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Verstappen getting pole 44 at the British Grand Prix. I know F1 drivers won't care about these things, but I found it funny that it was Hamilton's number.

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A bit surprised with Coulthard's comment that the top 3 were all really impressive. Only Verstappen was. Piastri demonstrated to have the pace, but made a clear mistake - but this to me just shows more of an issue with Norris. He didn't capitalize on the slip up by Piastri and still qualified behind...

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Verstappen absolutely sent it in the first two sectors and then struggled a bit in the last. But he made that count. The Red Bull certainly wasn't as good as he made it look. I would say both the Ferraris and McLarens were clearly better, and also the Mercedes likely being a match. Verstappen just m...

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Verstappen is so impressive! And Norris is on the 2nd row as I predicted, although barely by anything.

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Well, I still have a feeling that Norris will struggle to prefect qualifying when he has a number of other drivers close to him. With Hamilton, Leclerc and maybe even Verstappen (as well as his team mate), with the way he has often gone in qualifying this year, I recon he is more likely going to be ...

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Verstappen 2nd, Tsunoda 15th - over 1.1 seconds behind! ouch. Even Verstappen's lap didn't look that tidy.

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Bortoletto beating Hulkenberg again. Hulkenberg effectively last. He has been terrible in the last two qualifying sessions. Speaking of terrible... Stroll outqualified for the 23rd consecutive time and only a fraction faster than "terrible" Hulkenberg. Well, did you not see the pace of the Sauber l...

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Bortoletto beating Hulkenberg again. Hulkenberg effectively last. He has been terrible in the last two qualifying sessions.

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Leclerc looks to be rubbing the floor too much and looks smokey.

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Wow; I haven't voted (and see little need to frankly), but viewing the results is interesting: the first 8 of 8 teammate "wars" provide exactly zero votes for the second in the pair (even Verstappen - who barely made one corner in the effort over Tsunoda). Wow, this is getting mundane, is it not? G...

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What do we think prevented Tsunoda getting a penalty for forcing Stroll off? Was it down to these rules that Verstappen always uses to his advantage of whoever gets to the apex first has the corner? Tsunoda did, but Stroll left space and still had his front wing and left front wheel slightly ahead o...

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A quick turnaround for Silverstone means a quick write up from my side. Half of the field retain a 100% record versus their teammate after the Canada vote, with Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, George Russell, Isack Hajdar and Nico Hulkenberg all continuing their perfect starts. With ten races dow...

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I think the difference is quite easily explained... Stroll moved across in an intentional racing move. Colapinto just didn't know Piastri was there. It is just that 5 seconds is basically the most lenient it can be. Drivers ignoring blue flags get much worse than this. He must have known that a lea...

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That is ridiculous. 5 seconds?? Stroll got 10 for doing basically the same to a driver who decided to drive into a closing gap. Colapinto was literally required to move out of the way, not push the leaders off the track. That should be a drive through IMO. It was dangerous... I think the difference...

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I think the main ones are Hulkenberg and Lawson. Maybe Alonso too. I think Bortoletto's result is not as good as many are implying. As is often the case, first points and rare decent / good performances can swing the votes a bit. Hulkenberg after a very poor Saturday showed just how good that Sauber...

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Alonso holding back the much faster Bortoleto was masterclass driving! It was partially related to being a rookie / lack of experience as to the fact that Alonso managed to hold Bortoleto behind though. Bortoleto made quite a big error near the end. He could easily have had Alonso if he didn't atte...

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That is ridiculous. 5 seconds?? Stroll got 10 for doing basically the same to a driver who decided to drive into a closing gap. Colapinto was literally required to move out of the way, not push the leaders off the track. That should be a drive through IMO. It was dangerous... I think the difference...

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Bit of a rookie judgement from Bortoletto there. He shouldn't have allowed Alonso to get DRS.

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That is ridiculous. 5 seconds?? Stroll got 10 for doing basically the same to a driver who decided to drive into a closing gap. Colapinto was literally required to move out of the way, not push the leaders off the track. That should be a drive through IMO. It was dangerous...

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Colapinto should get a penalty for that surely.

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Piastri fighting with a red bull looks normal, but it is a lapped one. Ouch Tsunoda.

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I am starting to think Hulkenberg may be able to beat Bortoletto here. Hulkenberg won't have to pit again but Bortoletto either will have to, or seriously struggle.

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Well, whoever this commentator is constantly gets the team mates mixed up. So often saying Stroll instead of Alonso, or the other way round. Said Russell collided with Verstappen at the start. In terms of mistakes, I think he is worse than Crofty. Chandhok is great though. Chandhok and Brundle would...

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Alonso vs Lawson. Hopefully this will go better than the Miami sprint.

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Hulkenberg is having a pretty strong race actually. He isn't much slower than Bortoletto despite the tyre difference.

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Tsunoda has been awful this race. Crashing into Stroll and colapinto.

I don't see how these mistakes are the teams fault. Drivers as a team mate to Verstappen just seem to make so many silly errors.

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If Hulkenberg was instructed to let his team mate through, he took an age to do it...

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That incident between Tsunoda and Stroll was clearly caused by Tsunoda. Stroll gave plenty of space and still got pushed off track - involving contact.

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Piastri should have done that move in the 2nd straight.

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That is a real shame for Lawson having to steer round all that and losing out.

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That has to be a grid drop for next race for antonelli. Big mistake.

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Really bad luck for verstappen this weekend.

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I can't remember. Now Sainz is starting in the pit lane, does Hulkenberg park in his grid slot or will he still have to park in the P20 slot?

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Surely Sainz is not allowed to start now he has had assistance?

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Yes, at least start from the pit lane.

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What can be said now that Lawson was able to qualify 6th in Austria? He's the same driver who qualified dead last in his first & only 2 races with Red Bull? Should we assume Lawson has now become that good or can we safely say that the second Red Bull car is the toughest seat to qualify in (Tsunoda...

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The first truly impressive thing Norris has done all season really. Good job. But does he have an upgrade that Piastri does not? His first lap certainly was impressive, as was his 2nd, but we don't really know just how impressive it was given Verstappen and his team mate both got robbed of a 2nd lap.

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I think Lawson was probably the most impressive driver this session, or Bortoletto. I personally think that the Sauber has been a lot better recently, and Hulkenberg just never got it together in Q1. Hulkenberg was very inconsistent last year and had some weekends where he just had no pace. This cou...

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I am a bit surprised that Russell and Antonelli have so many more votes than Verstappen. I believe that the Red Bull was clearly worse than Mercedes and also McLaren this weekend. I do think that Mercedes had the best car, and Antonelli while he did pass Piastri, with the car he had (and given Russ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eytD94HXx4A Maybe a bit of a strange thing to compare, but I think Russell was trying harder here to get verstappen another penalty that Verstappen was trying to hit russell last race. I don't believe Verstappen did actually try to crash into Russell. He just barely s...

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I am a bit surprised that Russell and Antonelli have so many more votes than Verstappen. I believe that the Red Bull was clearly worse than Mercedes and also McLaren this weekend. I do think that Mercedes had the best car, and Antonelli while he did pass Piastri, with the car he had (and given Russe...

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