Fascinating that it’s the first time ever F2 is making its way to North America.

Multi-million pounds, apparently.

Annoyed that they spoiled it. Would’ve been a nice surprise.

Glad to hear that he doesn’t have a fracture. Thankfully he has a while to recover with the two race cancellations.

Yeah they jinxed it.

Oh God Bearman looks really hurt. He was limping.

Piastri is doing really well holding off Russell.

Wow all 22 cars making the start today!

While we wait for the race to begin, I suggest watching https://www.instagram.com/mercedesamgf1/reel/DWbTVvnjfXQ/

Adorable.

Ah a crash in one of the support races.

Edit: they showed the replay for it. Holy shit it was wild. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdLuZA3Bwak

Indy had a Grosjean-like crash as well today https://youtu.be/XQPm-tDpC_Q thankfully the car didn’t catch on fire.

Wait why is the formation lap delayed by 10 minutes?

Verstappen knocked in Q2 out by Lindblad wow.

Lots of car issues for team except Ferrari it seems.

Shock Q1 exit for Bearman after such strong performances in the past few GPs.

Antonellp

My favorite thing about the Japanese Grand Prix are the hats that people make.

Giles Richards’ article regarding the incident.

Aside from the fight they put up against the App Store and Play Store duopoly and granting fans permission to distribute a Unreal Tournament 2004 launcher, Epic has taken the “PR disaster” route at every step of the way.

Competition is good and I appreciate having the Epic Games Store and their freebies, but after ~8 years it’s still barebones. Only recently did they get around to implementing gifting games.

They could have earned so much community goodwill with making an official launcher for Linux and providing better Easy Anti Cheat support. Could’ve easily taken out a chunk of Steam’s playerbase on Valve’s home turf, the Steam Deck.

Rookie in this case: any driver that has two or fewer grand prix starts.

Each team needs to give four FP1 sessions to rookies — two per car. This will complete one of two for Alonso.

Side note: Since Lindblad is a rookie his first two FP1s complete the requirements. Lawson will have to give up two FP1 sessions later in the year.

Crawford: