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Post by Del Boy on Aug 2, 2021 12:31:52 GMT
Great snaps from Silverstone Gene. Looked a great day out in fantastic weather, the racing didn't disappoint either. Hungarian G.P Another action packed enjoyable race ! Such drama. Bottas got it wrong yesterday and Red Bull again get a bad slice of luck having two cars tagged. For the collisions caused by Bottas he quite rightly gets a grid penalty next time out . Lance Stroll was also handed a grid penalty for the next race. Lando Norris and Leclerc also lost out from the opening lap incident, both suffering an enforced DNF . Mercedes strategists got it oh so wrong with Hamilton at the re-start but redeemed themselves not long after with the call to early stop and got a jump into the midfield. Impressive stuff from the Red Bull team to make some repairs to Max's damaged car in the short break before the restart. Nico Rosberg, co-commentating on Sky yesterday estimated the Verstappen damage would cost him 0.5 second per lap and he was right with that. Ultimately Verstappen did well to get some points after the first lap carnage. Hamilton drove well yesterday but Alonso was his equal giving a masterclass of defending over their 10 lap battle. The public thought the same voting Alonso driver of the day. True to form Hamilton gets lucky again with Vettel's Disqualification and a points boost ! That was disappointing for Aston Martin considering Vettel performed really well in the race to bag second. Aston Martin have appealed but I can't see them overturning the ruling seeing as the FIA couldn't get the required 1 litre fuel sample from the car. Ocon deserved his win with a great drive under pressure from the quicker Vettel. I though both Williams drove well yesterday and had a good result. We head into the summer break and I hope this season has thrilling races on its return.
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Post by Batgirl on Aug 9, 2021 7:43:33 GMT
I enjoyed Del Boy's summary of the Hungarian race.
I didn't get to watch the race live this time, but decided to check the results late, expecting to see the usual names in the top three. When I saw Ocon's name first I thought and then Vettel second . Of course there were changes made to the placements based on Vettel's use of fuel. What a shame !
And what a shame Alonso didn't make it to the podium. That was a really tense exciting episode with him and Hamilton.
Seeing Ocon and Vettel having to run down the track to get to the podium was funny. It sort of made it more special, like an Olympics race !
Sometimes I think they should have a F1 race just of the middle rated teams, then a race of just the bottoms, then the usual four top drivers.
Then based on who came where that's the qualifying grid. OR draw the grid placements out of a hat each week ! Well it'd be different.
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Post by Del Boy on Aug 9, 2021 10:34:25 GMT
I hope we get more drama like the last race, Batgirl. That race really had some entertaining action.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Aug 27, 2021 11:00:50 GMT
The action is back in Belgium and here's the story of FP1.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Aug 29, 2021 10:52:19 GMT
Here's the rundown of quali from Spa from yesterday.
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Post by Batgirl on Aug 29, 2021 12:04:18 GMT
I am so happy that George Russell has a good grid position. He just seems such a deserving talented driver in a second rate car. Second in qualifying. Good luck George ! Gosh Lando was lucky that his crash wasn't worse. The weather is crazy.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Aug 29, 2021 21:40:17 GMT
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Post by Gene Hunt on Aug 30, 2021 7:14:53 GMT
A total farce. Had I have been a spectator in Spa yesterday I would certainly want a full refund. My thoughts in a spoiler below. Gene {>Spoiler<} With the cars not completing a single lap in anger (without the safety car) then in my opinion NO POINTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARDED. It's my belief that the cars were only sent out for the second time just to fulfil the regulation 'race distance'. To clarify - I do not think the race should have gone ahead at all in those conditions. Conditions were worse than they were during qualifying and look what happened to poor Lando Norris in Q3 - much to the anger of Seb Vettel who more and more these days is becoming the voice of reason. I echo the words of Lewis and a few other drivers who have spoken out against the decisions made yesterday and encouraged the organisers to refund the fans who stood in the appalling weather all day for nothing. On a side note, the podium presentation that still went ahead also told a story. That story being that Max Verstappen still has a lot of growing up to do - and I say that as a big Max Verstappen fan myself. During the champaign spraying, Hamilton tried to get involved with Max but Max didn't want to know, repeatedly turning his back on Lewis. There will always be mixed opinions as to who was at fault at Silverstone but whatever happened, it was time to move on from that some weeks ago.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Aug 30, 2021 8:36:59 GMT
Totally agree Gene. By all means it wasn't really safe to 'race' but a two or so lap drive with the safety car wasn't a half race either. Yes Australia (Adelaide "91), Canada and Malaysia have had similar downpours but at least some kind of racing happened to justify it (Canada in particular) unlike a couple of laps or so under safety car. It's benefited a few drivers but even so the consensus is it wasn't a race from most of the drivers yesterday. Points or not isn't the issue fans didn't really see a race yesterday and after all the Covid related stuff of the last 18 months surely F1 can compensate them, IMHO they should. Here's to Holland hopefully without the rain.
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Post by Steve Austin on Aug 30, 2021 17:05:48 GMT
A total farce. Had I have been a spectator in Spa yesterday I would certainly want a full refund. My thoughts in a spoiler below. Gene {>Spoiler<} With the cars not completing a single lap in anger (without the safety car) then in my opinion NO POINTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARDED. It's my belief that the cars were only sent out for the second time just to fulfil the regulation 'race distance'. To clarify - I do not think the race should have gone ahead at all in those conditions. Conditions were worse than they were during qualifying and look what happened to poor Lando Norris in Q3 - much to the anger of Seb Vettel who more and more these days is becoming the voice of reason. I echo the words of Lewis and a few other drivers who have spoken out against the decisions made yesterday and encouraged the organisers to refund the fans who stood in the appalling weather all day for nothing. On a side note, the podium presentation that still went ahead also told a story. That story being that Max Verstappen still has a lot of growing up to do - and I say that as a big Max Verstappen fan myself. During the champaign spraying, Hamilton tried to get involved with Max but Max didn't want to know, repeatedly turning his back on Lewis. There will always be mixed opinions as to who was at fault at Silverstone but whatever happened, it was time to move on from that some weeks ago.
Gene. Couldn't agree with you more Gene, what a farce. As soon as they went out the final time I knew they'd do the minimum laps to get a result. How can that stand? Talk about a hollow victory. As for Max, he needs to grow up. As the ticket says, "Motorsport is dangerous" and incidents will like that will happen, he alone should know that. Lucklily, the BTCC was also on yesterday and that more than made up for the non race in Belgium, some fantastic racing at Thruxton.
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