F1 2021
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Good to see an exciting sprint race. The last one was awful.
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F1 Starting Grid 2021 Brazilian GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Lap Time |
| 1 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 29:09.559 |
| 2 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | +1.170s |
| 3 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | +18.723s |
| 4 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | +19.787s |
| 5 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | +22.558s |
| 6 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | +25.056s |
| 7 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | +34.158s |
| 8 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | +34.632s |
| 9 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | +34.867s |
| 10 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | +20.872s |
| 11 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | +35.869s |
| 12 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | +36.578s |
| 13 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo | +41.880s |
| 14 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | +44.037s |
| 15 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | +46.150s |
| 16 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | +46.760s |
| 17 | 63 | George Russell | Williams | +47.739s |
| 18 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo | +50.014s |
| 19 | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Haas | +61.680s |
| 20 | 9 | Nikita Mazepin | Haas | +67.474 |
It good to see that Lewis starts infront of Danny Ric and Alonso, they are both hard to pass, he just needs to avoid trouble at the start and stay infront of then and push forward as fast as he can. Come on Lewis you get get some really good points here. And for fuck sake lets here someone explain what Interlagos means, if anyone here has Twitter @crofty and ask him if he knows what Interlagos means
LOL
1%er
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Toto is pissed
The intense 2021 title battle is only getting more fiery and controversial as the track action heats up in Brazil. On Saturday, the major talking point was the separate stewards investigations involving championship protagonists Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. After securing pole on Friday, Mercedes’ Hamilton was disqualified for a breach of the size of the DRS opening slot on his rear wing. But Red Bull’s Verstappen was also given a hefty slap on the wrist with a EUR 50,000 fine for touching the offending rear wing as Hamilton celebrated with his crew in parc ferme.
“That’s ok. It’s a big penalty but essentially it was only a foul, so we can accept that,” Dr Helmut Marko told Sky Deutschland. “What’s incredible is that Mercedes now claims that Max allegedly damaged the rear wing with his fingers,” he also said (which we know is bullshit, he's a little cunt Marko, I bet when he was at school he used to run to tell teachers about other students having a spliff or doing someone elses homework)
So after Hamilton clawed his way back to fifth at the chequered flag of the Interlagos sprint race, his boss Toto Wolff went on the radio to declare: “Amazing job, Lewis. F**k them all.” When asked about that afterwards, the Mercedes chief said: “It wasn’t aimed at anyone in particular, it was more about the general mindset. Tough circumstances are best met with resilience.” Wolff claims the disqualification was an extreme and uncharacteristic punishment by the FIA. “In the last few years from them it was always ‘Fix this and fix that’. We saw that last weekend with Red Bull and many times before that too,” he said. “But we were not allowed to do that. What is clear is that we do not have an illegal wing. It was a failure on the right side by 0.2mm. That means we actually had a performance disadvantage. At the end of the day there is a technical directive in black and white. We accept that.” Wolff said he therefore would not waste time with an official protest, but instead try to find the same sort of tiny problems with Verstappen’s car for the rest of the 2021 battle. “We will look at every single bit of tape that falls off,” said the Austrian. “I can promise that we will be asking a lot of questions in the next races.”
Wolff also hit out at Red Bull for instigating the affair. “There was once something like a gentleman’s agreement. Obviously there are no longer any gentlemen,” he charged. “But today Lewis overtook 16 cars and Valtteri controlled the sprint after the start. It’s nice to forget politics for a moment.”
Now would be a good time to @ everyone at Mercedes and tell them that Christian Horner is known by everyone as Winger Spice, I'd love to hear Toto call him thatLOL Come on the twetters here get the word out, we can do this hahahah
The intense 2021 title battle is only getting more fiery and controversial as the track action heats up in Brazil. On Saturday, the major talking point was the separate stewards investigations involving championship protagonists Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. After securing pole on Friday, Mercedes’ Hamilton was disqualified for a breach of the size of the DRS opening slot on his rear wing. But Red Bull’s Verstappen was also given a hefty slap on the wrist with a EUR 50,000 fine for touching the offending rear wing as Hamilton celebrated with his crew in parc ferme.
“That’s ok. It’s a big penalty but essentially it was only a foul, so we can accept that,” Dr Helmut Marko told Sky Deutschland. “What’s incredible is that Mercedes now claims that Max allegedly damaged the rear wing with his fingers,” he also said (which we know is bullshit, he's a little cunt Marko, I bet when he was at school he used to run to tell teachers about other students having a spliff or doing someone elses homework)
So after Hamilton clawed his way back to fifth at the chequered flag of the Interlagos sprint race, his boss Toto Wolff went on the radio to declare: “Amazing job, Lewis. F**k them all.” When asked about that afterwards, the Mercedes chief said: “It wasn’t aimed at anyone in particular, it was more about the general mindset. Tough circumstances are best met with resilience.” Wolff claims the disqualification was an extreme and uncharacteristic punishment by the FIA. “In the last few years from them it was always ‘Fix this and fix that’. We saw that last weekend with Red Bull and many times before that too,” he said. “But we were not allowed to do that. What is clear is that we do not have an illegal wing. It was a failure on the right side by 0.2mm. That means we actually had a performance disadvantage. At the end of the day there is a technical directive in black and white. We accept that.” Wolff said he therefore would not waste time with an official protest, but instead try to find the same sort of tiny problems with Verstappen’s car for the rest of the 2021 battle. “We will look at every single bit of tape that falls off,” said the Austrian. “I can promise that we will be asking a lot of questions in the next races.”
Wolff also hit out at Red Bull for instigating the affair. “There was once something like a gentleman’s agreement. Obviously there are no longer any gentlemen,” he charged. “But today Lewis overtook 16 cars and Valtteri controlled the sprint after the start. It’s nice to forget politics for a moment.”
Now would be a good time to @ everyone at Mercedes and tell them that Christian Horner is known by everyone as Winger Spice, I'd love to hear Toto call him that
LOL Come on the twetters here get the word out, we can do this hahahah
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
The way Lewis was passing people yesterday I think he’s gotta be in with shout of a podium finish, even allowing for needing a bit of tyre management and fuel saving today, instead of the all out sprint conditions where he shone yesterday.F1 Starting Grid 2021 Brazilian GP
Pos No Driver Team Lap Time 1 77 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 29:09.559 2 33 Max Verstappen Red Bull +1.170s 3 55 Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari +18.723s 4 11 Sergio Pérez Red Bull +19.787s 5 4 Lando Norris McLaren +22.558s 6 16 Charles Leclerc Ferrari +25.056s 7 10 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri +34.158s 8 31 Esteban Ocon Alpine +34.632s 9 5 Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin +34.867s 10 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +20.872s 11 3 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren +35.869s 12 14 Fernando Alonso Alpine +36.578s 13 99 Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo +41.880s 14 18 Lance Stroll Aston Martin +44.037s 15 22 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri +46.150s 16 6 Nicholas Latifi Williams +46.760s 17 63 George Russell Williams +47.739s 18 7 Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo +50.014s 19 47 Mick Schumacher Haas +61.680s 20 9 Nikita Mazepin Haas +67.474
It good to see that Lewis starts infront of Danny Ric and Alonso, they are both hard to pass, he just needs to avoid trouble at the start and stay infront of then and push forward as fast as he can. Come on Lewis you get get some really good points here. And for fuck sake lets here someone explain what Interlagos means, if anyone here has Twitter @crofty and ask him if he knows what Interlagos means
Can Max find a way past Bottas? Looked like a struggle yesterday, but he will have Red Bull’s superior pitstop team on his side today, so who knows.
Limejuice
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I can see why Toto is miffed, here and now between the lakes...
But I think Mercedes have been the architect of their own downfall this season. Cranky engines. Poor choices. Shonky pitstops. Magic 8-ball misfires.
Don't get me wrong; Whinger, Marko and Max are a trinity of cuntitude who, under my benevolent dictatorship, would be restricted to golf carts towed by kites.
But Toto's travails began much closer to home.
What do I know?
But I think Mercedes have been the architect of their own downfall this season. Cranky engines. Poor choices. Shonky pitstops. Magic 8-ball misfires.
Don't get me wrong; Whinger, Marko and Max are a trinity of cuntitude who, under my benevolent dictatorship, would be restricted to golf carts towed by kites.
But Toto's travails began much closer to home.
What do I know?
1%er
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Formula 1: Major 2022 driver announcement leaked?
It has been quite some time since a driver was confirmed for the 2022 Formula 1 season, leaving just one remaining seat in the 20-car field for next year. The one remaining seat is with Alfa Romeo, which have only confirmed the addition of Valtteri Bottas to replace the retiring Kimi Raikkonen following the 2021 season. Bottas is set to be replaced by George Russell at Mercedes, while Russell is set to be replaced by Alexander Albon at Williams.First of all, Giovinazzi is a Ferrari driver, and they currently have the right to select one of Alfa Romeo’s two drivers. Giovinazzi has been their pick since 2019 after Charles Leclerc left the team to replace Raikkonen at the works Ferrari team. But beginning next year, Ferrari will lose that right. Several names have been tossed around in regard to who might take Giovinazzi’s seat, provided he doesn’t return in 2022, including reigning Formula E champion Nyck de Vries, current Formula 2 points leader Oscar Piastri, current Formula 2 runner-up Guanyu Zhou, and even IndyCar driver Colton Herta, back when the Andretti takeover rumors were still in full swing.
But it is Zhou who has been tipped as the likely driver to complete the lineup puzzle for 2022, and while not confirmed by the team or the 22-year Chinese driver, this announcement may very well have been leaked in his home country. If confirmed by the team, Zhou would become the first Chinese driver to compete in a Formula 1 race, and Alfa Romeo dealers across the country are already congratulating him on that status, sharing the message “Congrats to Zhou on becoming the first Chinese F1 driver.”
With all things considered, it seems as though confirmation from Alfa Romeo is nothing more than a formality when it comes to Guanyu Zhou competing in Formula 1 alongside Bottas next year. So when will the official announcement be made?
1%er
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What strategies are available for the drivers today? At Interlagos there is a 50% chance of a safety car, so teams will be adding that into their strategy. The fastest according to pirelli is medium,hard, hard with a pitstop loss of around 22 seconds. But not all drivers have 2 new sets of hard tyres. We could see yesterday that the softs lasted at least 24 laps and drivers were able to hold those on mediums behind them, but anyone starting on a soft is likely to be on a two stop stratgy. A one stop is also possible here if they can keep the mediums on for over 30 laps, so there is clearly an option for a one stop. I guess that anyone starting on the hard tyre is thinking of a one stop while hoping for a safety car.
With the 50% chance of a safety car it is clear that teams will have to react and we could see those thinking of a one stop changing that if they can time their stop with a safety car, so all still to play for.
With the 50% chance of a safety car it is clear that teams will have to react and we could see those thinking of a one stop changing that if they can time their stop with a safety car, so all still to play for.
1%er
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BMW and Audi interested in buying McLaren Automotive
BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p)'s Audi and BMW are interested in buying British luxury sportscar maker McLaren Automotive, German autos publication Automobilwoche reported on Sunday, without specifying its sources. The first talks between BMW and Bahrain sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat, which owns 42% of McLaren, are to take place at the beginning of December, the report said. Audi is also interested in the Formula 1 division of the company, it said. BMW and Audi were not immediately available for comment.
so just tuning in the 
Limejuice
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The sound mix was hideously bad on Sky. I couldn't hear Jonnie Herbert at all.
