In the round-up: Nico Hulkenberg admits he would have rather set a lap time in Q2 but said Renault were paying the long game by deciding not to set a lap time.
What they say
Hulkenberg did not set a time in Q2 and will start 12th:
[It was] boring more than anything. It’s not what you want to do heading into quali but sometimes you have to play the game. To come out better tomorrow we had to do what we had to did.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
This @Max33Verstappen fan has a clear belief that Honda is the key to his first championship @redbullf1spy pic.twitter.com/1YeyVzCYRL
— David Coulthard (@therealdcf1) September 29, 2018
Remember Sim City? Sochi’s like the first town you ever built. Lots of high rise blocks next to small residential areas, the occasional shop and roads that don’t go anywhere but to a warehouse or power plant and then for some reason the biggest amusement park you’ve ever seen.
— Will Buxton (@wbuxtonofficial) September 28, 2018
It's crazy how slow race control is with track limits here…#GP3
— Nina Rochette (@NinaRocky_48) September 29, 2018
Two very fast laps by @LewisHamilton in Q1. Both completely ignored by FOM's director. #RussianGP
— The F1 Broadcasting Blog (@f1broadcasting) September 29, 2018
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Hartley confident of his Formula 1 ability (New Zealand Herald)
"The thing I have against me is that my team mate has score significantly more points than me."
Marko: Wehrlein is on Toro Rosso's shortlist (Autosport)
"Wehrlein is is understood to have met Marko in Graz last week, and the Red Bull boss admitted that the driver's availability had made Wehrlein a candidate."
No extra pressure for WAU with Zak Brown visit (Speedcafe)
"McLaren Formula 1 boss Brown is set to miss the Japanese Grand Prix to attend the Mount Panorama classic to witness the Great Race for the first time alongside fellow WAU team co-owners Andretti and Ryan Walkinshaw."
Can BTCC capitalise on F1’s reduced free-to-air presence from 2019? (F1 Broadcasting)
"The audience figures suggest that live F1 predominantly moving to pay-TV will boost ITV4’s touring car numbers somewhat. 'Every time we come up against a Grand Prix in our time zone, our numbers in the afternoon will take a bit of a dent for that two-hour period while the race is on, and then increase afterwards,' Gow tells me."
"'I actually think things would have been a lot more difficult for me if I was a boy,' she points out. 'My dad always said he would have been much harder on a boy, because he would have expected him to follow in his footsteps.'"
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Comment of the day
@TFLB is pleased Daniil Kvyat will return to the grid for the 2019 F1 season:
Quite pleased to see him back actually.
He was very impressive in his first year at Toro Rosso and I felt at Red Bull as well. Slightly behind Ricciardo (although he did of course outscore him) but not bad for his first year with the team. Showed flashes of brilliance too, especially in Mexico where he was robbed of a podium, and in Austin before he crashed.
For one reason or another – I suspect related to the mental side of things – in 2016 he never got going. But there’s a lot of potential and ability there that hopefully he can show this time. I think the time out will have done him good.
@TFLB
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On this day in F1
- 40 years ago today Mario Andretti put his Lotus on pole position for his home race at Long Beach
Travis (@)
30th September 2018, 0:18
I think others have asked this, but is there a reason articles don’t list chronologically on the home page?
It makes it difficult keeping up with the articles, especially viewing on a mobile, as you think you’ve read the lastest couple however scrolling down reveals a stack of new ones.
pastaman (@)
30th September 2018, 2:06
The article with the latest activity (i.e. comments) gets pushed to the top of the page. The “New on Racefans” sidebar has the articles in chronological order, but this is not viewable on mobile.
pastaman (@)
30th September 2018, 4:41
I was wrong, you can see “New on Racefans” on mobile by opening the context menu (3 horizontal lines in box)
Travis (@)
30th September 2018, 5:56
Cheers, much appreciated.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
30th September 2018, 6:37
Ah, thanks for that explanation about the order of the articles on the home page. I think there is also something to do with that behaviour only applying to recent (this day/week’s?) articles. In any case, it helps to understand that confusing behaviour, @pastaman , one that I’m not a fan of.
bosyber (@bosyber)
30th September 2018, 10:11
Thanks indeed @pastaman, I too found the context-menu way to have a list of articles by latest-published, but I had not fully understood the main page ordering before; @phylyp, I think I’d also prefer it to be that ordering on the main page, especially for a site that has most articles with a healthy amount of comments and discussion well after an article has been published; for a site where there is hardly a comment, there is more value in a most-recently-commented-on ordering than here, I feel. But, now I know where to find my preferred way, so that’s fine.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
30th September 2018, 2:38
Did Hulk really say “we had to do what we had to did” or is that just a typo?
Either way I like it :)
socksolid (@socksolid)
30th September 2018, 3:14
He did done do it what had done to be did.
Jimmi Cynic (@jimmi-cynic)
30th September 2018, 4:42
@socksolid: Sweet Didley Do
Phylyp (@phylyp)
30th September 2018, 4:56
“To be is to do” — Socrates.
“To do is to be” — Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Do be do be do” — Frank Sinatra.
“we had to do what we had to did” — Nico Hulkenberg/RaceFans
Jimmi Cynic (@jimmi-cynic)
30th September 2018, 6:29
@phylyp: Did LOL!
Zim
30th September 2018, 6:43
Hahahahaha! Class :D
ColdFly (@)
30th September 2018, 7:48
;-)
socksolid (@socksolid)
30th September 2018, 3:13
What has tamara ecclestone to do with f1 news?
pastaman (@)
30th September 2018, 3:40
Reminds me of all the camera shots of celebs and family in the pits while actual racing is going on.
Zim
30th September 2018, 6:45
Not much.
BlackJackFan
30th September 2018, 9:02
What has she to do with anything that would interest any normal person…?
Zim
30th September 2018, 6:42
I gotsta do what I gotsta did.
Lenny (@leonardodicappucino)
30th September 2018, 7:09
I think Wehrlein will get the second Toro Rosso seat, just for a lack of other options. I see only four other possibilities: Vandoorne, Buemi, JEV, and Albon. Buemi and Albon are already contracted for the next Formula E season, with Buemi having extra WEC duties as well, while with JEV the bridges I think have been burnt to an extent that they cannot be remade. Those are the only three former Red Bull Junior Team drivers who could get a superlicence according to current rules (and barring Sergio Sette Camara manages to get into the top three of F2, which is extremely unlikely). Vandoorne is either not considered as an option by Toro Rosso, for whatever reason, or feels it is not “good and right environment”, which was in Friday’s round-up. That pretty much leaves them with Hartley or Wehrlein. And with Marko saying Hartley needing to beat Gasly to keep his seat, and Hartley being half a second off of Gasly’s pace this weekend, everything points to Wehrlein.
Jere (@jerejj)
30th September 2018, 7:36
Regarding Nina Rochette’s tweet: Well, maybe it isn’t advantageous to leave the track with all four wheels at certain parts of the circuit. It depends whether the lap time and or sector time improvement came directly from the specific mini-sector where he went off briefly.
– I don’t really agree with the COTD. I’m OK with Kvyat returning as a full-time race driver, but I feel it should be with another team. STR should be reserved for drivers who either haven’t driven there before or at least for a handful of races only.
– DC’s tweet, though.
BlackJackFan
30th September 2018, 9:05
Hi Jere – it’s amusing that you should feel able to dictate to STR how they should operate… :)