The Official 2016 British Grand Prix Thread **Spoilers**

[swisstoni]

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[TheInternet]

Vaud said:

Never understood booing. Belongs at low grade, tribal sports like football. Sad really.

As a rule I'd agree, but in exceptional cases where seriously unsporting behaviour has occurred I think it's justified. Rosberg is nowhere near that.

[Vaud]

TheInternet said:

Vaud said:

Never understood booing. Belongs at low grade, tribal sports like football. Sad really.

As a rule I'd agree, but in exceptional cases where seriously unsporting behaviour has occurred I think it's justified. Rosberg is nowhere near that.

I think complete silence would be more powerful than booing in the case of unsporting behaviour, but that's the passive-aggressive in me.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Ted and Johnny having a bit of a geek-out over the Sauber brake assembly there.

(FP2 on Sky F1)

[Dr Z]

A question to those trackside...how are the cars sounding in comparison to 2014/2015? Louder?

[Munter]

When did we go to black and white kerbs? Not a problem but I'm sure they used to be blue and white.

[hairyben]

Are teams obliged to include all 3 compounds?

I cant see the point in having 1 tyre of a type - if you run it practice to get any meaningfull data you'd have no usably fresh ones for the race

Dr Z said:

[hairyben]

Munter said:

When did we go to black and white kerbs? Not a problem but I'm sure they used to be blue and white.

They couldnt afford a colour licence off bernie

[Dr Z]

hairyben said:

Are teams obliged to include all 3 compounds?

I cant see the point in having 1 tyre of a type - if you run it practice to get any meaningfull data you'd have no usably fresh ones for the race

Dr Z said:

Teams who have only one set of a tyre type will use it as a back up in the race in case something goes horribly wrong with their preferred strategy...but these 1 tyre sets is more to do with the curious rule of specifying two of the harder tyres as mandatory rather than of 'use two of the three available compounds' as discussed earlier in the thread.

Edited by Dr Z on Friday 8th July 14:56

[Crafty_]

hairyben said:

Munter said:

When did we go to black and white kerbs? Not a problem but I'm sure they used to be blue and white.

They couldnt afford a colour licence off bernie

Brundle suggested its due to a track sponsor..

[hairyben]

Crafty_ said:

hairyben said:

Munter said:

When did we go to black and white kerbs? Not a problem but I'm sure they used to be blue and white.

They couldnt afford a colour licence off bernie

Brundle suggested its due to a track sponsor..

Thats would be sad if true, looking how many circuits use flag colours for kerbing. Still speculative right now though, no-one seems to know for sure.

When they were wondering if it were green I thought BRG would be lovely and fit well if jag buy the circuit

[Dr Z]

Both Red Bulls putting in lap times as fast as Hamilton on the Soft tyres... encouraging pace from Red Bull.

[Munter]

Crafty_ said:

hairyben said:

Munter said:

When did we go to black and white kerbs? Not a problem but I'm sure they used to be blue and white.

They couldnt afford a colour licence off bernie

Brundle suggested its due to a track sponsor..

I just saw the bridge all black and with Johnie Walker on it and thought it might be that.
(Nipping in and out of C4 online coverage between meetings)

[anonymous-user]

Just watching the end of FP2, anyone know what has happened to Rosberg? Doesn't appear to have taken part in FP2.

[Dr Z]

Skodasupercar said:

Just watching the end of FP2, anyone know what has happened to Rosberg? Doesn't appear to have taken part in FP2.

Punishment for running the No. 1 off track/crashing last race.

[anonymous-user]

Lol, I did wonder if he had been 'sin-binned' or been put in detention.

[Dr Z]

Skodasupercar said:

Lol, I did wonder if he had been 'sin-binned' or been put in detention.

...He's had some PU problems/leak that put him out of the session.

[HustleRussell]

Skodasupercar said:

Lol, I did wonder if he had been 'sin-binned' or been put in detention.

/Sniffpetrol

[Dr Z]

FP2 Tyre usage:

[EnglishTony]

When was the last time a McLaren was only 4 tenths down on a fully functioning Ferrari and just 1 sec off 2nd?