The 2018 Formula One Thread

[harrybarracuda]

Perfect start from Ric, so now the procession.

It's all about the tyres now.

[harrybarracuda]

Hamilton's pitted on Lap 12 to put on the reds, which will go to the end of the race.

Interesting strategy.

Bottas, Ferrari and Red Bull staying out.

It must be calculated gamble.

He's got acres in front of him so it must be to try and get in front of Vettel.

[harrybarracuda]

Ferrari pitted Vettel and he's back in front of Bottas and Hamilton.

So whatever they were trying didn't work.

[harrybarracuda]

Oh dear it looks like Ricciardo has a problem.

"I've got now power though".

The implication being a Power Unit problem, but the commentators keep yabbling over the in-car.

[harrybarracuda]

Lost his advantage but he still has enough to stay in front.

But if all the top 4 have to change tyres again it seems Bottas is the one on the right tyres to keep going.

Not much to watch until then.

[Loy Toy]

Crack on Aussie. Brilliant driving.

[harrybarracuda]

Finishing positions are the same as Quali for the top 6. That was actually pretty dull in the end.

1 — Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull — 1’10.810
2 — Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari — 1’11.039
3 — Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes — 1’11.232
4 — Kimi Räikkönen, Ferrari — 1’11.266
5 — Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes — 1’11.441
6 — Esteban Ocon, Force India — 1’12.061

[harrybarracuda]

Interesting comments from Hamilton about how Monaco needs shaking up.

Apparently all the top drivers were just told to turn it down and coast for most of the race.

The average lap times were FIVE seconds slower than Ricciardo's qualifying time.

It's not a race, they need to put some straights in there or at least some decent opportunities for overtaking.

[bobo746]

[harrybarracuda]

Interesting to see what they do on these Hypersofts...

Lewis Hamilton said he enjoyed a "beautiful day" of opening practice at the Canadian GP but now waits to learn how Mercedes' extensive work to improve their fortunes on F1's fastest tyre plays into their bid to win this weekend.

On a Friday of intriguing tyre conundrums in Montreal, Mercedes chose to eschew the use of Pirelli's quickest tyre, the hypersofts, and run exclusively on the supersoft and ultrasoft compounds in practice.

Red Bull and Ferrari did use the hypersofts and duly clocked faster single-lap times, with Hamilton's best effort coming on the supersofts - a compound two 'steps' harder - and Valtteri Bottas' on the ultrasofts.

With the W09 appearing the quickest car on the slower tyres, Hamilton also had the best long-run average on the middle compound, the ultrasoft, leading Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo to label Mercedes as the team to beat despite a delay to their planned engine upgrade,

"It's been a beautiful day," said Hamilton, a six-time victor in Canada. "The weather has been fantastic, the track feels amazing and better than ever. I don't know if we're faster yet than we've ever been, but I've really enjoyed it. We didn't have any problems. It's such a fun track to drive.

"It's not always that we start right out the box but it just started right. There are some things we just needed to adjust along the way. Making small increments from one time to another it always feels a little bit different, but it's been good."

Crucial questions, however, remain unanswered. Having only selected five sets of the hypersoft tyres - the same compound they suffered problems with in Monaco - per car to their rivals' eight for this weekend, Mercedes have delayed their use of Pirelli's fastest tyre until Saturday's Practice Three session.

The extensive Friday running on the other compounds has led to theories that the championship leaders will attempt to get through Q2 in Saturday's qualifying hour on the ultrasoft to ensure they start Sunday's race on that tyre. This would then mean they would not necessarily have to use the hypersoft in the race, with an ultrasoft-supersoft strategy possible.

The complication is Q3, when they would need to join Red Bull and Ferrari on running the hypersoft to ensure the highest-starting grid position. Pirelli said at the end of Friday's running that the pink-marked compound has a "significant performance advantage over the other compounds of more than a second".

Hamilton, on supersofts, was half a second slower than pace-setter Max Verstappen on hypersofts and, asked if the gap to the Red Bull was 'big' in reality, the Englishman replied: "Yes, I believe so, but we'll find out tomorrow.

"Ultimately we don't have as many hypersofts as everyone else. They have to select it quite far ahead from our test when the tyres didn't last, I think that's the information we got then and we planned for a different strategy. Everyone else I think has got eight sets and we've got four or five. But tomorrow hopefully we'll get a good feel on it and it's not too dissimilar from what we've been driving today."

The new-for-2018 hypersoft caused Mercedes repeat problems at the last race in Monaco with the W09 struggling for pace and suffering from graining as Hamilton came home third.

The world champions spent last week poring over the data in an attempt to find answers to improve the situation for Montreal, with Hamilton now keen to see how they fare on Saturday.

"Hindsight is a great thing and so naturally it would have been great to try the hyper today [if Mercedes had selected more sets], but others have and I've seen some that degraded a lot and some maybe haven't. But P3 is the time that we take it for a spin and have a look of it," he said.

"I think we have definitely understood it but, still, you have to set it up and go with a certain spec. The hyper seems to require something different to the ultra and the others, but we will see tomorrow."

Canadian GP: Will Lewis Hamilton's 'beautiful' weekend start continue? | F1 News

[harrybarracuda]

Lots of pissing about in Q2, with them all pretending to start on the Ultras, then Verstappen went out on the Hypers and they all followed, so short stint to start tomorrow, which Lewis is probably quite glad about, as he seems to fucking hate that tyre through the chicane.

[harrybarracuda]

Double RAC callouts to Austria for the Mercedes, but while all the attention was on them and Ferrari, Mad Max glided home to win.

Next week: Silverstone

1. Verstappen
2. Raikkonen
3. Vettel

[bobo746]

[bsnub]

Excellent weekend all around! A big weekend for Team Haas! They are on the rise and will be fast the rest of the year. Who would have thought that they could split Red Bull!

Rivals "shocked" by Haas' Red Bull-beating pace

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/r...-pace-1053996/

[harrybarracuda]

Excellent weekend all around! A big weekend for Team Haas! They are on the rise and will be fast the rest of the year. Who would have thought that they could split Red Bull!

Rivals "shocked" by Haas' Red Bull-beating pace


https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/r...-pace-1053996/

Stunning pace indeed, given that they finished a lap + behind the leaders.

You muppet.

[bsnub]

Stunning pace indeed, given that they finished a lap + behind the leaders.

You dumb fuck the whole field aside from Ferrari and Red Bull had been lapped. Haas was the best of the rest which is a very impressive showing and Grosjean out qualified Ricciardo.

You muppet.

Do fcuk yourself.

[VocalNeal]

Harry,

You are waving the Chequered Flag , our friend? is waving a different flag.

[harrybarracuda]

Haas was the best of the rest

And that's all they'll ever be.

Seppos should stick to driving round in circles, that's all they're good at.

You fucking muppet.

[harrybarracuda]

Mad Max crashed again...


British GP Practice Two Timesheet

Driver

	Team	Time
Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:27.552
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+0.187
Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	+0.357
Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	+0.493
Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	+0.856

[harrybarracuda]

Brendon Hartley's Toro Rosso nearly went flying when his front left separated....

Meanwhile Lewis leads the usual group of four.




Video here:

https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1

[harrybarracuda]

Q1 stopped after minutes because Stroll lost his Williams exactly where Hartley went off.

Could be an interesting race.

[harrybarracuda]

And another Williams into the gravel at Stowe.

This is a laugh.

[harrybarracuda]

Hamilton on Pole.

2 Vet
3 Rai
4 Bot

[VocalNeal]

Will be close tomorrow.

What's all this about Hamilton's retirement?

[harrybarracuda]

Will be close tomorrow.

What's all this about Hamilton's retirement?

Newspaper guff I fancy. The Express were trawling this around in March.