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Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:37 pm
by DeskJockey
DaveE wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:31 pm
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.
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:54 am
by PaulJ
Gavin wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:54 pm
PaulJ wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:28 pm
Gavin wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:24 am
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?
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:53 pm
by 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
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:00 pm
by Orange Cola
Oooh look, we might get an exciting race!
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:55 pm
by 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.
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:23 pm
by jamcg
Mito Man wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:55 pm
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......
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:11 pm
by 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.
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:03 pm
by Orange Cola
What’s wrong with Vettels car? I can see someone other than Merc winning this one!
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 8:32 pm
by jamcg
Orange Cola wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:03 pm
What’s wrong with Vettels car? I can see someone other than Merc winning this one!
High pressure air line to the engine apparently
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:12 pm
by 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.
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 11:21 am
by Orange Cola
I can’t see Merc winning without a Ferrari screw up, LeClerc has the pace to make it happen.
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:41 pm
by Zonda_
Ferrari are desperate to throw away every opportunity aren’t they!
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:49 pm
by Mito Man
Might get a good Hamilton Vettel clash soon!
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:19 pm
by Zonda_
Does Bottas know he’s meant to race the others?
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:33 pm
by Mito Man
LeClerk denied
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Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:36 pm
by jamcg
Mito Man wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:33 pm
LeClerk denied
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Is it a penalty though, every bloody race at the min
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:38 pm
by Mito Man
jamcg wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:36 pm
Mito Man wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:33 pm
LeClerk denied
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Is it a penalty though, every bloody race at the min
Yep, bloody joke.
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:29 pm
by Orange Cola
Anything on the penalty yet, seems to be taking ages to review it...
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:54 pm
by Zonda_
Going to see the stewards at 5pm
Re: No F1 thread?
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:24 pm
by 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.
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