No F1 thread?

[DeskJockey]

Those budgets are ridiculous.

What happened to "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday"?

Now it must be "You have to sell on Monday so we can afford to go racing on Sunday"

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

[PaulJ]

I do wonder whether we will see Alonso back next year. He is not a man who is prone to mistakes and I wonder how close the fight might have been last year with Alonso in the Ferrari v Hamilton in the Merc! When Alonso was in the Italian team, they made a few errors but he didn't from memory.

I suspect it won't happen but he did a second stint with McLaren so who knows.

Won't he be trying to engineer himself into the right car to complete the hat trick of FI champ, Indy and Le Mans winner. From memory that would be a unique set of gongs.

Would be in the modern era Graham Hill did it) but after not qualifying this year I wonder f he is going to look again at what he wants. He may well end up doing a full season of Indycar if he can get into a decent team though.

How appropriate for the forum old git to have forgotten Graham Hill's achievement. I saw him racing in the 1960s too!
Now, what was I going to do next?

[jamcg]

Seems to have been a bad afternoon for the big teams, red bull and Mercedes have got some work to do now, expect verstappen to have a 5 place penalty, looks like a gearbox ruiner

[Orange Cola]

Oooh look, we might get an exciting race!

[Mito Man]

Don't they run a practice gearbox on Fridays? It's usually only Saturday mornings that they end up getting a gearbox penalty during a crash as they fit the race one.

[jamcg]

Don't they run a practice gearbox on Fridays? It's usually only Saturday mornings that they end up getting a gearbox penalty during a crash as they fit the race one.

True, forgot about that......

[Mito Man]

Well Hamilton got a 3 place penalty. And if it’s not Ferrari letting themselves down with shit strategy it’s the car throwing a fit.
Might be a good race tomorrow - we’re certainly overdue one. Then again the faster cars may easily get ahead of the slower ones with DRS and end up with the usual tyre conservation snooze fest.

[Orange Cola]

What’s wrong with Vettels car? I can see someone other than Merc winning this one!

[jamcg]

What’s wrong with Vettels car? I can see someone other than Merc winning this one!

High pressure air line to the engine apparently

[Mito Man]

So Hamilton P4 as Magnussen also has a 5 place penalty. With the second row of the grid locked out there could be another Mercedes victory. But I think it will only happen if Hamilton quickly passes the moving chicane that is his teammate.

[Orange Cola]

I can’t see Merc winning without a Ferrari screw up, LeClerc has the pace to make it happen.

[Zonda_]

Ferrari are desperate to throw away every opportunity aren’t they!

[Mito Man]

Might get a good Hamilton Vettel clash soon!

[Zonda_]

Does Bottas know he’s meant to race the others?

[Mito Man]

LeClerk denied .

[jamcg]

LeClerk denied .

Is it a penalty though, every bloody race at the min

[Mito Man]

LeClerk denied .

Is it a penalty though, every bloody race at the min

Yep, bloody joke.

[Orange Cola]

Anything on the penalty yet, seems to be taking ages to review it...

[Zonda_]

Going to see the stewards at 5pm

[NotoriousREV]

If they give a penalty for this, it would be a fucking travesty. There's plenty of people banging on about "consistency" on the Internets, citing the Vettel/Hamilton incident, as if leaving the track and rejoining in an unsafe manner is in any way the same as fighting for a place and having to yield the corner when you're the car behind and running out of road.