#kemmel straight

[caelizz]

fernando and lance during fp1! 🇧🇪 (ft. george at the start)

[visualvocabulary33]

[theamazingmr-j]

GOD i needed that

[albonium]

if you ever go to a race don't sit on a straight you'll get bored. unless it's the end of a straight then there's probably overtaking that can happen but otherwise it's just cars driving past very fast

[sebastianvettelx]

lewis 🤝🏼 sebastian: slay overtake on the kemmel (gay) straight + saying they have smth between their legs 👀

[beachwritesf1]

Unplugged.

Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri, Pussy Plugs, Explicit, 2.6k words, Complete

Rocketing down the Kemmel straight as he squirted around a plug lodged inside him was not an experience Oscar ever intended to have.

Day 20 of my personal Beach Writes July challenge.

Also part of my F1 Pussy Chronicles series.

[jensonology]

2000 Belgian Grand Prix.: Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. 25-27 August 2000. Mika Hakkinen (McLaren MP4/15 Mercedes), 1st position, and Michael Schumacher (Ferrari F1-2000), 2nd position, discuss their battle, which eventually led to Hakkinen passing Schumacher for the lead while lapping Ricardo Zonta on the Kemmel straight. World Copyright: Steve Tee/LAT Photographic.

[mgu-h]

truth is even without the two mistakes the chances of him winning today were very slim once oscar took the lead. the mediums simply didn't degrade as expected on anyone and the hard was too slow of a tire to make up the difference. yes piastri did a decent job managing them but he never had to push fully on them either because he was able to build a large enough gap with lando having to go an extra lap on dead inters plus the extra time in lando's stop and then the hards took longer to come up to temp on a cold track so he could stretch the gap out more. it was worth a try for lando to do something different as just taking the mediums would have meant status quo but in hindsight it was always a v long shot because the mediums deg just wasn't there. that was true right down the field. sainz and hadjar also took hard tyres and got nowhere. the mistakes might have meant he was closer to the back of oscar at the end but i'm not even sure that would have been true as oscar wasn't fully pushing and could keep the gap stable enough when he needed to. it is what it is. people putting blame on anyone or anything is just stupid and honestly quite tiring. the slipstream up eau rouge & along the kemmel straight is always huge, the race has only been won by the polesitter something like 47% of races in large part because of that, and lando wasn't able to get the jump he needed at the restart to pull enough of a gap before turn 1 (which is v hard to do in spa even with battery). looking at the data from qualifying yesterday as well, it looked like piastri had tweaked his set-up for a little more speed on the straights than lando and it worked in his favor. c'est la vie. i started the weekend thinking if he could come away only having lost 8 points that would be a huge bonus and that's what happened. we're almost through the danger zone of tracks that lean toward piastri, (just hungary to go now which is 50/50) and lando's damage limitation has been exemplary aside from what happened in canada, in fact with the two wins he's exceeded my expectations through this part of the year. the media and the toxic side of the fandom will pile on as usual but that's what block buttons are for. anyone who thinks it's over is just stupid tbh. it's still v much game on.

it is very very much game on!! all of what you said is reasonable and accurate i think. there's plenty of coulda shoulda wouldas about the race, but that's how it goes when you don't win. i'm glad that we don't have a long wait until hungary so we can move past this weekend and onto better things without steeping too long in the sauce about it. i am very hopeful that we'll enter the august break on a more positive note!!

[race-week]

I’ve seen some people sharing this graphic and wondering what is going on, and why Leclerc’s top speed is so much lower

So explanation, the cars reach their highest speeds on the Kemmel straight at Spa

That’s the DRS straight at the back of the circuit between T4 and T5

Now, every other drivers fastest speed is recorded from a lap where they had DRS open, because inevitably having DRS open, reduces drag and allows a higher speed down the straight.

Leclerc did not have a single lap where he had DRS down the Kemmel straight, because he would lose time to Hamilton (or whoever he was following) through La Source (T1) so was always further than a second back from the car in front when he reached the detection point.

So the car doesn’t have some huge straight line speed issue it had a slight slow corner issue, but nothing detrimental, this graphic just looks bad because he didn’t have either DRS or a slipstream to increase his top speed.

(Also the axis labelling is kind of goofy)

[581ism]

sebastian vettel 2018 kemmel straight overtake is ALWAYS relevant :)

[ao3feed-landoscar]

Unplugged. by lifesabeach

read it on AO3 at by lifesabeach Rocketing down the Kemmel straight as he squirted around a plug lodged inside him was not an experience Oscar ever intended to have. Words: 2657, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 20 of Beach Writes July, Part 12 of The F1 Pussy Chronicles Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri Relationships: Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri Additional Tags: Oscar Piastri Has a Vagina, oscussy, Lando Norris Has a Large Penis, Creampie, Sex Toys, Butt Plugs, But not for the butt, Pussy plug if you will, Masturbation, Semi-Public Sex, Cum Play, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Sex, Squirting and Vaginal Ejaculation, This is plotless filth

[caelizz]

shot i got of lance during fp1 on my phone :)

[visualvocabulary33]

[thissying]

Have you ever been to a race? If so, did you enjoy it?

Yes anon, I've been to Spa and it was honestly one of my favourite experiences. The weather was typically Spa; chilly, rainy and dry and rainy again and we had to dig into the hill with a borrowed shovel to have a somewhat comfortable place to sit and stand. But I saw Schumi win and I heard a Ferrari V12 come howling down Kemmel straight, which is one of the best sounds you'll ever hear.

[albonium]

good thing he didn't announce it yesterday i would have yeeted myself in front of a car on the kemmel straight

[superm4ks]

this drs thing is not gonna work for rb and it’s gonna make everyone slower and then rb are gonna dominate even more AGAIN 😭 and then the tps/fia are gonna be like what can we do about Red Bulls dominance?!?!?

What can they do, that’s the q isn’t it. I thought we cud sit together and do a very gentle analysis of these AMuS rumors, translated by the ever iconic house of tifosi heavyeight tami, and its accompanying cunty lil graphic of top speeds in spa, wid and without drs

"No other car gains that much speed with DRS activated than the Red Bull. Ferrari was able to close the gap a bit. Mercedes and McLaren still have some work to do. The DRS effect plays massively into Red Bull's cards wherever there are three DRS zones or the DRS sections are disproportionately long. Apparently F1 has plans to only allow DRS in the race and not in quali anymore. If those plans succeed, it would hurt Red Bull the most."

Lets start wid something that shud be immediately obvious: removing DRS in quali is not just gonna ‘hurt’ the team wid the most powerful DRS, its gonna hurt all the teams, regardless of how their own DRS performs. DRS, and the suspension/front and rear are all built in conformity wid the new regs, they're a complete package, drs is not just a magical button that lets Verstappen drop .800s on his teammates head like a super power. Its a natural progression of what what was once a simpler, less ambitious race-focused project: reduce drag, help cars overtake, stay awake, period. Quali’ purpose is to put together the fastest lap. Literally the whole point of measuring performance over one lap is that u need the car to achieve its top speed. DRS can help wid that, but not all drivers know how to maximize their quali setups, let alone DRS, which is how u get a dawg like sharl vs somebody like lance stroll.

Despite the scary picture AMuS is trying to paint here, there aren't always 3 drs zones and they're not always ‘disproportionally�� long. Monaco a perfect example of this. rb19 ‘DRS advantage’, if u wanna call it that, in Monaco quali, had nothing do wid super gains on a straight. Max and Nando both used that single DRS activation zone to improve their exits. Thats flat out, pure skill, and there is not a button in their car that cud have told them how to do it. Max did it so well he bagged an all timer. Thats the best possible lap u cud have put together in Monaco and like it or not DRS actually gave Nando a fighting chance, levelled the field up until Max pulled those final sectors out of his ass wid pure mastery of his ground effect car. So here u have a drs aided quali session that still went down to the wire, because drs, again, isn’t just a magical speed button anymore, and it does work as part of a whole, driver and setup.

Now lets break down fig. 1: Top-Speed-Vergleich GP Belgien 2023 🌷

As u can c its a top bitches only event, it excludes some interesting torpedo cars I wud love to analyze too, like for example that ungodly Williams.

Also some comments on Spa. Spa has 2 DRS zones. Its a particularly representative circuit because of its mixture of long straights, low and high speed corners. Its an old school type of track, very cerebral, very strategic. Its the longest track in f1, and one of the quickest too. Obvi u got eau rouge. But then also the kemmel straight. So overall a pretty good place to give these machines a stretch and put tire management skills to the test.

rbr gains 20,3 kph wid DRS open, but without drs, top speed is still a whopping 320,5 kph. Rocket. However,

Ferrari gains 19kph wid drs. Their top speed sits at about ~2kph less than rb19 wid or without drag, cud have been a comfortable pole for sharl wid how the Ferrari car was setup. The only reason he didnt get it was because he couldnt put a good lap together.

15,3kph gained from mclaren's DRS. No DRS, they settle at 311,6 kph. Mclaren never did benefit much from DRS, but they seem to be hunting down a rbr solution for that, and wid moderate success. Mclaren particularly monstrous in medium speed corners, prolly one of the best cars in the grid. Spa not so kind to them in this regard. Still, a very VERY strong lap from Oscar in the shootout ((no drs)) to nearly take it from Max ((11 tenths to pole)). Imo Max cud have hustled a lil more, he chose not to, this time it was enough.

only 10 kph gained wid DRS for M£rc's surprisingly respectable top speed of 319,8kph wid Lewis’ setup. 0,2kph separated them from the rb19 rocket when drs isn’t available. Softs and an empty tank are the w14s best friend. BUT

DRS added ‼️25 kph‼️ ((😐)) to GR's m£rc in Spa. Even tho this is a bigger gain than even the rb19 it’s not at all representative. His top speed was already lacking in comparison to Lewis' at 327,5kph. Difference between the m£rcs and their DRS efficacy can be explained wid George's very aggressive setup for Sunday that didn’t quite work even though it was a nice try. w14 has the operating window of a ripped plastic bag.

AMuS absolutely correct, 20,3 kph less on a straight wud hurt rb19 in quali, as its literally the highest advantage gain wid drs. However, even tho again all of this is speculation, we're just going by whats being reported, and they've had some misses lately, rb19 still the 'fastest' car wid or without drs. 340,8kph and 320,8kph is still the top of the table.😐 Lets not even bring management, drag, aerodynamics or god forbid, driver skill to it. Realistically, the teams that are able to fight Max for p0le either via outstanding conditions or new formats that don’t allow drs, f£rrari and m£rc, have both failed to capitalize on Sundays and beat Max for 8 straight races. Thats because rb19 is not a drs powered rocket, its simply the best ground effect car in f1, and the drs is a result of that, not the other way around.

So. What IS the purpose of a drs quali ban? Whats the justification for something like that? Wud they bring up 'entertainment value' or, worse, attempt to make it about 'competition'? And what type of message does that send to these other teams, to fans and drivers, and the culture of f1 in general, about the grids own competence, or lack thereof?