Formula 1

[Bullet2012]

Kimi comments

Dutch Grand Prix: Kimi Raikkonen says Formula 1 'has never been my life'

Kimi Raikkonen says Formula 1 "has never been my life" in his first interview since announcing his retirement from the sport.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Nick DV]

Hamilton says he will welcome GR !

Dutch Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton calls George Russell 'an incredibly talented driver'

Lewis Hamilton welcomes the idea of George Russell being his team-mate should the British rising star move to Mercedes next season.

www.bbc.co.uk

He can’t really say anything else He has to be nice because I don’t think GR will hold back like VB did

 

[ukracer]

Hamilton says he will welcome GR !

Dutch Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton calls George Russell 'an incredibly talented driver'

Lewis Hamilton welcomes the idea of George Russell being his team-mate should the British rising star move to Mercedes next season.

www.bbc.co.uk

Probably just as well as George has already signed..lol

 

[Bladevane]

We had an Alpha Tauri engineer into the vaccination centre today so spoke to him about driver movements. He reckons Bottas to Alfa Romeo and a Formula 2 driver to replace Giovinazzi. Might be old news by now though.

 

[ukracer]

We had an Alpha Tauri engineer into the vaccination centre today so spoke to him about driver movements. He reckons Bottas to Alfa Romeo and a Formula 2 driver to replace Giovinazzi. Might be old news by now though.

It is. Lol. Talk is Formula E champion or Callum Illot to Alfa and Alex Albon to Williams. ....poor chap.

 

[Bullet2012]

It is. Lol. Talk is Formula E champion or Callum Illot to Alfa and Alex Albon to Williams. ....poor chap.

Why poor chap ?

 

[ukracer]

Why poor chap ?

Running round at the back. It's not good for a Driver in a top car one year. Dropped to a midfield car and then a rear ender..even with GR in it.

 

[Bullet2012]

Kimi out and Kubica in.
KR tested positive for CV-19 and is out of the race for this weekend.

 

[8ob]

Kimi out and Kubica in.
KR tested positive for CV-19 and is out of the race for this weekend.

Shame to see Kimi out of F1, undeniable talent behind the wheel but lacked the ability to set up a car or relay info to his engineers for that race winning tweek . Hakkinen was another like him, if it wasn't for the test drivers of the day relentlessly hammering the tracks and handing him a perfectly set up race car he would never have won championships.

Bob

 

[ukracer]

Just watching the F3 race and I hope I am proved wrong but the track looks garbage with less passing than Monaco.
Might go fishing instead...

 

[Bullet2012]

F3 was a bit of a procession,
so here is my pondering relating to the safety car.
F3 is slower than F1(well it’s meant to be) so does the safety car go slower for F3 than F1 ?
also I noticed that no lap times were posted for F3, the lead car just had interval and the following cars just had the time difference displayed, is that because the F3 lap times are close to the F1 times ?

 

[ukracer]

Told you it was a Garbage track. Far too dangerous....it's a damn go kart track for Pete's sake.

 

[Bullet2012]

Not garbage, it is just the drivers have to be cautious as once the black bits end the gravel and grass start taking prisoners.

 

[ukracer]

Not garbage, it is just the drivers have to be cautious as once the black bits end the gravel and grass start taking prisoners.

Well IMHO it's garbage as a race consists of overtaking. That's why I hate Monaco.
There is no overtaking on that track. Yes it's nice to drive and yes you need to keep it on the black stuff. But that's not difficult as Max has proved he is usually way over the track confines.
It's weird that the commentators say they can't wait for the race tommorow.
I guess that's because there was no "race" last week. Lol

6 red flags in 4 hours says it all.

 

[Bullet2012]

Yep, made it very interesting, race should be good. Cars out of normally expected places and difficult to overtake, let’s see what tomorrow brings, hopefully not another safety car race though.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I watched the recorded highlights and like the track because it's different - looking forward to seeing what they all make of it tomorrow.

 

[Bullet2012]

Just watched Ted’s notebook, he said ‘“it’s my favourite circuit” so far I am tending to agree.
let’s hope the race is as good and that LH and Max both make it to the end.

 

[ukracer]

Yep, made it very interesting, race should be good. Cars out of normally expected places and difficult to overtake, let’s see what tomorrow brings, hopefully not another safety car race though.

6 in quali. Definately in the race everytime someone goes off.
But what my concern is most of the Anti F1 dudes on here want overtaking. All this track does is reaffirm their views on F1.
This will do nothing but kill of hardened F1 fans

 

[ukracer]

Just watched Ted’s notebook, he said ‘“it’s my favourite circuit” so far I am tending to agree.
let’s hope the race is as good and that LH and Max both make it to the end.

I would love to be proved wrong but I fail to see how a track you can't overtake on is a sensible idea.

 

[redlig]

Shame to see Kimi out of F1, undeniable talent behind the wheel but lacked the ability to set up a car or relay info to his engineers for that race winning tweek . Hakkinen was another like him, if it wasn't for the test drivers of the day relentlessly hammering the tracks and handing him a perfectly set up race car he would never have won championships.

Bob

Agreed but It is so refreshing to see an interview with him and not be subjected to all the usual platitudes and PC rubbish. Just a succinct comment and off.