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Last season's fastest pit stop was apparently Ferrari/Vettel at just 1.97 second Try to comprehend that

Don't pay too much attention to it; it's just an additional standalone sponsor's (DHL) award and doesn't have anything to do with actual F1 championship standings!

Here's pit stop times from the last round in Bahrain. It's just hundredth of a second differences at the top

They also refuel in NASCAR while there's no refueling in F1 (there was in the past but it's been banned) so the times are obviously a bit longer but the actual pitstop in NASCAR not including the pit entry and exit drives is also around 10-15 seconds at most for all four tyres + refueling and much less if they just change two tyres or just do splash and go.

The fastest rendezvous and docking with the ISS mission is successful! Also this is proper rocket porn:

Not too often but exactly the same thing happened to Haas and Grosjean AGAIN in this year's race in Melbourne as well

Exciting!

Progress cargo ship launch on Soyuz to the ISS is live; T-10 minutes as of now.

I need a vomiting emoji reaction to properly respond to this.

NASA announced top three designs in the competition for future Mars habitats.

Been looking forward to it for quite a while now; actually thought they were unsuccessful and just quietly abandoned the project. Good to hear that they actually manage to capture something and it's apparently "groundbreaking" I'm eager to see it!

Another good day of testing for Mick!

For me as a kid watching him drive the car was pure magic; raw speed, his driving style and especially his cornering technique, also his incredible performances on a wet track in the rain. I also loved his confidence and determination; he seemed to radiate authority and command respect with his presence alone. For sure he had quite a few highly controversial moments on the track and while I wasn't proud of them, I was still always impressed with his sheer will to win, his hunger and resilience. I can definitely understand how that could come across as arrogance, especially combined with his privacy and "cold" interviews, but for me there was a fine line there which he didn't cross and seeing how well he treated his mechanics and other team members and later hearing first hand accounts on how he treated people in general only cemented his status as a legend to me.

I had a Michael Schumacher Thermoskanne that I brought with me everywhere I went

As I said before, Michael Schumacher will always be my #1. Have been to various racing tracks, especially often in Nürburgring, but never for an F1 race. I love F1 but for live viewing I much prefer the likes of VLN or GT Masters or any other GT/sportscars race event as it's much cheaper and way more personal with free access to the pits, drivers, cars and whatnot.

Geez don't promote that shite

The podcast was meh though

No current American drivers in F1. There's one in F2 (Juan Manuel Correa) who is Ecuadorian-American but he's racing under the US flag and license. As for the second question, that's why I mentioned the Andretti family before Mario Andretti was a great driver and even won one F1 championship. His son competed in F1 later in the 90s but struggled.

Charles Leclerc for sure. There's no such thing as relegation or promotion; you have 10 teams (also called constructors as each team is required to build their own chassis) at the moment taking part in F1, each team has two cars/two drivers. Most teams have their own driver academies or driver development schemes where they sponsor young upcoming drivers in lower feeder series. F1 is the highest class of single-seater motor racing. F2 is one step below on the ladder; then you have various F3 series below that, then F4 series, then various karting competitions etc. They all differ in organisation and rules and regulations but essentially, those junior formula series are spec series, meaning that all cars in the series are essentially the same so there's better opportunities for young drivers to demonstrate their skills hoping to make impression to climb through those junior single-seater ranks and "graduate" into F1 eventually.

Formula 1: Drive to Survive https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890

Also Tommy's idea of watching the Netflix series might be a good idea as well for introduction into it!

If you're looking for an American connection then you could start with Haas as they are the first American team to compete in F1 since the 80s.

ESPN absolutely shows it! They use Sky Sports F1 coverage. https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/26082657/espn-f1-tv-broadcast-schedule-2019 Also Formula 1 offers an official online subscription service to F1TV Pro where all F1 races (including all practice and qualifying sessions as well as all supporting series) are being broadcast live. In the US that costs 10$ a month or 80$ a year.

Phew, that's a relief US motorsports scene has so much more to offer than just NASCAR... IndyCar for example; similar to F1 in terms that it's open wheel single seater racing but less technically complicated and unlike F1 it's a spec chassis series. Very entertaining as now they only have a few oval tracks on the calendar and way more regular road tracks with a lot of wheel to wheel racing and action. Also IMSA Sportscar championship which features prototype and GT cars of different classes racing together; it offers very competitive entertaining races with many different manufacturers and good drivers.

Yeah but you can't expect someone who's not into motorsports to have a clue who he is despite him also being American I wonder if @Eco has heard of Andretti family though I also reckon he should join us by getting into F1 and starting following Haas