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Grand Prix thread 2017 British Grand Prix Chat and Predictions

Discussion in 'Formula 1' started by EternalMSC, Jul 9, 2017.

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F1 returns home, but will the home star take back the win?

Poll closed Jul 15, 2017.
  1. Vettel

    28.6%
  2. Hamilton

    61.9%
  3. Bottas

    4.8%
  4. Ricciardo

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  5. Raikkonen

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  6. Perez

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  7. Verstappen

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  8. Ocon

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  9. Sainz

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  10. OTHER: Please State

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  1. SgtBhaji

    SgtBhaji Well-Known Member

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    If only he'd blocked Vettel, hey? Now that would have been something worth chewing over!
     
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  2. happyal

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    I think the Merc is the car to have here, I expect Lewis to walk it :(
     
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  3. DHCanary

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    I don't know, Mercedes can turn their engine up more for quali, race pace will be closer.

    Also going to be interesting to see how Ferrari play this tactically if they're 2-3 at the end of the first lap. I think the optimal tactic is to let Vettel attack Hamilton then try for an undercut, whilst Raikkonen conserves his tyres and tries a longer first stint. I don't expect Hamilton to have the pace to hold off Vettel comfortably whilst conserving his tyres, so you'd expect one of them to have a chance at jumping him.
     
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    Grosjean

    “I’m surprised by the wording: ‘the driver behind has not been impeded’. If losing 0.35-0.4 seconds in one corner is not being impeded, I am very surprised. I think it opens room for messy qualifying and the rules are pretty clear. And I know there is a world title going on at the front but we are in a position where we actually fight as hard as the boys at the front and I was impeded today. How can I put it? Maybe if it was another driver there would have been something. It does feel sometimes that there are two types of decision.”
     
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  6. eddie_squidd

    eddie_squidd Well-Known Member

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    That is a bit much from Wolff.
     
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  7. EternalMSC

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  8. SgtBhaji

    SgtBhaji Well-Known Member

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    That's a bit harsh from Wolff. Who pissed in his cornflakes?
     
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  9. TopClass

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    Are we expecting showers tomorrow for the race?
     
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  10. BrightLampShade

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  11. TopClass

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    Interesting that Merc works team have used more bits than the customers.

    But of course they are completely equal engines.

    Of course they are.


    OF COURSE THEY ARE.

    #IceUpgrade
     
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  12. BrightLampShade

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    Due 140,000 tomorrow.

    350,000 over a race weekend yet it could well be cancelled...
     
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  13. ched999uk

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    350,000 over a race weekend yet it could well be cancelled...

    If the hosting fee is about £20 million that works out at about £57 of each ticket sold goes to pay hosting fee!!!!
    I don't know what average ticket price is but that is a high amount per ticket just for hosting fee.
     
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  14. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Grosjean is lucky to be in F1,
    says team owner who put his wife behind wheel of former teams car.
     
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  15. cosicave

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    Superb. Nothing more, nothing less. Just superb.
    Your photos are every bit the equal of many professional photographers. I reflect on moments where I'd have appreciated such candid realism. Sometimes the pros are too preoccupied in 'the moment' to get the sense of immediacy you've achieved here.

    Eddie, you have honoured the forum.
    Superb.
     
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  16. SgtBhaji

    SgtBhaji Well-Known Member

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    When up close and personal like that, it reminds you that all involved are just people. Some great shots there!
     
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  17. eddie_squidd

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    Wow, thanks Cosi. As a matter of fact, I am a professional photographer, but most of the time I'm more used to photographing weddings and events than this kind of stuff, but it wasn't so different really.

    I tend to like doing candid photography so I just did what I normally do, although with Vettel and the two Red Bull boys I tagged onto the back of the press pack and waited!

    I like these kinds of shots as well. It was a bit of a once a lifetime opportunity for me to be where I was and to have the those amazing people just wandering about so I was really enjoying myself. It was particularly nice to see Billy Monger in the paddock, there's a shot in there of him talking to Carlos Sainz and you can see from their hands that they are holding imaginary steering wheels, so obviously discussing some finer point of car control.

    Fascinating to see behind the scenes too, I was fascinated buy the covered areas where the Pirelli engineers spend all day putting the tyres on the rims.

    Thanks again for the comments. It was an incredible day out!
     
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  18. eddie_squidd

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    Thanks Sarge. Yes, those guys are all quite little too. Quite surreal seeing them so close.
     
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  19. El_Bando

    El_Bando Can't remember, where was I?
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    He just stole my joke!!!
     
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  20. EternalMSC

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    We give Palmer a lot of ****. But this is quite sad.
     
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