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

[angrymoby]

UK Broadcast Timings (and local time)

All sessions are live on Sky F1, with highlights of qualifying and race shown at Channel 4.

Session		Day		Sky F1		Channel 4		Session Start		Local Time
Practice 1		Fri		1545		----		1600		1000
Practice 2		Fri		1945		----		2000		1400
Practice 3		Sat		1545		----		1600		1000
Qualifying		Sat		1800		2230		1900		1300
Race		Sun		1830		2330		2000		1400

Circuit of the Americas



Live timing for all sessions available here:

http://www.formula1.com/en/championship/races/2016...


Info such as lap times, PU use, technical reports, stewards decisions etc for the weekend will appear here:

http://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-one-world-ch...


Weather forecast:

http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/United-Stat...


The tyre choices requested by the teams:



2015 Results:

https://www.formula1.com/en/championship/results/2...

Edited by angrymoby on Friday 14th October 20:54

Edited by angrymoby on Friday 14th October 20:54

[angrymoby]

Dr Z said:

You can quite clearly see Massa open up the steering as he sees Alonso beside him. Alonso simply drives into him after that...now need to see Alonso's onboard to confirm if he was trying to do something funny or if his natural trajectory took him so wide. I suspect the former.

ETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzaTUEwk0LY

Although he takes the corner normally, he does a little jink before that (which seems to be the 'standard' way of adjusting the trajectory of the car in situations like this, creating 'understeer' ). Wily old fox, seemed to have made it look right at the limit. I hate him!!

Edited by Dr Z on Monday 24th October 19:07

if you look closely you see Massa's wheel connect with the rear of Alonso's wheel & Alonso's hands turn/snap clockwise on impact ...that would've compromised his turn & corner exit somewhat

Edited by angrymoby on Monday 24th October 20:05

[angrymoby]

the problem imho isn't observing/respecting track limits by drivers ...it's the lack of info that's being given to the public from the driver briefing, where the drivers are told by Charlie where they can/can't exceed them (& this has always been a part of F1! well ever since i've been watching from the early 80's)

Why anyone would want to enforce a rigid 'stay within the whitelines, regardless' policy is beyond me, because the knock on effects will be drivers being far far more cautious & frankly, we need things to make F1 less dull not more

As to Massa/Alonso, no idea why the stewards took a look, maybe they do now when there is any form of contact, regardless? personally i thought it was more of Massa closing the door or not realising someone was next to him, rather than Alonso punting him out of the way.

& no, Rosberg shouldn't have got a penalty for the Malaysia incident either ...although the cynic in me thinks that was more about curtailing any future deliberate 'punts' as we head towards the season finale

[angrymoby]

nah, the only differences between them was Rosberg/Kimi wasn't exactly wheel to wheel (hence the damage) ...& Austin wasn't on Derek Warwick's watch

Which raises the question, why don't we have the same stewards for each race? surely it's not that hard/expensive to have the same panel at each race every 2 weeks?