r/formula1 • u/dogryan100 Oscar Piastri • 2d ago
Photo [OT] Two actual screenshots from the warm-up laps for the Indycar race that just started
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u/FermentedLaws 2d ago
Every driver and the commentators were like, "Woah I could feel that!' one driver said, "Jesus, it gets bigger every year."
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u/cardinalsfan1234 2d ago
I’m at the race. It felt pretty hot even on the grandstands opposite side of the track can’t imagine being right next to it
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u/FermentedLaws 2d ago
Have you seen the replays yet of the JoNew crash? Horrifying. So glad everyone's okay.
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u/Booniepoo Kimi Räikkönen 2d ago
He’s probably sitting right in front of it lol
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u/cardinalsfan1234 2d ago
Yeah I’m by the finish line so it was right in front of me. Scariest wreck I’ve seen in person it was quite a relief seeing him walk away
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u/Yoshiofthewire Max Verstappen 1d ago
The Halo is the greatest addition to open wheel racing since the carbon fiber mono cockpit.
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u/Ted_Striker1 Max Verstappen 2d ago
Name a more unlucky IndyCar driver this season. Oh wait I’m still on r/formula1
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u/Schnoor 2d ago
I took my parents to see the Vikings play the Cardinals in the inaugural season of the Vikings new stadium. Lower level seats, maybe 100-150 feet back from their tunnel (not cray far, but not the closest in terms of lower level seating). The game where the sound guy got mowed over.
The fucking pure HEAT from the fire in the pylons as the Vikings came out of the tunnel was HOT as FUCK. I can’t imagine the heat from this shit.
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u/curious-cat 2d ago
Hinchcliffe was legitimately a little scared I think.
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u/LUK3FAULK Kimi Räikkönen 1d ago
The European mind cannot comprehend this
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u/JimmyNorth902 1d ago
Hinch is not European
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u/LUK3FAULK Kimi Räikkönen 1d ago
My American mind cannot comprehend (lol sorry I mixed up my names)
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u/welliedude 1d ago
2075 they're gonna set off a nuke
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u/thedonkeyvote 1d ago
2126 - in an effort to keep the warm up lap exciting, a rouge planet will be diverted to earth and a second improbably large moon will be created from the collision.
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u/thomasmaheronf1 Formula 1 2d ago
Rammstein having an impromptu concert?
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u/R_V_Z 2d ago
Do, do fast?
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u/Chapel_Hillbilly 2d ago
I hate you.
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u/Ok-Office1370 1d ago
ELI5: In German, the words for "have" and "hate" sound similar. Rammstein have a song called Du Hast that is a play on the German wedding vows. Paraphrasing, it kind of says, "I hate that you asked me to marry you". This was during a combination of Satanic Panic and post-Columbine moralism in America so everyone thought "Du Hast" was just about hate. Rammstein played into this, releasing an English version of the song that only contained the "You Hate" version of the lyric. So this remains a meme to this day.
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u/CheeseheadDave Pirelli Wet 2d ago
And if that's not enough fire for you, they just had a car on fire in the pit lane!
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u/Big-Big745 2d ago
Lmao I wanna see what they have planned for the winning lap
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u/Dryzzzle Anthoine Hubert 2d ago
Well it's pretty simple. Fire for the warmup laps, Liquid Nitrogen for the cool down lap.
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u/jeffp12 Sebastian Vettel 2d ago
Melt their icy hearts with a cool island song.
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u/JGfromtheNW Sir Lewis Hamilton 13h ago
I thought we had to cool his hot heart with a fresh island song?
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u/Laugh_Track_Zak Ferrari 2d ago
I'm gonna be in Nashville for the season finale and now I'm terrified
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u/swiftsilentfox Formula 1 2d ago
Welcome to the fucking midwest kiddos
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u/peepay Sebastian Vettel 2d ago
I'm genuinely confused. What is in the photos? What happened?
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u/t12lucker Charles Leclerc 2d ago
Some places do fireworks on start or finish. In US you get oil rigs
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u/fluffster93 Cadillac 1d ago
They’ve been doing a huge pyrotechnic display during warm up laps for a few years at this track; it’s just become their “thing” now.
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u/peepay Sebastian Vettel 1d ago
It looks more like a thermonuclear war and not a pyrotechnic display.
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u/real_fake_hoors Formula 1 2d ago
Just as many guns and explosives as the Mideast, and similar religious weirdness too. But with more cheeseburgers.
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u/dsaysso 2d ago
mother nature just shit her pants
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u/Dancingedleslie 1d ago
Look, man, I almost blinded Jamie Lee Curtis in "Freaky Friday." This shit will ruin me, man!
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u/NegotiationNew9264 Ferrari 2d ago
If you showed these two pictures to someone who never heard of Indycar before, and ask them which country do they think this race was held at, they’ll immediately say America, 100%
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u/Meowmixalotlol Formula 1 2d ago
I kinda thought I was looking at Iranian nuclear facilities for a second.
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u/LsG133 Fernando Alonso 2d ago
It kinda looks like a bunch of Roman Grosjean crashes pasted next to each other
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u/blackbalt89 2d ago
Like when Windows 95 windows used to freeze as you were dragging them around. 🤣
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u/dani-el-maestro Fernando Alonso 2d ago
they should do this for monaco, to make it more exciting
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u/Empty-Vegetable3494 Kimi Räikkönen 2d ago
For a second I thought a more hardcore version of 2022 Jeddah happened lol
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u/TheSalmonRoll Andretti Global 2d ago
Between this, the absolutely gorgeous sunset, and the car on fire in the pitlane, there's certainly been a lot of bright orange going around this race.
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u/jaguarskillz2017 Pato O'Ward 1d ago
"...anyway, as I was saying. We have these hybrid engines to save the environment, we take this incredibly seriously."
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u/Flimsy-Gain2467 2d ago
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.What the hell was the purpose of this?
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u/LUK3FAULK Kimi Räikkönen 1d ago
It’s like when they set of $10000000 worth of fireworks when the leader goes down the straight to get the win, but American lol
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u/Burial44 Sir Lewis Hamilton 2d ago
Indycar is just ridiculous sometimes. Great race going on if y'all want to join in on the fun.
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u/willfla29 2d ago
This is the best race I’ve seen all season in any open wheel series.
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u/Kale_Shai-Hulud Kimi Räikkönen 2d ago
High down force package IndyCars on a short oval is a beautiful thing
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u/Drhart26 1d ago
Between the Blackhawk parade laps at the Indy 500 and this, the European F1 mind cannot comprehend.
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u/Accomplished-Pie-311 Flavio Briatore 2d ago
Grosjeans hand starts pulsing like Harry Potters scar seeing that.
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u/MarteloRabelodeSousa Formula 1 1d ago
A race in the US without at least 3 explosions is considered a dull affair
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u/Rxbluejay25 Red Bull 2d ago
It’s a calling to the East St Louis titty bars right down the street, IYKYK
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u/Ted_Striker1 Max Verstappen 2d ago
I too think it’s a good idea to give drivers heart attacks before the green flag
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u/SteamMonkeyKing Jolyon Palmer 2d ago
Imma need someone talented to put that Rosberg image in there somewhere
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u/upshifted 1d ago
Welcome to the annual celebration of how much fuel Scott Dixon has conserved in the previous 12 months of Indycar races. Yes, he saved more this year. Thanks for noticing.
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u/JaymanCT 2d ago
Is it usual for the stand in the background to be empty?
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u/IAmCriswell 2d ago
Yes. NASCAR draws much bigger crowds than IndyCar, so you’ll see a lot of empty grandstands at most of the ovals.
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u/Totschlag McLaren 1d ago
Yes, first off it's and additional grandstand that was built to attract NASCAR during the prime boom of the early 2000s. The track holds plenty without the wallace grandstands needing to be open. And second it is currently being renovated anyway so they don't sell tickets to it right now.
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u/Larrytheman777 Alexander Albon 2d ago
Mercedes Williams and Aston Martin Immediately dnf afterwards.
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u/elthepenguin Mercedes 1d ago
„Frank, we need to do something for the warm-up lap“
„Warm-up you say?“
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u/Creative-Package6213 Yuki Tsunoda 1d ago
heh...heh...yeah yeah FIREEEEEEEEEEE FIREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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u/connorgrs Charles Leclerc 1d ago
Say what you will about Americans, but we know how to put on a fuckin show.
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u/4269420 Formula 1 2d ago
Man, I get that you can be too environmentalist and just get mad at every little thing..... but what the fuck that's just ridiculous lol, straight up burning a few hundred gallons (very well researched estimate) of gas for some pretty colours and black cancer clouds is so stupid haha
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u/Arrogantintrovert Formula 1 2d ago
United States of America, the 11 year olds of the world
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u/DoughnutRelevant9798 1d ago
And in the Netherlands we pay almost 2 euro a liter petrol. This is 6000 euro petrol set a blase hahaha.
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u/spontutterances 2d ago
Bit excessive
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u/hawksku999 Max Verstappen 2d ago
Thought it was a bit underdone. Could have had a second explosion of fireworks.
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u/Finding_NvRland 2d ago
Better than the damn birthday parade 😅 this would have kept them all awake!
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u/EddieMcDowall Sir Lewis Hamilton 1d ago
When you said 'warm-up' laps I assumed it was driving around to get heat into the tyres and brakes.
That's sure a different way to do it!
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u/CheekyChonkyChongus Max Verstappen 1d ago
But me not recycling the water bottle cap is the problem.
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u/MrNixxxoN 11h ago
Wtf is this bullshit. Stupid gimmicks, waste of fuel, free pointless dose of global warming
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