Taking my F1 mad son to Spa at the weekend for his 16th birthday present, initially thought it’d be boring, judging by the past couple of seasons, but this season has hotted up just in time. Hoping for a Lando win as he’s my sons favorite.
We’ve never been to an F1 race before, I’ve always fancied it but could never justify the price of Silverstone, but this has worked as part of a bigger holiday. Hopefully the weather stays nice…
He’ll be wearing a Mclaren Lando shirt, but I think I might wear my Leicester Tigers rugby shirt (green, red & white hoops) on Sunday, so keep an eye out!
Spa is a great race to go to. Went there about 15 years ago and had a great time. Watching the cars go through eau rouge and shortly after screaming up kemmel straight is amazing. If you've got general admission it's worth going round a few of the areas during all the practice sessions just to get a feel for it all.
If you're off to Spa (v jealous) take walking boots, golfing brollies and a couple of folding stools strapped to the backs of your rucksacks.
You have an amazing time 🙂
Is that Audi thing real?
Is that Audi thing real?
Yep. Seidl out, Binotto in.
Is that basically team principal? If so, I'm surprised....not sure he covered himself in glory at Ferrari
If you’re off to Spa (v jealous) take walking boots, golfing brollies and a couple of folding stools strapped to the backs of your rucksacks.
Yep got comfy hiking trainers, emergency ponchos, and a couple of fold up stools ready to go. Don't want to carry too much though as we're cycling there from a few Km away. Wife and daughter dropping us off in Stavelot then we cycle to the bike parking bit near the karting track. Can't camp on site as we have a dog with us as well!...
We've got the bronze general admission tickets so can go anywhere apart from sitting the grandstands I think.
I think Binotto did a good job on the engineering side at Ferrari but when they promoted him, he just had too much on his plate. He has to be worth a lot to a team like Audi that has ambitions of challenging for championships. Whether the corporate side of things give him the time and resources to do the job properly will be the big question.
Is Mike Krack a real name? Sounds like a Moe's bar regular.
"Has anyone seen Mike Krack?" "Is Mike Krack available?"
Mike Krack is a real person, currently at Aston Martin, alongside Ben Dover and Peter Fyle.
Phil McCrack is also at Aston.
The s****ing about Mike Krack was big for about a week two years ago.
Bezzie mates James Hunts grandson Issac....
I'm not surprised to see Binotto back in F1, though i am surprised to see him replace Seidl
I'm off to Spa with my son organised it, it's a bit chaotic flying to Germany, staying in Holland and Spa is in Belgium
Using a park and ride this time, two years ago it was after midnight before we could get out the car park at Silverstone due to no one marshalling the traffic. Robbing farmers take your money £35 but too miserable to pay folk to direct traffic out
Oof, that sounds rubbish. We looked at camping on site but we're taking the dog so can't. Some of the nearby campsite hve special rates for this weekend and cost a bloody fortune. We found a nice one about 35 mins drive away and the wife can drop us off so we can cycle down a nice looking easy cycle track that runs past the race track. Hopefully should make it easier to get in and out....
After the race weekend we're carrying on holiday for another 2 weeks, heading down to the Alps.
Looking like a 10 place grid penalty is on the cards for Max at Spa. Cue more toys out of pram?
Looking like a 10 place grid penalty is on the cards for Max at Spa. Cue more toys out of pram?
Source?
https://www.planetf1.com/news/max-verstappen-grid-penalty-spa-report
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/verstappen-set-for-belgian-gp-f1-grid-penalty/10638215/
It was also mentioned a few races ago that one of his engines was beyond repair. And Spa is the obvious place to add a new one to the pool as it's easy to overtake there.
He's going to get an engine penalty somewhere, Spa is the obvious place to take it. Not confirmed though, just quite likely.
Is there anywhere one can see how many engies gearboxes a driver has used so far? I wonder if RB are better, worse, average for the rest of the grid?
Cheers @the-muffin-man that makes for interesting reading. Those Honda engines don't seem that robust...
Couldn’t be happening to a nicer person.
Shame it’s not a grid penalty for behaving like a childish **** though.
Ocon confirmed at HAAS
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/haas-signs-esteban-ocon-multi-year-f1-deal-explained/
Ocon and Bearman then. Good luck Ollie! 🙂
Is anybody confirmed at alpine alongside gasly?
Ocon's history of joining teams that Hulk's leaving.
https://twitter.com/wearetherace/status/1816402739045314769
Is anybody confirmed at alpine alongside gasly?
Mick Schumacher in the frame according to Helmet.
Autosport saying that Verstappen will have a grid penalty this weekend.
https://twitter.com/autosport/status/1816429453402103875
Shame it’s not a grid penalty for behaving like a childish **** though.
Genuinely surprised that he didn't get a penalty for causing a collison at Hungary tbh
Genuinely surprised that he didn’t get a penalty for causing a collison at Hungary tbh
With the move on Hamilton? To be fair, Hamilton did turn in (it’s pretty easy to see hand movements when you wear bright yellow gloves…) so I’m a little surprised that Hamilton didn’t get one.
What’s less surprising is Verstappen complaining about “divebombing” one week and then doing it himself the next, and Marko claiming that Max was fully in control and would have made the corner. For a Red Bull employee, Helmut sure churns out a lot of Kool-Aid.
Teams that still have space(s) at the end of the year to fill...
Mercedes, Alpine, Williams, RB VisaMasterCardAmericanExpress, Haas, and maybe Red Bull?
Is that right?
IIRC, the stewards looked at the Max-Lewis crash and said that Lewis followed his normal racing line and left enough room for Max and that it was just a racing incident. Not every incident requires a penalty.
Oh, I’m certainly not saying it should have been a penalty, just that I wouldn’t have totally fallen off my seat if Hamilton had been given one. Max was clearly spearing across the racing line fully locked up after an attempt that would be generously described as optimistic (and only slightly less generously as desperate) so I’d agree that at that point it’s hard to point the finger at someone else for being the major cause.
It probably helped the decision that Verstappen lost 2 places because of his own actions whereas Hamilton managed to keep his position without any lasting problems. Calling it a racing incident in that case is probably justified by the "let them race" desires of F1/FIA/stewards.
I’ve seen some rumours on X
I saw some rumours on X that J.D. Vance had sex with a sofa. I'm gonna consider it unconfirmed until I see it with my own eyes.
J.D. Vance had sex with a sofa. I’m gonna consider it unconfirmed until I see it with my own eyes.
Some things my eyes do not want to see.
Anyway what was the 'cease & desist' supposedly for?
No one knows - the rumour has been around for a couple of weeks now.
Might explain the sudden drop in performance…
I don't think there been one. The rest of the teams are just catching up. Reb Bull have themselves admitted that there's les 'development headroom' in their car than everyone else has got. There's now McLaren (who've most likely have the best overall car) The Mercedes - in its favoured conditions just about on par, and Ferrari - barring some duff upgrade dead ends has the speed if it can get its tyres to work.
