2021 British Grand Prix - Silverstone, July 16 - 18

[Spacepace]

For a sport that is pushing towards carbon neutrality. What is the point cruising with the truck around the track?

carbon neutrality is just PR

[maxxer]

Since when is weaving like crazy on the straights allowed??

Verstapen and Alonso weaving like idiots...

Think alonso thought it was a drift race

[max_speed]

Verstappen is lethal , he is hurting lewis where it hurts most.if he wins tomorrow that will deliver a bloody blow to morale of lewis and mercedes. Hats off to Alonso there was no way he could have hold Mclarens ( superior car) but 7th is good place (what if he gains 6 places tomm at start )

[zibby43]

We also get the knowledge that Verstappen does have the pace to keep Hamilton at bay, yay...

Very different variables tomorrow now though with full stints, and 2 Mercs against 1 RB.

1.4s isn’t a huge gap and both HAM and VER did a 29.9 on the last lap.

[Scorpaguy]

Kimi and Nando seem to like to sprint format.

[Ryar]

Tyres are blistering. They should increase the pressures by another 2 psi to ensure safety.

[maxxer]

For a sport that is pushing towards carbon neutrality. What is the point cruising with the truck around the track?

carbon neutrality is just PR

Thats is another annoying thing all the pre and post crap going on in F1 now. I switch off after the checkered flag result is known i will read the rest later on dont need all those interviews live and such seen the result move on

[Sevach]

We also get the knowledge that Verstappen does have the pace to keep Hamilton at bay, yay...

Very different variables tomorrow now though with full stints, and 2 Mercs against 1 RB.

1.4s isn’t a huge gap and both HAM and VER did a 29.9 on the last lap.

I see you are glass jhalf full kind of a guy, but the real gap is 3s when Verstappen slowed down deliberately.
Also i don't that many variables... and Bottas is useless.

[AMG.Tzan]

Aren't you allowed to change direction only once on the straight

Max was weaving when Hamilton was close by. That's a clear infringement.

It was already illegal on 2011 too and Hamilton did that many times in Sepang. Needless to say he got away with it.....

It was Sepang 2010 when Hamilton did that on Petrov and weaving on the straights got banned afterwards because of that! So how is it allowed in 2021??

[Zynerji]

Mnah .. in equal cars there'd be 4/5 guys equally good and only punished for the slightest mistake they'd make; just a lottery.

He got 7th because he got the max out of the car whereas the others didn't. No more complicated than that.

How is that a lottery? That's the SKILL!

A lottery is who is closest to the pits when the Safety Car is deployed...

Lottery in the sense that the outcome would differ every time as the differences are that small. Everyone makes mistakes when on the edge, I believe there's about 4/5 guys with an overall equal skillset.

Still not a lottery. Not even close.

Errors are the Human element. Put computer drivers in there, and with no errors, it will finish as it starts. IE: Terribly boring to watch.

[Spacepace]

If Hamilton can get ahead in first stint I can't see Verstappen getting past due to top speed of the Merc. It would be similar to France with Bottas dictating Verstappen's stop. Mercedes second chance of not f*cking up on strategy this time

[Fulcrum]

The Sprint.

Also known as: The Race That Was Not A Race; The Damp Squib; The Wet Fart; Drying Paint; and Bernie's Last Laugh.

[Zynerji]

If Hamilton can get ahead in first stint I can't see Verstappen getting past due to top speed of the Merc. It would be similar to France with Bottas dictating Verstappen's stop. Mercedes second chance of not f*cking up on strategy this time

That RBR launch is unbelievable. I don't see Ham getting past in the first stint unless Max ruins his getaway.

[astracrazy]

Since when is weaving like crazy on the straights allowed??

Verstapen and Alonso weaving like idiots...

Think alonso thought it was a drift race

[politburo]

Yeah this was failure, I don't think F1 should keep this format. I'm not sure why they were expecting the cars to all run around constantly overtaking each other. They were always going to stretch out after the first lap. It's added nothing to the weekend, and if anything it just shown us the result for tomorrow. Clearly Max is going to drive off in to the distance tomorrow now and win.

This is literally how every race goes. If the cars were invisible or the tracks didn't have corners or if they all were oval tracks then maybe 4 or 5 teams would be contesting the race win all the time. In reality, F1 races are usually contested between 1 or 2 teams at the front, then the rest just slipstream the next car whilst those are back get lapped most years in recent F1 including the 2000s and 1990s have been like this - there are of course a few seasons this decade were there were are 3 or more legitimate race-winning and pole-sitting teams like 2019, 2017, 2018, 2010 and 2012.

Even series where the cars are of the same spec like F2 or F3 are like this, even GT and TC racing is like this. In any competition no matter how equal the playing, there will be the emergence of superiority among competitors.