2021 Austrian Grand Prix - Spielberg, July 02 - 04

[WaikeCU]

How's Zhou doing in that Alpine?

How art Zhou?

Zhouroghly outpaced by Ocon, but he did OK.

I already regret asking

BUT THANKS!

[grubschumi13]

Mercedes is the faster car again this weekend. Those times set by Ham and Bottas are so fast.

[JordanMugen]

Mercedes is the faster car again this weekend.

Interesting. What a turn around, if true.

Alonso "Unbelievable these young guys, fearless. Who was it?" Team "Raikkonen"

[Just_a_fan]

Mercedes is the faster car again this weekend. Those times set by Ham and Bottas are so fast.

Are you going to keep doing this all season?

[Pyrone89]

Jup, remember all those ‘championship is over’ comments from last week?

Mercedes solved their set-up and are fastest car again, like they were on normal tracks before the street circuits.

Unless we missed a major mistake of Max on his lap ofcourse

[Spacepace]

classic Alonso over team radio
"I can't believe it... I can't f*cking believe it!"
"Who was it?"

"Raikkonen..."

"..."

[djones]

Although I believe Redbull is still the fastest car at this track, it will be interesting to see if Mercedes are running less wing, like Redbull did last weekend and this is where the extra pace has come from.

They are testing two new wing configurations by the looks of it, so I guess they may have just messed up the selection last week.

[Stormblessed]

Was there any drop in track temperature? Definitely seems much cooler weather than last weekend.

FIA hasn't uploaded the FP1 laptime data yet. Any other website out there that provide laptimes and tyre info?

[El Scorchio]

Mercedes is the faster car again this weekend. Those times set by Ham and Bottas are so fast.

Are you going to keep doing this all season?

I think we all know the answer to that, unfortunately.

[El Scorchio]

Classic from Norris:

Engineer 'What damage do you have?'
Norris 'Talent'

Quality. Good lad.

[Just_a_fan]

Norris not taking himself too seriously "ran out of talent" he says after spinning.

[yener]

VT2 nothing new. LH did a mid 1.04. His Q3 and pole lap were faster last week. So tbh, i dont think anything changed, except maybe the tyres they are testing and track temperature.

[RZS10]

In F1 terms it is significantly cooler, especially the track: 19°C Air and 31°C Track ... last week the lowest track temp was 43°C and the air was at least 2°C warmer
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Whatever happened to the expansion plans?

Shelved due local opposition I seem to remember, which was a massive shame.

Yea i looked it up, it was locals, environmentalists, bureaucratic hurdles and even the FIA (safety reasons) who wasn't too keen on having an expanded track.

[ringo]

Jup, remember all those ‘championship is over’ comments from last week?

Mercedes solved their set-up and are fastest car again, like they were on normal tracks before the street circuits.

Unless we missed a major mistake of Max on his lap ofcourse

Relax.. it's just practice 2. 2 tenths in cool trnperatures. Redbull just need to tweak a few things and turn up the whick a tad.
After practice 3 we can have an idea; weather permiting.
I do hope its closer than last week.

[Stormblessed]

In F1 terms it is significantly cooler, especially the track: 19°C Air and 31°C Track ... last week the lowest track temp was 43°C and the air was at least 2°C warmer

Thanks. That's a huge difference in temps. Hope it rains on race day or at the least on qualifying day. Has been a while since full wets on race day/quali.