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LOL the recovery vehicle has now hit a bridge
edit: and the hydraulic fluid from the lifting arm is now leaking onto russells car
the impact:
....and session is cancelled
Well at least Kubica has now say his car is the better one 😕
Kvyat in the wall, red flag again.
Bet Dani Rik is wishing he'd stuck with Red Bull now. Better to be a No.2 driver in with a shot of winning than a No.1 driver with no chance.
And Gasly outpaced by both Torro Rosso drivers!
Bet Dani Rik is wishing he’d stuck with Red Bull now.
I don't know about that. He's shown he can win races, now he wants to win a championship. When he switched, he knew that neither Renault or Red Bull would deliver a championship winning car this year, so the question was which team would be better in 2021 when the new rules are introduced.
If he really wants to get back into RBR it looks quite possible that there might be a seat coming free after the summer break. Gasly now starting from the pit lane due to a weighbridge cockup in FP2...
Wonder what the Williams credit card bill will be after this weekend....?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/47830085
Another MB 1-2 tomorrow?
tomorrows race in baku is going to take a lot to beat todays paris e prix!!! 4 seasons in one race. Mario kart has nothing on it
I caught a bit of the FE race and it was a bit like a circus clown car show. People bumping and crashing every other corner. I was crazy.
I can see the safety car being busy tomorrow in the F1. The teams will have to stay sharp on their strategies to avoid being undercut etc ...
Anyone else get the same brief excitement at seeing a Ferrari in the wall and then the crushing disappointment of realising it was the wrong one? 🙂
Me! Gutted when finger boy sailed past a few seconds later.
Not normally a fan of street circuits but Baku has fast become one of my favourite venues.
Whoops Nico 😄
https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/bi1fkc/former_world_champion_nico_rosberg_temporarily/
Gasly now starting from the pit lane due to a weighbridge cockup in FP2…
And disqualified from Qualy for fuel flow irregularities.
RB are turning into Benneton! Cheat-tastic.
IIRC, Ricciardo was excluded from the very first race with the new engines for the same thing. I know that pushing to the very limit of the regulations is the key to winning, but getting busted twice for the same thing with two different engine suppliers does make them look a bit silly, especially considering that I can't recall any other team being being caught doing that.
Looking forward to the race today. It’s Baku, anything can happen.
Be interesting to see what LeClerc does from tenth.
Can see finger boy stuffing it into the wall again.
Perez for a podium?
Another interesting column from The Secret Aerodynamicist. I always wondered why Merc was the only team using the low-rake idea, assumed that maybe high-rake had benefits if you had to follow other cars but Merc had such a good engine that they were confident of qualifying at the front and maybe the low-rake was more efficient running in clear air. Seems to be that nobody really knows for sure and everyone just copies what Adrian Newey does because he's really brainy.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/47838557
tomorrows race in baku is going to take a lot to beat todays paris e prix!!! 4 seasons in one race. Mario kart has nothing on it
I think one of the commentators said it was the first proper wet FE race. They need to have a think about things for the future. The cars are great but the Mickey Mouse circuits really do hold them back add the effect of rain and no pitting for fresh tyres (probably due to the short length of the races and the problems of overtaking) and it looks pretty sad. I think the Jag ePac e(iPace?) races are just as good value as the FE.
Uuuh, the FE cars use road tyres iirc, so there's no need for them to pit, as they'll easily last a race distance.
The circuits will get less Mickey Mouse as the cars get faster I'm sure, but that's part of the charm for me, the fact that there is zero room for error just adds to the show, and the nature of the tracks helps keep the cars running close to eachother.
Anyone else get the same brief excitement at seeing a Ferrari in the wall and then the crushing disappointment of realising it was the wrong one? 🙂
Yep, same here!
Difficult to tell how this one will pan out - the first race at Baku in 2016 was dull as ditchwater but since then it's been quite exciting. Much more so than Monaco. I'm not a fan of the street circuits although Baku does have some nice architecture to look at.
Formula E races may be like Mario Kart - but for me I can't get excited if Frijns beats Lotterer. I have no interest in these drivers. I look down the entry list and it's a whole bunch of F1 Simulator drivers, or drivers never quite good enough.
Just watching the second F2 race. It’s mayhem!
Haha aye the Safety Car is getting some decent mileage out of the F2 lot! Glad they restarted at the end rather than finishing under SC 👏
Uuuh, the FE cars use road tyres iirc, so there’s no need for them to pit, as they’ll easily last a race distance.
I don't follow FE, but unless they use control tyres, it'll end up like production car racing where a tyre company sponsor would make street legal race tyres that would only last 20 laps and offer them for retail at 10K per corner, then supply them only to their sponsored teams who would then destroy anyone silly enough to use proper road tyres.
Leclerc now 8th
He’ll be on the front row in an hour
but unless they use control tyres
They do
😴 most exciting bit was the sofa in the post race room
Team Vettel had another shocker, can't see the Nerd lasting to the end of the season at this rate.
😴 most exciting bit was the sofa in the post race room
Whilst i get that from the Sofa angle, some of the in car shots of how quickly those corners came up and drivers having to trust a suddenly unseen car doesn’t slow / stop was pretty hair raising. I can’t imagine pushing to he limit with that level of trust and commitment, it must be hell of an adrenaline rush in the car.
IMO it’s a bit like and amateurs go pro MTB video, rarely does the outsider understand the true involvement / experience.
Could Ferrari have managed LeClerc’s race any worse?
Kryton57
Whilst i get that from the Sofa angle, some of the in car shots of how quickly those corners came up and drivers having to trust a suddenly unseen car doesn’t slow / stop was pretty hair raising. I can’t imagine pushing to he limit with that level of trust and commitment, it must be hell of an adrenaline rush in the car.
IMO it’s a bit like and amateurs go pro MTB video, rarely does the outsider understand the true involvement / experience.
Oh yes, no doubt it's a cracking track to drive, but I was talking about the racing.
Actually to be fair it was pretty good with Charl Eclair coming through the pack at the start and a bit of dicing in the midfield. But I was hoping for a safety car or two in the second half to close the pack up and mix up the strategies of the front runners.
Ferrari's strategy was a bit baffling. Initially I cynically assumed they were just throwing Leclerc's race under a bus to back the Mercs up to let Vettel catch them, but then once all three were past they still kept him out for a couple of laps more. So maybe, as Webber said, they were just asleep.
It's always hard to predict strategy when you're watching highlights, and I've not seen a pace chart from the race yet, but I suspect there must have been a point when Leclerc's pace would have started dropping off enough to make a two-stop look like it'd get him on the podium. I think they're just scared of him showing Vettel up.
Stellar performance from Bottas. Less so from Ricciardo… must have been feeling like a major nutsack after that one. Shame there wasn't much else going on. Hey ho…
Boring race to watch... Bottas seems to have the measure of Hamilton at the moment.
Seems like since Ferrari admitted vettel is number 1 they are just trying to prove a point by sabotaging leclerc to make sure he doesn't best him...
I think Ferrari were concerned about Leclerc's tyres not lasting to the end. But let's face it, Ferrari aren't getting the best out of their car and keep making desperate strategy calls to try and compensate, while Merc just seem to be doing everything perfectly.
For me Ferrari lost it in qualifying sending them out on mediums and softs.
Hamilton’s going to have to more aggressive if he’s going to get the front. Any one other than Bottas next to him in turn one and he’d off squeezed him wide
Also, DRS off backmarkers seems like a odd way to aid overtaking. Especially on a circuit where the tow is so important for overtaking
Should surely only activate when the following car is on the same lap, if you’re getting lapped surely the car lapping you is already considerably faster without an open wing!
I think one of the motivations behind DRS was that it would prevent backmarkers scuppering people's races (though, let's face it, that was always an intriguing element back in the 80s) but getting DRS off backmarkers does seem to often do just the reverse, yesterday being a prime example: if the following car is over a second away then that's their overtaking opportunity gone.
The close racing is a tricky call in Baku. They'd have looked a right pair of plums if they'd stuck each other in the wall within the first two corners and had the entire field pile into them. Hamilton did an impressive job of keeping it clean; he was just arguably a little over-cautious on the brakes into turn 1. But with cold tyres on the dirty side of the track…
TBH I think Hamilton's driving on the first few bends shows his maturity. Thinking of the the team rather than just himself. I'm sure he still feels he can have Bottas over the season. That may change as the season progresses and LeClerc starts getting points as then he'll not be happy hsaring swapping wins with Bottas.
I had high hopes, but definitely a dull race. Given the whacky races-esque actions of the last couple of years - side swiping, people binning it under safety car, team mates taking each other out, and with qualifying looking 'interesting' I thought it would be great. Shame. Ferrari do seem to be trying to prove Vettel is best by screwing CL over, really weird. Bottas has definitely upped his game, pleased to see him winning although I'd sooner see Lewis take another title in November.
Kubica must be gutted, all the fanfare around his amazing comeback and he's trundling around seconds off the pace right at the back. I reckon the safety car could go quicker!