he didn't take him out

only thing he took out was his wing

norris is p10 and still in

(He was P8 before the collision)

[floral apex]

sunwest racing driver stats

[fallow breach]

Piastri still leads, Bearman is up to P2, then Stroll, Pourchaire, Gasly, Leclerc, Russell, DP, Albon and Norris.

DP is up into P4 on the road, 4 laps to go. Piastri has dropped to P2.

It's Bearman, Piastri, Stroll, DP (10s penalty), Pourchaire, Leclerc, Albon, Gasly, Russell and Perez. Norris is P21 having taken a second pitstop.

[floral apex]

dp gotta get that 10 second gap

[fallow breach]

DP does not get that gap....

final lap.

he retired

he was on course for p4 on the road, demoted to maybe p7-8 post penalty

[floral apex]

the wall is not a 10 second gap dp!

[fallow breach]

that just summarises the woes of the season end for dp 😭

first time not winning abu dhabi

and he doesnt even make it to the flag

like 2 corners shy

For the second time in Formula One, Ollie Bearman takes the chequered flag and wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix!

[floral apex]

pain

[floral apex]

bro latifi'ed his way out early

[floral apex]

i like how DP has this insane chain of events

and then oscar is just "yeah i lost a position"

[latent pewter]

Anyone wanna do f1 co op career on f1 24. The difficulty is gonna be 85 and we are starting at a low team and 16 races

[fallow breach]

FULL DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP OF 2027:
1 [Xe] DP 534 (15W, 20P)
2 [Xe] Piastri 396 (2W, 18P)
3 Norris 382 (4W, 12P)
4 Bearman 298 (2W, 11P)
5 Russell 192 (1W, 2P)
6 Verstappen 176 (0W, 3P)
7 Albon 175 (0W, 2P)
8 Leclerc 124
9 Hamilton 88
10 Sainz 83
11 Stroll 62 (0W, 1P)
12 Gasly 57
13 Perez 37
14 Ocon 32
15 Tsunoda 14
16 Hulkenberg 7
17 Pourchaire 4
18 Zhou 1
19 Sargeant 0
20 Magnussen 0
21 Fittipaldi 0
22 Hauger 0

in all that dominance DP still only matched his 2026 win count

18 scorers, for a codemasters save, is kinda wild

Piastri retained by Xenon at salary of $15.75m for 2028

[floral apex]

Max P6 and Checo P13

of course

[fallow breach]

Constructors title:
1 [Xe] 930 (17W, 38P)
2 680 (6W, 23P)
3 280 (1W, 2P)
4 237 (0W, 3P)
5 213 (0W, 3P)
6 207
7 89
8 14
9 11
10 1
11 0

what should we do for the 2028 calendar?

[floral apex]

Sunwest asf points count

I like how all of the points totals above P7 have either a 2, 8 or 0 in it

[fallow breach]

Ferrari getting 207 points without a podium is insane btw

that is crazy

[floral apex]

Thats just consistency at its finest

[fallow breach]

24 or 16 races

[floral apex]

i mean do you have lore for a 16 race calendar

ngl its kinda dumb how the f1 gsme doesnt let you pick your own season length

[fallow breach]

i would love if there was a way for them to add that to f1 25

[floral apex]

The only seasons to be 16 races long are 1976, 1978, 1982, 1984-94, 96, 98, 99 and 2003

Codies gives you either modern calendar or 1980s

[floral apex]

yeah cuz it makes no sense to cut down from 24 to 16 for no reason

for lore purposes

24 to 22 or 20 like im doing makes more sense

[fallow breach]

ik i have to add back jeddah for this but i kinda wanna remove a european circuit for 2028 only for 'repairs'

but idk which one to pull

I'm eyeing up Hungary, Spa or Zandvoort

[floral apex]

"circuit redevelopment"

Hungarys being redeveloped irl rn

[fallow breach]

i've made my decision

Hungarian Grand Prix pulled from 2028 calendar to facilitate circuit redevelopments

[floral apex]

lol also thats the same excuse i used when i pulled china off my 2033/34 calendars

[fallow breach]

Resultantly:
FIA overturn decision to disallow Saudi Arabian Grand Prix a place on the 2028 calendar

[floral apex]

My 2032 calendar is 22 races long as jeddah and qatar failed to fund their tracks

[fallow breach]

should xenon get a rename for 2028?

[floral apex]

Yes

[fallow breach]

one option im considering is Xenon Polor Racing

Or Distort-Xenon??

that could be a good one

Reminder of sponsors

Xenon Sunburst Racing?

i was hesitating on using sunburst for naming potential bc of similarity to sunwest

[fallow breach]

what to exactly?

bc i'm a bit stuck

[floral apex]

DP Xenon Polor

[fallow breach]

meanwhile i'm gonna bring up the driver transfers for 2028

Everyone stays put except:
Albon retires
Hulkenberg to free agency
Jehan Daruvala replaces Hulkenberg at
Victor Martins replaces Albon at

[floral apex]

Two random drivers huh

[fallow breach]

yeah

[floral apex]

They really couldnt pull from any other teams

[fallow breach]

not too sure about having DP in the team name

[floral apex]

Xenon Polor Racing
or XP Racing

Same vibe

Xenon Polor Racing FPU

I guess in this case technically the title sponsor is Polor cuz Xenon is the actual team

[floral apex]

XPR FPU for short

[fallow breach]

i think the word Racing would look a bit weird on the name used in the constructors championship

compromise at Xenon Polor FP?

also look at this r&d chart at the start of 2028 😭

VCARB 3rd, Alpine 4th, Williams 6th, Sauber not last??

what is this

osc having been put through training camp just before bahrain

[floral apex]

Finally a comfortable gap

[floral apex]

Damn bros top of his game

[floral apex]

Why does oscars head look so small in this image lmao

[floral apex]

bro it just took me like 5 attempts to get one practice programme goal in quick practice lmao

[keen brook]

damn

[floral apex]

ok bruh my engine's at 75%

[lyric scaffold]

FINALLY. SO EXCITED.

[floral apex]

oo wheel

P17 in Hungary quali cuz the alpine is shit

[floral apex]

not me forcing my way into an overtake

[floral apex]

ok what

i just bugged the game to give me control of the car in the pit lane

i paused the game right as i crossed the pit entry line and entered replay mode
then i switched camera to a car just outside the pits
and hit flashback

...yeah

It only happens before you enter your box tho

The bug fixes itself once you turn into your box

[empty fulcrum]

extreme damage finally doing something

[floral apex]

"Blue flag blue flag"
proceeds to get lapped and then promptly unlaps myself

I managed to unlap myself so hard i stayed clear for an extra lap

bro i fking divebombed the race leader

[floral apex]

just finished belgium and finished P3

checo led a red bull 1-2 lmao

this is what the WDC and results looks like in my f1 23 save

WCC

[sleek shell]

Aw man kiss the trophy goodbye, that silhouette won't be filling out this year😭

[fallow breach]

speaking of silhouettes filling do you think xenon polor under their new name (they'll still be called xenon by like commentary and stuff) will fill both silhouettes for a third year running??

[fallow breach]

I simmed to season's end with DPM and got Hamilton retiring into S7 and Merc bringing in Enzo Fittipaldi

i might just sim the remainder of the entire career save for dpm, maybe do some development by around s8 or 9 and see if they can finally get points and work to being mid instead of horrible

I'll do that at some other point

XDPU calls for continuation

to begin 2028.

I'm also getting a driver career mode on the go to have DP at Red Bull with Verstappen as his teammate 👀 (he'll also be a good driver like DP54, driver number 66)

[fallow breach]

I'll do Bahrain for that mode then move back to start Xenon's S5

DP66 is on pole on debut by like 3.5 seconds

The red bull when paired with such a driver under player control i guess

(DP is rated 65 )

[fallow breach]

Over Norris. Verstappen was P3

[keen brook]

time to go down under

[fallow breach]

you sure hes 65 rated f124? he just won on debut from pole by 43 seconds

[keen brook]

lol

[fallow breach]

66 rated now

not too sure thats a drive of a 66 rated driver but we'll go with it

[keen brook]

That reminds me of the 2025 Haas line-up in my save.

[fallow breach]

Xenon Polor FP adopt new team colour and adapted brighter livery for 2028

A quote from the owner states "We felt the deep red, while showing our spirit of competition, didn't bear enough resemblance to the reason we got our team name - Xenon - from our main sponsor which in itself was named after an element of the Periodic Table. A bit of research into the element xenon shows that it emits a lavender glow. Therefore, we have decided to change our livery colours to be a bit brighter. Our mirrors will still sport the glorious gold that represents our two championships, and attention to detail will show that that red we used is still on the car as detail."

[grizzled knoll]

That livery looks so good 🔥

[barren minnow]

Red flag with 3 laps to go means i score points

[keen brook]

nice

[fallow breach]

GRID OVERVIEW FOR 2028:

• Listed in 2027 Constructors' Championship order
• World Championship numbers are all-time including championships in this career.

Xenon Polor FP 🏆x2
🇬🇧 DP 🏆x2
🇦🇺 Piastri

McLaren 🏆x10
🇬🇧 Norris
🇬🇧 Bearman

Mercedes 🏆x8
🇬🇧 Hamilton 🏆x7 (||this is statistical dont fight me anyone||)
🇬🇧 Russell

Aston Martin
🇨🇦 Stroll
🇫🇷 Martins [R]

Red Bull🏆x7
🇳🇱 Verstappen 🏆 x4
🇲🇽 Perez

Ferrari 🏆x16
🇲🇨 Leclerc
🇪🇸 Sainz

Alpine
🇫🇷 Gasly
🇫🇷 Ocon

Williams 🏆x9
🇯🇵 Tsunoda
🇺🇸 Sargeant

VCARB
🇫🇷 Pourchaire
🇮🇳 Daruvala [R]

Sauber
🇨🇳 Zhou
🇩🇰 Magnussen

Haas
🇧🇷 Fittipaldi
🇳🇴 Hauger

[barren minnow]

still have lots of stuff to do not got my upgrades ready yet

[keen brook]

Dürksen went wide.

[fallow breach]

bruh DP and Piastri went 1-2 in fp1 on hards and mediums respectively while the like 6 behind them were all on softs 💀

that is some crazy dominance right there

[keen brook]

O'Sullivan replaced Bottas in FP1 at Alpine, Antonelli replaced Verstappen in FP1 at Ferrari, Wiggins replaced Russell in FP1 at Haas, Dürksen replaced Albon in FP1 at Mercedes, Beganovic replaced Zhou in FP1 at RB and Gallardo replaced Maloney in FP1 at Williams.

[fallow breach]

riiight how's antonelli managed to get a grid penalty then

[keen brook]

He drives Verstappen's car.

And Verstappen has the penalty from his Jeddah crash with Gasly.

[fallow breach]

ah right, but still seeing it next to kimi who isnt even racing reminds me of robert shwartzman's one penalty

[keen brook]

That actually happened in my Haas save.

with Kacper Sztuka in 2024

He crashed in Austria with Pourchaire in FP.

another affiliate

[fallow breach]

what, he got a penalty from the session he was in even though he wasnt slated to race

[keen brook]

Or maybe it was with Maloney.

As they both did the FP for Kick Sauber.

[fallow breach]

what happened to the penalty did it just disappear or did it carry over to the normal driver of the car sztuka was using?

[keen brook]

So Sztuka gave Verstappen a grid penalty.

[novel river]

Who's fault me or lec?

[fallow breach]

"absolutely brilliant thanks a lot kacper" - max

[fallow breach]

that reminds me of after the Austria crash irl in 2024 Verstappen said "nice, oh my god" on the radio

[keen brook]

But in my penalty points system Sztuka got the penalty points for it.

Literally the only reason why he is even there in the stats in FGC.

[fallow breach]

But here's an interesting twist:

Pierre Gasly is on the front row.

It's DP from Gasly, Piastri, Norris, Bearman, Tsunoda, Stroll, Pourchaire, Ocon and Hamilton.

As for the rookies, Martins is P14 and Daruvala is P17.

Shockingly only Xenon kept everything

I think the manifest of the McLaren falloff worked

[red wadi]

Kate Loving will NOT test in her hometown because of injury
Canadian driver Justin Reigns will replace Kate Loving in the Donington test, with Rey Lowford testing as well

[fallow breach]

Verstappen P12, Perez P14, then Russell P18, Hamilton took a penalty and is P19 and Daruvala actually starts P22 bc he also took a penalty.

[fallow breach]

damn

[red wadi]

That must SUCK for her because it’ll be the only UK scheduled test for this year and it was in her hometown. Now she’s recovering at home😭 🙏

[fallow breach]

genuinely yeah

[red wadi]

Though she’s still scheduled for the Daytona test

[fallow breach]

End of lap 1:
DP leads, Gasly is still P2, then Piastri, Norris, Tsunoda, Stroll, Bearman, Pourchaire, Martins and Leclerc. Ocon down to P11, Verstappen is still 12th, Sainz falls to P13, Fittipaldi has gained 3 places and in a Haas is ahead of the Red Bull of Perez, then Sargeant, Hamilton, Russell, Magnussen, and then Zhou, Hauger and Daruvala.

Keep in mind the Haas is apparently the worst car on the grid

Gasly's stay in P2 is short lived as Piastri gets the place into turn 1 on lap 2.

Lap 4:
DP, Piastri, Norris, Gasly, Stroll, Tsunoda, Bearman, Pourchaire, Leclerc and Martins is the top 10. Fittipaldi has been passed by Perez but is still P15. Daruvala is up to P20.

Order on lap 7 (just before pits begin)

DP, Piastri, Norris, Gasly, Bearman, Stroll, Tsunoda, Leclerc, Pourchaire, Martins.

Hamilton is up to P16, Daruvala is up to P17, Fittipaldi has rapidly faded back to P19.

DP emerges P2 ahead of Norris.

[red wadi]

livery reveal in #racing-games

[fallow breach]

DP pitted as you know but so did Stroll, Verstappen, Sargeant and Magnussen on lap 7.

Piastri, Norris and Leclerc pit on lap 8.

So do Perez, Martins, Tsunoda, Ocon, Hamilton, Daruvala, Zhou and Hauger.

Lap 9, Gasly, Bearman, Pourchaire and Sainz pit.

[red wadi]

PM test run Super Trofeo car

[fallow breach]

Russell and Fittipaldi do too, now all drivers have pitted.

It's Xenon 1-2, DP () is 31 seconds clear of Piastri () who is close with Norris ()

Then it's Gasly , Bearman and Stroll

[red wadi]

Yes, PM will enter the Lamborghini Super Trofeo alongside F1A and IMSA LMP2

[fallow breach]

ooh

Norris has passed Piastri for P2 unfortunately

Absolute stinker of a strategy by the team to put Oscar on hards for the second stint.

HAUGER IS OUT, MAGNUSSEN AND PEREZ ARE ALSO STOPPED ON TRACK!

The other two are going again, no SC called.

Ocon also had an issue at the end!

[red wadi]

PM are cooking, though big news coming up

[fallow breach]

that is a cursed championship wtf

[Xe] 41
28
12
9
6
4
2
0
0
0
0

[fallow breach]

"We enter 2028, witnessing a change to the technical regulations that, as seen in this race tonight, has seemed to shift the pecking order more so than 2027 did. However, like in 2027, the team at the very top appear entirely unfazed by the change, and their two time champion driver will round the final corner to begin his second title defense in the same way as he began his first one - DP wins for the 40th time in Formula One!"

75th pole -> 40th win

bruh VCARB are COOKING 🔥🔥

[red wadi]

Avril Levange and Rome Tsubaki join Pellegrini Motorsport
Pellegrini Motorsport sign South African duo Avril Levange and Rome Tsubaki, on which project they will drive is yet to be announced

[fallow breach]

Any predictions for Jeddah qualifying?

[keen brook]

1-3

[fallow breach]

imagine pierre beats oscar to the front row again

[keen brook]

Verstappen went wide.

[red wadi]

Pellegrini Motorsport set to join Formula 3
The Slovakian team is set to join Formula 3 in the 2035 season, with nothing known yet. As the Slovakian team wants the FIA to green light a custom build Ligier chassis

[fallow breach]

this is genuinely hilarious. idk if i wanna keep this result bc i'd argue the cause was a loss of focus on resuming the lap but omg.

If i keep this:
Piastri gets pole from Norris, Bearman, Gasly, then DP, then Pourchaire, Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc and Tsunoda.

[red wadi]

Keep it lol

[fallow breach]

im simming a full length race in Saudi anyway, i might end up back on the podium

[red wadi]

I was right about the 1-5 lol

[fallow breach]

not in the order you'd have expected but yeah

i'm telling you that was not on purpose

[red wadi]

True

[fallow breach]

i was expecting it to be 1-3 with pierre on the front row bc it was provisionally that way really close to the end

[red wadi]

Also PM potentially joining F3 with Ligier is HUGE

[fallow breach]

Absolutely MASSIVE news.

[red wadi]

Now we wait if the FIA accepts 👀

[fallow breach]

just simmed.. thats drunk as hell. outside the top 4 what the fuck is that race result.

i'll talk about it in a moment

[keen brook]

Vesti locked up.

[floral apex]

ok alpine

[fallow breach]

Full top 10:
DP, Piastri, Norris, Bearman, Verstappen, Daruvala, Ocon, Sainz, Perez and Leclerc.

[floral apex]

i like how you're basically giving DOTDs lmao

[keen brook]

Same do I.

[fallow breach]

little change the team made to their social media approach to match their changes they made in appearance

[keen brook]

I just give the driver who gained the most positions the DOTD.

And if there are multiple drivers who gained the most positions then the highest placed.

[fallow breach]

i think official dotd in the game went to sainz which is definitely rightful

but i felt Daruvala deserved a mention

especially since thats his first points in f1 too

[keen brook]

How much have the Indian fans paid you?

[floral apex]

in my f1 23 save i got DOTD for going P16 to P8 and then getting lapped in P8'

[fallow breach]

Championship top 5s:
[Xe] DP 51 (2W, 2P)
[Xe] Piastri 34 (0W, 2P)
Norris 33 (0W, 2P)
Bearman 22
Gasly 12

[Xe] 85 (2W, 4P)
55 (0W, 2P)
18
14
12

[floral apex]

or maybe it was also for inadvertently fighting the race leaders while trying to regain the position i lost to sargeant lol

[keen brook]

Pérez spun.

[fallow breach]

co-dominance going crazy again

85-55-18 is insane gaps between the top 3 for 2 rounds in

[floral apex]

wait where did gasly come from

[fallow breach]

p4 in bahrain

[floral apex]

dam

[fallow breach]

Verstappen is P6 in the championship with 10

that's why p5 isnt taken up by someone like max

gasly has the next most points after the Xenons and McLarens

[floral apex]

alpine ahead of ferrari and red bull

[fallow breach]

Red Bull were behind VCARB in Bahrain

[floral apex]

lmao lol

[fallow breach]

And VCARB themselves were only p7

Merc still have 0 points after jeddah

[floral apex]

of course

[fallow breach]

And Aston have had a falloff from 2027 to 28 too, they're p8

[floral apex]

merc's got 0 points after half a season in my F1M save the dropoff was expected

[fallow breach]

makes sense when your best driver is lance stroll

martins hasnt proved himself yet

[floral apex]

i like how aston martin has a guy named martins on their team

[fallow breach]

we once again already have 14 drivers with points in 2028 btw

and obviously checo is currently worst of the points scorers bc of course

should DP try and give oscar the win in Melbourne again?

[floral apex]

yes

at this point its tradition

[fallow breach]

Xenon finishes in Australia:
2024: DP DNF, Theo P15
2025: DP P7, Oscar P10
2026: DP P4, Oscar P6
2027: DP P2, Oscar P1

[keen brook]

That's pole position! And it's even a front row lockout!🥳

[fallow breach]

wonder if we can finally seal a front row at xenon

[keen brook]

finally

Finally we got a pole.

[fallow breach]

1-3 broken by gasly, and then a 1-5 at dp's fault

[keen brook]

We won an entire championship without a single one.

[latent pewter]

Anyone wanna do f1 co op career on f1 24. The difficulty is gonna be 85 and we are starting at a low team and 16 races

[keen brook]

And now we've finally done it.

[floral apex]

it finally happened letsgooo

[fallow breach]

Thats impressive

[keen brook]

the team's 1st ever pole

[fallow breach]

gabi making history

[floral apex]

finally bvboconf1 sees the front of the grid

[keen brook]

And of course it's Gabi who got it.

And of course rain was needed where the AI didn't drive out at the end of the session despite the conditions being better.

[floral apex]

it probably helped that red bull are nowhere to be seen but it finally happened nonetheless

[floral apex]

yeah that thing

[keen brook]

Yeah, Red Bull bottled hard.

[floral apex]

for some reason the ai cant grasp the concept of less track water = faster

[keen brook]

But all of a sudden Verstappen does well in the Ferrari.

[fallow breach]

vcarb have actually gone and fucking done it.

theyre ahead of mclaren.

[keen brook]

So I complained about Jeddah always being a borefest and that resulted in it being a banger.

[floral apex]

i like how theres a visible diagonal line from top ot bottom lmao

[floral apex]

bros gonna do the same for australia

[keen brook]

So I know complain about Melbourne always being a borefest.

[fallow breach]

its a pretty clean hierarchy atm

and of course xenon top it

they were literally the only team to perfect the 2028 reg change

[floral apex]

mates gonna complain about every race and get the most exciting season ever

[fallow breach]

how many races are in ocons season

[floral apex]

its a full 24

[fallow breach]

be ready for 24 winners in a season

somehow

[floral apex]

cuz theres no built in calendar editor lmao

[fallow breach]

thered be people getting race bans and replacements winning

[keen brook]

For some reason there never happens anything in Melbourne, it's literally a street circuit, it's supposed to be chaotic.

[floral apex]

like 2023

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speaking of melbourne

[floral apex]

but then again you have races like 24 where basically nothing happened outside of 3 mechanical failures and russell screaming red flag at the end

[keen brook]

And rain races also tend to be boring in the game.

As for whatever stupid reason rain reduces the mistake rate instead of increasing it.

starting grid for the 2027 Australian Grand Prix

[fallow breach]

looks nice and clean but when you look at what teams are where it's crazy
Xenon top, VCARB 2nd, then McLaren, Alpine 4th, Red Bull 5th, Williams 6th, Ferrari 7th, Aston Martin 8th, Mercedes 9th, Sauber 10th and Haas 11th

do i even need to ask what your predictions are for Australia?

[keen brook]

Strategies are for both .

[floral apex]

the classic trio from my pov

ft. the top edge of my taskbar

[red wadi]

FIA greenlights Ligier x Pellegrini Motorsport project
The deal will end the single-make era for both F1A and F3, Pellegrini Motorsport might be the most influential team in sports history

[floral apex]

oh i thought they'd change the official manufacturer to ligier but ok

[fallow breach]

that colour order looks kinda nice ngl

[floral apex]

bro became pink before alpine

[keen brook]

It's lights out and away we go!

[fallow breach]

i think the pink and red facilities look nice

[keen brook]

Russell starts on , interesting.

[floral apex]

i think its you who should be sponsored by BWT

[keen brook]

Well, it's even conditions right now.

But water already goes down.

on lap 1

[red wadi]

Lamborghini greenlights Pellegrini Motorsport entering Super Trofeo for final season of the championship
2034 will see the end of the Super Trofeo series, Pellegrini Motorsport has been greenlighted to become a single car team in the dying series. Lamborghini will provide a car so Pellegrini Motorsport’s cost will be kept at a minimum

[keen brook]

so rip Russell

[keen brook]

Vesti spun into the wall.

[red wadi]

Dallara vs Ligier (Pellegrini Motorsport) boutta be fire🔥 🔥

[keen brook]

Vesti out

[floral apex]

imagine if more teams switch to ligier so it becomes a 50/50

[fallow breach]

im simming Australia bc i accidentally went into the practice before putting the race back on short session

[floral apex]

rip

[keen brook]

That's now the 2nd race in a row Vesti DNFed on lap 1.

[red wadi]

Classes PM will join in 2034:
IMSA (LMP2)
Super Trofeo
F1 Academy
Classes PM will join in 2035 (as of 2033):
Formula 3

[floral apex]

vesti couldnt be more unlucky

[red wadi]

That can definitely happen if PM are absolutely dominating

[keen brook]

And both times it was a spin into the wall.

[fallow breach]

maybe another 1-2?

[keen brook]

mechanical issue for Tsunoda

engine issue

Bottas light damage

[red wadi]

Felipe Drugovich signs with Pellegrini Motorsport
A surprise move as Felipe Drugovich signs with Pellegrini Motorsport, the move will most likely see Kate Loving join the F1A team instead of the LMP2 team since Felipe Drugovich can’t race in F1A or F3. The Super Trofeo team will be announced later this year, but will consist of an Italian driver as Romeo told Sky Sports Italy

[keen brook]

mechanical issue for Gasly

gearbox issue

[fallow breach]

damn

[floral apex]

"remember when we almost got in a real fight? yea we're besties now"

[fallow breach]

[fallow breach]

"im literally answerable to him now"

[keen brook]

Gasly went wide.

[fallow breach]

just quickly gonna throw the question out there ^

[red wadi]

Felipe Drugovich on Bluesky
The drama a few years could’ve been avoided if there was better communication, Romeo never intended on hurting the Brazilian population and I shouldn’t have started the fight in Barcelona. I’m happy to join his newest project and fight for success unlike my F1 career. So my apologies and happy to join the new team!

[keen brook]

2.177 for Gabi

1.872 for Ollie

[red wadi]

[keen brook]

crash

Zhou locked up into Gabi.

light front wing damage

Zhou light damage

Zhou gets a 5 second time penalty.

Zhou front wing change

now no damage anymore

[fallow breach]

3 minutes to go, Norris on pole by 0.007 over DP, 0.06 over Piastri in P3

[keen brook]

mechanical issue for Gasly

[floral apex]

dp better make it a 1-3

[keen brook]

severe gearbox issue now

Hadjar light damage

[fallow breach]

Piastri isnt on a lap but the rest are except Fittipaldi. Gasly is in P4 provisionally from Verstappen and Bearman.

[red wadi]

Kate Loving announced as first driver for F1A team
The 22 year old will race in Formula 1 Academy next year and is officially dropped from the IMSA team, Romeo said the following: “It’s not something we wanted but her injury is too big for her to even drive a car until December 2033, in that time we wanted every driver to be ready for racing in IMSA the following season. Sadly that’s not doable for Kate and Felipe will replace her, as for Avril and Rome they’ll (most likely) join the F3 project as they’re both 16 at the moment and will be 18 by the point we join F3. They’ll race in FRECA on loan for PREMA in the meantime.”
The future seems clear for most drivers, yet Kate’s future seems rocky as Pellegrini Motorsport has no intend of pushing her as much as the rest of their talent due to her shoulder injury. Kate Loving has said it hurts her but she understands the move as F1A doesn’t allow PM to test until the official tests

(Oh that’s way more text than I expected)

[keen brook]

mechanical issue for Gasly

gearbox failure

Gasly out

[floral apex]

pellegrini and sunwest have one thing in common: signing a female driver in the 2030s

[red wadi]

This is an interesting thing because pre-injury Pellegrini Motorsport marketed Kate as their crown jewel, now Avril has taken that place and Kate’s injury has seemingly ended her career inside the IMSA team

[keen brook]

Pourchaire went wide.

[red wadi]

Yeah, PM even signed 2 in Avril and Kate. Sunwest probably also has 2 since the entire feeder ladder seems to be their affiliates

By the way, did you see the IMSA livery in #racing-games 👀

[floral apex]

We actually got 4 in Moore, Rutten, Rousseau and Kimura

[red wadi]

Expected ngl

[floral apex]

Moore's retiring after this season tho

[fallow breach]

Beyond top 3 it's Verstappen, Gasly, Bearman, Ocon, Martins, Leclerc and Pourchaire.

gasly absolutely cooking in his alpine

for the 2nd fastest car, 10-16 is absolutely appalling from vcarb

[floral apex]

Abbi had it easy on her debut cuz she was only replacing Antonelli

Whoever's going to replace Max when he retires is gonna feel a LOT of pressure

[red wadi]

Pellegrini signs with Veloce as main sponsor in IMSA
The Italian wine brand has signed a 4 year deal with Pellegrini Motorsport-Ligier, the deal is worth around €15.000.000

[keen brook]

1.896 for Ollie

New strategies are for both .

[fallow breach]

they have an absolute wealth of options for who to put under that pressure tho

[red wadi]

Also one final signing will happen later in 2033 and it’s from the most random nation ever

[keen brook]

mechanical issue for Tsunoda

engine issue

[floral apex]

i'm pretty sure we're gonna lose half of these options by then lmao

[keen brook]

8.350 for Gabi

front wing change

[fallow breach]

Australia race predictions for XDPU?

[floral apex]

its just funny how most of my drivers are only on a 0.50x buyout multiplier

But its apparently too high for the AIs cuz nobodys taking my guys

that might explain why my signings all have a negative reaction to that multiplier

[lyric scaffold]

"you only beat him by 0.009 seconds"
On hards...

[floral apex]

i think ive done worse in f1m...

[keen brook]

mechanical issue for Tsunoda

severe engine issue now

[red wadi]

Avril Levange and Rome Tsubaki confirmed for F3 seats
Pellegrini Motorsport has announced 2/3 F3 drivers for 2035, who will be the 3rd?
Rumour has it that Kate will get the seat depending on her F1A results, while others are rumouring that Pellegrini Motorsport will sign yet another driver for the F3 seat. If Kate doesn’t join the F3 team, was the move really worth it? Pellegrini Motorsport signing veterans for their IMSA team really spiced up everything

[floral apex]

I wonder what the 2031 car stats look like compared to 2024
Cuz even tho we dropped by like 40-50% we still got 1:01s in Austria

[keen brook]

pit stop issue for Bottas

[red wadi]

So Pellegrini Motorsport is really improving workforce wise, with the programme and everything but still have 3 seats left over for their F1A, F3 and Super Trofeo projects👀

[floral apex]

pellegrini boutta put himself in the super trofeo seat

[red wadi]

I mean it’s only 1 year AND the series only runs like once a 2 months because Lambo simply doesn’t care anymore, so who knows

[fallow breach]

applause if you can guess who those 3 were

[floral apex]

I wonder if he's signed his kids to the PM Academy

[fallow breach]

just look at those gaps 🔥

[floral apex]

sunwest asf gaps

[fallow breach]

second simmed 1-2 in a row btw

[floral apex]

Thats how you know youre good

[fallow breach]

true

bruh both mercs dnfed

[keen brook]

Pérez light damage

[fallow breach]

It was Lando, Max and Ollie on the lead lap btw

[floral apex]

average mercedes australia experience

[fallow breach]

Championship
[Xe] DP 76 (3W, 3P)
[Xe] Piastri 53 (0W, 3P)
Norris 48 (0W, 3P)
Bearman 32
Verstappen 22

[floral apex]

Gotta give piastri the next race win

[fallow breach]

Constructors top 5:
[Xe] 129 (3W, 6P)
80 (0W, 3P)
32
24
15

[fallow breach]

no promises

maybe dp wants to run away with this one

but all seriousness he might give a few throughout the season

talk to me about driver swaps once dp gets his 11th win in a row

also yes im simming monaco again

gotta get there first though

Also DP didnt hold P1 for 10 laps at a time through 58
that either means it was back and forth, or he only got to the lead in the last few laps

...driver swap the other way???

[floral apex]

now that pelley has his own motorsports team i wouldnt be surprised if he finally made the twingo racing series

[keen brook]

Oliver Bearman wins the Australian Grand Prix! And it's even a 1-2!🥳

[fallow breach]

DP is rapidly approaching Alonso's win total now

Australia was his 42nd win

Alonso retired at 46 wins

[keen brook]

current championship standings

Australia pit stops of my My Team career

[fallow breach]

vcarb have just left mclaren in the dust bro theyre coming for us

im not too scared yet looking at how they did as 2nd in the chart the last two races

[keen brook]

current DHL fastest pit stop award standings

[fallow breach]

goated personnel mid drivers

I am racing in Japan.

[red wadi]

Also gotta love the fact that South Africa is the most representated nation in a Slovakian team

[keen brook]

Well, for me the UK is the most represented nation in a German team.

Mercedes, is that you?

[red wadi]

[fallow breach]

one of my drivers is british and the other is Australian, and my ex driver is french

[keen brook]

well

We have.

a British and a Brazilian main driver

2 British and 2 German affiliates

an Italian and a Spanish race engineer

an Italian technical chief

[fallow breach]

unfortunately theres no affiliate system or way to sim an f2/3 season alongside f1 in f124

[keen brook]

a British head of aero

[red wadi]

Pellegrini Motorsport list of nations:
South Africa (2)
Estonia (1)
Latvia (1)
Great Britain (1)
USA (1)
Canada (1)
Slovakia (1)

[keen brook]

and a British sporting director

[red wadi]

Probably missed one but oh well

[fallow breach]

otherwise i'd have an absolute field day with lore

[red wadi]

The Latvian one will be announced now haha

[keen brook]

so:
UK: 5
Italy: 2
Germany: 2
Brazil: 1
Spain: 1

[red wadi]

Jonas Friis joins Pellegrini Motorsport F3
The 16 year old Latvian will drive in the 3rd PM car from 2035 onwards, this means that Kate Loving will at least spend 2 years in F1A

[fallow breach]

isnt it a max of 2 years in f1a?

[red wadi]

I think so yeah

So either Kate is cooked or she’s joining another PM project OR she’s joining a different team

[fallow breach]

i was gonna say what if kate wins f1a with pellegrini, and gets a drive in f3 with some other team

[red wadi]

Yeah, especially now that other drivers are getting the current available seats

Only 2 seats are left open, the F1A seat and the Super Trofeo seat

[keen brook]

Australia F2 qualifying result of my My Team career

Tim Tramnitz wins the Australian F2 sprint race!🥳

[fallow breach]

missed opportunity for whoever named f1a to call it femula 1 btw

[keen brook]

Oliver Goethe wins the Australian F2 feature race!🥳

current F2 championship standings

[red wadi]

Esteban Ocon signs with Pellegrini Motorsport
The French driver joins the team from retirement, he fills in the gap for the Super Trofeo seat

Bro is 38 at this point🙏

[fallow breach]

DP gets fastest in sectors 1 and 3, but Piastri follows with fastest in sector 2 and steals provisional pole from DP by 25 thousandths!

9 minutes to go, Tsunoda is P4, splitting the McLarens!

DP goes out for an outlap - but he doesn't make the chequered flag!

[keen brook]

Australia F3 qualifying result of my My Team career

[fallow breach]

No improvement anywhere sees Oscar Piastri on pole for the second time this season!

[red wadi]

1 seat left, the 2nd F1A seat👀

[floral apex]

uh... mine is a bit chaotic

[keen brook]

Australia F3 sprint race result of my My Team career

Australia F3 feature race result of my My Team career

[floral apex]

In my team its
UK: 3
Netherlands: 2
France: 2
Finland: 1
Japan: 1
Switzerland: 1
Germany: 1
Ivory Coast: 1

...in a Canadian team

[keen brook]

current F3 championship standings

[floral apex]

i like how the slovakian team has a canadian driver but the canadian team doesn't

[red wadi]

[floral apex]

i mean there is a canadian driver on the market now that isn't lance stroll so i might look into that

[keen brook]

Where Stroll?

[fallow breach]

So, who will win in Suzuka?

[floral apex]

not pourchaire thats for sure

[fallow breach]

i mean... hes p8 on the grid

but like nah

daruvala is p16 in case youre wondering

Once again disappointing gridslots for VCARB in the clear 2nd fastest car

Okay... wow.

that's surprising.

[floral apex]

did pourchaire win?

[fallow breach]

Forget all about that qualifying order is all i gotta say

[floral apex]

"this is fine"

[fallow breach]

Heres the grid order:
DP
Tsunoda
Bearman
Piastri
Stroll
Daruvala
Norris
Sainz
Perez
Leclerc
Martins
Pourchaire
Verstappen
Sargeant
Russell
Magnussen
Fittipaldi
Zhou
Hauger

[floral apex]

lol tbe 1-4

[fallow breach]

thats a lot of penalties being thrown around

Piastri, Verstappen, Fittipaldi, Zhou and Hauger just to name a few

so many penalties got handed out that jehan daruvala who got the 16th fastest time in qualifying is starting p6.

that is insane.

[floral apex]

oscar got a penalty but so many drivers ahead of him had penalties so he barely moved down

[fallow breach]

no, Oscar was on pole in the quali classification

It was Oscar, DP, Lando, Tsunoda top 4 iirc

his grid penalty must have been an impeding or cornercut pen or something

because that is not a standardised part change penalty

[red wadi]

Lol i’m playing WWE 2K24 rn and suddenly Romeo Pellegrini’s character joins lol

[fallow breach]

YUKI TSUNODA LEADS IN JAPAN INTO TURN 1!

Short lived but he did nonetheless

Into the middle sector on lap 1, Jehan Daruvala is 4th.

DP leads from Tsunoda, Piastri, Daruvala and Bearman.

[vague plank]

Hi chat

[floral apex]

that moment when pelley randomly shows up when he isn't supposed to

[vague plank]

How does f1 manager 24 work?

Like

I bought it recently and it’s my first manager

[fallow breach]

That top 5 is unchanged at the end of lap 1.

[floral apex]

i think ill alternate between my f1 23 save and f1 manager save for now

[red wadi]

So the one seat leftover won’t be announced until October 2033, we’re currently in August 👀

Esteban Ocon has arrived in Bratislava, possibly to start fitting the seat👀 👀

[keen brook]

As we aren't dominant enough already, we have a new floor and suspension for Suzuka.

[floral apex]

Bruh i misread 2033 as 2023 💀

[red wadi]

Ocon part of PM is an insanely random crossover, especially since Esteban retired in S6 of my F1 save

[red wadi]

💀 💀

[keen brook]

But from both only 1 will be ready for Suzuka.

[floral apex]

Idk if you saw but i added a bit of calendar lore to my save

[red wadi]

Red Bull Academy superstar Susan DeCeasaeris spotted in Bratislava
The Red Bull Academy superstar (mostly from karting and her time in British F4) has done 1 season in F1A already but will drive in the Super Formula this season, rumour has been linking her to Pellegrini Motorsport for the 2nd F1A seat and a potential option to join potential F2 project further down the line

[keen brook]

Due to a data issue, the wind tunnel must get closed for 10 days and the sidepod design will be delayed by 10 days.

[fallow breach]

bruh of all teams to get the first
non-mclaren, non-xenon podium position its williams

[red wadi]

Esteban is either gonna cook or will get cooked

[keen brook]

damn

[red wadi]

I think I saw

[keen brook]

I can't sign Aron because he will retire.

[fallow breach]

So: DP, Piastri, Tsunoda, Bearman, Norris, Daruvala, Leclerc, Sainz, Stroll, Martins.

[red wadi]

(Yet another PM project is getting leaked lol)

MP when they face PM:

https://tenor.com/view/vince-mcmahon-wwe-shocked-surprised-wtf-gif-2370519477114915275

[fallow breach]

Championships after Suzuka:

Drivers:
[Xe] DP 102 (4W, 4P)
[Xe] Piastri 71 (0W, 4P)
Norris 58 (0W, 3P)
Bearman 44
Tsunoda 27 (0W, 1P)

Constructors:
[Xe] 173 (4W, 8P)
102 (0W, 3P)
32
27 (0W, 1P)
25