Formula 1 2017 - Round 17 - Austin

Harika

Race thread
Qualifying Saturday 22:00 lights out
Race Sunday 20:00 lights out

MuddyDog

Verstsppaen, Hartley and Hulk taking grid pens.

AMKC

FP2 on now.

Vic_08

MuddyDog wrote: »

Verstsppaen, Hartley and Hulk taking grid pens.

A bit of a pisser for Hartley, his grid penalties are in Kvyat's old car.

Charlie-Bravo

Hard to judge who has the pace this weekend. I think all teams are not showing their hand. It's close between the top three teams. I think qualy will show who is good on the pink ultras, but not necessarily who actually has the race pace. Maybe a possible win for RB running a long soft tyre stint?!

flazio

Which begs the question, what will happen on the podium if Verstappen or Stroll finish up there. Neither are over 21 so they can't drink champagne legally.

AMKC

flazio wrote: »

Which begs the question, what will happen on the podium if Verstappen or Stroll finish up there. Neither are over 21 so they can't drink champagne legally.

They could drink milk lol.

simonphoto

AMKC wrote: »

They could drink milk lol.

They could hire a couple of six shooters and celebrate that way

Itssoeasy

Can I just say Justin timberlake can go and do one.

Itssoeasy

flazio wrote: »

Which begs the question, what will happen on the podium if Verstappen or Stroll finish up there. Neither are over 21 so they can't drink champagne legally.

Ridiculous carry on. I mean the American authorities must know that Americans don't wait until 21 to drink.

Jordan 199

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Can I just say Justin timberlake can go and do one.

Baby,
Baby,
Baby,
Oh!

Joeseph Balls

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Ridiculous carry on. I mean the American authorities must know that Americans don't wait until 21 to drink.

And Irish don't wait til 18, but it's the law regardless. Don't they give rose water or something instead of alcohol

bnt

On C4, I like what Karun is doing with the side-by-side lap comparison, between Hamilton & Ricciardo: equalising the video, with the time gap, after each sector.

Rumple Stillson

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Baby,
Baby,
Baby,
Oh!

Come on, that's Justin Bieber. Jeez.

Charlie-Bravo

C4 doing some great coverage pre-qualification. Karun is a great asset to the C4 team. Not a big fan of aussiegrit, but will put up with him. Enjoying the time of day this is on too. Having a few beers with the TV to myself!

bnt

Good to see Emerson Fittipaldi there, enjoying himself. He was F1 champion in '72 and '74, CART champion in 1989, and won the Indianapolis 500 twice in his late '40s!

I wonder whether track limits will be a factor again this weekend? IIRC it was a thorny issue last year ...

Poor Stroll, probably a penalty.

The McLaren just looks outstanding through the fast corners.

bnt

Magnussen too, on Perez. But Stroll could have caused a pile-up there, crawling along on the racing line during Q is a very bad thing.

skipper_G

The Stroll blocking incident was dangerous. Jesus I winced when I saw it happen expecting Grosjean to slam into him

skipper_G

bnt wrote: »

On C4, I like what Karun is doing with the side-by-side lap comparison, between Hamilton & Ricciardo: equalising the video, with the time gap, after each sector.

I'm a big fan of his style, he always has nice little bits of insight and details on little things

Jordan 199

Horrible livery on the Haas cars.

Ghost Train

Stroll more than a second off Massa

El_Duderino 09

I'm supporting Hartley as a prospect, but he's 8tenths behind Kvyat. And Stroll is 1.6 down on Massa. Shameful sh1t.

skipper_G

Sainz showing what an actual F1 driver can do in the other Renault. Somewhere now Jolyon "a second off his teammate" Palmer is sobbing softly on his own in a darkened room.

Glico Man

skipper_G wrote: »

Sainz showing what an actual F1 driver can do in the other Renault. Somewhere now Jolyon "a second off his teammate" Palmer is sobbing softly on his own in a darkened room.

Most likely sitting in a cardboard box with his helmet on pretending he's still out there.

Ghost Train

Well Palmer did well to keep his drive so long, more a poor reflection on Renault than on Palmer himself.

AMKC

Carlos Seinz doing great in the Renault. Vandoorne not doing as good as Alonso here. Grosjean not having a good day. Really hope Vettel can at least get 2nd so he can give Hamilton a good challenge for the lead at the start of te race.

Cool_CM

Going to be an interesting first corner tomorrow!

AMKC

Vettel in 2nd. If he can keep his cool now tomorrow and get that or first that would be good. Overall do not the most exciting of qualifying sessions.

Autosport

It’s going to be some start of the race and I’m gonna pray for rain

Burkie1203

EJ just announced he believes Arrivabene is getting the chop at Ferrari

AMKC

Burkie1203 wrote: »

EJ just announced he believes Arrivabene is getting the chop at Ferrari

From a highly regarded reliable source too he says.

Jeff2

bnt wrote: »

On C4, I like what Karun is doing with the side-by-side lap comparison, between Hamilton & Ricciardo: equalising the video, with the time gap, after each sector.

I think it was Ham and Max but much the same.
It was good to see and I can only imagine what the teams do to just get a .001 second a lap.

prettyboy81

Raining in Austin now.

Rumple Stillson

prettyboy81 wrote: »

Raining in Austin now.

If it rains I fancy the drivers title to be settled today.

Faugheen

What time is lights out?

Rumple Stillson

Faugheen wrote: »

What time is lights out?

8pm I think.

AMKC

Rumple Stillson wrote: »

8pm I think.

Yes its at 8pm

Faugheen

Cheers!

Mike Litoris

Rain! Is it forecast for the race? Can't find a decent one.

Sparks43

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Rain! Is it forecast for the race? Can't find a decent one.

No rain for the race and will be dry by lights out

Green track though

Ghost Train

Any reason for the late start, they mentioned yesterday that there was qualifying was 2hr later in the day than typical (extra 2hrs between P3 and qualy)

Maybe to get bigger audience in US or something?

boardsuser1

Seriously sick of Sky F1.

They should be renamed Sky Hamilton.

David Croft is a pain in the backside as well.

I’ll switch to C4 this evening, are they as bad as Sky for the Hamilton obsession?

Jordan 199

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Seriously sick of Sky F1.

They should be renamed Sky Hamilton.

David Croft is a pain in the backside as well.

I’ll switch to C4 this evening, are they as bad as Sky for the Hamilton obsession?

Well, I always choose C4 over Sky for F1.

boardsuser1

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Well, I always choose C4 over Sky for F1.

Ben Edwards is good.

Joeseph Balls

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Seriously sick of Sky F1.

They should be renamed Sky Hamilton.

David Croft is a pain in the backside as well.

I’ll switch to C4 this evening, are they as bad as Sky for the Hamilton obsession?

Rather channel 4 myself

skipper_G

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Ben Edwards is good.

He has a good combination with DC and C4 also have Karun Chandhok he's brilliant as well

skipper_G

Having said that the 4 boys dressed as cowboys and the corny jokes was a bit cringey

Joeseph Balls

skipper_G wrote: »

Having said that the 4 boys dressed as cowboys and the corny jokes was a bit cringey

Ah they have done the corny bits at the start of live races, even back when it was BBC

Faugheen

Never understand how people get annoyed that a British channel are fans of a British driver.

Burkie1203

Just watched qualy notebook
Sean Bratches told Ted that Michael Buffer will do a boxing style intro of each driver on the grid.

Bernie will be turning in his grave