2026 British Grand Prix - Silverstone, July 03 - 05

[PlatinumZealot]

BOSS is back in town!

Only long time forum members refer to him as
"The Boss".
Well played mate!
Ringo is the first member to use that handle on this forum,
if I recall correctly!

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The McLaren apparel sponsor was Hugo Boss whith the "Boss" logo near the cabin!

[avantman]

If this is what Formula 1 has become, then something has gone badly wrong. What we saw today wasn’t worthy of Formula 1—or, frankly, any top-level motorsport. The saddest part is that many fans now see it as normal, and even entertaining. Embarrassing.

[DGP123]

Awful stuff. The overtake for the ‘win’ was comical. It was like Lewis was a back marker.

[renault rs26]

FIA shouldn't have said publicly anything about batery deployment and everyone would be amazed by these rules.

[atanatizante]

Do you think a driver's best lap reflects the combined performance of both the car and the driver for this specific circuit, or generally speaking, for any circuit?

Or put another way, given that the driver has a relatively small contribution (10-15%, perhaps on some specific circuits like Monaco, even 20%), does a driver's best lap represent the pecking order of the cars on a particular circuit?

Of course, we are excluding special situations, such as a driver pitting near the end of the race to put on the softest tire compound and setting the fastest lap, this being the fastest not only for them personally, but also among all the drivers competing against them...

[pantherxxx]

Mercedes deserves all the in season development tokens. They clearly have inferior engine.

[Mandrake]

Mercedes deserves all the in season development tokens. They clearly have inferior engine.

Especially Vs Redbull they are completely uncompetitive

[Mr Alcatraz]

BOSS is back in town!

Only long time forum members refer to him as
"The Boss".
Well played mate!
Ringo is the first member to use that handle on this forum,
if I recall correctly!

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The McLaren apparel sponsor was Hugo Boss whith the "Boss" logo near the cabin!

You are correct sir!


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[PlatinumZealot]

Mercedes deserves all the in season development tokens. They clearly have inferior engine.

The RedBull engine is strong for sure, just their deployment is all new. Ferrari weaker but better deployment. Mercedes deployment same level as Ferrari but has a stronger ICE. In my opinion of course.

[PlatinumZealot]

Do you think a driver's best lap reflects the combined performance of both the car and the driver for this specific circuit, or generally speaking, for any circuit?

Or put another way, given that the driver has a relatively small contribution (10-15%, perhaps on some specific circuits like Monaco, even 20%), does a driver's best lap represent the pecking order of the cars on a particular circuit?

Of course, we are excluding special situations, such as a driver pitting near the end of the race to put on the softest tire compound and setting the fastest lap, this being the fastest not only for them personally, but also among all the drivers competing against them...

https://postimg.cc/N2FygNZm https://postimages.org/

Looks like mercedes one two with Lewis podium tomorrow all things remaining the same

[Mogster]

Awful stuff. The overtake for the ‘win’ was comical. It was like Lewis was a back marker.

It wasn’t that bad, just the odd occasion when someone had deployed at the wrong time (or been forced to) and were then passed liked they’d left the handbrake on. The side by side battles in the first 10 laps were entertaining.

Silverstone was always going to expose the worst these regs had to offer. I hope we can keep the good stuff from these regs and minimise the jarring bad bits.

[WardenOfTheNorth]

If this is what Formula 1 has become, then something has gone badly wrong. What we saw today wasn’t worthy of Formula 1—or, frankly, any top-level motorsport. The saddest part is that many fans now see it as normal, and even entertaining. Embarrassing.

What would you prefer?

Not in terms of PU etc, but I mean in terms of racing.

We have close racing where one driver can follow another through corners, where in years past they couldn't and we have close fought battles throughout the field that aren't as easy as they were in the DRS era.

[PlatinumZealot]

Awful stuff. The overtake for the ‘win’ was comical. It was like Lewis was a back marker.

It wasn’t that bad, just the odd occasion when someone had deployed at the wrong time (or been forced to) and were then passed liked they’d left the handbrake on. The side by side battles in the first 10 laps were entertaining.

Silverstone was always going to expose the worst these regs had to offer. I hope we can keep the good stuff from these regs and minimise the jarring bad bits.

Will it be worse in the race? The energy will be raised to 8.5MJ so whoever is able to generate more with brake and less with clipping will have a huge advantage. The race might be another Austria for Ferrari. A podium will be an over achievement!

[hollus]

Regarding that blow-by form Antonelli to Hamilton, one also should remember that antonelly had mounts a strong attack earlier in the lap. So it is not like Hamilton had no means to defend himself, it is that he had already used them fending off the first attack. Probably Antonelli managed to do the first attack with very little deployment, hence saving for the second.
Different is hard, the tactics have changed, but we will all learn (including the drivers, which obviously still go into black and white mode too eften). They'll continue to learn and adapt, and the ones with the most extra brain capacity (due to brain or due to inherent car speed)will continue to find weys to outsmart the others, thus it has always been and thus it will always be.

It is a new, new-new-new, radically new formula. We are all adapting. I am sure in 1966, when the first wings appeared, it was the same. Half a season to understand how a car could be so draggy and yet so good on the corners, surely that didn't belong in racing cars! And then another half a season to optimize both how to best use and defend from the extravaganza.

Antonelli had pace in spades, but he earned his blow-by pass.


Edit: Grammar police welcome. Corrected.

[SB15]

Regarding that blow-by form Antonelly to Hamilton, one also should remember that antonelly had mounts a strong attack earlier in the lap. So it is not like Hamilton had no means to defend himself, it is that he had already used them fending off the first attack. Probably Antonelly managed to do the first attack with very little deployment, hence saving for the second.
Different is hard, the tactics have changed, but we will all learn (including the drivers, which obviously still go into black and white mode too eften). They'll continue to learn and adapt, and the ones with the most extra brain capacity (due to brain or due to inherent car speed)will continue to find weys to outsmart the others, thus it has always been and thus it will always be.

It is a new, new-new-new, radically new formula. We are all adapting. I am sure in 1966, when the first wings appeared, it was the same. Half a season to understand how a car could be so draggy and yet so good on the corners, surely that didn't belong in racing cars! And then another half a season to optimize both how to best use and defend from the extravaganza.

Antonelly had pace in spades, but he earned his blow-by pass.

Not to be the grammar police but it's "Antonelli"