2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix

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Samus
In news that is related to this weekend cost cutting has gone a step further at Silverstone, the kerbs are now all made from old chequered flags.
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White paint, the cheapest they could get from the highways agency surplus :sly: none of this pricey special colour nonsense!

BBC Weather reporting some rain on Sunday...

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Purely hypothetical of course but if they were to drop both I think logically they would go for experience and youth with respect. Alonso + Wehrlein?
 
Samus
Purely hypothetical of course but if they were to drop both I think logically they would go for experience and youth with respect. Alonso + Wehrlein?
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If anybody gets dropped it will be the one that keeps running into the other one and costing the team points.;)
 
Samus
Purely hypothetical of course but if they were to drop both I think logically they would go for experience and youth with respect. Alonso + Wehrlein?
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Grosjean and Maldonado just to see Hamilton and Rosberg's reaction. :sly:
 
SVT Cobra GT
I'd disagree. It always seemed to be like a half assed attempt at a circuit. First half is simply two long straights and the second half was just a series of left right quick corners to join it up again. The only thing I liked about it was the long sweeping turn 10.
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Straights with some left and right corners to join it up? You could describe every circuit in the world that way lol. I know it's trendy to hate on modern circuits, or anything new, but that statement is just silly.

It's got a lot of things going for it. Hamilton said it's got more in common with Spa than most of the other modern circuits they used in 2012-2013, and Button said the fast section feels a lot like Suzuka. Tilke also used his work at Buddh as a template for the Circuit of the Americas, which is another track the drivers love, except the fans also seem to like that one.
 
Mike_grpA
Straights with some left and right corners to join it up? You could describe every circuit in the world that way lol. I know it's trendy to hate on modern circuits, or anything new, but that statement is just silly.

It's got a lot of things going for it. Hamilton said it's got more in common with Spa than most of the other modern circuits they used in 2012-2013, and Button said the fast section feels a lot like Suzuka. Tilke also used his work at Buddh as a template for the Circuit of the Americas, which is another track the drivers love, except the fans also seem to like that one.
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That's a word that should never be used when designing a motor racing circuit (Not by you in your use just now, I mean by the actual designers). It seems as though most of Tilke's tracks have come from a set template and that's why personally I feel a lack of character with many of them.
 
Samus
Purely hypothetical of course but if they were to drop both I think logically they would go for experience and youth with respect. Alonso + Wehrlein?
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I don't think they could get Alonso. For one, they would have to dig him out of his McLaren contract, and that's not going to be easy. Secondly, I doubt that he would be willing to do it for one race; he'd really only be interested in a long-term contract.

If they had to replace both drivers in one go, I think they'd opt for Wehrlein and Ocon. Both would be readily accessible.
 
Lots of boos from the crowd during Rosberg's interview yesterday. I don't agree with the booing at all, but it was kind of expected after Austria.
 
Mike_grpA
Straights with some left and right corners to join it up? You could describe every circuit in the world that way lol. I know it's trendy to hate on modern circuits, or anything new, but that statement is just silly.

It's got a lot of things going for it. Hamilton said it's got more in common with Spa than most of the other modern circuits they used in 2012-2013, and Button said the fast section feels a lot like Suzuka. Tilke also used his work at Buddh as a template for the Circuit of the Americas, which is another track the drivers love, except the fans also seem to like that one.
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Ok perhaps those left right corners were too simple, yes they were quick but the way the circuit was laid out just didn't seem that good compared to the other tracks he's done, like Sepang, COTA, Istanbul etc. I don't hate on modern circuits because it's trendy, I hate Buddh because I think it's awful.
A lot of drivers will be saying nice things about it so they don't p*** off any sponsors.

Again, each to their own I guess.
 
Ferrari running a new halo device. It looks lower than the previous design, and the forward pillar appears to be steeper and anchored closer to the cockpit. It's not subtle, but it does appear to be more refined.

EDIT: Charles Leclerc in for Gutiérrez; Ocon doubling for Magnussen.
 
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axletramp
Lots of boos from the crowd during Rosberg's interview yesterday. I don't agree with the booing at all, but it was kind of expected after Austria.
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Think it's rather disgraceful. Both here and in Austria.

In Austria, because Lewis was not at fault (and eventually exonerated by the stewards).

Here, because, honestly, Nico only hurt himself with that shunt, and everybody really ought to have moved on, already. It was simply racing, and I'd rather the drivers push and challenge each other than back off.***

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We'll see how the new directives from Mercedes work out. I hope Mercedes GP is smart enough to realize that allowing the drivers to race helps keep them in the news... keeping the sponsors happy.

No point in having a winning car if it's only on TV for maybe ten minutes out of the entire race. And the extra excitement helps draw viewers in.


***Just do it more intelligently, please. Lewis and Jenson raced wheel-to-wheel for years without much trouble.
 
niky
In Austria, because Lewis was not at fault (and eventually exonerated by the stewards).
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I have to wonder how much the crowd knew then. Maybe they just weren't in shot, but I couldn't recall seeing any television screens in view of the main grandstands. So you've got Rosberg leading Hamilton at the start of the lap, comfortably ahead of anyone else. But at the end of the lap, Hamilton wins ahead of Verstappen and Räikkönen, and Rosberg limps home with a broken front wing. Clearly something had happened, but to crowd, it's not necessarily going to be clear what happened. Can you really fault them for coming to the conclusion that they did? And if Hamilton was judged to be at fault, would they necessarily have been in the wrong? It's certainly understandable as to why they would be upset.
 
Samus
In news that is related to this weekend cost cutting has gone a step further at Silverstone, the kerbs are now all made from old chequered flags.

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I blame Lewis Brexit-on, obviously Silverstone was getting their coloured paint from abroad. :p

A2K78
Mercedes should do to Nico and Lewis what Yamaha did for Rossi and Lorenzo and erect a wall..
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And we'll make Perez pay for it! :p
 
Who is designing the Ferrari F1 cars? If the home base can create arguably, the most beautiful looking cars, how the he'll they can't beautify that halo thing, is just silly.
 
SVT Cobra GT
Ok perhaps those left right corners were too simple, yes they were quick but the way the circuit was laid out just didn't seem that good compared to the other tracks he's done, like Sepang, COTA, Istanbul etc. I don't hate on modern circuits because it's trendy, I hate Buddh because I think it's awful.
A lot of drivers will be saying nice things about it so they don't p*** off any sponsors.
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I agree that it's not his best circuit, and he has done some very nice ones, and some very bad ones. I just don't think Buddh is one of the bad ones. It's got quite a good flow, and manages to be fairly simple, without being bland. I think it's the elevation changes, and the fast corners that flow into each other that I like about it.

Also, the drivers **** on a lot of the modern circuits, they obviously don't care too much about what the sponsors think. Look at what they used to say about Valencia or Korea, or the 2010 Bahrain extension. Most of the drivers were very vocal about their dislike of what Tilke did to Hockenheim (and rightly so!), and pretty much every one of them regularly vents about how bad Yas Marina is. They do seem to tell it how it is when it comes to circuits.
 
05XR8
Who is designing the Ferrari F1 cars? If the home base can create arguably, the most beautiful looking cars, how the he'll they can't beautify that halo thing, is just silly.
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I don't see how it could ever be attractive, the design fundamentally has to be that shape for it to work as intended. If they do introduce them, they're always going to be ugly. About the only thing they can do is paint them so they slightly blend in, like all the bolted on aero parts of '08.
 
Having seen the Halo in the flesh, it wasn't too bad actually. I could still very easily see Vettel's helmet, and the halo itself was hard to see.
 
Samus
Ted "Lewis now has the psychological advantage" Kravitz has you covered.
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Ted's also forgetting that Rosberg crashed at the end of FP3 in Austria, had a new rear end bolted on, and without any ability to set it up, promptly went out during Q1 and set the fastest time of the weekend until that point.

At least Anthony Davidson is being sensible about it.
 

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