11 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

It's official I am braver than an F1 driver as my commute tonight involved driving on the M1 in heavy spray made worse by lots of HGV with zero vision yet drivers even better than me were speeding past.........perhaps one was indeed Sir Jackie who I met in 1993 at Silverstone.

Did you ever try the old A74. Officially Britain's most dangerous trunk road.

 

Horrendous narrow dual carriageway, with awful standing water and old style T junctions to join it.

 

The long needed replacement motorway North from the M6 must have saved countless lives.

 

 

Edited 9 October, 20205 yr by camelspyyder

1 minute ago, camelspyyder said:

Did you ever try the old A74. Officially Britain's most dangerous trunk road.

 

Horrendous narrow dual carriageway, with awful standing water and old style T junctions to join it.

 

The long needed replacement motorway North from the M6 must have saved countless lives.

 

 

If it was on the approach to Glasgow then probably because me and a mate went on a week's golfing trip around Scotland in August 1990 in his new Honda powered Rover 216GSi with a heady 120bhp.

Happy birthday Murray Walker 97 today. 

Bottas deserved that pole and important for Lewis to join him on the front row for tomorrow's race just edging out Max in 3rd. Ferrari showing improvement with 4th for Charles. Max and Lewis went slower in Q3 whereas Bottas went faster.

Well that was entertaining.

 

Cold weather effected the tyres and reliability greatly, but the cynical deployment of the safety car really hurt  those who at the time had a tyre advantage.

Perez was odds on for a podium until the SC gave Riccardo a free stop for fresh rubber.

 

I initially thought the stewards also boobed penalising Albo; all he did was pass a car that had  just run off the track.

However, he has form for hitting cars that he has just passed (Hamilton's for one) and getting away with it, so maybe it was about time his card was marked.

Not sure why Kimi and Seb are even starting races now if they are not capable of beating their team mates or even collecting 1 point for a top ten finish.

Great effort from the Hulk after no practice.

17 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

Well that was entertaining.

 

Cold weather effected the tyres and reliability greatly, but the cynical deployment of the safety car really hurt  those who at the time had a tyre advantage.

Perez was odds on for a podium until the SC gave Riccardo a free stop for fresh rubber.

 

I initially thought the stewards also boobed penalising Albo; all he did was pass a car that had  just run off the track.

However, he has form for hitting cars that he has just passed (Hamilton's for one) and getting away with it, so maybe it was about time his card was marked.

Yep, David Coulthard got it right yesterday, asking aloud when Derek Warwick had last raced, after Albon chopped in front of Ghasly. He raced in a different era. I also cynically wondered if the stewards would have penalised Hamilton had he been in "F*$k you to my critics" Bottas's place at the first bend, following the start, where Bottas came from way off the track to push back in front of Hamilton, such is the F1 propensity to try to even the odds/spice up a predictable race. I loved Albon's comment " They race me so hard" err yes that's their job and his spectacular hard-nosed overtakes have resulted to a few incidents, such as Hamiltion being penalised in Austria.

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Martin Brundle mentioned that he thought the Albon comment of "they race me so hard" was a reference to the battle he was having with his sister team mates at Alpha Tauri. It appears he thought he had right of way with the second division Red Bull team (and perhaps his next berth for an F1 drive after this season).

On 12/10/2020 at 15:54, Lady Elanore said:

Martin Brundle mentioned that he thought the Albon comment of "they race me so hard" was a reference to the battle he was having with his sister team mates at Alpha Tauri. It appears he thought he had right of way with the second division Red Bull team (and perhaps his next berth for an F1 drive after this season).

 

Current speculation has a new RB Japanese protege alongside Gasly next year.

 

Markos comments this week seem to mean Albon needs to prove himself a better option than Hulk or Perez from a points scoring in the constructors PoV.

 

Indeed RB already asked Hulk to sub this weekend when Albons Covid test was inconclusive.

 

Albon might not get a "next berth". I'd say he's skirting with the RedBull scrap heap at the moment. Kvyat looks to be already there.

HAAS F1 Team announce they are letting both their paid drivers leave at the end of this season. Looks likely that Russian F2 driver Mazepin will be financially backed by his Billionaire father (ring any bells) who has supported his career so far and further speculation Ferrari who supply engines to HAAS may ask Gene Haas to put young Mick Schumacher in the other car with some financial support.

5 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

HAAS F1 Team announce they are letting both their paid drivers leave at the end of this season. Looks likely that Russian F2 driver Mazepin will be financially backed by his Billionaire father (ring any bells) who has supported his career so far and further speculation Ferrari who supply engines to HAAS may ask Gene Haas to put young Mick Schumacher in the other car with some financial support.

Haas might well be thinking of selling up then. Mazepin was the other bidder when Force India was sold to Stroll.

George Russell's seat looking increasingly dodgy for next year. 

 

Perez and his huge bucket of Pesos $$$$$ are talking to new owners Dorilton Capital.

 

 

It's all kicking off in FP2 in Portugal with a spectacular fire for Gasly and Max punting Stroll into the gravel trying to go up the inside into the one line (the racing line ) turn 1. Expect grid penalties to be applied after qualifying for one or both of them but Max Ver-crashin looked the guilty party and more signs of his flawed character and dare I say it petulance.

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18 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Expect grid penalties to be applied after qualifying for one or both of them but Max Ver-crashin looked the guilty party and more signs of his flawed character and dare I say it petulance.

No penalties applied, because it was a misunderstanding between the two drivers 

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"The drivers agreed in the hearing that the incident was the result of a misunderstanding between them and that with hindsight, both could have contributed to avoid the incident."

Crashing into each other is OK, but doing a practice start in the wrong place is a no no.....unless you drive a Ferrari.

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Leclerc made the test start past the so-called Safety Car 2 line, while the drivers have to stay in front of this line to make a practice start. Although it was not allowed, the Monegasque was not penalized

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/69451/leclerc-was-not-penalized-for-a-wrong-test-start-at-spa.html

17 minutes ago, moley said:

Leclerc made the test start past the so-called Safety Car 2 line, while the drivers have to stay in front of this line to make a practice start. Although it was not allowed, the Monegasque was not penalized.

Driving a Ferrari means the rules don't apply to you

Verstappen gets away with punting Perez off, but Stroll repeats his error hitting Norris.

Poor driving and inconsistent stewarding as usual.

Track should be on the F1 schedule every year though, just dial down the DRS a bit.

F1 back at Imola👍👍. Track looks good but needs gravel instead of stupid pretend track limits. Well over 100 laptimes deleted today 🙄.

Next year's calendar out now. Lets see all the progress Liberty are making with their expansion plans and investment.

 

Miami - cancelled

 

Hanoi - cancelled

 

Rio - staying at Interlagos.

 

OK...

 

Ooh I forgot. A not-at-all-controversial new race is planned in Jeddah. 

What with Turkey back on this week, Russia already a feature, I wonder what other authoritarian regimes Liberty will cut deals with?

PyongYang GP anyone??

 

 

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by camelspyyder

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by camelspyyder

Since Monza, Vettel has scored 2 points, Lance Stroll has scored 0 points.

 

A certain Senor Sergio Michel Pérez Mendoza has scored 48 points in the same time period.

 

Indeed he has scored in every race he started this year,

and is currently sat on 82 points from 11 starts versus the 75 points from 25 starts total score by the other 2.

 

So Aston Martin, how's next year's line up choice looking?

 

Same question to Red Bull in fact?

 

 

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by camelspyyder

The F1 Grand Prix from Vietnam in 2021 has been dropped.

On 10/11/2020 at 12:52, e-Roottoot said:

The F1 Grand Prix from Vietnam in 2021 has been dropped.

Yeah George. Along with Miami and Rio.

See my post up there 👆

Cold morning in Istanbul. Hardly anyone getting the tyres to work. 

Bottas 9th, Hamilton 15th, and the field covered by 14 (fourteen) seconds between P1(Max) and P20(George). Fourteen!

Times tumbling now with Albon setting a 1:30 but with only 1 podium in the last year and Perez able to bring lots of sponsorship money to RBR wouldn't be surprised to hear Horner announce his arrival for 2021.