F1 2021 Round 10 : Silverstone

Busi_Girl08

Those drone shots of the action are amazing

klose

How did alonso make so many places in one lap? Unreal!

PsychoPete

I do enjoy seeing Max and Lewis having a proper battle with each other

AMKC

What a start. Go Max and Alonso.

MadYaker

Great to see Alonso still up there, I remember watching him vs Schumacher when I was a kid!

ctrl-alt-delete

Max on his own tomorrow!

Busi_Girl08

Aw Checo :(

Itssoeasy

Oh that could have been very nasty.

klose

Oh ****

PsychoPete

And people said this wouldn't be exciting

dublinman1990

Jesus. That's a huge spin from Perez. Norris has jumped onto 5th ahead of Alonso.

PsychoPete

Hopefully Russell can stay in the top ten

Itssoeasy

Fair play to checo to be able to keep it out of the wall.

McFly85

Disaster for Perez and RB! Didn’t look like he did much wrong there either.

skipper_G

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117624645#Comment_117624645

Aye he did well to recover it, but a very costly mistake

MadYaker

Max is pulling away

dublinman1990

Nice one Daniel for passing Alonso.

PsychoPete

Finishing sixth should be good for Ricciardos confidence, badly needed with how the season as been so far

Faugheen

Russell closing in on Alonso could be fun haha

El_Duderino 09

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117624434#Comment_117624434

Whatever the reason (and without insulting young people), the ways people consume media is changing and F1 is correct to react to that reality.

I'm posting this in the race thread where people typically watch the race and comment on social media at the same time. That's part of this new way of consuming entertainment. No mentions of attention spans or inability to sit. Just describing the changing trend in preference.

Itssoeasy

Perez will need to get to work early tomorrow given where he is if he wants to be of any help to max.

PsychoPete

Fair play to Leclerc keeping that ferrari in 4th

McFly85

I think Mercedes will be a bit shocked at the distance between Max and Lewis. Red Bull have the race pace, and if they can manage their tyres tomorrow they could land a huge blow in the title race.

dublinman1990

I'll bet some questions will be asked by F1 pundits the world over about the genius start from Alonso which had unfolded right in front of us. He must have been given some miracle dust to get that far to get to finish at his current grid position for tomorrow's race.

I'm happy to say that, as a Ferrari fan, LeClerc will remain in 4th for tomorrow's race once this race is over.

Itssoeasy

Perez being told to retire the car.

Itssoeasy

Nice bit of business from max today.

Faugheen

The fact the tyres are blistering that badly with just 17 laps suggests tomorrow's going to be a minefield

El_Duderino 09

Perez bottled it. Surely a dangerous maneuver when he rejoined the track too. Nightmare weekend for him so far. 

Some big winners and losers in that race. Alonso did great to gainnall those places frommthe start.

I wonder if RB retired Perez to gain an advantage in setup or something similar. Horner just called it a "tactical retirement".

Did anyone on the soft tyres run out of tyres at the end?

jonerkinsella

Meh.

That was a mess.

At the end of all that risk nothing was achieved that real qually doesn't do.

I am not a fan of it

MadYaker

Those tires look barbecued

johnnysmack

That was great! Very enjoyable sprint race, hopefully they keep it.

AMKC

Well that went well. I enjoyed that. Poor Sergio Perez do.

H3llR4iser

Well, it is done. Still not a fan at all of the idea. Hotlap qualifying has its own meaning BECAUSE it's different from the race; This felt like drinking discount cola - whatever about the racing (not a lot of it, except for the usual Norris and a couple of lap 1 scuffles), feels like watching a pointless endeavour. All the time you need to remember this is NOT the race, and in the grand scheme of things, it'll count for very little except for the 3-2-1 points awarded (which should NOT be there). Also, now we know EXACTLY how the race will unfold tomorrow until the first pit-stop - THIS is the issue with F1, the utter PREDICTABILITY that is warranted by the exasperate use of technology.

Crofty and Brundle getting all worked over trying to push this stupid idea is possibly the worst aspect of it - I guess it's something Sky loves for obvious reasons.

Frank Bullitt

Max doing what Max has been doing all year.

Opening lap by Alonso was fantastic, insane how he did that!

I kinda enjoyed that, it had its moments but it was missing something. Otherwise it just felt like a stint in the race.

dublinman1990

That was a fascinating 30 minutes of good hard racing.

I can't believe that Alonso was the man who advanced 4 places in that spectacle. If the Sprint race format continues on to provide bigger benefits to the smaller teams in the next 2 races by allowing them to gain more places for the big race on Sunday. It could be a big advantage for them to gain more points over the course of their championship campaigns.

thefa

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117624710#Comment_117624710

Unlikely he’ll be any use strategically. Assuming he stays out of trouble, will spend a good portion of the race making his way through the field and the big . Target P7 if no DNFs?

Frank Bullitt

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117622467#Comment_117622467

Sorry, i mean't the evening time not the day. It was weird seeing cars during dusk as well with the lower sun.

klose

Could see a few hard compound starters tomorrow to try drag out a one stopper cause the softs and mediums don't look like they will hold out for a one stopper. The softs in particular were struggling after 10 odd laps.

Andrew76

Enjoyed that! Delighted Max won/got pole but what a first lap from Alonso (soft tyres notwithstanding), brilliant.

Shame for Perez so hopefully Max drives off into the distance tomorrow and bags another win.

McFly85

Very enjoyable! Not sure about using it all the time but I’m glad they’ve tried it anyway.

Max is just different class. Really good to see a car put it up to Mercedes, be really interesting to see how Mercedes react of the season.

Regarding tomorrow, surely a 2 stopper with hard tyres is on the cards, looking to be an exciting race!

Jordan 199

Good to see Ocon has bounced back.

PsychoPete

I think this is going to depend on the track like Monaco is pretty dull anyway besides adding a sprint race to the weekend

SkepticQuark

Honestly not sure why this is better than qualifying on a Saturday, it's a glorified race stint. Having a reverse grid for the top 10 with Friday qualifying deciding the Sunday race grid order is what I would be more in favour of. If not that just keep qualifying as is but move its start time back to the evening since the goal here is to also try to increase viewership numbers by having things later in the day. Also, the current format pretty much makes Saturday practice meaningless besides testing tyre deg.

Jordan 199

That Mercedes Actros taking the drivers around is a fine truck!

klose

Tbf this is only the first "test" if they want to implement it more I think they'll certainly have to make changes, as mentioned p2 was practically useless. Though I suspect they want to make races more erratic and giving less practice time certainly aids that so maybe that's what they're angling towards.

This is it

I certainly enjoyed the start and drivers were trying to move up. I'm sure with a few tweaks it could be even better. Max winning a bonus and LeClerc keeping 4th was good. Hoping he can get some decent points tomorrow.

dublinman1990

Lando just popped up for an interview on Channel 4.

This is it

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117624836#Comment_117624836

Was a bit awkward but Lando and Danny Ric seem like great craic.

Ohmeha

Glad that's over. Not against trialling anything new but that offered nothing. Bad idea in the first place and delivered nothing

Existing qualifying format > Sprint Races for Qualifying

Probes

Whilst I enjoyed some of it, I couldn’t help but feel it was all a bit pointless too. If they are going to do this then make it worthwhile, half points or something.