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Call that a trophy? That’s a trophy. That 3rd-place one’s unbelievably lame!
Where’s the real trophy?
Wow. Ferrari tried to lose that race so hard but couldn’t get it done. What a race though.
errors and penalties aside, awesome fight between PER-HAM-LEC. my hearth was jumping like hell
Your hearth seems like a fun place.
Good to see Zhou up and smiling. 👍
But Domenicali behavior isn’t good. One clap might be fine, but he is like hanging on Zhou.
It’s raining at last! LOL
Whelp, congrats to RBR for the championship now that Ferrari are going to be fighting too much amongst themselves to try and win races, anymore.
Sainz be like us when we play F1 My team
Opportunity missed but looks like the car is at least able to compete – Rbr looks the best car to me at the moment
Struggling to see how that isn’t a penalty
No penalty for Perez. Literally cuts the corner, forces Leclerc clean off the track, and nothing happens. Why even have a rulebook?
weird indeed
He was shoved off himself.
The rulebook stipulates that the penalty would be for a lasting advantage. He did not gain a lasting advantage, he lost a position. LeClerlc went off track on his own and fell behind Perez, that’s not Perez’ fault.
“Lasting” is meaningless. Perez cut the track and gained a position from Leclerc, even momentarily. In what world is that acceptable? Why even have track limits? You can’t just look at where they ended up afterwards, Perez illegally cut the track and disadvantaged another driver. It’s black and white
Perez gained -NO- advantage by going off track. NONE. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA. Get off it.
SAI won but Ferrari lost a 1-2. dynamics in Ferrari are about to change I think
The dynamics of Ferrari will be the end of Ferrari up front. The infighting is going to be multi-21 level or Nico/Lewis level.
Max to championship confirmed.
A very entertaining race
Weird race.
Well someone had to take control at Ferrari and it looks like Carlos grabbed it :)
What an ending.
Verstappen is fighting Mick and we’re seeing Hamilton cruising
Only +6 points to Leclerc in the title fight. Max got lucky there!
Ferrari did every single thing they could do to ruin Charles’ race, then Charles did every single thing he could do to lose, as well.
Carlos won this race both by hook AND crook but a win is a win.
Well Sainz well done
Enjoy this Mick, you’ll not get an opportunity to fight Verstappen again
poor LEC. battling like a madman just for 4th
Well done Perez and seeing this just think what Abu Dhabi 2021 could’ve been
He won’t catch Perez
Perez should be getting pinned back behind Leclerc, no way he should be 2nd through his actions
Is it under investigation?
It’s “noted”, meaning the FIA will ignore it because it makes good TV
yes. he cut the corner and push LEC wide
It’ll be a 5s penalty so he’ll still be 3rd.
What if Alonso gets around Charles then Perez gets a penalty !
Leclerc is dotd for absolute sure
Huge result for Max – after how things looked, he’s only going to lose a couple of points!
LeC showing how to go 2 wide round Copse
Yep
Lewis shows he can do it too
Leclerc is driving his backside off and he’s in 3rd through Ferrari incompetence and literal cheating
What a finish.
Channel 4 saying Perez vs Leclerc was “just racing.” I imagine Croft is screaming about how unfair it is over on Sky 😂
Just racing by going completely off the track of course. The commentators are just as bad as the stewards
This is crazy
Penalty for Perez surely, completely cut the corner
Wow
Is this go karts?
Yep….. pretty much.
Justice at last: those jingoistic British Lewis adepts (booing the guy that was pushed of by their idol!) will not get a Brit on the podium.
I wonder which driver you support
Dream on LOL
Leclerc is a sitting duck now, all thanks to Ferrari’s incompetence
Come on Fernando :)
Bet they’re regretting that new contract now….
Hamilton oh dear
Ferrari are an absolute joke strategically. Now asking for Sainz to mess up his own race to benefit Leclerc
Lol, Sainz is making me laugh
If Sainz doesn’t win this race, put Giovinazzi in the car
Latifi for points?
He’ll find a way to hit the Ferraris coming back on track.
Maybe MSC too
Stroll must have stopped late. He was 10th
They need Sainz to create a DRS train and to defend like mad against Lewis. Looks impossible but we’ll see…
What a race this has been
LEC better u find another team to race for …….
Hurry up need to see some racing
Perez for the win?
Hmm dunno , hasn’t really been on it this weekend
Sainz.
why LEC didn’t pit on the 2nd safety car lap?
Was Leclerc past the pits or something or was it just Ferrari being Ferrari?
Ferrari being Ferrari
Past the pits
No, he hadn’t reached pit entry yet.
Ferrari can still win this but who…
It’s like Ferrari are trying to make Leclerc lose
If Charles doesn’t say “what?!?!”, I think someone should say it for him
I’m pretty slow on strategy but even I could see Leclerc should have pit there, and they had plenty of time to have chosen to do it. Bizarre from Ferrari.
LeC could end up fourth if Sainz has pace
And Perez. Which is what I meant…
Are they planning to give Charles a new wing? Is that why they wouldn’t double up?
Perez is in the fight too now
Leclerc didn’t pit. Disaster for Ferrari. As always.
I’ve got a Feeling Ferrari has bottled up with Leclerc.
Can Leclerc get in and out in front? I assume they have to drive to a delta so it should. E a shootout now on softs.
Nothing warms my heart more than seeing Otmar’s head in his hands
Double pit stop
The heck, Ferrari!!!
softs time surely
Charles hasn’t pitted!!!
So no cheering when Max overtakes? And this is the home of motorsport?
He passed a broken car man – come on.
Max is car is also broken. Come on
Broken as in Ocon was retiring!
Hahahaha, you’re funny
He’s stopped in the middle of the Hamilton Straight…
Ocon is done… will this cause a SC?
Safety car
“I’m the genie to your … question .. uh… lamp.”
Amazing how much performance Verstappen has lost, very little visual damage
Might be floor damage
Body damage at the back I think they said?
If Max falls to 11th will they retire him to save the engine etc?
Ferrari failing in every respect here
Sainz has a loser’s mentality, he’s thinking about the threat behind rather than the goal in front
Has any team/driver actually handled this race completely like professional teams/drivers? Nearly everyone has messed up, somewhere. What a weird race.
Exactly my thoughts. What a strange race. Danny Ric disappearing is pretty much the only consistent from the rest of the season. *Love Danny Ric, but it has been terrible for a while.
Hamilton, Norris and Alonso have been very good today?
Hamilton’s team just gave him a slow stop so that’s him out of the statement.
I still think Lewis has it. Sainz is not an obstacle and Leclerc has problem with the car.. in 4-5 laps when his tyres will be OK he will fly.
Lewis can come back here, it’s Lewis Hamilton at silverstone
But only if his tires are trash.
Come on Lewis.
A win today would be Epic for you :)
Ferrari gifted some luck AGAIN
well, bar a safety car the race is done
Oh well this should be interesting
Hamilton will catch both Ferraris and Carlos will want to get the lead back.
Slow stop :(
hards & slow stop for Hamilton
Hards for Lewis!? What!?
Noooooooo Latifi :(
Mick into the points.
HAM on softs maybe?
How on earth Ferrari never learn is beyond me. Even if they haven’t gifted Lewis the win, they’ve done everything they could to help.
They pretty much have. Hamilton will have much better tyres towards the end.
But perhaps Leclerc can still salvage the race win.
LeC may not pull away without the DRS place assistance he was getting. And now Carlos has it
Can Hamilton put softs? if he stays out for more laps?
Soft won’t last that long needs to get it to at least lap 37+
His pace is similar to Leclerc.. .i think he can stay..
Yeah he could – Ferrari have gifted him a win.
Ferrari have learned nothing, Vettel used to have to dictate strategy from the seat, now Leclerc has to do the same
Underappreciated at the time; Vettel had to constantly manage the races as well.
Finally. Even for Ferrari, that is spectacularly dumb.
Took them long enough
Finally! Now that they’ve already ruined the race.
Only took them 20 laps too long. Such poor leadership by Binotto.
Zhou declared fit and released from medics :)
One more lap to try? Either drive to the time or get out the way Carlos, you’re gifting the win to Merc right now
Ferrari losing seconds to Hamilton again… it’s incredible. So dumb.
How long can the softs go?
Latifi :(
Please 1 more lap … lol Sainz
Zhou released from the medical center.
Carlos has 1 lap to push or they will swap.
Hamilton is as fast as Sainz. They’re destroying their race….
Well – if it means Lewis and Lando on the podium it’s fine with me.
Free to fight? ok lets see them crash…
Why is Charl behind Carlos again? Make a decision, the longer they wait.
“Free to fight”.
They aren’t letting Charles by!!
They’re gifting Mercedes the win…
It’s funny – I’m watching Channel 4 so no Croft and they’re criticising Ferrari like mad. I bet cuts a little different on Sky! Haha
*it’s
This is where Lewis likes to be.
Going to be hard to beat him now?
Ferrari need to let leclerc past
Again Ferrari botches it….
Ferrari’s strategists are the worst in the business. It’s incredible.
Meanwhile, Ricciardo is 13th. Yeah, I forgot about him too
I love Ricciardo but yeah he’s just not doing it, is he?
Here we go again with Sainz holding up Leclerc. Ferrari are absolutely handing a win to Lewis here
Come on Ferrari, don’t make the same mistake twice.
They usually come up with new and exciting ways to make mistakes.
Unfortunately true.
Could he go long enough for the softs?
Latifi about to pass Verstappen
Does Lewis have to put hard tyres on? Does that stupid rule still apply after a red flag?
Yes. Only if they run wet does that rule drop.
Thanks, he’ll have newer tyres anyway. Or even softs…
We’d another compound yeah
At least Sainz came out ahead
Latifi Pushing Max ….. LOL
That’s a genuine cheer, not a fake crowd noise
Well this is Formula 1 and not WWE, so…
Vettel!
The first recorded instance of Hamilton’s tyres not being gone!
That will come with a few laps to go to the end ;)
Crofty will be insufferable if Hamilton wins this
Croft is permanently insufferable in my opinion.
Hammer time!
Hamilton says the tires are strong. It is impossible for him to win, now.
Charles could have won this if he didn’t try to drive into the three cars in front of him on the first lap after the restart.
He ruined the race for Perez and out the debris on track.
Leclerc is pulling away from Sainz even with old tyres and damage…
Well the way Ferrari have fouled things up for so many races I would put money on Lewis for the win I think.
It seems they waited to clear Norris..
They could have waited to stop Sainz after he let Leclerc through, too.
They really helped Hamilton along today.
Alright Charles, time to shine
I think they are actually doing fine to protect from Hamilton. Hamilton will need a lot of pace to make a difference among the Ferraris
He’s already cut the gap by two+ seconds while Leclerc was ruining his tyres driving so close behind Sainz.
Finally, they are using their heads
I’ll happily be a Ferrari strategist. I’ll do it for nothing or a Pannini, I genuinely think Lewis could win this.
Hamilton should have pitted then. Try the undercut to get Leclerc.
Undercut time.
This isn’t even complicated, Ferrari.
They can’t even manage a gifted win…
Alonso driving away from Max so sure Ocon is not getting all pace out of that Alpine
Ocon isn’t catching VER. Gap is steady
Yeah he used to drive with the problem..
Only Ferrari could waste a 1-2 in such an obvious fashion
Standard Ferrari – absolutely clueless when it comes to strategy.
The GOAT is coming fast on them
Ferrari just trying to make it look fair before they swap them over I reckon.
Ferrari is wasting the chance they had to repair Leclerc’s car by having him muck around behind Sainz.
Sainz lost almost another second to Hamilton. Get Leclerc past already!
I’m amazed Ferrari are deliberating, they’ve always been happy to swap drivers. I can only imagine they want to keep Sainz mentally on board, he hasn’t grasped he’s a number 2 yet
Carlos, Charles is faster than you!
Ferrari could swap using pit stops
Ferrari doesn’t seem to grasp that Hamilton is a real contender today.
Even if the plan is to swap back later, get Leclerc in front and let Charles use DRS to keep with him…..
Carlos
Yep 👍
If I was Sainz I would not be yielding if I’m in the lead
Sainz’s driving illustrating why Norris will be in a Ferrari as soon as it is contractually possible
Hm maybe Ferrari doing well. Since Leclerc can protect Sainz from Hamilton attacks
Like last year?
Leclerc should be let by ASAP. Sainz is ruining their race.
”Carlos let Charles pass for the championship.”
+1
Sainz is on drugs if he thinks he’ll ever be WDC. Bottas tier for sure
I’ve always thought Lewis will keep his record of winning a race every year and once the Ferrari’s blow up – he’ll have his chance!!
Ferrari throwing away a Red Bull gift by having Sainz hold up Leclerc.
Hamilton could actually win this. Amazing. Come on Leclerc though.
Leclerc has it if they let him through
Sainz has already lost 7 tenths to Hamilton.
Ferrari will fight each other
Latifi train!
No. Ocon train.
Ferrari should let Leclerc pass to give him some extra room for the inevitable wing-change during the stop.
Sounds like Max damage recovery for max now. Score as many points as possible
Damaged body then.
Just grab as many points as possible.
Alright Ferrari…. Tell your drivers to work together now!!
Don’t worry, Ferrari will mess up somehow
I wish I could accuse you putting a curse on them but they curse themselves don’t they!
Ferrari will self implode, Lewis could win this
F1TV’s commentating team is by far superior to Sky, but their commentators’ incessant desire to see safety cars is rather annoying.
OK Lewis.
This is a good time to shine Sir!
So.. under/over Max crashes out from a broken car.
Latiffi doing well
He’s going to the end on M tyres?
This is Sainz’s race to lose. If he doesn’t win this his contract should be ripped up
Debris….
Can’t wait for Zandvoort to set this straight. British ‘fans’ are the worst
Here, have the Worlds smallest violin .
Sainz got lucky.
He needs luck let’s face it :/
Man I HATE watching on stream, I’m always a minute behind
A
Puncture for Max. I assume they all need to pit so he could be ok…. Didn’t lose too much time
Carlos. Carlos, no.
GOATifi!!!
GOATIFI for the win!!!
Was that a bit of AlphaTauri he ran over?
Whelp there we go, 1, 2 Ferrari
Max puncture
Sainz could have at least not made the mistake to help Leclerc. Now Max is likely gone
Latifi 8th!
No Yuki…. I wondered how he’d suddenly lost multiple places. Not good.
Hamilton just needs to be patient
Yep, in a decent spot.
C’mon Latifi!
It’d be a bit ironic that he’ll get his best ever result for everyone else screwing up
Synchronized spins
Enjoy 3rd Carlos
Hamilton a threat to Ferrari? That was really easy for Verstappen
Hamilton is still half a second or so slower.
Sainz will never ever be WDC, his career is just littered with stuff like this
Another stamp on my BINGO card. Carlos was never going to manage this race.
Ferrari team order coming
Hopeless
DRS fail?
Never mind, must have been the light.
Oh Carlos……
Biggest opportunity for Sainz usually yields biggest oops
Rally driving is a family thing
DRS train behind Gasly
Sainz stating the obvious
Confirmation Albon goes to the hospital but Zhou stays at the track for observation.
Not sure what to think of that.
Hopefully it’s because he is stable rather than they don’t want to move him.
Hmm Rbr and Ferrari differs league
In comes the inevitable DRS fly-by as Ferrari’s qualifying pace turns out to be quite useless in the races…
I find Leclerc to be pushing past Perez more than anything
Bit clumsy by Pérez, he nearly hit all three of the other leaders.
LOL. Charles is in the Ferrari *cough*
Oof LeClerc.
Clumsy from Leclerc
So good for Sainz. Pushed Verstappen just a little of the same way Verstappen has done countless times.
Perez pits!? Sure, damage but…
Biggest opportunity of Sainz’s entire career here
Was that 4 wide into the loop? That was crazy
It was.
Sainz was very cheeky with Verstappen at T1 tbh
Thought I saw pieces coming off Max on the hangar straight
Great racing Norris
Very messy from the front runners
Not really fair, but Max can get this back.
The four-wide move wasn’t going to work, Charles, it’s not Moto3
Ferrari and Red Bull just driving all over each other. It’s like watching aarava.
Why did they go back to their starting positions?
Grid was the only way they could determine places.
Oh what a shame Lewis had a lightening start
Okay.. round 2
Hope they’re happy with that catch fencing structurally, it just caught about 900kg of F1 car.
The real Hand of God
100%
EWWWW who is the tv director showing a guy waving marry me Christian LOL
For viewers in Saudi A., Russia and certain US states.
they deserve each other
Williams tweeted that Albon was taken by helicopter to a hospital. I have not heard anything of Zhou except being at the track’s medical facility…
What happened with Albon that is more concerning than Zhou?
Its not the speed of the crash but the time taken to stop
They have several helicopters. Albon was back to the pit area first.
This is reasonable.
It might simply take a bit longer to go through all the checks with Zhou.
Ah yeah this makes sense.
oh dear….. hopefully it is because his in ear g force thingy made it an obligation. It was a bit of lateral whack
Albon went nose first into concrete. When Karun said that I was like yikes. The dale Earnhardt crash didn’t look that bad either but concrete is hard.
George received outside assistance.
Russell whining about not being able to join the race, and Pinkham agreeing about the “injustice”. Read the rules, eh?
He couldn’t get it started when he got back in. Case closed. Sorry to hear about it. He must feel pretty bad for the team. But he saw a car vault the wall and did what any normal person would do.
Perez was allowed to restart after Spa why not George
The race hadn’t technically started when Perez crashed.
That was always a bit dubious, but I suppose they went with ‘it happened before the race started so whatever’.
Red flags, restarts….. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that was the same in recently
Angela Cullen got a scooter!!!!!! Finally, I’ve seen her jog behind far too many times
Why are they going into Aston Martin though?
Stupid stupid George! Maximum penalty points not even scrapes the surface of this stupidity! He should be punished in a way he’d remember for the rest of his career
Ok.. racing incident as far as I can see.
Calm down, eh?
God chill out m8
10 minutes
George isn’t allowed to restart the race.
What is the rule saying that they must start in grid order? It feels odd really. Red flag came after the first corner I think
“from last point it was possible to determine position of all cars” according to Channel 4
The rule is slightly unclear, but red came after T4.
Not all cars passed the first timing loop or something so they say they can’t be 100% sure of track position.
Article 58.11 on resuming a race with a standing start: ‘The first car in line behind the safety car may dictate the pace and, if necessary, fall more than ten (10) car lengths behind it. As the safety car is approaching the pit entry the FIA light panels will be extinguished. Once the safety car has entered the pit lane all cars, with the exception of those that were in their garage at the time the sprint session or the race was suspended (see Article 57.3), should return to the grid, take up their grid positions and follow the procedures set out in Articles 43.11, 43.12 and 43.13 or Articles 44.10, 44.11 and 44.12 as relevant.’
Verstappen is first. Seems to me he should start from pole.
“grid position” does not seem to be the same as “the order in which they entered the pits”
Thrilling footage of some woman carrying drinks
She was going through the gravel, maybe they were concerned she would trip and drop them.
So much for equality in racing…
it was thrilling as those proberbly cost £50
Ferrari International Assistance is going to give Sainz another chance at it then?
Zhou concious and talking :)
Yup. Talking slowly. Couldn’t understand what else they said.
Feels like the FIA are picking and choosing their rules again. What’s the betting we now have a rolling start because reasons?
How long have you watched? This is ridiculously common result of something like this within the first corners and red flag.
Last time we had a first lap red flag at Bahrain 2020 the restart order was based off the last timing line everyone crossed.
And they just noted that the last timing line everyone crossed was the start/finish line.
Obviously, as three cars failed to get out of the first sector. But the rest passed the timing line just fine.
Ah, thanks. The FIA has been as clear as mud about this.
30 years next year, and the last example I can think of (2020) didn’t have this.
So about as long as I have, and in the US I was a kiddo who didn’t always have access. Weird that I can remember things like this. Maybe because almost every race the US got had these kinds of things.
Restart the race already.
If they change tyre compounds now, have they used two in the race? Zero pit stops hereafter?
Yes, two like before with opening lap stoppages.
International feed did finally discuss the protesters at some length.
Absolutely crazy
Yup. Even mentioned it was a blind, high-speed corner and it would have caused some “difficulty”.
The FIA have to be the most incompetent, corrupt governing body on earth. Why even have a rulebook if you just do whatever?
Should either be a full start as it was at the start.
Or a restart with everyone where they were when the red flag came out. Not a mix of the two.
Strange choice and not really fair towards those who got a great start.
This is the historically correct response.
Oddly the restart will have Carlos at the front, not Max
Isn’t the red flag rule restart in order at prior lap? Remember the Brazil fisichella win? That’s what I was thinking. That’s unfortunate. For those who made passes.
good to see Masi being replaced has made the rule enforcement so much better…
Like the mcnish Audi crash at lemans at Dunlop. Vaulted over the tires into the fence. It sure how you account for that. Don’t remember if there was gravel in front on the tires there.
I believe there was gravel.
There was gravel, but it was mostly a case of the gravel being at an incline, so it sort of acted as a ramp. McNish bounced a bit, but it was mostly the fact that he was practically launched into the tyres at very high speed that sort of made the car curl around the top of the tyre stack.
If it’s a non-start, then I assume that means there’s no free pit stop either?
So Russel gets to join back in? As there’s no race for him to have been knocked out of.
Weird
He shouldn’t be, because he’s rejoined the race on the back of a lorry. But hey, more cars are better, so let’s just let him back in. Rules be damned!
Either the race is started from 0 (like none of this happened) or they start from lap 2 in the order they were in when the red came out.
I assume so. It either starts on lap 2 or everything is null and void and providing they can fix the damage, everyone is back in the race.
No. There are still rules in regards to returning to the pit.
FIA making things clear as mud, as usual
Better mirrors sooner rather that later
As usual, the FIA is failing to combine experience from their various series. Camera’s and screens have been used for years to good effect in GT racing.
So if Sainz is back on pole, surely everyone else needs to go to their quali-gridslot too. Otherwise it’s just promoting 1 driver
Correct, I was under the assumption the start order was set by the running order at the time of the red flag, so surely Sainz has to be P2
That’s the way they’ve done things like this, historically
That was really concerning how the roll bar failed before the car touched the gravel
Exactly, the Halo isn’t supposed to substitute for the roll-bar. Something about it just sort of disappearing is not good at all.
And it’s worrying that the same team had a roll bar failure before when Diniz went upside down
It was not a big impact. But It slid on the tarmac for a really long time. Not an excuse but a very unusual situatuon. Maybe the heat got to the epoxy temp limit.
For those without TV:
Zhou was sliding upside down on the roll bar until he hit the sand. Once he hits the sand, the car starts bouncing, roll bar failed. Moments before reaching the tires, the bouncing is significant enough that the car flips, kind of climbs the tire barrier with the momentum of the flip, then hits the catch fence with the underside of the car and slides between the fence & the tires.
How is Sainz back on pole? He was 2nd at the time of the red flag
If this is the case, it would be due to a nonstart, so they are having drivers restart from their qualifying position.
Jesus! I don’t know what to make of that
Miracle that no one was seriously injured.
Ah what a relief the race control message says that Zhou is ok!!! Omg thank God!!!
He’s lucky – halo did it’s job and he hit the catch wall with the floor of the car.
Russell & Seb caused chain-reactions.
Eh, what the heck happened to the rollbar?
It collapsed
wow that is nuts, reminds me a bit of sophia floersch, just getting totally launched into the air over the barriers
Omg!!!
How’s the FIA going to deal with a situation like that? All they can do is increase the height of the tyre barriers
Higher tire wall would have sent Zhou over the catch fence. That’s a huge no.
Same way they have in the last 20+ years, get rid of the gravel. It’s well known that it launches cars into the air when parts of them get stuck.
Bloody hell.
Zhou cleared the barriers? :O
Beyindd the tires, but hit the catch fence.
Grim :(
Rollbar failed
It’s a worry if they couldn’t secure the track even knowing protests were planned. It’s a huge area obviously but the dangers are extreme.
Omg, that’s terrifying. That could have gone into the crowd
Oh ok – yeah that’s on Russell.
Weird how recently grid orders for post-red restarts stopped being the one in which everyone arrived into pit lane.
Gravel trap doing more harm than good
Mercedes shouldn’t be allowed to do that to George’s car
The protesters are no doubt cursing Zhou for denying them their moment of glory.
I wonder if they may swap Leclerc and Hamilton round, they seemed very side by side when the red was called. Seems Bauer was making some sort of hand motions in the pitlane just now which could be interpreted as…
What a surprise, Crofty trying to talk right Mercedes breaking rules.
‘Yeah but surely more cars is better’. What a bum…
Crofty is a mouthpiece for Liberty/FIA. A truly embarrassing individual
I’m loving life watching Channel 4….
Protestors have been arrested so maybe red flag end soon?
https://twitter.com/_aarava/status/1543600073216499717
Are the FIA really going to permit Russell to reenter the race? The car rejoined the track/pit on a truck, not under its own power, that’s a clear retirement
Just saw the Zhou incident. Looks like George moved across Gasly a little too fast, hit Gasly’s front right, turned around and flipped Zhou.
That was a bit like Grosjean 2012 if you ask me
Apparently some protesters got onto the track during the 1st lap. TV aren’t covering it but could have been a bit dicey if not for the red flag….
You know what? That link you showed is very difficult to see Zhou’s car. There is every chance the red flag was specifically for the protestors.
it took them a while to extract him. I think the Red might have been for the protestors as well but it would have been a red anyway for Zhou as it took a long time to extract him.
Yeah, but I’m not sure how many people were aware of Zhou’s car being smooshed between the fence & the tires. I imagine information would’ve made its way but think it might’ve taken another 10-15 seconds if not a little more for someone with the authority to throw the red would’ve noticed.
Protestors on the track during lap one! Missed in the red flag chaos
https://twitter.com/_HelenaHicks/status/1543598067399671808
What are they trying to save?
Russell being allowed to rejoin the race would have pleased the paying spectators.
Show the incident(s) on the world feed already.
https://twitter.com/xrelbug/status/1543598614639001601?s=21&t=G9Y9vN94mEUKRM5dYqLAXg
Just seen the crash – Tsunoda got sandwiched between Russell and Zhou. His front tyres to their rears….
So glad he’s ok. Weird when your favourite sport reminds you these people are risking their lives for your entertainment.
On to the race, Hamilton in a great position, Verstappen has it all to lose, but probably won’t.
Oooh he’s not allowed to rejoin because he left the car and he’s trying to say he stopped to check on the other driver
Yep – sounds like he had to drive it back but it’s on a truck so no deal.
Seen them on board from Gasly, He got squeeze between Russell and Zhou and Russell collided with Zhou again and rolled
Thank goodness there wasn’t a fire
Yes.
Very dangerous situation for sure, not sure how it can be prevented wither
Russell trying to get it fixed? :) LOL
Car looked fine apart from a flat. Wondering why he didn’t bring it around to the pits at least.
He’s out and he is moving
Zhou extracted on a stretcher and moving
Out of the car and moving, alert.
Hamilton got a mega start
Doesn’t look good, no news hoped is good news?
Russell tried to squeeze Gasly, Gasly and Russell touch tipping Russell straight into Zhou’s car
No replays no news making me feel anxious. Now the ambulance on the track but probably SOP in the situation.
George had a terrible start and drifted left and was clipped from behind. Chaos ensued
https://twitter.com/samuelmargo/status/1543597124557979649?s=21&t=G9Y9vN94mEUKRM5dYqLAXg
How does that happen?
He would be sliding on the halo, which is not going to give an EVEN balance. So his car will it it, probably the lowest part first, which would give enough force to flip it up and still have momentum to flip it over to the fence, which might’ve given way just enough.
George cut across the track into Zhou still on the straight
Also concerned that we haven’t heard any team radio from Zhou
On top of the tyre barriers and catch fence
Did George get the car back? Saw he was still in it?
I doubt it, the tyre was completely stripped from the rim
In other news, Sainz completely butchered his start as expected. Victory lost before T1
Car is upside down stuck between the barriers
Gamble for Max on the softs worked nicely then. 3 corners and now gets a free pit stop!
Think this might be a long stoppage
No replays are standard, they did the same for Mick at Saudi and he was fine
Russell went back in the car, weird, but hopefully Zhou is okay.
I imagine it’s because Russel stayed with Zhou until the safety crew arrived.
Damnit – finest Rookie we have had in some time.
Hope he is good
Seems the reason they are not showing replays may include the fact the car is still upside down.
Hope Zhou is alright. Very worrying
Fingers crossed he’s okay, was a big one from looks of it
Not encouraging that replays are being avoided
They never show replays until they know everyone is okay
Hope Zhou’s ok, they’ve showed all the others but not him yet.
Think Zhou was upside down
yes
George!
Ouch.
Tyre changes?
Amateur hour, what happened there?
Zhou, I believe, got spun and immediately flipped. Have no idea what happened behind.
George :(
George wasn’t upside down, my friend.
I have no television – I wouldn’t know.
Oh.. uh.. Zhou was flipped and slid through the first corner. Have not yet seen the car after that but I imagine it made it through the trap and maybe even hit the wall
FVKFVKFVK
It would be nice to see Carlos keep the lead for a few laps but I can’t see him doing much more.
yikes…
Brundle really does trot out the same lines every single race. How often does he “inform” us of the pit limiter requirement?
The way Verstappen gets off on the first lap it will be a miracle if Sainz ends the lap still ahead.
and he’s on softs, all but guaranteed now!
On the softs to start – interesting.
Just realised I was at Silverstone last year ☹️, also where I got Covid-19
Hoping to not to get it this year. Wifey just tested positive.
Hmm, should be a dog fight but I think Max has thus wrapped up
This slightly Rock-like version sounds weird.
I dear lord this is terrible
i hope we dont have a problem with one of the ferraris already, makes the race less interesting
Martin Brundle grid walk. That man vainly hates this part of the job. “I don’t actually follow football that closely”. OK!
*really
What’s going on with Ferrari?
Hello everyone from Silverstone! Atmosphere absolutely buzzing here. The general admission areas were already well filled with people when I arrived just before half past seven this morning. There were forecasts of a possible shower in the build-up to the race, but although it’s clouded over a bit it’s a lot brighter than it was when it started raining before qualifying yesterday. Looks likely to stay dry for now.
Forgot the race was live on Channel 4 today. Yay! A race without David Croft…. That’s already +1 on the Rate The Race score!
All the best
Big raincloud just gone through the Oxford area about 20 minutes ago possibly on the way to Silverstone
The grid for tomorrow’s race:
https://www.racefans.net/2022/07/02/2022-british-grand-prix-grid/
Really British crowd booing Max
What’s the booing about?
Immature people still crying over Abu Dhabi I guess.
I didn’t know it was his first Pole!
Awesome :) :)
How are the Sky commentary so useless? Murray used to get words wrong but it’s like listening to someone who just doesn’t understand F1 at all with these 2. Brundle used to be ok but he seems to be sinking towards Crofty’s spectacularly low level now…
Carlos, don’t weigh in with a cap on
terrible tv director, didn’t show any of the other cars after first 3 crossed the line…
Yup right. I wanted to see Alonso, Perez and both Mercedes jeez
Max will mug him at the start I think
Quite possibly – but still – makes it fun ;)
Tomorrow is going to be good
Can we get rid of this TV director? That was a horrible ending really
LOL – Sainz blew himself away :)
What happened to Russell? 8th?
Smooth Operator.
Yeah Leclerc helped his teammate with that yellow flag delaying himself and slowing Max as well
Who’d have thought that?!?
Sainz – grats :O
My goodness
Well done Sainz
Looks like Verstappen got caught by Leclerc’s yellow flag.
Where is Perez, he is massively behind his teammate
Ignore
It’s like a sprint race
Surely that’s a violation, he literally cut the corner
Someone needs to put their balls in the fire
Are you sure you posted that on the right website? :O LOL
Again an error of Max in 3rd sector, he was much faster till the 3rd sector. Come Max get it together, 3 good sectors
Crofty getting all excited about the idea of Max having a lap deleted 😂
ZHOU!!!!!!!!!
Verstappen’s pole disappearing before our eyes potentially!
Max 3rd with a 360 spin
MAX! :O
That RB is twitching
Come on someone – grab a surprise Pole!
Alonsio.
These laps might be the fastest laps
Ricciardo 2.5s off Norris. It’s just humiliation, there’s only so much jackassery he can pull before reality kicks in
Has he overestimated his abilities as a driver…
He pushed Verstappen, that’s the thing. He was a match in a lot of ways, and I don’t think Norris is is far better than Verstappen. I just think Ricciardo can’t drive McLaren’s cars, he’s not versatile enough to adapt the way he drives. A one trick pony effectively
I expected so so much more from him when he left RB.
One Trick Pony may indeed be the problem :/
They don’t call him Goatifi for no reason LMAO
Latifi is the DOTW so far.
All the money and time Williams spent on Albon’s upgrade…and Latifi walks into Q3. I’m strangely overjoyed he’s got there on his own merit, he actually deserves to be there
I don’t like you Latifi but I am delighted for you.
I’m conflicted – LOL ;)
I like it for the Williams staff not for Latifi
They might need full wets now
I usually enjoy a wet qualifying but i sort of feel that the rain coming has ruined what would have been a great dry qualifying.
Just something about this wet quali that is lacking any excitement. Can’t quite put my finger on why but it sort of lacks something.
Not many comfortable with pushing limits in the wet
Track isn’t improving…
Track is getting more wet and guess who is 10th, LATIFI :-)
Latifi 10th! The dream is coming true
:)
I really hope he does it
Norris 2nd, Ricciardo 12th. Just embarrassing stuff. Leclerc went top straight after so it’s nothing to do with rain
Yeah so Max upset Riccardio’s career and Norris is finishing off Riccardio’s career. It is now really finished for Riccardio
Zhou is a really solid driver, he’s come alive since his steady start
Some upsets possible here, I for one am cheering for a Latifi Q3 appearance
That would be funny
I personally don’t think the guy deserves that – but I would smile to see it ;)
Just realizing why Aston Martin is failing, same reason why Mclaren was failing about 10 years ago.
The problem is called Martin Withmarsh
Lol, forgot he moved there
So did I till he was shown on TV as Aston Martin team boss, and it immediately all made sense
Aston really are embarrassing themselves. Stroll Sr making a mess of the team and Stroll Jr making a mess of his own performance
Interesting q1
I’m surprised Latifi both out-qualified his teammate & reached Q2.
Albon outqualified by Latifi…uh oh
That is a bit chronic from Aston :/
Leclerc jumps Max with 0.1 on an improving track only for Max to jump Leclerc by 0.7 seconds a little later
Ham left that late
Ricciardo flirting with disaster here, yet again
Max same as in Canada absolutely mastering the wet changing conditions
He is really turning into an impressive driver with each season as he matures.
Aston Martin is a disgrace
Come on Danny Ric – get out there mate.
Times are tumbling!
Rbr is in a different league
Max is in a different league, Ferrari might have the faster car if you see both Ferrari’s being 0.8 ahead of Perez
It’s easing off :/
Might need wets if this keeps up, that Ferrari looks like a handful already
Traffic jam!
Rbr/Max pole
We have wet qualifying
Go away rain.
Just over 15 minutes to go until qualifying, what is everybody’s pole prediction? I say Max Verstappen.
Today’s FP3 report:
https://www.racefans.net/2022/07/02/verstappen-fastest-by-four-tenths-in-final-british-grand-prix-practice/
1:26.600/VER, race top 5: VER-LEC-PER-SAI-HAM
Cars bouncing through Copse look pretty scary… unChristian Horner was talking testicles on 4, about it only affecting one team, while they showed replays of Ferrari & Haas bouncing much more than Hamilton seems to!
Should be an Rbr win this weekend
Big day today and it appears to be very tight at the top. Can Mercedes get in the fight with Ferrari and Red Bull or will yesterday prove to be an outlier? FP3 in 10 minutes.
Tight at the top, I think Rbr will be more competitive tomorrow
This is the first time I see such incompetence by mechanics – they tried to fit the wheel the wrong way!
Are you talking about the Mclaren stop where the jack broke?
Yes.
I fail to see what the mechanics alleged incompetence was in that case.
A second error followed when a mechanic tried to put a wheel the wrong way around on Norris’ McLaren https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/lando-norris-pit-mclaren-silverstone-27377910
Comical stop.
>Hamilton gets booed at Dutch Grand Prix
>Media: tHiS iS tErRiBlE!
>Verstappen gets booed at Silverstone
>Media: ‘In other news, look at this seagull!’
How very sportive of them….
I remember Lewis got hardly booed at last year in Zandvoort. Even after Max’s Silverstone crash. The Dutch are a bit more classy
Alpine looks great as does Williams (Albon) car
FP1 for the British Grand Prix is already underway and what a vital weekend this could be. Many teams have brought upgrades and Mercedes are cautiously optimistic of a strong weekend. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Last season dealing with Mercedes and Hamilton, this season Ferrari and Leclerc/Sainz… yeah Max has this covered assuming his car doesn’t break
Rate today’s race:
https://t.co/8jcg86Gbh0
I would’ve liked Merc to stop managing their cars apart
?
George’s early 2nd pit stop to get rid of any advantage he had.
if russle didnt pit, he would end up behind alo too! did you see ham left him in the dust in the restart if he didnt get fresh tires, renault on fresh meds, do you think they were gonna hang around?
Good effort by Sainz anyway.
Good effort from Sainz.
Nice to see Lewis on the podium again.
Very professional stuff from Max ;)
Sorry Sainz just not good enough…
He can only do so much, the Ferrari just doesn’t have the grunt to beat the RB on the straight
He messed up the hairpin a few times, but he had to try to get it just perfect so it’s understandable. The Ferrari is simply too slow on the straights; same thing happened earlier in the year when Leclerc and Verstappen had a few scraps.
Sainz made a hash of the hairpin
Well that’s disappointing, never looked in trouble…
Still, props to the commentators pretending for 15 laps. Sainz never even had a look.
I can imagine Sainz going for some insane lunge on the final lap
It’s looking like another win lost due to Ferrari’s poor top speed.
You just know Alonso is going to punch a hole in the wall of his driver’s room. And to be fair, Alpine’s strategists have a lot to answer for.
GP2 engine!
Leclerc not getting any closer to Russell.
And Sainz Flap
With DRS still being necessary to pass, Red Bull made the right choice prioritizing top speed over a bit of performance in the corner.
Sainz is finished
Hamilton is closing in on Sainz.
Leclerc needs to relax
He’s driving like aarava.
Sainz makes up only about three tenths on the backstraight with DRS. He’s going to have to be super close out of the hairpin if he wants to make the move.
What if Max & Sainz touch, letting Hamilton take the W?
I would laugh myself to sleep tonight :)
I’m not sure Sainz is going to do this
Shocking TV direction as usual
Someone lost a few years, almost said Vettel !
Sainz is keeping with Verstappen
The Verstappen Rule has definitely made these restarts a whole lot less interesting.
A totally dumb rule too; Verstappen disadvantaged himself doing it multiple times
Exactly, the only time it somewhat worked in his favour was in Saudi Arabia (IIRC). His attempts in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain were pretty pointless.
Alpines will be quick too
I’ll be surprised if Hamilton gets past Sainz
What a perfect bit of timing for me to have a quick Pit (toilet) Stop!
Hamilton could just call up Red Bull, they’d give him the same answers as his own pit wall — at least they’re telling Max the same thing lol
Sainz isn’t going to a much better opportunity than now, he needs to attack from the restart
This is probably going to be his only chance, true. Six laps difference in tyre use isn’t going to be enough to give him the edge over Verstappen.
Restart should be fun
There is zero need for a Safety Car. This incident follows a very slow corner. Yellow flags in T1 to T3 would have been fine.
The barriers presumably need sorted, VSC is the absolute minimum
Disagree, you want marshalls on the track with just a yellow flag with drivers coming out of the pits in a similar situation as Tsunoda? Come on, think about more than just how it affects your favourite driver.
My favourite driver isn’t even in the race!
Yellow flag regulations specifically mention that they can be used when there are marshals on track and that drivers are then obliged to drive so slowly that they can stop at any time. The problem isn’t with the flags, but with the race director failing to uphold the FIA regulations as written.
The drivers don’t respect yellows though. A slight lift isn’t being ready to stop.
Horrid luck for Leclerc and Alonso
LOL, talk about embarrassing. What a way to bin it
It’s got to be a SC
Max is lucky this happened when it did. Another 10 or 15 laps and Sainz would have had have much fresher tyres.
Ooooo Sainz???
Can Leclerc go to the end?
This’ll be a safetycar.
The influence Pirelli still has on the pace of these cars is just silly.
Seriously? Completely unnecessary
They didn’t want the two drivers to come together on the track. It’s very pointedly an attempt to keep one driver in front of another (not saying priority Hamilton, just saying priority the front driver).
Could have had a feee SC stop but they screwed him over to keep the drivers apart. Now Russell has the Alpines on his gearbox with fresher tyres.
Yup.
Weird time to pit George….
Nope, George didn’t need to pit this soon.
Well he was well clear of Ocon, no reason not to really
Verstappen immediately pointing fingers, embarrassing stuff
Why? Max can’t make a decision about when to pit to ensure he comes out in front of a rival. That’s wholly on the pit wall.
RB are at the mercy of the tyres too. Like GP said, they didn’t have the pace to get out ahead of Hamilton. RB’s job is to ensure the tyres last; if Verstappen can’t get enough pace out them, that’s his issue. What’s RB supposed to do?
No, RBs job is to watch the times and not pit their driver behind a rival. If they didn’t have the pace, they didn’t have the pace but it is still primarily on the team to pit their driver in a good place.
It’s 2021 all over again!
Another squisshhh from Hamilton. Don’t imagine this will last too long but at least it didn’t ruin Max’s race like it ruined Kevin’s.
Eyeroll
Wouldn’t that have been iRoll? At least be cheeky.
All that matters is a fast car. Like really? It’s a team sport
Comedy stuff. They couldn’t win a championship if they tried
Top work Ferrari …… again :/
Quite a few bad stops today, odd.
And of course it drops Leclerc right into the Stroll-train.
Sainz is either stepping it up or Max is tyre saving
Russell has stalled behind Hamilton
He was 10 seconds behind Hamilton just a few laps ago, now he is 8.4
Perhaps we have different definitions for ‘stalled’ ?
He’s letting the old guy beat him for a change ;)
10 lap diff on the tyre age… up to Russell how much he wants to take out of his tyres
Leclerc being stuck is becoming quite the curious situation. He has DRS, a faster car, the supposed ‘all new 2022 cars’, but still hasn’t even made a serious attempt.
Also a 20 lap tyre disadvantage though.
Think there’s another stop in this race
Times seem pretty stable, but it’s a long way to go still.
I reckon they’ll need to do it by lap 50ish or just before
Plan D, oh dear
Bruh whatever setup they gave to Leclerc, it has gotten him stuck behind Ocon. Sainz managed to dispatch Alonso without any problems
Russell almost has a pitstop on Ocon
Leclerc isn’t going to catch up with the Mercedes cars like this, considering he has to stop as well.
His tyres are done, Ocon has him covered. 4th was a crazy expectation for him really