The F1 Thread

[Tredman]

Fantastic driving from Lewis, absolutely on the edge.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Well that was unexpected. I think the Merc upgrade might be rather good. Without that slide at Vale I reckon he would have been half a second clear. Astounding!

 

[The Bear]

Good qualifying. All feels a bit anti-climactic though as its not for the main race.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Depends. You aren’t going to see people risk binning it at the first corner but faster cars out of position are going to get their elbows out to try and advance on the grid. It’s an interesting experiment.

 

[Nando]

If Lewis wasn't quickest here, it was basically game over. They've farmed Silverstone in the turbo era.

Brilliant from Russell.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Russell is a top four driver in a caravan. Toto needs to bring him in this close season.

 

[The Bear]

Sprint race incoming in 10 mins.

Gonna have to watch this instead of Wolves.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Bottas on softs. Interesting.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Fucking hell this isn’t dull!

 

[The Bear]

Fucking hell this isn’t dull!

Well, the first two laps weren't...

 

[Nando]

Those people saying Alonso was finished a couple of months back...

That was magic.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Perez bins it

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Some superb midfield action. Really enjoying this.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Thoroughly enjoyed that.

 

[The Bear]

Ended up being decent enough. Gives scope to mix a few places up and provides some racing on both Saturday and Sunday.

The fact that tyre choices are open for both Saturday and Sunday is the big thing for me.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Merc have lost pole but they have learned that the Red Bull is going to chomp through mediums even more than their car for tomorrow.

 

[jlo]

Thought it was entertaining enough, but think if they keep it into next year it will be even better given (hopefully) cars can follow each other closer. Seems that Brawn is sure we'll keep some form of it, given it adds entertainment value over a race weekend

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Hmmm. So the sprint is 100km at full race pace. Do that over a 24 race season and it’s the equivalent of 8 extra full GP in the calendar. Will the cars be allowed extra power unit and gearbox changes before grid penalties to account for this?

Also a sprint race at Monaco or Hungaroring really will be a train as overtaking is as good as impossible at both circuits. It could be brilliant at somewhere like Interlagos though.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Personally I think the grid penalty on Russell is harsh as fuck.

 

[Tredman]

Wtf is this 3pm start nonsense?