[Official] Styrian Grand Prix 2020: Grand Prix Weekend Thread - Round 2

[Knowlesy]

Bottas needs to work on his parking methinks.

[Adam43]

Boring last couple of laps.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Congrats to Lewis, looks like he's got rid of the jinx.

Another last lap dash by Norris to get 5th.

[steve nielsen]

The Mercedes seem to be to fast with only 1 driver who can follow them

going to be a boring season this way

[Taxi645]

Ricciardo: "I thought they gave them last years Mercedes..."

[bjohnsonsmith]

I didn't know those tables/stands the drivers have were remote controlled.

[Knowlesy]

The trophy robots.

Stuff like that should be debuting in Japan really.

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

The trophy robots.

I want to give the race an extra rating point now.

[Taxi645]

Originally Posted by ascarracinguk

Problem is, who would you replace him with?

Fast enough and available for 2022?:

Vettel
Hulkenberg
Perez (not likely)
Ricciardo (not likely)
Russel (not likely)

[steve nielsen]

One thing is clear: Albon can't keep up and can't support Max in the fight against the Mercedes cars

[Adam43]

Could anyone?

[Taxi645]

Originally Posted by steve nielsen

One thing is clear: Albon can't keep up and can't support Max in the fight against the Mercedes cars

If I were Red Bull next year they get a different 2nd driver and they more or less gives AlphaTauri the 2021 Red Bull car...

[steve nielsen]

Originally Posted by Adam43

Could anyone?

There are drivers who should be able to put pressure on Bottas at least if they had that car, but Alex was 30 seconds behind Bottas

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Bottas needs to work on his parking methinks.

People need to not stand in pitlane at the end of the race. There's no steering range on an F1 car at low speed and a bunch of morons were standing at the angle he needed to get in square. My first thought was the same as yours and did he drift in but he tried to move over but couldn't get over to the wall and came in steep.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by Taxi645

If I were Red Bull next year they get a different 2nd driver and they more or less gives AlphaTauri the 2021 Red Bull car...

Well who is first thing? They had to bring back a driver they fully released in Kyvat, Gasly is a no go at Red Bull since they don't think he's aggressive enough and too polite, Albon isn't fast as Max or you wouldn't need a new #2, so who are you signing? They don't seem to have an up and coming drivers, can't poach from Indy as the few eligible for SuperLicence aren't going to leave and the last driver they hired wasn't eligible. Vettel isn't really an option for the price likely required, doubtful Marko would sign him for a 4x WC cost to be #2. And consistency has not been Vettel's forte lately.

And AT is not going to be able to just get the 21 car. Hell the work Racing Point had to do to show they built from pictures and observation the 2020 car to the FIA took multiple trips. Can give them the allowed parts list as Haas and Alfa Romeo have done but that's it. And with the 2 drivers they have it's not going to be close. But closer than Ferrari's satellites by a wide margin.

[steve nielsen]

https://twitter.com/F1/status/1282365491554717699

[Knowlesy]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

People need to not stand in pitlane at the end of the race. There's no steering range on an F1 car at low speed and a bunch of morons were standing at the angle he needed to get in square. My first thought was the same as yours and did he drift in but he tried to move over but couldn't get over to the wall and came in steep.

Well he should have tooted his horn at them.

[ascarracinguk]

Originally Posted by steve nielsen

https://twitter.com/F1/status/1282365491554717699

Unsurprising but don’t know what Renault are trying to achieve. By the sounds of it Racing Point cleared their designs with the FIA long ago.

The wording of their objection makes me laugh too....I mean, most teams copy others ideas at some point

[Knowlesy]

The problem is that Tracing Point are quick and that just isn't fair on the multi-billion pound manufacturers.

[broadrun96]

Yeah, the FIA should tell the stewards that Renault can shut their face. They could see year's cars and could take out their pencils as well. Just because Racing Point is ok with using large amount of "inspiration" from last year's car doesn't mean Renault can protest. I've read multiple articles all calling it tacky and bordering on unsporting but clearly not against the regs. Every team has borrowed from others, Racing Point is just borrowing a lot from last year. And the FIA was brought in early and signed off on everything. And apparently they took things from Racing Point and Mercedes in their research, but signed off everything was kosher.

Ferrari should have borrowed heavily from last year's Ferrari, might have helped. Renault should have borrowed from everyone's cooling systems. Then maybe Ocon could have actually finished the race. And Ricciardo last week.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Renault should have borrowed from everyone's cooling systems. Then maybe Ocon could have actually finished the race. And Ricciardo last week.

Maybe they should have borrowed McLaren's cooling system?

[E.B]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Maybe they should have borrowed McLaren's cooling system?

Ooooh that hurt.

[broadrun96]

Brake ducts seized from the Racing Point cars this evening and protest accepted.

https://racer.com/2020/07/12/renault...cts-impounded/

And Mercedes has been required to produce last season's front and rear brake ducts as used on the car for the FIA.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by E.B

Ooooh that hurt.

Yes, but true. Maybe McLaren will tell them how to cool the engine next season and accidentally leave the drawings in the crate with the engine after the season.

[GT6]

It would not be F1 without all the protest