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Breaking news, but is it really that surprising?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52612216

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South Korea tested everyone regardless of whether they had symptoms. Italy only tested people who had symptoms Where did you get this information because I call BS. There are laboratory tests that can identify the virus that causes COVID-19 in respiratory specimens. State and local public health de...

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Don't know if this has been picked up on elsewhere but major annoucement seems to be 2021 changes delayed by a year so next year's season to be run under current regs. Lewis will be happy, everyone else less so!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/51964882

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So what's the longest gap between F1 races in the modern era? Think that record may be broken in the next few weeks/months.

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FIA website overloaded.

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Is fia.com down right now?
It's not just you! fia.com is down.

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It's probably an England - Scotland thing. Many Scots will pick anyone over an English person in sport.

'Anyone but England' frequently heard once Scotland get knocked out of any football competitions. Which is usually fairly early on

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Virtually no suspension travel and 200mph speeds is not just a challenge, it's potentially spinal injury. Would be interesting to see the vertical G loads drivers encounter compared to the lateral G loads that would require medical attention.

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OOF! Hamilton and Vettel with a pretty scathing and somewhat explicit take on Max Verstappen and his racing style in the presser. Hamilton said more or less that some drivers are smart with their aggression and others are silly, and that he leaves Max extra space. Vettel was asked the same about tr...

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Rockie wrote:
TedStriker wrote:A masterclass in tyre management
How?

Ricciardo did 50 laps

Verstappen almost 60 laps

The hard tyre had no real degradation.

It's easy to do 60 laps on a tyre. Not easy to do it and win the race.

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A masterclass in tyre management

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F1_Ernie wrote:Vettel hasn't made any impression on Hamilton yet, you would at least think he would get in the DRS zone earlier. These tyres are so wierd here.

Remember Max has done quite a few more laps than Lewis on the hards and is still going

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Will be a bit of an anti-climax if they just come home in this order!

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Rockie wrote:Even with back markers Lewis is not pulling away!

Lewis had to go through them too - gap the same before and after

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Bottas could win this for Lewis - You get the feeling that if it weren't for defending against Bottas, Seb would be right up on Lewis and cruising past with DRS

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Bottas and 2 Ferraris fighting it out soon for 2nd?

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Invade wrote:Vettel seems to have hit a wall at just over 2 seconds behind Hamilton for the moment.

Never mind it's suddenly +1.3 seconds.

Vettel fighting Bottas could hand this to Lewis

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mikeyg123 wrote:I don't think Lewis is dead yet. Vettel isn't rocketing up behind him.

20 laps left - does he have a fresh set of softs to put on?

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Lewis been telling porkies about the state of his tyres? Wouldn't be the first time.

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Invade wrote:OOF - Charles has a 6.2 second pitstop.

1.9 for Albon!

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Lewis to pit again as soon as Vettel passes him? Can't imagine Lewis will make it too easy for Seb to pass after the first lap fun!

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mikeyg123 wrote:Good to know pushing a rival onto the grass at 160MPH doesn't even warrant an investigation.

FIA doesn't want Lewis getting too many points this weekend - if he wins the WDC here they lose a lot of advertising revenue for the remaining races

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mikeyg123 wrote:Very dirty from Vettel he knew exactly what he was doing.

He'll probably get away with it as once again Lewis avoided the contact by going off the track

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F1_Ernie wrote:Dirty Vettel, he knew Hamilton got a good start.

I guess he just saw Leclerc get away with it in Monza so did the same

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Is Vettel allowed to run Lewis off the track onto the grass?

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Can people please stop giving credit to Mercedes' decision to pit Hamilton into open track behind him. It was a shot to nothing, if it didn't work out then he would still finish 2nd anyway, and it's no different than when teams have been pitting drivers from 5th or 6th on gone 'fastest lap hunting'...

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shay550 wrote:Some weekends it’s like Lewis and Max are driving completely different cars to their teammates.
In the case of Max it is every weekend bar Silverstone.

In the case of Lewis it is about half the weekends.

Yep, Gasly is definitely not at the level of Bottas.

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Easiest pass of the race in the end!

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Max's only hope is to force Lewis to burn his tyres up with some ruthless blocking

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He's going to cruise past at this pace differential. Hopefully nothing desperate ensues.

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Gonna be a fun last few laps - Looks like he's at least going to get on Max's gearbox.

I predict a crash into T1!

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5 seconds closed in 5 laps. 15 seconds left, 15 laps left.

Could go either way!

Tyre deg will be the decider now.

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Lewis needs more than a second lap to give him a few laps to try the pass at the end. Should get tasty.

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20 laps of Hammertime!

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No contact with Lewis

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Had Lewis been a second further back, there would have been no penalty, it would have gone down as just another clumsy piece of driving. Seb just needs to drive a bit faster in the rest of the lap if he's going to outbrake himself. An out of control rejoin causing another driver to brake will (shoul...

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What would have been the situation if there was not a wall, but a tarmac runoff area on the outside of the exit - Lewis would have gone off the track, passed Seb and then what...? Now having seen the explanation of the stewards' decision I find it amusing that those who disagreed most vociferously w...

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Hamilton messed up the hairpin 4 or 5 times and was on Vettel's gearbox the following sector, easily able to follow him through the corners without losing any performance from dirty air. How utterly delusional do you have to be to think that Ferrari was quicker today. Mercedes was the fastest car b...

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So it looks like the penalty was for the danger aspect, not gaining an advantage.

He got 2 points on his licence too. Luckily nobody told him that on the podium!

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The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, have considered the following matter and determine the following: No / Driver 5 - Sebastian Vettel Competitor Scuderia Ferrari Time 15:13 Session Race Fact Car 5 left the track, re-joined unsafely and forced another car off track. Offenc...

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F1nut wrote:Clearly the F1 racing stewards in Canada cannot tell the difference between a "racing-incident" and a deliberate action - for which the "Un-safe re-entry rule" was enacted............ : (

Sad day for F1 fans everywhere.

Does the penalty require intent? Genuine question.

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