Lewis has gone a bit Songs of Praise.
Lewis has gone a bit Songs of Praise.
Hamilton summoned to the stewards. This one isn't over yet.
He finished 4.5 clear of Bottas and 6.7 ahead of Kimi. I'd expect them to throw a 5 second penalty at him, unless he blags his way out of it.
Shame Vettel binned it (even though it was funny) as it would have been sweeter seeing Hamilton absolutely rinse him on the track (which was coming).
Keeps the victory as well.
Rains falling in Hungary and Ricciardo is struggling. Some guys got a lap in before the rain moved it to a full-wet track, so he's now outside the top 10 in Q2 and it looks like he wont make it in.
That's a properly good qualifying.
This needs rain tomorrow.
Bernie was onto something with his sprinkers. There isn't a track/race in the world that isn't improved by rain, or the threat of it.
In a bizarre turn of events I'd not yet seen, Force India are now in administration.
The bizarre part is, it is Sergio Perez who forced them into it. Apparently they were facing a winding up order unless a creditor put them into administration. Perez did so in order to buy time for a potential sale. It's saved about 400 jobs for now. Sky reckons there are up to 5 parties interested in buying, but I'm sure I remember this about Manor back when they were a thing.
There have been people interested in buying the team since it was clear that the owners were all on their way to prison, it's just that Mallya was holding out for a figure no-one was ever going to pay. If it's in administration then it might now be sold as a going concern.
I feel like Sauber spent a couple of years on the brink as well.
Is this the second one in a row not on 4?
4 don't get many live these days. Almost a Sky monopoly.
No rain should shake the front up pretty quickly. The Bulls and especially Ferrari should be faster than the Mercs.
Can you even pay for the F1 channel separately yet? Last time I looked into it you had to buy the full sports package before they'd let you have the F1 channel.
I have the full Sky Sports package but it's through Virgin. Sky won't let you have Sky Atlantic or Sky F1 for any package or money unless you have a Sky box.
They're well within their rights but it's not worth it any more. Every time I turn it on the same thing is on about three of the channels and some rubbish like Classic Premier League Years is guaranteed to be on another.
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That's a bit wank, but I get it.
Another Renault engine failure there.
Sweary Max.
May well be a penalty to hand out there.
Vettel was so lucky with his swipe across Bottas, even if you think Bottas is in the wrong. Giving a car with seriously worn tyres no margin for error is crazy. He makes way too many rash moves like that. His seethe when the lady interviewer told him he'd never won from outside the top 3 (really? an impressive feat) on the grid walk was probably the highlight of the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...bastian_Vettel
She's right as well. And only five of the 51 were from third.
Hamilton has won 5 times from outside the top three.
It wasn't Vettels fault but it was
It would have been better had Kimi chucked it up the inside of both of them and then rolled out his "you want me to do what?" shtick.
I'm surprised Bottas has escaped a penalty for his crash into Ricciardo. He was going to lose that spot anyway and put both in danger staying out in a wounded car.
Good to see the yearly edition of "Red Bull pissed off with Renault" has started again. Ricciardo hasn't yet re-signed with them either. Supposedly Ferrari want LeClerc or Kimi for another year though to leave Vettel as No.1. Not many other places to go after that.
EDIT: Just came up that Bottas has been awarded a 10 sec penalty. Well deserved, but changes nothing.
Last edited by Gray Fox; 29-07-2018 at 06:11 PM.
The year is 2075. F1 cars now run on grass seed, there are 400 races a year, Elvis has returned and drives a Williams, and Kimi Raikkonen has signed for another year at Ferrari so as not to show up Vettel too much in his bid for a 5th drivers' title.
I didn't see this coming:
http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/124...leave-red-bull
Perhaps he knows something we don't.
I thought Lewis was mad to join Mercedas at the time. What amazing vision that turned out to be.
Ferrari absolutely mental not to bust the bank to get him in alongside Seb, but this is why they haven't won a title for a decade.
I imagine after what happened at Red Bull, Vettel wants him nowhere near Ferrari.
Current rumour is he's ending up at Renault.
Renault already confirming Ricciardo. This has all moved very fast.
If Ferrari are letting drivers dictate company strategy then they really are fucking idiots.
Yes and no. They'd be silly to annoy the only top tier (and proven) driver available to them for the next few years.
What's he going to do, go to Mercedes? I think it's just written into the sand there that having a number one driver is the way, ever since their desperate search for relevance in the 80s and 90s culminating in Captain Wehrmacht jackbooting his way through the door in '96.
I'm bored so I decided to look into the catalog of Schumacher cheating allegations. He really is the Lance Armstrong of F1. I keep forgetting just how much suspicious shit was going down at Benneton in 1994. Launch control, traction control, fiddled fuel rigs.
From 2001 onwards he didn't need to cheat, but the first half of his career he was just a joke.
Yeah, you can't argue with the way Ferrari was formed in his image. His Mercedes run was bland but then Mercedes weren't really going to take off until Hamilton got there.
Well, until the engine rules came in.
There's an extent to which everyone was at it in the 90's (find me a Williams and I'll show you an illegal suspension system) but there are more than a few stories flying around that Benetton team, partially purple pole syndrome but things like the traction control they ran was fairly well known at the time. They kept at it too, who else remember the Renault mass damper from the mid-2000s?
Alonso is retiring from F1 at the end of the season.
He's been as good as for years anyway.
Yeah, he's got nothing left to give. Red Bull tend to promote from within and the other top drives are taken. He'll be cracking at Indy for a couple of years to complete the set and then call it.
Its Sainz who replaces Alonso. Just looking at the field, you forgot that Sergio Perez had a season at Mclaren. Poor Hulkenberg Heidfield.
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Hulk vs Ricciardo will be an interesting battle.
I've never been totally sold on Sainz but at least he isn't a ginormous twat.
Hulkenberg has already passed the point of no return in regards a big move.
He's in his 8th season now and days away from the wrong side of 30. He performs well, but beyond that pole position, hasn't really wowed.
I still look forward to seeing how he does v Ricciardo. For his sake I hope Daniel moving there is a Hamilton type foresight thing, but with no regulation changes coming yet I dont see it.
God bless Hulkenberg. 79 points finishes.
1st: 0
2nd: 0
3rd: 0
4th: 3
5th: 8
6th: 18
7th: 16
8th: 16
9th: 8
10th: 10
In the old system he'd only have scored 43 career points.
Him signing for Renault days before Rosberg retired was his last chance at a big move.
Speaking of the old system, I'm thinking of applying the 1950s points system to all of time to see what kind of alternative history comes out.
I liked it better when it was Top 6 only.
They should go full Nascar and give points to everyone who shows up.