In the round-up: AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost says Daniil Kvyat’s Austrian Grand Prix retirement was a result of him being too impatient.
What they say
Pierre Gasly finished seventh but team mate Kvyat damaged his car while trying to overtake Esteban Ocon, and retired:
I’m satisfied with seventh position because yesterday in qualifying we were not so competitive as we expected. And therefore we have to stay realistic and the seventh position is really good.
Unfortunately Danny couldn’t bring home a second finish within the points. I think it would have been easily possible because he was out with the new option tyres and was closing the gap. But then he was a little bit too impatient and paid this with retirement. […]
I spoke to him. Of course he was disappointed. But in my eyes, he drove a really good race. And he tried it on the outside and it simply didn’t work. But he was fast and that’s important.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
McLaren plans to sell stake in F1 team to secure future (Autocar)
"A McLaren insider insisted that the only advanced discussions were focused on selling a minority stake in the Racing division, as well as denying any conversations in regards to a sale of Automotive. Racing encompasses the McLaren Formula 1 team, which hit the headlines at the weekend when Briton Lando Norris scored his first podium finish in the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix."
President Donald Trump calls out Bubba Wallace, NASCAR in tweet (ESPN)
"In a statement, NASCAR said it is 'proud to have Bubba Wallace in the NASCAR family and we commend his courage and leadership. NASCAR continues to stand tall with Bubba, our competitors and everyone who makes our sport welcoming and inclusive for all racing fans.'"
Vietnam says may host F1 race in November (Reuters)
"We are assessing all virus-related issues and will discuss them with the organisers. Hopefully the race can be resumed by end-November."
Ron Dennis: "What I found was that as I was not asking for anything for myself I could be quite pushy. I would say I was pushing against an open door as no one had to have the cause explained to them – it really brought the best out of people."
Norris wasn't tricking system in water bottle video (Motorsport)
"McLaren has clarified that the edited video did not reveal the true circumstances around what happened, and the team has emphasised how seriously it is taking the coronavirus protocols."
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Comment of the day
Richard spotted a curious statistics about McLaren’s recent podiums:
The last McLaren driver to place in a podium place on the road and receive the trophy for the position they were in on the classified results and keep that position in the final classified results was Jenson Button winning the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix. Since then they have been classified on the podium four times, all of which have involved some sort of penalty promoting their drivers
2014 Australia: Kevin Magnussen finished third on the road, collected trophy for third, upgraded to second after Ricciardo was thrown out and Jenson Button finished fourth on the road, didn’t go to podium and was upgraded to third
2019 Brazil Carlos Sainz Jnr fourth on the road, upgraded to third once Lewis got a penalty, didn’t receive trophy until later on though.
2020 Austria Norris finished fourth on the road, upgraded to third, in time to collect his trophy at least this time!
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On this day in F1
- 35 years ago today Brabham scored their final F1 victory, Nelson Piquet triumphing in a scorching French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard
Chaitanya
7th July 2020, 2:19
Is Nascar trying to alienate its redneck supporters by that statement?
frood19 (@frood19)
7th July 2020, 12:24
If that’s not their intention, it should be.
ruliemaulana (@ruliemaulana)
7th July 2020, 3:01
Trump was stupid for hoping that a Messiah would ever make an apology.
Montréalais (@)
7th July 2020, 3:32
Well said @ruliemaulana, but a little verbose. I suggest deleting everything from “for hoping…” onwards.
Darryn Smith (@darryn)
7th July 2020, 3:44
Apology for what exactly?
Exediron (@exediron)
7th July 2020, 4:25
Well, you’re right about the first three words at least!
ColdFly (@)
7th July 2020, 7:57
Not sure about the past tense though.
spoutnik (@spoutnik)
7th July 2020, 9:16
Though invoking god to justify your path is kind of a non argument. He certainly doesn’t deserve the treatment he’s been given by trump but it’s probably not the best answer possible to it.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
7th July 2020, 9:48
I get what you mean, more like token. Feelings are more important than reason in the 21st century. no need for this stuff but whatever.
kpcart
8th July 2020, 6:52
no need for equality for black people???? why are so many racing fans racist???
ruliemaulana (@ruliemaulana)
7th July 2020, 4:25
I don’t know about you. But if I make honest mistakes about something that enraged half the population I’ll be glad to know that there’s no hate speech happens. I would not doubling down in it in TV and would immediately release a public apology to my peers that go along the way to made a parade to support me.
It looks like it’s not an honest mistake now.
ruliemaulana (@ruliemaulana)
7th July 2020, 4:26
This is a reply to @darryn
ColdFly (@)
7th July 2020, 8:25
I don’t think Trump will ever apologise, @ruliemaulana.
ruliemaulana (@ruliemaulana)
7th July 2020, 8:46
Hahaha. He would never. Always calculated move.
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
7th July 2020, 11:00
@ruliemaulana The ‘noose’ event might have been what triggered it, but the solidarity statement made by NASCAR with the grid march was a statement in support of Bubba Wallace and BLM, and against racism. That statement stands despite the ‘noose’ event turning out to be a misunderstanding. No apology is necessary from Bubba or NASCAR, unless they’ve decided that they no longer stand against racism.
kpcart
8th July 2020, 6:55
also the fbi concluded it was a noose, which means somebody tied it as a noose, for only one possible reason. there is no reason to have that rope tied like that. Good on Nascar for cleaning up their act, getting rid of that disgusting loser racest conferate flag and showing support to equality. Donald Trump is done, his last attempt to hold onto some power now is siding with the redneck racist element of USA, an element that is dieing, not growing.
Jere (@jerejj)
7th July 2020, 8:02
The Vietnamese GP would have to take place within the September-October-November phase next year if it were to get rescheduled to November for this year as otherwise, it’d get unnecessarily tight with the timing of the dismantling process following this year’s event, and the build-up process for next year’s. Permanent circuits can have a race at the tail-end of a season for one year and towards the beginning the next (as did Malaysia in 2000 and 2001, and Russia in 2015 and 2016), but full street tracks can’t. In this case, it’s a new street track as well, so there isn’t a previous reference for how long the dismantling nor the build-up process lasts until after the inaugural event, and by the second one.
Additionally, it couldn’t hold the race in late-November this year as that’s where Bahrain would most likely be if and when it gets rescheduled, and the Vietnamese GP as per previous implications ideally shouldn’t take place on subsequent weekends with another event because of being a first-time race, hence, why it didn’t form a double-header with China in the original 2020 race calendar.
ColdFly (@)
7th July 2020, 8:22
They don’t have to dismantle the whole circuit; so they might even save some costs if it’s November-April.
In Melbourne, it takes many months to build the whole circuit, but disruptions are extremely limited. The roads only close for 6 days (I’ve seen them unloading a Ferrari when I drove past on the Tuesday). My favourite running track (Parkrun Melbourne) closes just 2 weekends. And I believe for the golf course it’s 3 weeks.
Jere (@jerejj)
8th July 2020, 7:59
@coldfly I doubt they could leave the temporary infrastructures in place to wait for next year’s event. Furthermore, it doesn’t take ‘many’ months to build-up the circuit in Melbourne. More or less the same amount of days and weeks as for all established street circuits. The build-up process in Melbourne also starts around two months and ten days in advance, i.e., this and last year, it commenced around the middle of the first half of January, while in 2017 and 2018, for example, being closer to the end of March, it commenced around the middle of January.
Nevertheless, Here’s an option as to how I could see the re-organized end for this season to look like, and this is for a scenario not featuring any of the following three, the US, Mexico, and Brazil:
Rescheduled Canada October 11 (despite my dislike towards placing Montreal in October)
Rescheduled China October 25 and November 1
Rescheduled Vietnam November 15
Rescheduled Bahrain November 29 December 6
Postponed Abu Dhabi GP December 13.
ColdFly (@)
7th July 2020, 9:11
I understand FIA has issued a statement regarding the cold bottle usage by McLaren driver Norris and his trainer:
BasCB (@bascb)
7th July 2020, 12:21
:-)
Ole Brummer (@andrewwj)
7th July 2020, 18:42
KVY is frustrating. He seems his own worst enemy; a man underperforming his talent level.