The Official 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Thread **Spoilers**

[anonymous-user]

corozin said:

I hope that Liberty Media are going to move quickly to fix what is a bloody great mess of rules. McLaren are already struggling to keep Alonso interested in the sport and humiliating him with pointless comedy penalties cannot be good for the sport. The guy has three world championships to his name FFS.

He wishes.

[The Moose]

jsf said:

corozin said:

I hope that Liberty Media are going to move quickly to fix what is a bloody great mess of rules. McLaren are already struggling to keep Alonso interested in the sport and humiliating him with pointless comedy penalties cannot be good for the sport. The guy has three world championships to his name FFS.

He wishes.

2, no?!

[wevster]

I wonder how Ferrari will get Vettel ahead of Raik?

[PhillipM]

wevster said:

I wonder how Ferrari will get Vettel ahead of Raik?

Screw his biting point setups tommorow so he bogs down, sorted.

[Z3MCJez]

PhillipM said:

Screw his biting point setups tommorow so he bogs down, sorted.

They won't do that as they'd rather he got in front of Bottas. And Hamilton.

But they will swap them somewhere. TBH it's easy to do that, as Vettel is quicker over the race distance. Split the pit stops by a few laps and ... sorted.

Jez

[MikeyC]

wevster said:

I wonder how Ferrari will get Vettel ahead of Raik?

VET will get by by great driving - he hasn't needed his teammates help so far

[Adrian W]

Stupid track layout, let's hope the F1 race doesn't end up in a mess like the F2 race,

[hairyben]

Adrian W said:

Stupid track layout, let's hope the F1 race doesn't end up in a mess like the F2 race,

That was a study in interpretative freestyle clusterfk wasnt it? Was allways gonna be a red flag.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Adrian W said:

Stupid track layout, let's hope the F1 race doesn't end up in a mess like the F2 race,

But what else could they do? The track had to follow all the quaint narrow streets of a city that has been there for hundreds of years.

Oh... wait.

[lee_fr200]

I hope there is a few crashes makes it abit more entertaining

[Blayney]

I think it's almost guaranteed judging on all the practice sessions and quali.

Someone is going to tap a wall at least. Surely? If not, I'm sure a McLaren will manage to breakdown right in that tight section.

[Bristol spark]

F2 race 2 looking punchy!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Bristol spark said:

F2 race 2 looking punchy!

Really pleased for Leclerc after this week.

[Crafty_]

Rowland's penalty yesterday was bullst though, slowed by 7 tenths for yellow flags and got a penalty for it.

Today's failure didn't help either - that would have been a podium.

LeClerc is the real deal, Haas next year I reckon.

[Vaud]

Crafty_ said:

Rowland's penalty yesterday was bullst though, slowed by 7 tenths for yellow flags and got a penalty for it.

Today's failure didn't help either - that would have been a podium.

LeClerc is the real deal, Haas next year I reckon.

7/10ths isnt really backing off...

[Crafty_]

Speed wasn't the issue.

The reason was apparently that it was faster than other laps - traffic etc. Stewards acknowledged that he had slowed down for the flags, but needed to go slower still. How much ? who knows... typical vague stewarding we've come to expect I'm afraid.

[hunter 66]

Believe Stroll had a day with Rob Wilson ...... F1 driver coach last week ........ looks great .... seems to have had benefit

[Doink]

Brundle just confirmed that Ferrari have had to remove SOMETHING from their car but stopped short of saying it was an auxiliary oil tank that it was rumoured they were using

[suffolk009]

Johnnie Herbert's lap analysis really is as good as useless. "Here he turns left... this straight is flat out..."

[hairyben]

Doink said:

Brundle just confirmed that Ferrari have had to remove SOMETHING from their car but stopped short of saying it was an auxiliary oil tank that it was rumoured they were using

Would that have allowed them to circumvent the fuel flow rate?