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2020 Formula 1 Season Thread
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Mugello looks really cool! Fantastic scenery, drivers love it, tyres taking a beating. Q1 here we go!
Another pole for Lewis. Disappointing for Bottas that the yellow flag wrecked his final lap, could easily have got pole with nothing between the 2 Mercedes.
Bottas does seem to "get" the track a bit better than Lewis so if both have a clean start, Bottas might be able to take the lead and keep it. Also nice to see the RBRs closer so might be a decent fight at the front this time, as well as the usual mid-pack battle.
Let’s hope the race is as unpredictable as last week. After all I think we all though Monza was going to be a Mercedes 1-2 followed by Max. Who knows!
Bottas is on the dirty side of the track, and with Leclerc in the slipstream of Hamilton and Verstappen, watch out for a flat Ferrari trying to mix it in the first corner. Albon will also want to try and keep up there, so as to mix up the Mercedes and the subsequent procession. Button on commentary felt there is plenty of spots to overtake, with it being a wide circuit and a long tow down to turn 1. With turns 6,7,8 and 9 able to be taken flat, with speeds around 190mph, watch out for some 'sticky' moments.
Tyre degradation, and the sweeping fast corners combined with a hot day in Tuscany will make for quite the race. The other aspect is the unknown of this circuit, with no previous data from years gone by, the teams are blind as to how to play it. One stop? Two? Maybe even 3? And how many safety cars?
Agreed. Then if you pit under a SC rather than just before, you get a huge advantage. But like last week, not always!
| 1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | MERCEDES | 1:15.778 | 1:15.309 | 1:15.144 | 14 |
| 2 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | MERCEDES | 1:15.749 | 1:15.322 | 1:15.203 | 11 |
| 3 | 33 | Max Verstappen | RED BULL RACING HONDA | 1:16.335 | 1:15.471 | 1:15.509 | 12 |
| 4 | 23 | Alexander Albon | RED BULL RACING HONDA | 1:16.527 | 1:15.914 | 1:15.954 | 14 |
| 5 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | FERRARI | 1:16.698 | 1:16.324 | 1:16.270 | 18 |
| 6 | 11 | Sergio Perez | RACING POINT BWT MERCEDES | 1:16.596 | 1:16.489 | 1:16.311 | 16 |
| 7 | 18 | Lance Stroll | RACING POINT BWT MERCEDES | 1:16.701 | 1:16.271 | 1:16.356 | 14 |
| 8 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | RENAULT | 1:16.981 | 1:16.243 | 1:16.543 | 14 |
| 9 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | MCLAREN RENAULT | 1:16.993 | 1:16.522 | 1:17.870 | 17 |
| 10 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | RENAULT | 1:16.825 | 1:16.297 | DNF | 14 |
| 11 | 4 | Lando Norris | MCLAREN RENAULT | 1:16.895 | 1:16.640 | 12 | |
| 12 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | ALPHATAURI HONDA | 1:16.928 | 1:16.854 | 11 | |
| 13 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI | 1:17.059 | 1:16.854 | 12 | |
| 14 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | FERRARI | 1:17.072 | 1:16.858 | 12 | |
| 15 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | HAAS FERRARI | 1:17.069 | 1:17.254 | 12 | |
| 16 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | ALPHATAURI HONDA | 1:17.125 | 6 | ||
| 17 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI | 1:17.220 | 6 | ||
| 18 | 63 | George Russell | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1:17.232 | 9 | ||
| 19 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1:17.320 | 9 | ||
| 20 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | HAAS FERRARI | 1:17.348 | 6 |
Exciting start to the race! First lap safety car, and a red flag on the restart! I love Mugello so far 
Unless a safety car works against him, be hard to see past a Bottas win. Nailed his start and he knows he's the fastest around this track.
I know the 2 Mercedes are out in front by some distance, but it's still been a decent race. Starting 2nd seems to be better than 1st on this track, whoever is in 1st place after the first corner will surely win it.
Cool to see Mick Schumacher take his fathers Ferrari around Mugello. It’s rather weird seeing this car referred to as being retro when to me it wasn’t that long ago.
Merely seeing the photo of Mick Schumacher, with a mask on, and boy does he have his Dad's eyes. Flipping heck.
In other news, I would love to interview an F1 driver, and ask them, as they are chasing another driver on track, how do they remain focused on the track\racing line, and not get caught up in merely being right behind the person they are chasing...
In other news, I would love to interview an F1 driver, and ask them, as they are chasing another driver on track, how do they remain focused on the track\racing line, and not get caught up in merely being right behind the person they are chasing...
An eventful race.
A great track. Unfortunately DRS just made it too easy for passing. With that head wind the speed differential for the car behind was too great and made passing too easy.
Good result for Alban. First podium.
But just 13 finishers. It was a great result for carbon fibre manufacturers today. Plenty of bits to rebuild!
A great track. Unfortunately DRS just made it too easy for passing. With that head wind the speed differential for the car behind was too great and made passing too easy.
Good result for Alban. First podium.
But just 13 finishers. It was a great result for carbon fibre manufacturers today. Plenty of bits to rebuild!
Jesus what a shambles of a race. I don't watch live so my recording cut off with three laps left so just checked Wikipedia to see who finished off the podium (since it was clear Lewis was going to win and Bottas would be second).
Lucky there were so many crashes so Ferrari could finish in the points. Four seconds a lap slower than Mercedes at the first restart. Aiya.
With the new points system, Lewis can't match Michael's 2001 record of clinching the WDC in 11 of 17 rounds, but he should have it in hand by Imola or Turkey I would think.
Lucky there were so many crashes so Ferrari could finish in the points. Four seconds a lap slower than Mercedes at the first restart. Aiya.
With the new points system, Lewis can't match Michael's 2001 record of clinching the WDC in 11 of 17 rounds, but he should have it in hand by Imola or Turkey I would think.
Hamilton's pass of Bottas after the second restart was simply the finest piece of driving I've seen all year. It's the reason Lewis Hamilton is the Champion that he is.
And he didn't even make the top 3 in Sky Sports "Driver of the Day" poll. Pffffttt....
And he didn't even make the top 3 in Sky Sports "Driver of the Day" poll. Pffffttt....
I generally agree with Lewis, but he was wide of the mark twice this weekend.
The SC lights had nothing to do with the accident. The SC had nothing to do with trying to make it exciting - it was to create a gap in traffic for tractors to cross the circuit safely.
The accident was caused by the rear half of the grid being irresponsible, hanging back and accelerating early, assuming Bottas had, to get a jump.
The SC lights had nothing to do with the accident. The SC had nothing to do with trying to make it exciting - it was to create a gap in traffic for tractors to cross the circuit safely.
The accident was caused by the rear half of the grid being irresponsible, hanging back and accelerating early, assuming Bottas had, to get a jump.
But Albon's Red Bull is a superior car to Ricciardo's Renault. And Albon, passing a rival team's driver for third, had a lot less at stake than Championship Leader Hamilton passing his teammate for the lead. If Lewis had messed up and touched wheels with Bottas he'd have taken out his entire team's championship points. Hamilton's move on Bottas was a) incredibly gutsy and b) perfectly executed.
I know the "Driver of The Day" poll loves to reward the scrappy underdogs. But, IMHO, they tend to undervalue Lewis' achievements.
On to Sochi!