F1 2017 season

They maybe a bit luckier Rumor has it that merc is lending consultants to Honda, much to the displeasure of Red Bull, the subject is being brought up in the strategy meeting apparently
Also Ilmor is supposedly involved as well
Honda reckons they have practically a new team
 
fuzzyedges said:
They maybe a bit luckier Rumor has it that merc is lending consultants to Honda, much to the displeasure of Red Bull, the subject is being brought up in the strategy meeting apparently
Also Ilmor is supposedly involved as well
Honda reckons they have practically a new team
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They should have bought manor really, it would've given them a test team for twice the mileage (with 4 different setups or minor changes) on the engines and also, give mclaren young drivers a step up. The article mentioned no penalties for multiple parts over a race weekend too, it shouldn't have to come to this though, Honda clearly don't have a clue.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
I just donated to the Billy Monger fundraiser. Horrific accident, very sad outcome.
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Byker28i said:
Ditto, was watching the race on saturday when they had the onboard footage - he had no chance as the car in front jinked out the way to show the other car parked on the racetrack. Sad news for the 17 year old

Nice support from the F1 drivers

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/billymonger23
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Billy has recently posted on Facebook

"A huge Thank you to each and everyone of you!
Your kind words have given me and my family the strength to get through this past week.
The love and generosity of... our motorsport family, fans, and everyone that has supported me is awesome and truly inspirational.
The Marshals, Medics, Doctors, Air Ambulance and extraction crews at Donington along with all the staff at Queens Medical Centre- what can I say? Without you guys I wouldn't be here today! I will always thank you all for saving my life!
The one true hero of this tragic event has been my sister, Bonny who gave me the will to keep fighting! A value that I will continue to hold now...and for the rest of my life."
 
2017 FORMULA 1 VTB RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX


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Sochi
Lap length 5.848km (3.634 miles)
Race laps 53
Race distance 309.745km (192.467 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’40.896 (Valtteri Bottas, 2014)
Fastest lap 1’38.338 (Lewis Hamilton, 2014, qualifying three)
Maximum speed 343.1kph (213.192 mph)
DRS zone/s (race)
Distance from grid to turn one 844m
Full throttle 50%
Longest flat-out section 1073m
Downforce level Medium
Fuel use per lap 1.84kg

UK Times
Friday 28th April 2017
Russian Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 11:00-12:30 (UK time: 9:00-10:30)
Russian Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 15:00-16:30 (UK time: 13:00-14:30)
Saturday 29th April 2017
Russian Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 12:00-13:00 (UK time: 10:00-11:00)
Russian Grand Prix Qualifying: 15:00 (UK time: 13:00)
Sunday 30th April 2017
Russian Grand Prix: 15:00 (UK time: 13:00)

Previous Winners
2016 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
2015 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes

Videos

2015 Rosberg on board
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSBActKecV8


Vettel vs Kvyat 2016
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiHbHHKwco



Facts from the previous race

With two wins and a second place from the first three races of the 2017 F1 season, Sebastian Vettel has made the best start to a championship for a Ferrari driver in 13 years.

Not since Michael Schumacher swept to victory in the first three races of 2004 has Ferrari been in with this good a chance of one of its drivers taking the title after three races. Schumacher’s third win came in the first ever Bahrain Grand Prix and he went on to win the next two races as well.

Vettel notched up the 44th victory of his career and his third in Bahrain. He is now tied with Fernando Alonso as the most successful driver in this race. They have both contributed to Ferrari’s five wins at this track which is the most of any team, two more than Mercedes. This was their first since Alonso’s in 2010.

Meanwhile the driver of car 44 took the 33rd fastest lap of his career. But he was beaten to pole position by his team mate in number 77.

Valtteri Bottas became the 98th different driver to qualify on pole position. This is a slightly rarer achievement than winning a race, which 106 different drivers have done. He joins Nico Hulkenberg as the only other driver in F1 today to have started a race from pole but never won one.

The last Finnish driver to start a race from pole position was Heikki Kovalainen in the 2008 British Grand Prix. A Finn also started the previous race from pole: the 2008 French Grand Prix was Raikkonen’s last start from the sharp end.

That was Raikkonen’s 128th grand prix start. Last weekend was his 254th, so if he doesn’t take pole at Sochi or the Circuit de Catalunya he will have gone without a pole for the last half of his career.

Bottas continued his 100% record of out-qualifying his team mate in Bahrain and ended Hamilton’s run of six consecutive pole positions, which he began last year. The all-time record remains Ayrton Senna’s eight poles in a row, but Hamilton came close to beating it. Had Nico Rosberg not out-qualified him by 0.013 seconds at Suzuka last year, and Bottas by 0.023 seconds on Saturday, this would have been Hamilton’s record-breaking ninth pole in a row.

Mercedes continued their run of consecutive pole positions, reaching 18 in a row. That leaves them five short of their previous best and six behind the all-time record, set by Williams from 1992 to 1993. It was also the 30th consecutive race featuring at least one Mercedes on the front row.

For the third race running, drivers from five different teams were eliminated in Q1. None of them drove for Renault, who got both their cars into Q3 for the first time as a team since Belgium 2015 (as Lotus). The last time two Renaults appeared in Q3 was the 2011 Korean Grand Prix, when Bruno Senna and Vitaly Petrov were the team’s drivers.

Renault’s Jolyon Palmer made it into Q3 for the first time in his F1 career. However he remains one of four drivers who entered every race who haven’t out-qualified their team mate yet. The others are Raikkonen, Stoffel Vandoorne and Lance Stroll.

It’s been a tough but brief first three races for the Williams driver. Stroll has done fewer racing laps in three grands prix than Pascal Wehrlein has in one. The highest position he’s occupied in a race is 13th, but team mate Felipe Massa has run higher than that in 145 of his 169 racing laps so far.

Stroll is yet to see the chequered flag as well. The same goes for Fernando Alonso, though he was at least classified when he retired his car on Sunday. Whether his MCL32 was healthy enough to complete the final laps is another matter.

Alonso made headlines ahead of the race by announcing his plans to compete in the Indianapolis 500. He hasn’t managed 500 racing miles at the wheel of his McLaren yet: he totalled 737.551 kilometres (458.268 miles) over the first three races of the season.

Both Force Indias did reach the finish and did so in the points. Sergio Perez took his 13th points finish in a row, giving him one of the longest streaks of any driver whose never won the championship. Daniel Riccairdo’s 17 in a row ended when his car broke down in Australia. Perhaps more impressively, Carlos Reutemann managed 15 in a row back when points were only awarded down to sixth place.

Esteban Ocon took his third points finish in a row, all of which have come from tenth place. That is at least preferable to the record of another Esteban, Gutierrez, who ended last year point-less having finished eleventh five times.

Eleventh place was taken by Pascal Wehrlein as he made a successful return from injury which included out-qualifying his new Sauber team mate Marcus Ericsson by more than half a second. His race pace was not as quick as he was the only driver to run a one-stop strategy. However he demonstrated consistency by setting the same quickest time on two different laps.


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Sauber definitely with Honda engines next year and jolyon palmer says the same every weekend "it's been bad, put it behind us and start again" at least he'll have a job in f1 next year....with channel 4 haha, alonso will make up with Renault
 
It looked like the Ferrari drivers might be 'hiding' their steering wheels?

They were holding them inside the cockpit, quite awkwardly, instead on putting them on the car whilst getting out. I wonder if they have a special system that they don't want to advertise?
 
Anyone else been watching Alonso running at Indy? He's done well for a rookie.
 
All things considered I hope Billy Monger has a very happy 18th birthday today. Looks like this weekends BTCC at Thruxton will be centered around Billy woth #BillyWhizz adorning all the cars some more so than others and also around the track. Hopefully we'll be seeing him back in a race car very soon.
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2017 FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA PIRELLI


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Catalunya
Lap length 4.655km (2.892 miles)
Race laps 66
Race distance 307.104km (190.826 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’21.670 (Kimi Raikkonen, 2008)
Fastest lap 1’19.954 (Rubens Barrichello, 2009, )
Maximum speed 332kph (206.295 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and straight after Campsa
Distance from grid to turn one 730m
Full throttle 67%
Longest flat-out section 1310m
Downforce level High
Fuel use per lap 1.7kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.051s

UK Times
Friday 12th May 2017
Spanish Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 9:00-10:30)
Spanish Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 13:00-14:30)
Saturday 13th May 2017
Spanish Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 11:00-12:00 (UK time: 10:00-11:00)
Spanish Grand Prix Qualifying: 14:00 (UK time: 13:00)
Sunday 14th May 2017
Spanish Grand Prix: 14:00 (UK time: 13:00)

Previous Winners
2016 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull-TAG Heuer
2015 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2012 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault
2011 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2010 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
2009 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes
2008 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
2007 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
2006 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2005 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
2004 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2003 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2002 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2001 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2000 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes

Videos

1991 Schumacher opening lap on board on a damp track
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSBActKecV8


2005 Alonso on board
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LrEOjmf40


Facts from the previous race

Valtteri Bottas had been waiting over 2,000 days for a victory when he took his breakthrough grand prix win in Sochi.

His Russian Grand Prix triumph came 2,044 days since the last time he took the chequered flag in first place. That was in a British Formula Three race at Donington Park in 2011, where he finished ahead of fellow future F1 drivers Felipe Nasr (tenth) and Kevin Magnussen (16th). But Felipe Massa has been waiting even longer – over 3,000 days have passed since his last victory.

Appropriately Bottas shared the podium yesterday with Kimi Raikkonen. The Ferrari driver and his manager Steve Robertson set up the Double R team which Bottas scored his previous win for.

It took Bottas 81 grand prix starts to score his first victory. That’s the joint tenth-longest wait, tying him with Eddie Irvine. However it’s 30 races less than his predecessor at Mercedes took to win his first race:
Mark Webber 130, Rubens Barrichello 124, Jarno Trulli 117, Jenson Button 113, Nico Rosberg 111, Giancarlo Fisichella 110, Mika Hakkinen 96, Thierry Boutsen 95, Jean Alesi 91, Eddie Irvine 81, Valtteri Bottas 81

Bottas became the 107th different driver to win a race. He is also the fifth Finnish driver to win a race out of the nine who have started races – a remarkable strike rate. Of the other four race-winning Finns only one, Heikki Kovalainen, did not go on to win the world championship. He, of course, was also Lewis Hamilton’s team mate at the time.

It was a close finish: Bottas crossed the line just 0.617 seconds ahead of Vettel. That’s almost the same margin the last first-time winner had over second place: Max Verstappen beat Raikkonen in Spain by 0.616s last year.

Mercedes sustained their perfect record of victories in the Russian Grand Prix, having won all four races. However their run of pole positions in this event was broken by Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari. He also became the first non-Mercedes driver to lead the Russian Grand Prix, which he did for the first time on lap 27.

We’ve now gone four races without the same team winning two in a row. This hasn’t happened since the middle of 2013, when Mercedes traded victories with Red Bull.

Vettel and Raikkonen gave further indication of Ferrari’s potential in 2017 by locking out the front row of the grid. This was the team’s first since the 2008 French Grand Prix, 127 races ago. Mercedes had only been beaten to pole position once in each of the previous three seasons.

Mercedes therefore didn’t have a car on the front row for the first time since the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix. Their 30-race run of front row starts is the third-longest of all time, behind the 35 Williams managed from 1992 to 1994. Their 18-race streak of pole positions, also the third-longest of all time, ended too. Hamilton missed out on the podium for the first time in the last eight races.

However Sergio Perez did continue his streak of points finishes which is now up to 14 in a row. Esteban Ocon looked on course to take his fourth tenth place finish in a row when he qualified tenth, but slipped up in the race and finished seventh. Pérez also got his first Formula 1 record. He’s become the new holder of the record for most points without a win, with 389. Before Sochi the holder was Bottas with 449.

The top 3 drivers in the Championship are separated by 23 points – the closest after 4 races since 2012. And it’s the first time since 1995 that 2 teams have each scored 2 wins in the first 4 races of a season.

F1’s new commercial boss Sean Bratches described the weekend as “the first time the Russian Grand Prix has been turned in to a fully-fledged motorsport festival”. It seems these motorsport festivals don’t include much in the way of racing.


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PaulF said:
Good race today, well played Ferrari with the young fan too
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good race, even managed to win some on Hamilton after he dropped back and yeah, some good marketing by Ferrari, Martin Brundle wondered how many kids would be crying at Silverstone now haha, unlucky for some though, would've been a better race with bottas, kimi and max joining in. I also dont know why alonso even turns up to work
 
Its quite remarkable what they can do when the tyres let them them race Thank you bernie for the plastic tyres of the last few years
 
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jonneymendoza said:
What happened?
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In a nutshell, the young lads hero Kimi crashed out at the first corner, young lad (in Ferrari hat/shirt etc) in the grandstand is seen on TV crying his eyes out, proper inconsolable. Ferrari found him and got him and his family into the paddock to meet Kimi, where they stayed for the rest of the race and was also under the podium too.
 
Yeah, proper race and nice PR for Ferrari with the wee laddie.
 
For those of you interested in Alonso at Indy, first practice for the Indy 500 is currently live on YouTube.
 
Horrific crash for Bourdais though. Let's hope he's ok. He was by far the fastest too.
 
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