Believe tomorrow's sprint is expected to be dry but for the Grand Prix itself rain is likely
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Yeah great point. The routes that water can be cleared have been hugely restricted; plus potential splashback up into the floors is likely to interfere with potential downforce.
Cars bouncing all over the place can be really tricky on wet surface in the corners.
K-Mag qualifying fourth in the Haas! The great comeback continues.
Mercedes secretly wishing they had kept Bottas instead of Lewis?
Mercedes secretly wishing they had kept Bottas instead of Lewis?
what. More like Hamilton secretly wishing he switched to alfaHamilton must really be rueing passing on the chance to join Ferrari.
But has he turned them down , was he ever offered a seat ?
He definitely had a couple of quiet conversations with them during his last two negotiations with Mercedes.
Hard to say if it was a serious possibility, but I think if he'd wanted it, it would have been.
Maybe , I have read he wants to race for them before he retires, I think they would have had him a few seasons ago , maybe that boat has sailed.
Italy Emilia Romagna GP Qualifying Result
Emilia Romagna GP Qualifying Timesheet
| Driver | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1) Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:27.999 |
| 2) Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | +0.779 |
| 3) Lando Norris | McLaren | +1.132 |
| 4) Kevin Magnussen | Haas | +1.165 |
| 5) Fernando Alonso | Alpine | +1.203 |
| 6) Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | +1.743 |
| 7) Sergio Perez | Red Bull | +1.809 |
| 8) Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | +2.440 |
| 9) Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | +3.063 |
| 10) Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | No time set (crashed in Q2) |
| Out in Q2 | ||
| 11) George Russell | Mercedes | 1:20.757 |
| 12) Mick Schumacher | Haas | 1:20.916 |
| 13) Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo | 1:21.138 |
| 14) Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:21.434 |
| 15) Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:28.119 |
| Out in Q1 | ||
| 16) Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:20.474 |
| 17) Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:20.732 |
| 18) Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:21.971 |
| 19) Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 1:22.338 |
| 20) Alex Albon | Williams | No time set |
Feel really sorry for Russell. Should have won for Merc when Lewis had Covid, now gets his big chance and they give him a milk cart.
Hey I didn't say a word about the qualifying so my hands are clean.@Zlaatan literally feck you
Was reliaby informed he was offered a huge contract (3-4 years ago), almost to the extent he had all but signed on the dotted line.
What's the general opinion on sprint races? I used to watch F1 in the late 90's and 00's but turned off in the 2010's. I personally hate this idea and loved qualification sessions deciding the race positions.
Apart from Sky pundits I've never heard anyone say they like them
Maybe it's something to encourage new viewers. My wife recently started watching F1, due to the Netflix show, and loves them, so I guess there is support from newer viewers.
i actually like them
I mean.. it's better than still being in the Williams so at least there's that right?
Cheers, I did not know that.
Really well done by Verstappen. The man is at the top of his game, wondering if his car will last the distance. Can't wait for another battle with Leclerc and I hope the Monagesque gets Imola too, would be nice to see Ferrari winning in Italy.
Was just a really messy qualifying. Ferrari looked quick(er?) but they never really got a chance to show what they could do with all the flags
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Yeah. Leclerc says he backed off to have 2 last rounds which were wiped off due to red flags. If that had happened, I'd say the pole slots would have been reversed.
Maybe already mentioned however just in case.. Sainz has just extended his contract with Ferrari until end of 2024.
I doubt it. I doubt the drivers really care that much about having one bad season. He just won 8 straight constructors championships, having a bad season isn't the end of the world and he'd have been where he is now performing poorly for multiple seasons with Ferrari just to have this one good season finally? I'll bet he's more than completely satisfied with his choices.
I can see your point, but I think he will be bothered he has to drive a dog of a car, he will be gutted he has gone from WC winner to out in Q2 with 2 seasons.
You could see he was gutted after qualifying.
I dont see Mercedes making any improvements till they get a new floor for the car. Easier said than done.
I do wonder if the FIA will have to step in and do something, not sure what to eradicate the porposing for all the cars. Its making a mockery of F1 as the pinnacle of motorsport and there has to be medium to long term health concerns for the drivers. Bouncing up and down like that at 180mph with g forces to contend with must be doing or has the serious potential to do damage to their brain and spine.
Not all the teams are experiencing it, the Aston in qualifying looked very stable.
At times the Ferrari looks worse than Mercedes, but I do agree it needs to be sorted, cant be good for the drivers being bounced around like that.
I doubt the FIA will set in, they will just say some teams don't have it , its a design issue, no safety.
RB doesnt bounce. So its not the rules that are the pronlem.
The sprint race concept seems...odd. What's good about it?
Sure he will be annoyed that fixing the issue is slower than everyone expects, but generally if you win everything for almost a decade straight then having one poor season isn't enough to make you regret not moving somewhere you'd have had even less success every year just because they're having one good season. That's dumb.
For once it's nice to see Mercedes struggling to nail something isn't it?
Over the last 8 years they've been smugly imperious, a seemingly unstoppable well oiled machine. Even when things look bad they still came out on top.
This time though they've got it very badly wrong
Over the last 8 years they've been smugly imperious, a seemingly unstoppable well oiled machine. Even when things look bad they still came out on top.
This time though they've got it very badly wrong
Dunno it's a bit gimmicky for me. I don't see what it adds.
The idea isn't bad, it's 1 less practice session and a race instead - the problem is it's not really any different than the actual race on sunday. It could be more exciting, they could have done something more out of the box like reverse grid order, random grid slots, reverse qualy order. Just jazz it up a bit.
The main issue though was the previous generation of cars couldn't overtake well enough to make it exciting in a short amount of laps.
I agree with you about the one bad season, and he would not have had the sucess he did at Mercedes.
But doesn't it dilute the Sunday race? For me, the Sunday race is still the main event. Anything else unnecessarily takes away the prestige of it.
Thats how I see it as well.
Hamilton was flirting with Ferrari because of the romanticism element and wanting to have experienced driving for Ferrari in his career, not because of their performance. The reason he stayed with Merc is obviously because trying for the 8th WDC trumped his sentiment.
I can see where you are coming from, does not dilute it for me, I just think its a waste of money time and effort.
For me more racing can never be a bad thing, but it is a little too similar to the normal sunday race which makes it feel that way.
They should have been braver and done something a bit more spicy