Official 2020 Eifel Grand Prix Thread **SPOILERS**

[Sandpit Steve]

chml said:

Just noticed the timer is counting down, does this mean if no running in the next hour that the session ends as per the time?

Yep, they just put that on the screen after Michael Masi said the clock was running. The session ends an hour from now, irrespective of the weather and any running.

Not looking good for Ilott and Schumacher.

[ajprice]

Vettel's helmet has Schumacher's 2006 helmet as a 3D design on it https://wtf1.com/post/vettels-nurburgring-helmet-i...

[TheDeuce]

Sandpit Steve said:

This weather’s not getting better, is it?

I’d bet on this session getting binned.

It's just getting worse so far as I can make out. Waste of time...

At least Croft has nothing to get over excited about.

[TheDeuce]

miniwill58 said:

Anyone know of a (fairly) reliable forecast for the weekend?

Some rain might spice things up nicely...or delay things like today.

Better tomorrow than today, should be able to run with risk of some rain but apparently mostly clear skies.

Sunday looks a bit like today...

[chml]

Sandpit Steve said:

Yep, they just put that on the screen after Michael Masi said the clock was running. The session ends an hour from now, irrespective of the weather and any running.

Not looking good for Ilott and Schumacher.

Cheers, I missed the bit with Masi so wasn’t sure about that. Doesn’t look good at all, and even 30 mins isn’t going to give them much running. Shame for those guys in particular.

[Sandpit Steve]

Further update on the hour, and 10 mins notice required of a session start, means no more than 20 mins of running possible for Q1.

Looks like safety beats running this morning, whoever thought that a Grand Prix in the German mountains in October was going to be unaffected by the weather? Ho hum.

[vaud]

Sandpit Steve said:

whoever thought that a Grand Prix in the German mountains in October was going to be unaffected by the weather? Ho hum.

I think everyone thought it was a risk, but one worth taking?

[TheDeuce]

vaud said:

Sandpit Steve said:

whoever thought that a Grand Prix in the German mountains in October was going to be unaffected by the weather? Ho hum.

I think everyone thought it was a risk, but one worth taking?

Liberty need to provide live F1 coverage for the TV rights sold. I guess they tick that box regardless of whether (weather..) running is actually possible.

[snotrag]

Landoooo and GR are being very amusing on their respective social media feeds currently, as they are doing a fair bit of just mooching about right now!

[Sandpit Steve]

TheDeuce said:

vaud said:

Sandpit Steve said:

whoever thought that a Grand Prix in the German mountains in October was going to be unaffected by the weather? Ho hum.

I think everyone thought it was a risk, but one worth taking?

Liberty need to provide live F1 coverage for the TV rights sold. I guess they tick that box regardless of whether (weather..) running is actually possible.

Ha, cynical but true!

To be fair, everyone involved has moved mountains to get the season off in the middle of a global pandemic, pretty much the only touring sport to do so. Shame they can’t move the mountains between the circuit today and the hospital!

Visibility getting noticeably worse now, let’s all come back in three hours for P2.

[TheDeuce]

Sandpit Steve said:

Ha, cynical but true!

To be fair, everyone involved has moved mountains to get the season off in the middle of a global pandemic, pretty much the only touring sport to do so. Shame they can’t move the mountains between the circuit today and the hospital!

Visibility getting noticeably worse now, let’s all come back in three hours for P2.

The weather forecast is pretty much the same for FP2

Anyone know if it's technically possible to make a last minute driver swap? IE could the F2 drivers be given 20 minutes of FP2? I know the teams probably wouldn't want to lose their main drivers any more practice time but just wondering..?

[Sandpit Steve]

Session officially off.

[Adrian W]

Herbert being super slippery when DiResta asked him about CLC

[Badgerboy]

Clearly the TV 'copter cares little for the weather!

[Jasandjules]

Adrian W said:

Herbert being super slippery when DiResta asked him about CLC

Yup. Tragic, I thought he was a really top bloke but that has really dented my view of him. Are you past the line or not?!?! I mean come on.

[Sandpit Steve]

TheDeuce said:

The weather forecast is pretty much the same for FP2

Anyone know if it's technically possible to make a last minute driver swap? IE could the F2 drivers be given 20 minutes of FP2? I know the teams probably wouldn't want to lose their main drivers any more practice time but just wondering..?

Gutted for Mick and Callum.

The regulation does talk about FP1 session for the ‘guest’ drivers, maybe it’s possible for them to run the F2 drivers in P2 if all the teams agree to it.

The other questions would be, do the concerned teams prefer to run their race drivers, and how long would it take to reconfigure the car setup for someone different?

[paulguitar]

Jasandjules said:

Adrian W said:

Herbert being super slippery when DiResta asked him about CLC

Yup. Tragic, I thought he was a really top bloke but that has really dented my view of him. Are you past the line or not?!?! I mean come on.

I wasn't watching, what was this about?

[AJB88]

Guest's not allowed in FP2 apparently so thats the end of that.

[Sandpit Steve]

Jasandjules said:

Adrian W said:

Herbert being super slippery when DiResta asked him about CLC

Yup. Tragic, I thought he was a really top bloke but that has really dented my view of him. Are you past the line or not?!?! I mean come on.

To be fair to Herbert, the stewards at Spa weren’t asked to adjudicate on a practice start out of position, they were asked to adjudicate on CLC’s out lap taking too long. They saw that he stopped a little too far forward for the practice start, which triggered the timing beam at safety car line 2 and led to the timed lap being too long. That regulation was in place to stop drivers going slowly on the circuit and being dangerous mobile chicanes, the stewards could see he wasn’t doing that, so let it go.

That’s not to say the instructions in Russia weren’t ambiguous, because they definitely were.

[Adrian W]

paulguitar said:

Jasandjules said:

Adrian W said:

Herbert being super slippery when DiResta asked him about CLC

Yup. Tragic, I thought he was a really top bloke but that has really dented my view of him. Are you past the line or not?!?! I mean come on.

I wasn't watching, what was this about?

DR aske Herbert why CLC didn't get a penalty for effectively the same infringement as Hamilton when he was the driver steward at Spa, Herbert's reply was that CLC didn't get called in for that.