Official 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix **SPOILERS**

Official 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix **SPOILERS**

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Piginapoke

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4,736 posts

184 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Round 13 and Imola, a proper F1 circuit, even if it’s not quite the same as it used to be. Probably the most interesting thing will be the new 2-day timetable; there seems to be some possibility of this being adopted if successful.

Hamilton will win I imagine.

Here’s Schumacher’s 2008 Ferrari on the circuit (lovely sound): https://youtu.be/4xloq_seJaE

Date(s): Saturday 31 October 2020 - Sunday 2 November 2020

UK Broadcast Timings (and local time)

All sessions are live on Sky F1; Channel 4 showing highlights of Race and Qualifying:





Live timing for all sessions available here:

https://www.formula1.com/en/f1-live.html

Lap times, PU component use, technical reports and Stewards' decisions for the weekend will appear here:

https://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-one-world-c...

Weather forecast:
https://weather.com/en-GB/weather/today/l/44.36,11...

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2019 Race Result:

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2019 race highlights:

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anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Thanks for that. Pedant corner- do you mean the 2008 Ferrari is owned by Schumacher?

Piginapoke

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4,736 posts

184 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
Thanks for that. Pedant corner- do you mean the 2008 Ferrari is owned by Schumacher?
Good pedanting! It's his 2008 F1 car but I don't know who owns it now.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Piginapoke said:
Good pedanting! It's his 2008 F1 car but I don't know who owns it now.
Who was Schumacher driving for in 2008? wink

Piginapoke

Original Poster:

4,736 posts

184 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
Who was Schumacher driving for in 2008? wink
Doh!

NAS

2,543 posts

230 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
Who was Schumacher driving for in 2008? wink
Honda smile


ch37

10,642 posts

220 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Piginapoke said:
Probably the most interesting thing will be the new 2-day timetable; there seems to be some possibility of this being adopted if successful.
I wonder if busy circuits like Silverstone would be happy to lose an entire days income from moving to a 2 day format?

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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ch37 said:
Piginapoke said:
Probably the most interesting thing will be the new 2-day timetable; there seems to be some possibility of this being adopted if successful.
I wonder if busy circuits like Silverstone would be happy to lose an entire days income from moving to a 2 day format?
I think there is a case for a big three day festival for the proper historic Grand Prix, those that attract the festival type crowds. So your Silvertsone, Monza, Spa etc probably even COTA and some others can do the whole 3 day event.

Liberty could do with making more of it anyway, the fan zone should be massively extended with driver interviews, live music/dj sets and all the rest of it.

I wonder if there's some contractual agreements in place, you'd imagine there is?

If, as expected, Covid-19 is still very much with us next season there is more reason than ever to move it along to two days. It must create some issues with a full roster of races however with F1, F2, F3 and Supercup if there's inclimate weather.

Sandpit Steve

9,885 posts

73 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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ch37 said:
Piginapoke said:
Probably the most interesting thing will be the new 2-day timetable; there seems to be some possibility of this being adopted if successful.
I wonder if busy circuits like Silverstone would be happy to lose an entire days income from moving to a 2 day format?
You definitely couldn’t do it everywhere, a lot of the traditional tracks have a full three-day meeting, some even running events on Thursday to get crowds in early.

It works this year when there’s limited crowds, only a couple of support races and the need to get as many races as possible into a short timescale. If ever there was a year to experiment with things, this year is probably the time to do it.

It should also add uncertainty, as the teams will go into qualifying with a lot less data than they’d usually have. The grid order is probably still going start with cars 44, 77 and 33, but there’s a bigger chance of something unusual.

Piginapoke

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4,736 posts

184 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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For all the commercial advantages of Friday gate receipts, P1 and P2 do seem a bit pointless now.

Once GPs above 22 per year, a shorter weekend looks an obvious move I think. I wouldn't mind it.

covboy

2,573 posts

173 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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I might assume that circuits/organisers would pay less to F1 for 2 days rather than 3 Or am I not living in a real world ? smile

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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covboy said:
I might assume that circuits/organisers would pay less to F1 for 2 days rather than 3 Or am I not living in a real world ? smile
I think there's a real case for the three day events, especially for the promoters. Is it really that hard getting all the equipment from one European country to another in a couple of days?

The back to backs take some organisation obviously but it's not like they can't do it.

The boost to tourism of a three day F1 weekend can't be underestimated, whenever I've done European races we always get there for Fridays and it's genuinely busy.

Norfolkit

2,394 posts

189 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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LaurasOtherHalf said:
ch37 said:
Piginapoke said:
Probably the most interesting thing will be the new 2-day timetable; there seems to be some possibility of this being adopted if successful.
I wonder if busy circuits like Silverstone would be happy to lose an entire days income from moving to a 2 day format?
I think there is a case for a big three day festival for the proper historic Grand Prix, those that attract the festival type crowds. So your Silvertsone, Monza, Spa etc probably even COTA and some others can do the whole 3 day event.

Liberty could do with making more of it anyway, the fan zone should be massively extended with driver interviews, live music/dj sets and all the rest of it.

I wonder if there's some contractual agreements in place, you'd imagine there is?

If, as expected, Covid-19 is still very much with us next season there is more reason than ever to move it along to two days. It must create some issues with a full roster of races however with F1, F2, F3 and Supercup if there's inclimate weather.
I don't see how you could fit in all of the practice/quali/race sessions (F1/F2/F3/Porsche) in over a 2 day weekend, not sure even if they dropped Porsche you could do it. For me I like the current format, nice to be able get around dfifferent parts of the circuit on Friday. Plus if they're reducing the length of the weekend the ticket prices are going to look even more expensive, bad enough now.

geeks

9,121 posts

138 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Aegir said:
Apart from Raikkonen, have any of the current drivers raced there?
Nope

Murghee

1,985 posts

61 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Anyone watch teds notebook after portugal racw?

Always find it refreshing to watch. After the drama and emotions of the race, its nice to see the normal world.

People putting things away, walking dogs, just chilling.

Was better before covid as you see people sitting together talking and have a good time. Wish i worked in f1 even any job would be cool.

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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geeks said:
Aegir said:
Apart from Raikkonen, have any of the current drivers raced there?
Nope
Hamilton did in GP2 ...

Stroll, Russell and presumably others in F3 as well

Appreciate you may have meant F1 only!

geeks

9,121 posts

138 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Mark-C said:
geeks said:
Aegir said:
Apart from Raikkonen, have any of the current drivers raced there?
Nope
Hamilton did in GP2 ...

Stroll, Russell and presumably others in F3 as well

Appreciate you may have meant F1 only!
Yeah you are quite correct, I did indeed mean in F1

Sandpit Steve

9,885 posts

73 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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The last Imola race was 2006. Of the current F1 drivers, only Kimi was in that race, Lewis was in the F2 support races. Vettel was a Sauber test driver in 2006, but not at this event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Formula_One_W...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino_Grand_P...

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Anyone know how many , unless it's changed again , spectators will be here ?

I saw tickets on sale a few weeks ago ,also at way more sensible prices than Mugello were .

I hope they have tidied some of the bleachers up ,this time last year some of them were over grown with weeds .

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Monday 26th October 2020
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Would there be anything to stop a circuit tacking on a day before a two-day Grand Prix event? Given the age demographic, classic races might draw in more than FP1 and FP2 do currently.