Formula One

[Techyd]

I thought he’d died already 🤣

[Mark Blanchard]

He’s completely out of touch with reality.  To much of the gilded life and an ego the size of a small country.  I think he need to pull up a chair next to Jackie Stewart and tuck into some Victoria sponge.

[drdoom]

More grievously, BE is out of touch with whatever humanity he may have once had. Perhaps an object lesson on the perils inherent in allowing individuals latitude to distance themselves materially so far from the hoi polloi. I think we've seen plenty enough to warrant reframing the basis of citizenship itself.

[pete]

On 30/06/2022 at 09:25, pete said:

Today is supposedly the last day before enforcement of the jewelry ban

Hamilton has removed everything including his nose stud.

[exeterjeep]

Not much reaction on here to this weekends British GP.   

Could hear the cheer from the crowd when Max spun in Q3.   A bit of a lottery in the conditions, assume normal service will resume for the race.

[drdoom]

Will be posting impressions of the Austrian GP as we will be attending next weekend at the Red Bull Ring.

Cheers

[Rambo]

8 hours ago, pete said:

Hamilton has removed everything including his nose stud.

Adding lightness 😉  

It wasn't a good look anyway🤔

PS I wonder if he got rid of the one in his bell end? I wouldn't like to have been the scrotineer (pun intended) for that one 😲

[exeterjeep]

More interesting race than I was expecting, dramatic start, great that no one was injured in the crash, also with the car being stopped by the catch fencing as it leaped over the the barriers.

Looks as if the Ferrari team will have an interesting post race chat.

[scotty435]

In no doubt it was a Lewis win befare the safety car intervention. But great to see Carlos win. For me loved Verstappen getting booed. Great to see nice guys can win.

[pete]

Not impressed with any booing. Any one of the first four could have been driver of the day.

[C8RKH]

Me neither, but seems everyone forgot the booing at Hamilton last year. At least Hamilton came right out with it and said it was wrong straight away.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Bravo73

[Chillidoggy]

Most exciting qualifying!

Only managed to catch the race highlights this morning, but my goodness, even more excitement! I'm sure we're all relieved to hear the Zhou is OK, that crash was frightening to watch, and must have been terrifying from the cockpit. A thrilling end though, some really close racing, with a deserved win for Sainz, despite Ferrari having both legs down one hole of their underpants. I just read that the floor of Max's car was damaged by running over debris from a previous shunt, which explained the poor performance.

Overall the best Silverstone race I've seen for a very long time.

[electro_boy]

What a cracking weekend!  Qualifying was exciting to watch with it really going to down to the final run and a race jammed packed with action!

Fantastic to hear Zhou is doing fine, I saw a picture of the car on its side wedged between the fence and the tyre wall and it looked like a horrible situation be to stuck in.

I think the new regs are certainly working and allowing the cars to follow a bit more and especially in high speed corners leading to closer racing.  If I understood correctly this was the area the old gen cars really struggled as the following car just could not generate anywhere near enough downforce to keep up with the car in front.

As a neutral it was great to see Merc finding some performance and the Red Bulls having some issues which helped bring the top 3 teams together and produce some lovely wheel to wheel action.  I watched the race live but might rewatch the highlights again! 

Edited July 4, 2022 by electro_boy

[C8RKH]

Interesting to Hamilton and LeClerc going through Copse side by side. Indeed a number of instances of that. Yet 12 months ago we had Horner practically accusing Hamilton of murder as you can't go through there two abreast lol 

Great racing though, but Ferrari really do need to sort their tactics out. Having worked for Italian bosses this shit doesn't surprise me, but massively disappointed again for LeClerc. Another gutsy drive by Checco too.

[electro_boy]

Yes we need to Ferrari management to sort their act out.  I agree with their core thinking of let the drivers fight it out but there is some adjustments needed to increase chance of success and reduce risk.  It was good a result for them but it could have been better and with a lower heart rate for me watching! 😄

I think all those drivers fighting over 1/2/3/4 deserved a massive pat on the back.  They put on an amazing show, some proper ballsy moves, very close wheel to wheel racing and mostly kept it all very clean and fair.

I think any other day we would be praising the drive by Checco to recover back to 2nd place but there was just so much action with Sianz taking his maiden win and local boy Hammy wringing out a 3rd place, those stories took the limelight.  I am very impressed by Checco, when he joined the Red Bull team I thought he would be another good Botas type driver but he has shown more skill and commitment and risen in my standings anyway.

 

[windymiller]

stunning race 😁

[mg4lotus]

Nothing went right for Leclerc but it probably wouldn't have made any difference if Ferrari had allowed him to pass Sainz earlier. The safety car caused by Occon would still have bunched the cars up. Should Leclerc have come in for fresh tyres on that safety car? in hindsight, yes.

Hamilton was unlucky, without that safety car he was on newer tyres and starting to catch up the two leading Ferraris on older tyres. He was on for a win.

Perez was lucky as the safety car brought him back into contention.

Exciting race, lot's of action.

[pete]

Perez was driver of the day

[C8RKH]

Well deserved too.

Edited July 4, 2022 by Bravo73

[pete]

Looks like Riccardo is on his way out.            https://thejudge13.com/2022/07/05/ricciardo-given-marching-orders-by-mclaren/

[electro_boy]

Shame, I like the guy but he really has not been competitive with his team mate so understandable if he gets sacked.  Wonder if he can move to another team or if thats him out of F1? 

[Techyd]

He had some stunning races with Red Bull but otherwise has been pretty unnoteworthy for me.  It is a shame as he is a nice guy and is clearly a lot of fun to be around and to interview.

[exeterjeep]

1 hour ago, Techyd said:

he is a nice guy

agree . just like the previous Australian /RB driver. They appear to be reasonable blokes to talk to.

Just see that they can spend some more cash this year with an increase in the budge cap,

[Chillidoggy]

Hamster’s binned his car. Very uncharacteristic of him.

[Chillidoggy]

And Russell off, too.

But Max has pole.