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

[Dr Z]

NJK44 said:

https://twitter.com/f1_retro/status/75247128476483...

It's childish but I had a similar reaction to this at the weekend:




Caption competition?

Oh, my favourite shot of the weekend:



Photographer: Darren Heath.

Edited by Dr Z on Tuesday 12th July 19:38

[Dr Z]

https://vimeo.com/174607578

Onboards of some great moments in this race. Some exquisite car control on display here.

That new camera angle is a revelation. Rosberg chasing Max from that view, you can feel the vibrations and bumps through the footage...reminiscent of old school F1 onboards.

Edited by Dr Z on Friday 15th July 09:38

[Dr Z]

cgt2 said:

Thank you, fantastic video. Boy that Max has some balls for a kid! The footage of him fighting a squirming car just before taking Rosberg in the complex is incredible.

Very brave indeed, simply throwing the car into some fairly large puddles while deftly catching any slides, presumably to cool the Intermediates down from overheating. In contrast, Rosberg was resolutely sticking to the dry line, meekly going into a damp patch once or twice.

I suspect Rosberg's tyres were a lot more slick-like wearing down the water clearing treads on the Inters as I'd expect it to, if you drive on the dry line all the time. I noticed Rosberg put his front left on the damp kerb (@ 13:40 on the vid) and lost the front end briefly in the corner (as the front right was on a bone dry track) allowing Max to close up to him and overtake. Maybe if Rosberg had looked after his Inters better, he might have been able to defend better. He was so focussed on closing the gap down to Hamilton, driving flat out on the dry line. I thought it was pretty cool how Max set up that overtake. I do wonder how different it might have been if he'd been chasing Ricciardo or Hamilton.

kambites said:

Slightly odd that even after the notorious radio message, Nico seems to still be making full use of 7th gear?

There was a post earlier on in the thread that seemed to make sense of this, but yes he did seem to be using the offending gear after the chassis default message and not trying to avoid it, as you would if you were requested to shift through it.