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[1Lemon]

Bernie's plan for Silverstone.

[LewEngBridewell]

Great to see F1 make its return to Austria after an 11 year absence. Always had a great love for this track, and it gave us another excellent race.

Loved the action between the Mercs and the Williams' at the front, very entertaining throughout. Magnussen did a great job for McLaren, not sure why Button seemed so off-colour all weekend.

Lewis Hamilton really needs a win in Silverstone, or else Nico's lead is going to become something to be concerned about. Still a long way to go though.

[Ferrari man 009]

Bernie's plan for Silverstone.

Well, if he's going to put Alonso on pole i'm not complaining

Lewis Hamilton really needs a win in Silverstone, or else Nico's lead is going to become something to be concerned about. Still a long way to go though.

There is a very long way to go. Remember 2 years ago Alonso had a 40 point lead after Hungary and still went on to lose the WDC, although Hamilton won't have the car advantage over Nico that Vettel had over Alonso in that situation

[ang4f1]

Alright, let's not get too far off the mark. Hamilton mucked up quali yesterday and had his chance in the race today. Unequal pitstops happen to every driver. Even webber had some firecrackers in his years at red bull. Some have noted hamilton missed his pitstop mark by about six inches today ( ) so can we ease off with the inequality? They had the same car today, the same 12 minutes in quali yesterday, and the same pit crew and pit wall.

Let's wait til silverstone where it's a nice, wide track requiring good power in high speed corners and we can further evaluate both drivers. As a rosberg fan, I hope for no DNF's or crazy pitstop issues. A 3.5 sec stop is not some ridiculous conspiracy compared to a 2.5 sec pit stop.

My views...

I thought that Lewis Hamilton was driver of the day after having to make up for two very unfortunate mistakes in Q3 yesterday, he fought from 9th to 2nd and nearly 1st... it was pretty easy to see that if there was 2-3 more laps or Lewis had started from the start that he would of been faster than Rosberg at this track.

I'm sure Williams were aware from the start that the Mercedes cars were and are still out of reach hence why both drivers didn't waste too much time trying to fight the Mercedes cars and stayed out 2-3 laps longer as they were only focusing on beating the Red Bulls (that performed badly) and the Ferraris and as such I thought that the Williams team did great

Can't wait for Silverstone, looks like we'll have another in-team battle

Re ..LH spin, Q3...he said he didn't know what had happened...
"I'd hesitate to call it a mistake," a Mercedes engineer said, "It was just a really unfortunate combination of circumstances."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27967435

[RyRy]

Re ..LH spin, Q3...he said he didn't know what had happened...
"I'd hesitate to call it a mistake," a Mercedes engineer said, "It was just a really unfortunate combination of circumstances."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27967435

Interesting, Toto said it was Lewis's mistake but an unfortunate one.

[racechick]

Here's an interesting statistic.......


"A final thought. Toto Wolff runs and owns shares in Mercedes Grand Prix. He owns shares in Williams and he manages Valtteri Bottas.
Not since the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix, when Ferraris finished one-two-three-four, has one man partly owned the first four cars across the line in a grand prix.

Taken from this article. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27973858

[Ferrari man 009]

Here's an interesting statistic.......


"A final thought. Toto Wolff runs and owns shares in Mercedes Grand Prix. He owns shares in Williams and he manages Valtteri Bottas.
Not since the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix, when Ferraris finished one-two-three-four, has one man partly owned the first four cars across the line in a grand prix.

Taken from this article. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27973858

hmmm, any conspiracy theorists about?

[stonemonkey]

Just when he's trying to sell his shares too.....

[RyRy]

I didn't know he had shares in both teams, that's pretty impressive.

Mr and Mrs Wolf both looked very happy on Sunday, my tattoo favourite teams with four drivers who I like a lot and some awesome management

[What's Burning?]

isn't he schtupping the other team's driver?

[darwin dali]

isn't he schtupping the other team's driver?

Bottas? Massa? Susie? All three of them? At the same time?

[Hammer278]

Here's an interesting statistic.......


"A final thought. Toto Wolff runs and owns shares in Mercedes Grand Prix. He owns shares in Williams and he manages Valtteri Bottas.
Not since the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix, when Ferraris finished one-two-three-four, has one man partly owned the first four cars across the line in a grand prix.

Taken from this article. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27973858

Like the guy or not, he's now quite an influential character in the paddock.

[RyRy]

Like the guy or not, he's now quite an influential character in the paddock.

I love him, he's probably my most favorite f1 related person... I also really really like Manisha, Clare, Susie and Martin Whitmarsh

[darwin dali]

Like the guy or not, he's now quite an influential character in the paddock.

I love him, he's probably my most favorite f1 related person... I also really really like Manisha, Clare, Susie and Martin Whitmarsh

[racechick]

Martin Whitmarsh? Where did that come from???