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

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

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sandman77

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Monday 11th September 2017
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Date(s): Friday 15 September - Sunday 17 September 2017

UK Broadcast Timings (and local time)

All sessions are live on Sky F1 and C4

Session Day Sky F1 Channel 4 Session Start Local Time
Practice 1 Fri 0915 0925 0930 1630
Practice 2 Fri 1315 1325 1330 2030
Practice 3 Sat 1045 1055 1100 1800
Qualifying Sat 1240 1255 1400 2100
Race Sun 1230 1235 1300 2000


MARINA BAY STREET CIRCUIT



Live timing for all sessions available here:

http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/f1-...

Weather forecast:

http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/Singapore/S...

Event timings, steward decisions, technical reports and laptimes for the weekend will appear here:

http://www.fia.com/championship/events/fia-formula...

The tyre choices:



Circuit/tyre info:







Lets hope for some action at the front of the grid at this weekends grand prix. I am hoping the Red Bulls can compete with Merc and Ferrari at this one.

Hamilton and Vettel both taking an extra set of the harder compound tyres. Can anyone shed some light on why they would do this?


Edited by sandman77 on Tuesday 12th September 10:49


Edited by sandman77 on Tuesday 12th September 12:44

Flooble

5,565 posts

99 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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Maybe Hamilton and Vettel have an eye on qualifying on the harder tyre then going long on the first stint to gain track position.

Dr Z

3,396 posts

170 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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Another explanation would be to look at the super soft compounds for Hamilton & Vettel's team mates...they have one extra of those. Basically, it's for the practice sessions. One driver will do a long run on the soft while the other will do it on the super soft and the data will be shared. No big issue, as it's a 2nd stint sim. You will also see both drivers put in a long run on a set of ultra soft (1st stint sim) as it's more important for both drivers (& the team) to have a feel for the car on heavy fuel loads to work on setup etc.

I expect this race to be a straight fight. Game on!

Vettel is normally pretty good around here.

ajprice

27,317 posts

195 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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Hulk fact. If Nico Hulkenberg finishes off the podium at Singapore, he'll take the current record from Adrian Sutil for race starts without a podium finish. Sutil and Hulk are both currently on 128 starts without a podium.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2017/9...

The Moose

22,821 posts

208 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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ajprice said:
Hulk fact. If Nico Hulkenberg finishes off the podium at Singapore, he'll take the current record from Adrian Sutil for race starts without a podium finish. Sutil and Hulk are both currently on 128 starts without a podium.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2017/9...
Probably one record Sutil won't mind loosing!

cuprabob

14,419 posts

213 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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The Moose said:
ajprice said:
Hulk fact. If Nico Hulkenberg finishes off the podium at Singapore, he'll take the current record from Adrian Sutil for race starts without a podium finish. Sutil and Hulk are both currently on 128 starts without a podium.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2017/9...
Probably one record Sutil won't mind loosing!
At least Hulk has a Le Mans win on his CV smile

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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The last Singapore GP?


tight fart

2,868 posts

272 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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Is it just me who thinks they should just be called soft, medium and hard tyres?
Sat and watched a race with a" new F1 viewer" and they thought it was like the rock comedy with the amp that went to 11.

Edited by tight fart on Monday 11th September 21:26

sandman77

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137 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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tight fart said:
Is it just me who thinks they should just be called soft, medium and hard tyres?
Sat and watched a race with a" new F1 viewer" and they thought it was like the rock comedy with the amp that went to 11.

Edited by tight fart on Monday 11th September 21:26
I know what you mean but there are more than three different compounds.

CoolHands

18,496 posts

194 months

Monday 11th September 2017
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They're on the 'Option' tyre, lol

tight fart

2,868 posts

272 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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sandman77 said:
I know what you mean but there are more than three different compounds.
I couldn't care if there are 33 compounds there are only 3 on the day. (Weekend)


hairyben

8,516 posts

182 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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tight fart said:
sandman77 said:
I know what you mean but there are more than three different compounds.
I couldn't care if there are 33 compounds there are only 3 on the day. (Weekend)
You could name the 3 you bring on the day soft,med,hard regardless of what they are but it'd mess the colour coding up, so the "hard" would be yellow one week and white the next, or you'd have to make all the tyres in multiple colours.

Current system works as every tyre can be referred to by one word, the ultras were added subsequently as originally there were 4 compounds and after super where do you go?

rdjohn

6,135 posts

194 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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sandman77 said:
I know what you mean but there are more than three different compounds.
But in reality, there are only 4 as the Hard was found to be too hard for the current cars.

tobinen

9,184 posts

144 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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I think the session start and local times are the wrong way round in the OP (thanks for kicking it off though)

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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At what point in the race weekend do teams name their drivers? I'm just curious given the Sainz/Renault rumours.

sandman77

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2,366 posts

137 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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tobinen said:
I think the session start and local times are the wrong way round in the OP (thanks for kicking it off though)
New rule - the fist person to point out a mistake has to start off the next GP thread. thumbup

All fixed now. I got the session times from F1.com but I noticed that the tv listings say the qualifying starts at 1pm.

spitfire-ian

3,829 posts

227 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Also it's live on Channel 4, not highlights.

sandman77

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Tuesday 12th September 2017
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spitfire-ian said:
Also it's live on Channel 4, not highlights.
So that's Tobinen doing Malaysia and you're doing Japan. biggrin



spitfire-ian

3,829 posts

227 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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sandman77 said:
So that's Tobinen doing Malaysia and you're doing Japan. biggrin
Or you could keep doing it until you got it right :P

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Tuesday 12th September 2017
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hairyben said:
tight fart said:
sandman77 said:
I know what you mean but there are more than three different compounds.
I couldn't care if there are 33 compounds there are only 3 on the day. (Weekend)
You could name the 3 you bring on the day soft,med,hard regardless of what they are but it'd mess the colour coding up, so the "hard" would be yellow one week and white the next, or you'd have to make all the tyres in multiple colours.

Current system works as every tyre can be referred to by one word, the ultras were added subsequently as originally there were 4 compounds and after super where do you go?
I'm of the opinion that they should be referred to as soft-medium-hard on the day, regardless of what they actually are. The colours can stay as they are and will be enough for the geeks to know which compound it is in the bigger picture. Otherwise you get someone on super-softs, but you can't remember if they're using the ultra-softs this weekend so you don't know if that's the 'soft' or 'medium' of the three they have available. Or you get the commentary (which actually happened) of 'the driver coming out on soft tyres, which are the hardest ones'. It's ridiculous.

Seriously, who comes up with a scale of five items and names them ultra-super-soft-medium-hard? Everyone knows that medium should be in the middle of the scale.