KashmireHawker
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Think I need a lie down after that...
Baku delivers again!
Baku delivers again!
Baku delivers again!
Think I need a lie down after that...
Baku delivers again!
I agree that something needs to be looked at, but I'm not so quick to land the blame at Pirelli's door. After all, it's not like teams haven't run the tires outside the recommended spec and come a cropper as a result in the past.Pirelli though... The last 4 high speed tyre failures have included Max and Lance, something needs to be looked at.
I agree that something needs to be looked at, but I'm not so quick to land the blame at Pirelli's door. After all, it's not like teams haven't run the tires outside the recommended spec and come a cropper as a result in the past.
As soon as I clicked ”Post reply”, I knew that something would happen…Well, fortune finally turned on Lew Lew, though that does at least resolve any championship worries. A most unexpected podium!
Combined with a poor showing from Bottas, a real weekend to forget from Mercedes
Remind me, what position did Russel finish today?Bottas though, that was embarassing, laughably terrible... Just not good enough for mercedes. I think Russel has to be in the Mercedes next year.
Remind me, what position did Russel finish today?
So it's difficult to make the case, as per @Peregrine 4903, that Russel had a better showing today than Bottas. Neither one scored any points, but one brought the car home in one piece.No position, he didn't finish.
So it's difficult to make the case, as per @Peregrine 4903, that Russel had a better showing today than Bottas. Neither one scored any points, but one brought the car home in one piece.
This is actually dumb. If say Perez started on pole and Verstappen started 5th but Perez lost ERS-K during the first lap and finished 3rd, whilst Verstappen finished 2nd, would you say Perez had a bad race and Max had a better showing?So it's difficult to make the case, as per @Peregrine 4903, that Russel had a better showing today than Bottas. Neither one scored any points, but one brought the car home in one piece.
But Pirelli’s Head of F1 and Car Racing didn’t believe that tyre wear had been the issue in either incident, with Mario Isola telling the media: “I believe I can exclude that failures were due to tyre wear, because it's not a matter of tyre wear…. The rear-left tyre is not the most stressed tyre in Baku because... it's obviously the rear-right.
Meanwhile, Pirelli announced that they’d also spotted a cut in the hard tyre of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, discovered when he pitted under the red flag caused by Verstappen’s crash.
“We found a cut on the inside shoulder on the rear-left tyre used by Lewis Hamilton in the same stint [as Verstappen],” said Isola. “The cut was quite deep and big, probably 6-7cm, but not cutting the construction, so the tyre was still in one piece, just with this cut. And when there was the red flag and Lewis and came to the pit lane and changed the set of tyres, we were able to find the cut in the tyre.”
Pirelli will now air freight the tyres back to their Milan laboratories in order to perform a full investigation, with Isola adding that he would push to have a report for the teams in time for the French Grand Prix in two weeks’ time.
Apologies. I only caught the abbreviated highlights on YouTube and thought I saw him getting caught up in one of the accidents.Not sure you can attribute a gearbox failure when forming the grid for the restart as a Russell issue
I'd agree, don't Pirelli pretty much produce tyres to the specification the FIA want? It was deemed to be boring that a F1 car could cruise around on the same tyres for a whole race, so they were asked to produce tyres that wear out so teams are forced to work out a balance between outright performance and tyre wear.
Didn't Pirelli say that the Hard tyre could do 40 laps though? Stroll's failure was on Lap 31 after starting on the Hards, and I doubt Verstappen's was anywhere near 40 laps old? Both were left rear so it will be interesting to see what Pirelli say
If you watch Checo and Lewis going past Max's accident, there's a bit of debris in front of Lewis's car and it isn't there once he passes over it.Pirelli say that the tires had cuts on them perhaps from debris. Hamilton apparently had a similar cut tire which was found after the red flag. The nose of Hamiltons car was also damaged by debris.
A rare mistake from Hamilton cost him
What’s the general view on the grid restart after a Red Flag for effectively a 2 lap sprint?
I suspect a few years ago that race might have had a couple more safety car laps just to finish the distance, or not restarted at all, in which latter case I suppose Max would have been declared the winner on previous lap positions?
What’s the general view on the grid restart after a Red Flag for effectively a 2 lap sprint?
I suspect a few years ago that race might have had a couple more safety car laps just to finish the distance, or not restarted at all, in which latter case I suppose Max would have been declared the winner on previous lap positions?
The British Grand Prix was cleared to have a 140,000 capacity crowd, and the Open Championship to be three-quarters full, after being added to the Government’s list of pilot events for the return of spectators.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal Silverstone will join the Wimbledon singles finals in being allowed to sell out for the entire weekend of July 16-18 before the new planned end to the UK’s coronavirus restrictions of July 19.
Silverstone is ON FOR A CAPACITY CROWD!