The F1 thread

matt_sefton

Bloody love Spa - one of the few tracks that you really get a sense of speed in the tv feed

Brio

I'm loving this. 

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Yeah, this is not panning out how I thought. When Max got a good start and first few laps I thought he was gonna just come steaming through the pack. 

Also thought Lewis would be a sitting duck on the straights, as the Merc's straight line speed was crap in dry practice on Friday.

stickyfiddle

Yup - Cracking race so far.

stickyfiddle

Fabulous race! Did anyone see that podium coming?!?

Brio

How Russell kept Lewis back on those old tyres impressed me.

DesVegas

Great race chaps. Well done everyone 

markr76

I did not expect that!! I’m now sat here with my race winners top on!  

euan

That was a race. Impressive that Russell managed to one stop on what was a relatively high deg course 

markr76

euan said:

That was a race. Impressive that Russell managed to one stop on what was a relatively high deg course 

I thought we’d cocked up. I was expecting them to tell him to let Lewis by! 

Paul_C

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

RiftAmps

Paul_C said:

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in
their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.

Deliberately leaving fuel in the car to hit the weight limit? Absolutely disgraceful. The whole team must lose all points for the weekend, nothing less.

euan

Good one. 

markr76

RiftAmps said:

Paul_C said:

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in
their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.

Deliberately leaving fuel in the car to hit the weight limit? Absolutely disgraceful. The whole team must lose all points for the weekend, nothing less.

That’s not very nice Chris! 

matt_sefton

Real shame if that win is taken away from George. Drove a great race 

RiftAmps

markr76 said:

RiftAmps said:

Paul_C said:

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in
their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.

Deliberately leaving fuel in the car to hit the weight limit? Absolutely disgraceful. The whole team must lose all points for the weekend, nothing less.

Those in glass houses! 

The Brackley team has a history of cheating fuel levels, no? San Marino 2005. The team (then Honda)got a two-race ban then, why should this be any different?

Outrageous.

euan

It must be pretty easy to throwrocks when every pane in your house is broken…

Aren’t all cars weighed after qualifying?

TimmyO

RiftAmps said:

markr76 said:

RiftAmps said:

Paul_C said:

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in
their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.

Deliberately leaving fuel in the car to hit the weight limit? Absolutely disgraceful. The whole team must lose all points for the weekend, nothing less.

Those in glass houses! 

The Brackley team has a history of cheating fuel levels, no? San Marino 2005. The team (then Honda)got a two-race ban then, why should this be any different?

Outrageous.

aka it happened once 20 years ago. 

If that's the kind of distorted logic we're using it creates  rich pickings for writing off a lot of teams errors as 'obviously deliberate cheating'

I think you don't realise how bizarre your anti-Mercedes tripwire seems to others man. 

markr76

RiftAmps said:

markr76 said:

RiftAmps said:

Paul_C said:

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in
their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.

Deliberately leaving fuel in the car to hit the weight limit? Absolutely disgraceful. The whole team must lose all points for the weekend, nothing less.

Those in glass houses! 

The Brackley team has a history of cheating fuel levels, no? San Marino 2005. The team (then Honda)got a two-race ban then, why should this be any different?

Outrageous.

That’s not the same team. That was BAR. Funny thing about that was every team on the grid had the same fuel cell setup. BAR were caught. Every other team changed their systems after this. I only know this as a colleague worked at the company that makes/made all the fuel cells. Not that it bothers me. I still worked at Jordan’s then. Well midland f1. 

RiftAmps

TimmyO said:

RiftAmps said:

markr76 said:

RiftAmps said:

Paul_C said:

Oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c6p2q0x5ezzo  

Russell's car underweight.

The car was not fully drained according to the draining procedure submitted by the team in
their legality documents as TR Article 6.5.2 is fulfilled.

Deliberately leaving fuel in the car to hit the weight limit? Absolutely disgraceful. The whole team must lose all points for the weekend, nothing less.

Those in glass houses! 

The Brackley team has a history of cheating fuel levels, no? San Marino 2005. The team (then Honda)got a two-race ban then, why should this be any different?

Outrageous.

aka it happened once 20 years ago. 

If that's the kind of distorted logic we're using it creates  rich pickings for writing off a lot of teams errors as 'obviously deliberate cheating'

I think you don't realise how bizarre your anti-Mercedes tripwire seems to others man. 

I'm sorry, it wasn't me who falsified the documents submitted to the FIA, it was Mercedes. They declared that all of the fuel was removed from the car when they knew it hadn't been. That's cheating.

For the record, I'm raging because George is my third favourite driver who drove arguably the greatest tyre-management race I've ever seen, and his team has just screwed him over.