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Australian Grand Prix 2018: Grand Prix Weekend Thread
Welcome back. New year. New chapter in F1.
1st stop Melbourne. ((Go the mighty storm!)) Home race for Dan. So let’s win it for once. Let the drama begin. Last edited by Born Racer; 23 Mar 2018 at 01:35. |
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Talking of Melbourne Storm the forecast for Saturday suggests 90% chance of rain with a possible thunderstorm in the afternoon... about qualy time!
Sunday forecast is 70% chance of rain in the late afternoon /evening. Friday is Sunny and 29C . From the Bureau of Met: Quote:
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Gosh 1 day away from the start of a new season, and we finally have 1 post regarding the Aussie GP. This forum is really on the decline isn't it?
I watched replays of the 94 and 98 Australian GPs today being played between Supercars. Good stuff, brings back memories of watching it the first time. I wondered, did Benetton ever confirm if Schumacher did break his suspension on the wall just prior to hitting Damon? It would be interesting to know. Otherwise I think he pretty much had the race under control and was keeping him at bay until the incident. It's exciting how close the cars used to be able to run to one another. 98 race; I bet DC regrets gifting Hakkinen another win. |
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So, to be fair, it is Thursday and weekend events start today. It’s sort of fair game at this point IMHO. Maybe Born Racer will be back for the next race. Richard |
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Looking forward to seeing the Born Racer thread(s) again, but in the meantime I guess we've got FAS33's starter to work with. Although I suspect that FAS33 is getting a bit excited so far, given that his beloved Dan will probably come in sixth or lower, having been beaten by silver cars, red cars and his teammate. |
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Here is a list of things I am interested in seeing. Some specific to this race, some just 2018 in general... * Ferrari has been relatively stable from a staff perspective. They seem to have done well in winter testing. What will they look like in 2018? * Second year for Bottas at Mercedes. He should be settled in. No excuses now. How will things go between him and Hamilton? * RBR was able to make Renault power work for them at times. McLaren has blamed Honda for all of their issues. So no excuses for McLaren now. Will they prove themselves right and be at the front, or will this potentially show that some of McLaren's prior issues are... McLaren issues. * What will happen with TR. New drivers should be settled in. Things seem positive with the Honda power unit. Might be exciting to watch! I sure hope so. * Haas seems to maybe have started work on 2018 car earlier and if I remember correctly they did decently well in winter testing. Will they step up this year? * It will be interesting to watch the Sirotkin vs. Stroll situation at Williams. Regardless of what happens, it will generate plenty to talk about. * Not much to say about Sauber other than can they keep themselves off the back of the grid? * Force India... will I ever grow to love their livery? * RBR, Ricciardo vs. Verstappen battle will be interesting. I would think that Verstappen should only get better at this point as he matures??? Richard |
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Can't wait...V8 Supercars with those boring F1 things as support races...
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Well it's about time it's back. Finally we'll see who's got a chance for the season ahead.
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Not a single question on if the drivers like the Halo during the drivers press conference. Strange.
It was almost like that question was not allowed to be asked. |
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Nice work Born Racer!
Showers forecast for both Saturday and Sunday in Melbourne - could make it quite a lottery. |
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Mercedes 1-2 so far......I had to knock off work at lunch time to do some paperwork at home and just happened to turn the TV on..F1 and England getting smashed at the cricket...
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Note that a new DRS zone has been added after turn 12, which adds to the previous two zones on the front straight and after turn 2.
The McLarens were very late in getting on track for FP1 today. |
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Great to see the thread has started and that Born Racer has included all that info.
I'm looking forward to the first race of the season but I just hope 2018 doesn't turn into another Mercedes whitewash. Hopefully Melbourne will throw up some surprises. |
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Been waiting for this weekend for ages!
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So the Australian boy has been done again! 3 place grid penalty. For slowing down too much??
Meanwhile, Raikkonen's block that caused Bottas to swerve out on the gravel in FP2 is deemed to be ok. No penalty. Which one of those was the more dangerous move? |
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100% agree with Ted Kravitz... Ted Kravitz: Talk about not seeing the bigger picture: The red flag was for a loose wire on the start line, not a crash, and Ricciardo wasn’t going to drive over it anyway as was coming into pits. Disproportionate 3 place grid penalty that could take home driver out of contention for race win. |
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Webber never got closer than his 5th place Minardi AGP debut. Actually that is wrong, he did once get a 4th I think. Our Aussie WDCs preceded the championship status of the event.(Unless you include Jones in the Beatrice in the first Championship race) |
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'Ricciardo "admitted an error in reading his dash and was slightly below the minimum time".' |
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2012 - 9th. 2013 - DNF (no fault of his). 2014 (2nd but DQ'd. No fault of his). 2015 - 6th. 2016 - 4th. 2017 - DNF (no fault of his). He was hoping for a better luck this year. |
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It shouldn't matter where or how it happened - if it broke the rules it broke the rules. If a Red Flag is issued, I don't think we should be bringing in extra checks for a driver over 'how bad is it?', 'where did it happen?', 'what is the flag for?' etc. All the driver(s) need to know is that there is a Red Flag, and they have certain requirements they have to follow in response. The stewards took the circumstances into consideration, and were lenient in the punishment issued. I'm not sure why the incident being in FP, Q or R should make a difference? Or even whether they are a home driver or not? |
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