F1 2021
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Haven't seen a replay, but he was on one of the fastest bits of the track, turn 22
Limejuice
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Yes, the car was a mess. I think all four corners were hanging off, and what wasn't hanging off was scattered on the track.
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Leclerc crash ends FP2 early
Lewis Hamilton finished a clean sweep of Friday's practice sessions, as the Mercedes driver set the pace in the night session to eclipse Valtteri Bottas and, more importantly, title rival Max Verstappen. The second practice session took place in the Saudi Arabian night, with floodlights illuminating the circuit as the drivers peeled out to start the session that is far more representative of the conditions they'll race in on Sunday night. Hamilton set the pace from quite early in the session, using the Medium tyre to put in a 1:29.018 and go 0.061 quicker than teammate Valtteri Bottas, also on the Medium compound. Despite both using the Soft tyre, neither improved on their flying laps, with Hamilton roughly matching his Medium tyre pace before encountering traffic in the final sector of the lap.AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly slotted into third place behind the two Mercedes drivers, setting his best time of 1:29.099 on the Soft tyre, while Red Bull's Max Verstappen finished in fourth. The Dutch driver set his best time on the Soft compound Pirelli, with a 1:29.213 to finish just over a tenth behind the Mercedes drivers. However, he appeared to be concentrating on flying laps and stayed out on the Soft compound in order to recharge between laps rather than switching focus to the Medium tyre. He switched to the yellow marked Mediums in the final ten minutes. "I don't care," he said on the radio, when he was told over team radio that doing this would eat into the long run.
The session ended a few minutes early as the red flags were shown as the first driver to hit the barriers was Charles Leclerc. The Ferrari driver went off heavily at Turn 22, but clambered free of the car as the session was neutralised. Replasy showed that Leclerc was sweeping through Turn 22 when the rear of the car came loose. At high speed, he wasn't able to catch it and went off backwards into the barriers. The shunt resulted in serious damage to the car, but he was uninjured and confirmed he was OK over team radio as the session was stopped.
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| POS | Driver | Team | Time | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:29.018 | 22 |
| 2 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 0.061s | 23 |
| 3 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 0.081s | 22 |
| 4 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 0.195s | 20 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | 0.423s | 21 |
| 6 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 0.537s | 22 |
| 7 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 0.571s | 24 |
| 8 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 0.579s | 20 |
| 9 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull | 0.750s | 22 |
| 10 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 0.754s | 23 |
| 11 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | 0.950s | 22 |
| 12 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 0.986s | 19 |
| 13 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo Racing | 1.092s | 23 |
| 14 | Kimi Raikkonen | Alfa Romeo Racing | 1.258s | 24 |
| 15 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1.424s | 22 |
| 16 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 1.484s | 22 |
| 17 | George Russell | Williams | 1.488s | 24 |
| 18 | Mick Schumacher | Haas | 1.634s | 20 |
| 19 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 2.021s | 23 |
| 20 | Nikita Mazepin | Haas | 2.611s | 20 |
Limejuice
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I've seen tidier air accidents.
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FIA issue drivers with warning ahead of Saudi Arabian GP qualifying
The F1 drivers have been warned by FIA race director Michael Masi they face being reported to the stewards should they try to create a gap at a blind part of the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. During practice on Friday, the self-proclaimed 'fastest street track in F1' highlighted a concern that threatened to pose a significant problem in the qualifying session. On-board footage of one of Lewis Hamilton's laps showed the Mercedes driver haring up behind slower cars waiting to prepare for their own quick lap in the final sector of the 27-turn, 6.1km circuit, with the closing speeds frightening.Following practice, Hamilton declared the track to be "Rapid! Unbelievably quick!" but immediately aired his worries by adding; "The closing-difference speed is definitely getting to a bit of a danger zone." The matter was discussed between the 20 drivers and Masi during Friday's briefing, leading to the following change in the event notes. The relevant section reads: "Any driver intending to create a gap in front of him in order to get a clear lap should not attempt to do this around turn 23 through to turn 25. Any driver seen to have done this will be reported to the stewards as being in breach of Article 27.4 of the Sporting Regulations." That particular article states: "At no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers or any other person."
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Annual rainfall here where I live is 2132.1mm, June is most at 381.5mm while December is 37.4mm. The good thing is most of that rain comes at night and we can see it coming (if it comes during the day) as 95% comes from the south and we just have to look along the beachOK, I vanished down the climate rabbit-hole.
I found that while Jeddah gets 0.3 mm of rain a year, my nearest town gets 650.0 mm.
My place is 2167 times wetter than Jeddah.
Wow that's 83.9 inches or 52.3 gallon's
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FP3 result
Max Verstappen topped the final practice session ahead of qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton finished second and Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez took third. With the sun setting at the start of FP3, most drivers elected to emerge after 10 minutes for more representative conditions given qualifying will take place after the sun goes down. Hamilton set the early pace on hard tyres but couldn't improve on his fastest effort of 1m28.314s when it came to using softs. Meanwhile, Verstappen enjoyed his soft-tyred running and eclipsed his rival midway through the session, improving to set the ultimate benchmark of 1m28.100s and leave Hamilton two-tenths behind in P2.
Sergio Perez improved to third – 0.529s behind his team mate – with a late effort to demote Yuki Tsunoda to fourth for AlphaTauri. Tsunoda's team mate Pierre Gasly managed fifth, but on medium tyres to the rookie's softs. Gasly suffered a scary near-miss with a slow-moving Hamilton later on in the session, fortunately avoiding contact. That left soft-shod Valtteri Bottas in P6 for Mercedes, nine-tenths off P1.
Charles Leclerc (P7) shrugged off his FP2 crash to finish just ahead of team mate Carlos Sainz (P8), leaving Esteban Ocon ninth for Alpine and Lando Norris 10th for McLaren. From P7 to P10 there was just two-tenths in it. Fernando Alonso took 11th ahead of the Alfa Romeo of Antonio Giovinazzi in P12 and his team mate Kimi Raikkonen in 13th, leaving McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo 14th.
Williams kept pace with the Aston Martins, George Russell taking 16th and his team mate Nicholas Latifi 18th. Aston Martin had an anonymous session, Lance Stroll suffering a puncture with just over 20 minutes left before a late effort put him 15th while team mate Sebastian Vettel took 17th. Nikita Mazepin, like Gasly, was also shocked by the slow-moving Mercedes of Hamilton with the session ticking down but fortunately he also avoided a high-speed crash. "Not great at all," said FIA Race Director Michael Masi as he gave his take on the situation. The Russian finished 0.05s ahead of team mate Mick Schumacher, as the Haas drivers rounded out the standings, in P19 and P20 respectively.
Results (Classification):
Max Verstappen topped the final practice session ahead of qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton finished second and Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez took third. With the sun setting at the start of FP3, most drivers elected to emerge after 10 minutes for more representative conditions given qualifying will take place after the sun goes down. Hamilton set the early pace on hard tyres but couldn't improve on his fastest effort of 1m28.314s when it came to using softs. Meanwhile, Verstappen enjoyed his soft-tyred running and eclipsed his rival midway through the session, improving to set the ultimate benchmark of 1m28.100s and leave Hamilton two-tenths behind in P2.
Sergio Perez improved to third – 0.529s behind his team mate – with a late effort to demote Yuki Tsunoda to fourth for AlphaTauri. Tsunoda's team mate Pierre Gasly managed fifth, but on medium tyres to the rookie's softs. Gasly suffered a scary near-miss with a slow-moving Hamilton later on in the session, fortunately avoiding contact. That left soft-shod Valtteri Bottas in P6 for Mercedes, nine-tenths off P1.
Charles Leclerc (P7) shrugged off his FP2 crash to finish just ahead of team mate Carlos Sainz (P8), leaving Esteban Ocon ninth for Alpine and Lando Norris 10th for McLaren. From P7 to P10 there was just two-tenths in it. Fernando Alonso took 11th ahead of the Alfa Romeo of Antonio Giovinazzi in P12 and his team mate Kimi Raikkonen in 13th, leaving McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo 14th.
Williams kept pace with the Aston Martins, George Russell taking 16th and his team mate Nicholas Latifi 18th. Aston Martin had an anonymous session, Lance Stroll suffering a puncture with just over 20 minutes left before a late effort put him 15th while team mate Sebastian Vettel took 17th. Nikita Mazepin, like Gasly, was also shocked by the slow-moving Mercedes of Hamilton with the session ticking down but fortunately he also avoided a high-speed crash. "Not great at all," said FIA Race Director Michael Masi as he gave his take on the situation. The Russian finished 0.05s ahead of team mate Mick Schumacher, as the Haas drivers rounded out the standings, in P19 and P20 respectively.
Results (Classification):
- Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing -1:28.100
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.214
- Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +0.529
- Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri +0.541
- Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri +0.615
- Valtteri Bottas Mercedes +0.919
- Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +1.001
- Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +1.049
- Esteban Ocon Alpine +1.077
- Lando Norris McLaren +1.200
- Fernando Alonso Alpine +1.318
- Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo +1.490
- Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo +1.589
- Daniel Ricciardo McLaren +1.617
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin +1.930
- George Russell Williams Racing +1.934
- Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin +2.196
- Nicholas Latifi Williams Racing +2.266
- Mick Schumacher Haas +2.833
- Nikita Mazepin Haas +2.879
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Hamilton summoned over yellow flag breach in Jeddah FP3
Lewis Hamilton has been summoned over an alleged yellow flags breach in final Formula 1 practice for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, putting him at risk of a grid penalty. Hamilton will meet with the stewards one hour before the start of qualifying at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit over for "not respecting double waved yellow flags/lights at 17:22".Title rival Max Verstappen was hit with a five-place grid penalty for failing to respect double-waved yellow flags in Qatar two weeks ago. Any penalty would come as a setback to Hamilton in the F1 title race with two grands prix remaining this season. Hamilton currently sits eight points behind Verstappen in the drivers' championship.
According to the FIA International Sporting Code, drivers are required to "reduce your speed significantly, do not overtake, and be prepared to change direction or stop" when shown double-waved yellow flags. Hamilton was involved in a couple of incidents during the session where he struggled to get out of the way of approaching cars amid continued concerns about the closing speeds in Jeddah.
The most notable incident involved Nikita Mazepin, who approached Hamilton at speed and was force to take evasive action but the stewards' summons is not in relation to that incident, which took place later in the session. At the time of the alleged incident, Hamilton passed both Red Bull cars and Yuki Tsunoda. Hamilton was on a hot lap and went purple through the first sector. Double-waved yellow flags were shown on a flashing light ahead of Sergio Perez, who was behind Hamilton on-track, at Turn 8.
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Word is Lewis is also being looked at for impeding Nikita Mazepin, but I was watching at the time and Michael Masi was asked about the incident over the radio. Iirc he said "there were no flags shown, so we are looking at it". To me that didn't mean the stewards but the race director. It would be very rare for a driver to get a penalty for impeding during a free practice session, but for me it is the yellow flag incident that could be trouble. We haven't seen a replay of it so it is diffecult to know what happened and if it is cut and dry.
Edit: it appears the light was on at the end of the straight as he was running down that same straight, the light went off as he was about 200 meters away from it, so he didn't pass a double waved yellow and it was off before he got to it. But the rule says you must slowdown and be prepared to stop, so I think he may get a penalty, but it could be anything from a reprimanded to a grid penalty.
Edit: it appears the light was on at the end of the straight as he was running down that same straight, the light went off as he was about 200 meters away from it, so he didn't pass a double waved yellow and it was off before he got to it. But the rule says you must slowdown and be prepared to stop, so I think he may get a penalty, but it could be anything from a reprimanded to a grid penalty.
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Limejuice
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Sky has shown the onboard. Hammy was heading down the straight and in the distance yellow lights were visible. But by the time he got to 200m short of of the lights they went out. That is, the flags stopped waving before Hammy got there. He didn't pass a waved flag.
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The rule says you must slowdown and be prepared to stop, so I think he may get a penalty, but it could be anything from a reprimanded to a grid penalty.
