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LeClerc will be pissed that Vettle didn't let him past, it has cost him the win I believe. Ferrari didn't deliberately stop Vettle, why would they? It is a team sport and as a team they don't really care who comes first out of their drivers, they just want the maximum points for the team.

Another great race for McLaren with both cars in front of the sole Renault, Not good for the factory team.
 
Well done Lewis, winning against the faster Ferrari, good strategy from Merc on the tyres.
Yes, they gave themselves the option of a different strategy in qualifying with the soft tyres yesterday while Ferrari went super-soft. The gamble was if there would be a safety car and here in Russia there was a good chance
 
There is talk that Haas may sell the team and not continue into 2021 with the new rules, I think it will depend on how the new rules play out

I can't workout how or why Vettel got DotD, for sure Albon starting from the pit lane and finishing 5th had by far the best drive

No putin?
I didn't see Bernie, was he there?
 
Sorry Limejuice I got impatient :(

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Race is 04:30 on Sunday (13/10) :eek:
The 04:30 kick-off is Sky's coverage start. There's 90 minutes of bollocks before the race.

The lights go out at 06:10, which is late enough to get up, take the pooch for a hike, re-paint a living room and complete a tax return before cosying up to the dulcet tones of Nico Fucking Rosberg.

Easy peasy.
 
So how have Ferrari achieved such gains with their engine power during the course of this season? Dieter Rencken thinks he might know:

A contact suggests the secret to Ferrari’s sudden performance turnaround – particularly on the engine side – is down to a cunning trick. He believes Ferrari is running a pressurised oil-to-air intercooler, enabling oil mist to ‘leak’ into the combustion chamber during forced induction.

Doing this would allow Ferrari to recreate the ‘oil-burn’ which the FIA has tried to stamp out with successive rules tweaks and strict monitoring of engine oil consumption. “Intercooler oil is not monitored,” he winks.

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must admit i'm slighty sad by the news that Robert was sacrificed for parts

he spent over 10 years trying to get back into F1 unless it mechanical they could of let him finish every race

Williams must be in a piss poor state

sad to see

:(
 
I expect they can fit brollies onto the cars, so let's assume the F1 goes ahead without interruption from anything as trivial as a typhoon.

The UK times are a tad challenging for dedicated petrolheads:

Fri 11 Oct

FP1 - 02:00
FP2 - 06:00

Sat 12 Oct
FP3 - 04:00
Qual - 07:00

Sun 13 Oct

Race - 06:10

Vroom.

:)
 
According to my fingers and toes, that's about 7 inches of rain on race day.

Which should take all the guesswork out of tyre strategy.

I'm also picturing events in the Ferrari garage...

Vettel [to Leclerc]: Rain? Hold my beer, sonny.

:)
 
Too much rain on Saturday or Sunday and the race could potentially be delayed to Monday or Tuesday - there is at least a two week gap to Mexico. But if super high winds rip the circuit infrastructure apart and cause loss of life among the local population, then the race could be abandoned.

Strangely my weather app thinks a calm 1-5m/s is in prospect for the weekend, so does that mean the winds will have dispersed but the water whipped up into the atmosphere will be falling?
 
Too much rain on Saturday or Sunday and the race could potentially be delayed to Monday or Tuesday - there is at least a two week gap to Mexico. But if super high winds rip the circuit infrastructure apart and cause loss of life among the local population, then the race could be abandoned.

Strangely my weather app thinks a calm 1-5m/s is in prospect for the weekend, so does that mean the winds will have dispersed but the water whipped up into the atmosphere will be falling?
Where's Michael Fish when we need him?
 
Makes me wonder what effect a 160mph headwind would have on the performance on an F1 car.

And, conversely, what effect a 160mph tailwind would have...
 
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