F1 2017 season

A Ex F1 driver driving a Honda won the Indy 500 (Takumo Sato )
 
He knows how to pick them does our Alonso
 
First time watching Indy and I was impressed. A real shame for Alonso tho.
 
The Indy 500, as usual, was a brilliant race. As for Alonso, what an awesome job he did. Showed his lack of experience on some of the restarts, but he was so impressive. How anyone can not be enthralled by the speed and closeness of racing on a superspeeday I will never understand. There are only 2 super speedways on the IndyCar schedule and I wish they'd bring some of the great tracks back (Fontana & Michigan) to replace the current ovals being used.
Really pleased for Sato, and relieved that Scott Dixon survived such a massive accident.
 
Enjoyed the race, watched a fair bit of Indy Car and sometimes it can be hit or miss as to how exciting it is but we all tune in for the crashes... don't we?
After seeing that I wouldn't be all that surprised if Alonso quits F1 and moves fulltime to Indy next year, he would probably be able to name his price and might actually win something, obviously if he's offered a decent F1 seat I'm sure he'd take that (Ferrari, Mercedes or Red Bull) but I think thats relativity unlikely.
 
25 races? Given the standard of facilities they expect these days (exactly one circuit in the UK meets them) and the size of the inscription fee to get on the calendar (Monaco excepted, they pay nothing), I wonder that there are 25 tracks in the world that could host a GP, especially given that Silverstone struggles with the finances and the place is packed for the whole weekend.

Still would be good to have a second Oz GP. At Bathurst :D
 
Nod said:
A direct quote from the article linked to above. How reputable is a site that can't get a date correct? Not saying that the rest of the story's wrong, just wondering how many stories are clickbait.
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I have seen similar articles on other sites, could be copy and paste but it does look like its gaining its own momentum
 
My problem isn't with this story, just the fact that the site's writers and proof-readers think that the Canadian GP was last month rather than next weekend...
 
Nod said:
My problem isn't with this story, just the fact that the site's writers and proof-readers think that the Canadian GP was last month rather than next weekend...
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They have proof readers ????
 
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2017 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA


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Catalunya
Lap length 4.361km (2.71 miles)
Race laps 70
Race distance 305.27km (189.686 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’13.622 (Rubens Barrichello, 2004)
Fastest lap 1’12.275 (Ralf Schumacher, 2004, qualifying two)
Maximum speed 309kph (192.004 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and back straight
Distance from grid to turn one 280m
Full throttle 59%
Longest flat-out section 1190m
Downforce level Medium
Gear changes per lap 50
Fuel use per lap 1.5kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.03s
Pit lane time loss 17.9s

UK Times
Friday 9th June 2017
Canadian Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 15:00-16:30)
Canadian Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 19:00-20:30)
Saturday 10th June 2017
Canadian Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 10:00-11:00 (UK time: 15:00-16:00)
Canadian Grand Prix Qualifying: 13:00 (UK time: 18:00)
Sunday 11th June 2017
Canadian Grand Prix: 14:00 (UK time: 19:00)

Previous Winners
2016 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2015 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2014 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2011 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
2010 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2009 Not held
2008 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber
2007 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2006 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2005 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
2004 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2003 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2002 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2001 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW
2000 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari

Videos

Trulli 2003 wet on board
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSwtdyc7Z0


Schumacher 1992 on board
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ422Rc26Zw



Facts from the previous race

Ferrari ended a 16-year losing streak in Monaco. With his 45th career victory, Sebastian Vettel took another step towards emulating his hero Michael Schumacher by becoming the team’s latest champion.

Fittingly, 20 years ago it was Schumacher who ended a 16-year win-less streak for Ferrari in the Principality. His 1997 win was their first since Gilles Villeneuve did the honours in 1981.

It was a weekend for streaks coming to a close. Kimi Raikkonen took his 16th career pole position having waited almost nine years since his last one in the 2008 French Grand Prix.

He’d gone 3,262 days without starting from the front. On that day he also lost the win to his team mate who started alongside him on the front row – on that occasion it was due to an exhaust problem on his car.

Raikkonen broke the record for the longest gap between pole positions. Mario Andretti waited 2,940 days between his pole positions at Watkins Glen in 1968 and Fuji in 1976. That was a gap of 108 races, a wait which Giancarlo Fisichella equalled between his pole positions at the A1 Ring in 1998 and Melbourne in 2005. But Raikkonen’s 129-race wait – more than half the length of his career to date – beat both of them.

For the first time in 21 races there was no Mercedes driver on the podium. Their last run of podium finishes began in Monaco last year, one race after Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg took each other out on the first lap of the Spanish Grand Prix.

Another streak which ended was Sergio Perez’s 15 consecutive points finishes – his personal best. Team mate Esteban Ocon also failed to score for the first time this year. It was Force India’s first no-score since last year’s Austrian Grand Prix, when both cars retired.

A consolation for Perez was that he set a new fastest race lap for this configuration of the Monaco layout. But his 1’14.820 was a few tenths off Schumacher’s 1’14.439, set during the 2004 race. Raikkonen’s pole position time was a new outright course record.

It was Ferrari’s first pole position in Monaco since Felipe Massa’s in 2008. But Vettel’s victory means the last three Monaco Grands Prix have all been won by someone other than the pole sitter.

Vettel has now finished all of the first six races inside the top two places. The last driver to do this was Nico Rosberg in 2014 – in fact he made it to eight races, but wasn’t able to win the title that year.

Fernando Alonso’s absence opened the door for Jenson Button to return and start his 306th grand prix. He has now started as many races as Schumacher and only Rubens Barrichello, on 322, has amassed more starts.

During his sojourn to the States Alonso led a race for the first time since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix. He spent 27 laps in the lead, the third-highest of any driver in the race. Max Chilton led 50 (one-quarter of the race distance) and finished fourth while Alonso’s team mate Ryan Hunter-Reay led 28 before also retiring with a Honda engine failure. Race winner Takuma Sato led 17 laps and set the fastest lap, averaging 364.018kph (226.190mph).

Alonso’s absence also means Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa are now the only drivers to have out-qualified their team mate at every round. Stoffel Vandoorne, Jolyon Palmer and Lance Stroll have failed to out-qualify their team mates at all of this year’s races.

Finally, while Mercedes failed to make it to the podium their places were taken by the other two ‘big three’ teams. Such is their collective domination of F1 that not only have none of the other teams taken a podium finish yet, none of them have completed a lap with one of their cars inside the top three.



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Ye gods the Mclaren's are certainly going aggressive on the ultrasofts.
 
Jolyon has been told, in so many words, to start scoring points. The team are not happy about relying on hulkenberg all the time, I think there might be a space for alonso for next year
 
Palmers been on borrowed time for the last few races. I'm surprised he's still there. Only 1 point in 2016, none this season and they pay him $1m a year.
Ocon's only on $185K and is showing him the way
 
If max keeps getting dud mobiles he could site performance rules in his contract and move to Mercedes Then bottas would go to ferrari if kimi retires, leaving reno with Kubica or a new to F1 driver like Nicholas Latifi
Of course this all depends on the letter I have wrote to Santa is granted
 
fuzzyedges said:
If max keeps getting dud mobiles he could site performance rules in his contract and move to Mercedes Then bottas would go to ferrari if kimi retires, leaving reno with Kubica or a new to F1 driver like Nicholas Latifi
Of course this all depends on the letter I have wrote to Santa is granted
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Or max could go to McLaren Mercedes, dump stoff and get a new driver in
 
2017 FORMULA 1 AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX


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Baku City Circuit
Lap length 6.003km (3.73 miles)
Race laps 51
Race distance 306.051km (190.171 miles)
Distance from grid to turn one 330m
Full throttle 49%
Gear changes per lap 78
Fuel use per lap 1.96kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.32s
Pit lane time loss 23.4s

UK Times
Friday 23rd June 2017
Azerbaijani Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 13:00-14:30 (UK time: 10:00-11:30)
Azerbaijani Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 17:00-18:30 (UK time: 14:00-15:30)
Saturday 24th June 2017
Azerbaijani Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 14:00-15:00 (UK time: 11:00-12:00)
Azerbaijani Grand Prix Qualifying: 17:00 (UK time: 14:00)
Sunday 25th June 2017
Azerbaijani Grand Prix: 17:00 (UK time: 14:00)

Previous Winners
2016 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes (European GP)

Videos

Rosberg on board 2016
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pg_zlzQjI



Facts from the previous race

This was Lewis Hamilton’s sixth victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. It’s the race he’s won more times than any other, and a seventh win will tie him with Michael Schumacher as the most successful driver of all time in this race.

This was his first ‘grand slam’ at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Hamilton won the race from pole, leading all the way and setting the fastest lap. Despite having had very dominant machinery at his disposal for the last three years, two of Hamilton’s four ‘grand slams’ were achieved this season (the other was in China).

He and title rival Sebastian Vettel have the most ‘grand slams’ of any active driver with four. They are tied with Jackie Stewart, Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell. Only Jim Clark (eight), Alberto Ascari and Michael Schumacher (five each) have more.

Hamilton’s win also meant Mercedes took their first one-two finish of the season.

Saturday was all about one big statistical milestone: Lewis Hamilton equalling Ayrton Senna’s tally of 65 pole positions.

This stood as the outright record for most pole positions from Senna’s final pole position on that fateful San Marino Grand Prix weekend in 1994 until Michael Schumacher surpassed it at the same track 12 years later. Schumacher pushed the record on to 68.

But their strike rates were very different. Schumacher took 68 poles from 306 races, a 22.2% strike rate, whereas Senna took pole in 40.4% of the races he started (65 from 161). Hamilton’s rate is closer to Senna’s than Schumacher’s. He has taken pole for exactly one-third of his starts (33.3%, 65 from 195).

This was Hamilton’s third consecutive pole position in Canada. He also took pole for his first three races at this track in 2007, 2008 and 2010 (there was no Canadian Grand Prix in 2009). Sebastian Vettel then produced a hat-trick of his own from 2011 to 2013.

That means since Hamilton and Vettel came into the sport ten years ago the only driver besides them to take pole in Canada is the now-retired Nico Rosberg. They also shared the front row of the grid for the fourth time in seven races so far this year. On each of those occasions Hamilton was on pole.

Vettel’s disappointing race meant his 100% record of top-two finishes and podiums ended. However three drivers continued their 100% records against their team mates in qualifying: Fernando Alonso, Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa.

Although Lance Stroll was beaten by his team mate again he did manage to bring his car home in the points. The last time a driver took the first points of his career in his home race was five years ago, when Daniel Ricciardo also finished ninth for Toro Rosso in Australia.

Stroll is the third Canadian driver in the history of the sport to score a point and the only one not to come from the Villeneuve family. However there are three other Canadian drivers who scored top ten finishes in the days before points were awarded for those places: Peter Broeker (seventh, 1963 United States Grand Prix), George Eaton (tenth, 1970 Canadian Grand Prix) and Peter Ryan (ninth, 1961 United States Grand Prix).

At 18 years and 230 days old, Stroll is the second-youngest driver of all time to score a point in F1. However he’s over a year older than record-holder Max Verstappen, who was 17 years and 184 days old when he took seventh in the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix.

For much of the race Esteban Ocon looked set to improve on his career-best finish of fifth. He didn’t but he did become the first driver not in a Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull to run as high as second place.



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Palmer sulking in an interview now too haha, he kind of brings it on himself really...

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Ferrari breaking rules again? They've removed an auxiliary oil tank after being accused of burning oil for increased performance, after it was banned as Mercedes were accused of doing this last year.
 
I reckon that was down to the track as much as anything. You have super fast straights (a long time since I have seen three or even four cars abreast going into a corner), then really narrow technical sections with kerbs that force you off line.
What a great race.
 
The best race this year, by far!
 
Should've been a black flag for that road rage. Silly mistake for hulk and unfortunate for max
 
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Jimmy_Lemon said:
I have a feeling there will be more coming from this.
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Bit hard those how, there was a penalty applied in the race, vettel will get points on his licence, that will be it.

Shame for Hamilton again. Great race though, full of race incidents and racing.

Slipstreaming past two cars on the mainstraight several times, amazing stuff
 
Byker28i said:
Bit hard those how, there was a penalty applied in the race, vettel will get points on his licence, that will be it.

Shame for Hamilton again. Great race though, full of race incidents and racing.

Slipstreaming past two cars on the mainstraight several times, amazing stuff
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Not quite, he was given the maximum penalty the stewards had available, if Mercedes decided to appeal for a better punishment, he could be given any penalty, including a fine or a race ban, or even 3 extra points which in turn would give him 12 and a race ban, Charlie should have a look and see if he feels it is appropriate for any driver to physically barge a driver in anger. You saw on the onboard Hamilton just didn't accelerate, vettel wasn't brake checked, he drove into Hamilton on his own.

Kyvat might do it if it only costs him a drive through, Maldonado might want to come back too
 
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