George Russell P2.
Nearly pole, until Verstappen dropped a miracle lap at the very last moment.
P2, in a Williams.
Wow.
Wow.
This is an entirely new way for Williams to turn an impressive qualifying into no points.
As new follower of the sport this season, this whole thing seems bizarre to me. No one seems to know anything? Has this never happened before?
A poor day to pick for my first live formula 1 race
As new follower of the sport this season, this whole thing seems bizarre to me. No one seems to know anything? Has this never happened before?
I can't recall the last time a race didn't actually start due to rain. In Canada 2012 they red flagged the race for hours, but still finished it. That being said, they are a lot more safety orientated lately. This tracks recent history isn't helping.
Some ludicrously, there seems to be disagreement over whether or not the race has started. The bizarre technicality at play is that the occurrence of the formation laps means that, officially speaking, the race – which has a three-hour time limit – has started, and therefore points must be given out.
God bless F1.
Jesus if this is how Russell gets his first podium….
Words fail me
They ran enough laps to make sure George got his first podium and none of the in-person fans get a refund.
Make em' all run. Or ride bikes. Or whoever does the best slip-n-slide.
As a sidenote, I just saw the W Series crash from this weekend and good GOD should we all be thankful for HANS and the Halo.
There would have been at least one major injury without it.
Speaking of it. if anyone wants to watch the W Series race. https://burningwhee1s.blogspot.com/2...
I just want to draw people’s attention to the fact that Williams have just scored their first double points scoring races in a row since 2016 the last year of Botas and Massa driving for them.
I think of “races” like today as being part of the rich story of a F1 season. It’s kind of awesome to take Spa off the table like this. Dry Spa races can be interesting but this keeps everything really spicy.
I'll predict if Hamilton get's his eighth championship then he retires. If he doesn't he is going to be pissed about Russell.
@zeroKFE, I just want to thank you for posting practice and qualification times consistently in here. I really appreciate them and thought I should say so here. So, thanks!
Kimi tested positive for Covid overnight so we get a sudden return for Robert Kubica this weekend and probably at Monza next week as Kimi is in isolation.
All of Kimi's close contacts also had to isolate and because it's Kimi that was... one person.
Watch the first lap then you keep the procession on in the background and wait for the yellow.
Aw George. You deserve it kid.
Looking forward to next year when he and Hamilton attempt to murder each other.
So Bottas to Alpha, Russel to Mercedes and Albion to Williams.
The last two seats unconfirmed for 2022 are Stroll’s at Aston Martín (got to admire Papa Stroll keeping him on a year to year contract) and Giovinazzi‘s at Alpha.
I kind of hope Schumacher gets moved. I would love to see him compared to Bottas and Haas just seems so toxic for him.
I wonder if we should shut down the Slack F1 channel and move it all here or vice versa. I feel weird saying essentially the exact same thing to a bunch of the same people. Anyway....
As much as I wouldn't want to be on the same team as Maz, I'm not sure that Alfa will actually be the better team next year. Haas has abandoned the current car to work exclusively on next years car. It's possible they will be back in the front of the mid field next season. I don't feel that Alfa will be. Who knows. If I were Alfa I would try to get Nyck De vries. Champion in two different series in 3 years. Guy needs a shot at F1.
There's a Slack F1 channel?
Our racing league (Racing Dorks) has a Slack to organise and chat and it has an F1 channel.
It's GWJ-adjacent, but there are people on it who don't visit this forum, so I think we're fine to duplicate things here and there.
So there's a GWJ F1 Slack channel that is not Racing Dorks, meaning that we could triplicate things?
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