F1 2021 Round 13: Dutch Grand Prix

Great track, some really nice corners. The blast from turn 3 to turn 8 is spectacular but overtaking is going to be impossible

Having played it in the F1 game, my experience is that it is a narrow circuit where other than the banked corners there is only 1 line to race on so overtaking will be hard

It will be a bit like Hungary in the end

This video of the safety car on a lap shows how narrow it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KmFRx4r_-M

Not expecting a classic on race day, it's such a narrow track and modern F1 cars are massive. This will probably be all about qualifying. Weather forecast looks dry and sunny for the weekend

Concensus seems to be it will be all about qualifying as over taking will be rare and hard come by, could be quite a punishing track if a driver loses focus, plenty turns and never too far from the wall. Any chance of the race being a two stop to shake things up?

Max knows this track very well so I'm hopeful that he'll be dominant this weekend in front of his home crowd

Max is about! During the Schumacher years, they had 2 races in Germany.

Also Heineken is Dutch and is the main sponsor for this weekend.

It's a pity the current barges that pass for F1 cars are so unsuited to classic tracks. Still, there's plenty of scope for errors to be punished and interesting strategies to play out. You can't overtake at Monaco and that doesn't stop it throwing up great races sometimes.

If you're in second place and you have the faster car, you have the option of the undercut. Team mates or other midfield runners going long could come into play too if overtaking is difficult enough that they could still defend on much older tyres. Mistakes will be punished by gravel and barriers. Safety cars are likely. There are so many possibilities for an interesting race, not every track needs to allow the fastest car to blast past with DRS open on a straight to guarantee victory, sometimes more difficult overtaking can make races interesting too. We need to wait and see before passing judgement.

Red Flag.

Haas: Mazepin.

Brought the car to the beach.

Serious track this, never seems to stop after the main straight.

Max's long stint times were very fast, Merc compromised with only have 1 car to do 2 cars worth of work. Should be a good qualy.

Atmosphere looks brilliant out there and its only f3 quali, great go see!

It's a very small paddock and Kimi has had quite a bit of media contact.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get some more people dropping out. Not necessarily other drivers but media people and maybe even Fred Vassuer although he contracted earlier this year didn't he?

Carlos Seinz just crashed his car and the session has been red flagged.

Just missed it, saw him walking into the garage. How bad is the car?

It'll be a missed lunch for the mechanics anyway - lost the rear and went in sideways.

That turn 3 is some corner.

And that corner seems like it’s going to maybe cost Ferrari having two cars in qualifying.

Ah December 2019 when the world hadn’t even heard of covid.

Simon Lazenby looks a bit rough today. His eyes are in bits.

Well from those camera shots in the car he looked like his life was flashing before his eyes and he wasn't liking what he saw.

If max gets on pole here. There’ll be some crowd reaction.