F1 2024 Season

Fernando Alonso: "The truth is that I was coming for Pole. So it hurts"

"When you have an opportunity like today, you try to do as much as possible. I was eight tenths better than in Q2".
 
Verstappen could start P14 or P13 as Hamilton just said in a interview he wants to start from pitlane (so they can make setup changes).
 
dinostar77 said:
Verstappen could start P14 or P13 as Hamilton just said in an interview he wants to start from pitlane (so they can make setup changes).
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If it’s wet (and it obviously will be), Hamilton will need to have changes to his car. It literally wasn’t turning in sector 2. He was like 2 seconds off the pace alone in that sector.
 
Williams just issued a statement, they are intending to get both cars onto the grid for the start of the race.

Will be amazing if they pull that off especially for Albion
 
Just as we all thought, RedBull talking bollocks about water cooling tyres.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/...amid-f1-tyre-cooling-trick-intrigue/10670080/

"...Pirelli has seen no evidence of anything unusual in how teams are running their tyres amid the latest tech intrigue in F1 over a potential water cooling trick..."

"..Pirelli itself says that, following its chats with the FIA, it is more than happy to do anything it can to help any probe – but says that initial analysis has not pointed to anything untoward taking place.

Mario Isola, its head of F1 and car racing, said: “I cannot see anything strange from the data we have. I don't have any evidence..."
 
Watch them not pit lane start Hamilton, something is clearly up with his car because it looked positively evil. Fair play to George hauling it to 2nd, but they can’t be working from the same parts or setup configuration.

If Hamilton is 2 seconds off in the wet, something isn’t right.
 
Max in a massive strop in that interview, wonder if his team will tell him to go chill, we know what he's like when he's cross. Or will they add to the poor Max narrative and fuel him more

I have a feeling he may win, he's excellent in the wet, but needs to keep his cool

I'm hoping for a DNF to keep the championship exciting
 
Great qualifying to watch to be fair. Lots of drama and a bit of a jumbled up grid as a result.

Super annoying there's so much overlap between the race an our game today though. If we even get a race. Lando will be hoping we do of course.
 
Leg-End said:
Watch them not pit lane start Hamilton, something is clearly up with his car because it looked positively evil. Fair play to George hauling it to 2nd, but they can’t be working from the same parts or setup configuration.

If Hamilton is 2 seconds off in the wet, something isn’t right.
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They aren't running the exactly the same parts. They are running the same floor, not the Silverstone one but the Austin floor. However changes have been made floors between both cars as Mercedes wanted to experiment this weekend with the floor (if it was dry) as something is causing random airflow disconnect between the floor and beam wing, so they are getting random snap oversteer.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/m...re committed,works on improving its stability.

This was an issue Ferrari had before the summer break and they had to reduce the downforce the floor created as the current mechanical suspension couldnt cope. So they are rebuilding their rear suspension geometry in the off-season and will go a push rod rather than pull rod suspension. McLaren, Redbull etc, all run push rod suspension.
 
United Hobbit said:
Max in a massive strop in that interview, wonder if his team will tell him to go chill, we know what he's like when he's cross. Or will they add to the poor Max narrative and fuel him more

I have a feeling he may win, he's excellent in the wet, but needs to keep his cool

I'm hoping for a DNF to keep the championship exciting
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A DNF for Verstappen and a Norris win, cuts the lead down to 18points, with 3 races to go and one being a sprint.

That will make the remaining 3 races the most tense F1 races since 2021 season.
 
I'm a pretty casual F1 fan so I don't really know where to turn for news in a wacky race weekend like this one.

Do we know what the odds are looking like of us getting a full race/any race/Spa 2-laps-behind-SC-farce or is it all still up in the air?
 
Lewis seems to start also from the pitlane due to setup changes according to Simon Lazenby.
 
Max to start from p17 with a few blank spots between him and rest of field? Heh
 

Verstappen to start in 17th​

News from the FIA that Max Verstappen will, in fact, start in 17th as his engine penalty is applied after everything else.
Alex Albon's seventh-place grid box will be left empty.
 
1450GMT: Light, intermittent rain currently\. However, forecasters for the FIA have warned teams of an increasing risk of moderate to periodically heavier rain arriving from the north from around 1230 local\.\.\. ie, race start.
 
I dont want it to be dry, but want to see a race so if we could have an in-between happy medium please
 
How many laps do we need completed for maximum points to be awarded? It's half points upto a certain race distance.

They changed the rules after the farce of spa 2021, when Verstappen got full points and we only ran 3 laps in the GP.
 
dinostar77 said:
How many laps do we need completed for maximum points to be awarded? It's half points upto a certain race distance.

They changed the rules after the farce of spa 2021, when Verstappen got full points and we only ran 3 laps in the GP.
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Nope.
 
dinostar77 said:
How many laps do we need completed for maximum points to be awarded? It's half points upto a certain race distance.

They changed the rules after the farce of spa 2021, when Verstappen got full points and we only ran 3 laps in the GP.
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Odds on red flag on lap 1?
 
Interesting what tyres they go for. Could Verstappen go for the slicks?
 
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