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[ANF]

Brand new race engineer for Norris, or has he had him before? I don't recognise the voice.

[Thursday]

If Hamilton wins he will equal his own record of most wins at a single circuit (9)

He could also extend the record for most laps lead at a GP or circuit 487. Second on the list is Bill Vukovich 485 Indianapolis.

Also the most km led at a single GP 2134km. He is also second with 2051km British GP. Bill is third with 1951km. 

[Ruusperi]

Gravel <3

[southernstars]

ANF, on 19 Jul 2024 - 11:49, said:

Brand new race engineer for Norris, or has he had him before? I don't recognise the voice.

 

He had him at a race or two earlier this year too, some teams are rotating the race engineers to rest them. Logan has a different race engineer too this weekend.

[Yoshi]

Hopefully they will add more gravel next year 👀👍

[Autodromo]

ANF, on 19 Jul 2024 - 10:54, said:

The problem is a faulty driver in CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor security software. The faulty driver has been placed in the %windir%\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike folder and when the driver is loaded it causes a blue screen of death. Computers that are stuck in a loop of blue screens of death will have to be rebooted in safe mode, after which the faulty driver must be deleted, the CrowdStrike folder must be renamed, and the CrowdStrike Agent service must be disabled, and then you will have to wait for CrowdStrike to release a patch until you can use the software again... https://en.m.wikiped...l_cyber_outages https://www.techworm...h-ways-fix.html

I bet a Checo gets a bit nervous reading that the faulty driver must be deleted.

[southernstars]

Hey look, Logan's faster than Perez again. 

[DevilDare]

The vanity cover on the Merc seems to be open this weekend. So it is for cooling like they said it was all along?

[Laster]

Zhou making a mockery of any meaning behind these times.

[Clrnc]

Deary me the heat is terrible. The seats in the stands are burning hot.

Suspect alot of engines might DNF this weekend.

[DevilDare]

Alonso.. 

[Ali623]

Laster, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:07, said:

Zhou making a mockery of any meaning behind these times.

 

Sauber were mighty around here last year to be fair. Zhou qualifed 5th, 3 tenths off pole.

[southernstars]

Ali623, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:11, said:

Sauber were mighty around here last year to be fair. Zhou qualifed 5th, 3 tenths off pole.

 

And then had a wild disaster of a start, caused two DNFs and nearly a third.

[piszkosfred]

Clrnc, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:08, said:

Deary me the heat is terrible. The seats in the stands are burning hot.

Suspect alot of engines might DNF this weekend.

2-3 days ago the air temperature in Hungary was about 38-40 C in shadows. Imagine how hot your seat was then.

[Laster]

Ali623, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:11, said:

Sauber were mighty around here last year to be fair. Zhou qualifed 5th, 3 tenths off pole.

That is true. I'm still going to doubt they'll be able to replicate anywhere close to that kind of form though not with how their season has been!

[lewislorenzo]

George will be on pole I have no doubt

[renzmann]

lewislorenzo, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:18, said:

George will be on pole I have no doubt

I think so too. And if he is, I reckon RBR are lost. Severely. I'm not buying into the "high DF circuit = no shoulders" narrative at all. When you announce an important update and it comes with reversing a key element of your car's innovation, then it's not a good look. It's early days, but FP1 isn't exactly promising either. But let's see.

[Londoner]

How AM always manage to install downgrades instead of upgrades every time they bring new pieces is beyond me

[Ruusperi]

 

[jonklug]

renzmann, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:26, said:

I think so too. And if he is, I reckon RBR are lost. Severely. I'm not buying into the "high DF circuit = no shoulders" narrative at all. When you announce an important update and it comes with reversing a key element of your car's innovation, then it's not a good look. It's early days, but FP1 isn't exactly promising either. But let's see.

 

I think this is premature. RedBull usually run the Honda PU's quite low on Fridays, and especially since they've already used all their allocated parts and with the heat, I am actually surprised Verstappen is 2nd. I think it looks quite promising actually. In terms of removing the shoulders, I think this is what was planned for some time as there have been indications of a visual upgrade that would change the look of the car. 

[STRFerrari4Ever]

Andrea Stella is a very calm and measured team principal, listening to him on Sky now, he defended his team eloquently and mentioned that these missed opportunities like in Silverstone are used to learn and there isn’t any emotional overreaction. He definitely seems to be developing a culture of positivity in the team and shielding them from pressure that comes outside, also his English is top notch.

[gillesfan76]

Stella is fantastic. Along with Vasseur, one of the best leaders F1 has ever seen.

[jonklug]

gillesfan76, on 19 Jul 2024 - 14:10, said:

Stella is fantastic. Along with Vasseur, one of the best leaders F1 has ever seen.

 

Still can't believe Ferrari let Stella go at the time. I know he followed Fernando to McLaren to continue being his race engineer, but always thought that Ferrari should have put up a fight for him. 

[Myrvold]

Ruusperi, on 19 Jul 2024 - 12:35, said:

 

 

 

I see that Logan Sargeant has been replaced with LoganSargeant

[TomNokoe]

I wish they'd look at relaxing the tyre usage rules.

For example, both Mercedes ran a brand new set of Soft tyres for only three laps, out-hot-in.

Those sets are now handed back to Pirelli and can't be used for the rest of the weekend. It's a total waste. 10km on a set of tyres, and yet come Sunday some will be going 100km!

I understand why the rule is in place - to encourage track running - but F1 has moved on from quiet, 90 minute practice sessions.

On hot weekends like this, giving the teams access to as many tyres as possible is important because if you want to run an aero rake, test item, setup tweak or simply give your driver more laps on track, you have to burn a precious new set of tyres while you're at it.

We saw last year during ATA weekends that teams would often open a session on a scrubbed set of tyres for installation laps and the like, before moving to new sets for the serious running. This is better for everyone, the fans see just as much running, and the teams have slightly more margin for setup and fine-tuning. Contrary to some, I prefer it when a team/driver can put their best foot forwards, rather than suffer the "unpredictability" from restricted or compromised running.

My preference would be to allow teams to carry one set of used tyres over to both FP2 and FP3, before handing them back before qualifying as normal. I'm sure they could add a regulation along the lines of "the tyre set carried over must have been run for at least Xkm" to dissuade teams from hoarding tyres.

[LolaB0860]

But... #netzerocarbon2030. That's what's important, not fixing tires or logistics. And it doesn't matter what the slogan actually means as long as they get the PR out in social media. Who cares if the tires are total disposable single-use junk with zero environmental value, or how you travel to North America 4 separate times within half a year every season. What matters is views and money.

Edited by LolaB0860, 19 July 2024 - 15:00.

[ANF]

Tyres are returned to Pirelli so that they can be examined, right? Isn't that the main reason? (And Pirelli will then raise the minimum pressure if necessary etc.)

Edited by ANF, 19 July 2024 - 15:03.

[TomNokoe]

Track down to a lovely and cool 50c

[ANF]

Pérez P1

[jonklug]

Still early but if Perez is fast then it's already over.

[TomNokoe]

LH heavy lock up T1, might hurt his long run

[ANF]

Oops.

[TomNokoe]

Bouncing through T4?

[f1rules]

Good job leclerc 👍👌

[TomNokoe]

Oh, big hit

[AlcidioG]

He touched the wall

[Laster]

The advertising hoardings! Won't somebody please think of the advertising hoardings!

[Ali623]

Leclerc's form since Monaco has been... something...

[Ruusperi]

 

[Boxerevo]

It is harder to understand things crashing, Lec.

[ANF]

Leclerc lost it on the T4 kerb, spun across the track and hit the barrier on the left. He had a moment as he turned in, corrected it, ran wide, and the car bottomed on those white pyramids on the edge of the kerb.

Edited by ANF, 19 July 2024 - 15:23.

[Button4life]

I remember someone calling Leclerc the most consistent driver with Max. That really aged like milk.

[ANF]

Gearbox change maybe? Quite hard impact with the rear left.

[Taxi]

A "touch on the wall" is about as much as an understatement as the "inchident" one. 

[Cliff]

Button4life, on 19 Jul 2024 - 15:21, said:

I remember someone calling Leclerc the most consistent driver with Max. That really aged like milk.

He is consistent though, just in a different way..

[Lowgrip]

Button4life, on 19 Jul 2024 - 15:21, said:

I remember someone calling Leclerc the most consistent driver with Max. That really aged like milk.

 

Max has Perez

Leclerc has Sainz

Hamilton has Russell

Norris has Piastri

 

Can you spot the difference?

 

Don't be so confident your post will not age just as badly.

Edited by Lowgrip, 19 July 2024 - 15:26.

[MissingApex]

Button4life, on 19 Jul 2024 - 15:21, said:

I remember someone calling Leclerc the most consistent driver with Max. That really aged like milk.

He crashes to often for my liking and I hate this excuse he’s trying to compensate for a bad car.

He just takes too much risks in my opinion, which sometimes pays off but often doesn’t.

[IrvTheSwerve]

They seriously need to go back to pausing the clock under red flag, especially with the amount of them we get now in FP sessions.

[renzmann]

Button4life, on 19 Jul 2024 - 15:21, said:

I remember someone calling Leclerc the most consistent driver with Max. That really aged like milk.

I don't remember anybody saying that

[jonklug]

Lowgrip, on 19 Jul 2024 - 15:25, said:

Max has Perez
Leclerc has Sainz
Hamilton has Russell
Norris has Piastri

Can you spot the difference?

Don't be so confident your post will not age just as badly.

This has nothing to do with binning it on your own which Leclerc does a lot of.