F1 2019 - Round 11 Germany

Jordan 199

A wet race is much needed.

flazio

I've wilted and bought a day pass for this. Hopefully Sky Sports won't be as annoying as usual.

the_pen_turner

what time is lights out.

flazio

the_pen_turner wrote: »

what time is lights out.

Formation lap is at 14:10 weather dependent

bennyx_o

2:10pm, hope there's no safety car start but can see it happening

flazio

Is there not some new rule that they do a grid start after a safety car period?

racersedge

flazio wrote: »

Is there not some new rule that they do a grid start after a safety car period?

That's what I thought. Glad I'm not the only one! I can remember the conversations about it in the past and getting excited about it after all the fuddy duddy safety car starts in the wet.

However, nobody has mentioned the possibility and surely, if it was a case of Sky simply forgetting the rule, you would think bringing it up with the drivers they would say 'it's a standing start because the rules are that way'.

ScrubsfanChris

Sky saying they'll do the formation lap behind the safety car and start normally.
What's the point in that?

Edit: FFS now starting behind safety after DiResta more or less called it nonsense a few minutes early to do that.

Dcully

Ill tune in for the start but doubt it can pull me away from the 24 hrs of spa conclusion happening at the moment

ScrubsfanChris

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Sky saying they'll do the formation lap behind the safety car and start normally.
What's the point in that?

So when a driver complains that it's too wet the Safety Car is already there. I'm very cynical.

Wonder if the Ferraris are still beyond useless in the wet.

bennyx_o

Confirmed safety car start.

flazio wrote: »

Is there not some new rule that they do a grid start after a safety car period?

Forgot about that. Mercedes have just said to Hamilton that the safety car driver can decide if it's a standing start or not. Disappointing when all the drivers who were asked said it was fine for a standing start

ctrl-alt-delete

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Sky saying they'll do the formation lap behind the safety car and start normally.
What's the point in that?

What was that on the team radio to Lewis,

Did the engineer say a couple of laps behind the safety car to clear the standing water and then he will decide on a standing or rolling start?

Pussies.

Slattsy

Safety car start me bollix. Taking all the excitement out of it.

TheDoctor

So much for that exciting turn 1 sky were building up to

ScrubsfanChris

Slattsy wrote: »

Safety car start me bollix. Taking all the excitement out of it.

Hope they still do a standing start. Seems like its only F1 wants the safety car, nobody of the teams/drivers or fans want it.

ctrl-alt-delete

Light rain for the next 30-60 minutes.

Rossi IRL

Guessing a safety car start also means everyone has to start on full wets?

Is it even raining ffs

Wet weather races were always good caus you would get some on inters and some on full wets.

pjohnson

Well thats a dissapointing start.

cherryghost

This should not be starting as a normal race for **** sake

TheDoctor

Lights out and away we go!

deafroadrunner

Hopefully will be a good race. But I can see Hamilton winning this sadly

Rossi IRL

Sky feed must be way behind

What are ye watching on

ScrubsfanChris

Is this the 2nd formation lap or has the race started?
Would the cars be fueled for this?

So these laps don't count towards race distance? What about fuel? ****ing bunch of clowns.

ctrl-alt-delete

Plenty of drivers protesting too.

Cool_CM

Going to be some quality radio snippets from this section of the race, but that's about it

cherryghost

Hamilton is even wanting to get on with it. Come on man.

*Awaits el duderino telling us we're all wrong and the start procedure has been totally fine* :P

Dcully

Joke of a setup, not even that wet ffs.

skipper_G

A few laps with 20 cars clearing the worst of the standing water then go for a standing start, seems logical enough to me.

Rossi IRL

Standing start is approved

cherryghost

This is utterly ridiculous. I've seen starts in far worse weather.

ctrl-alt-delete

Standing start coming up, a few drivers itching to get it going,

this should be fun

Cool_CM

Standing start after this lap, this should be fun!

devnull

skipper_G wrote: »

A few laps with 20 cars clearing the worst of the standing water then go for a standing start, seems logical enough to me.

Thing is what about fuel? That would be my worry, they've effectively had a few extra laps added so this is going to be about fuel management as well which is going to probably result in less action on track to conserve fuel.

Dcully

Indeed

This is it

Standard start confirmed. Should be good!

ScrubsfanChris

This is a farce. Apparently a bunch of lads in a warm dry protacabin know better than the people outside on the track driving.

Normally start coming, they're not completed deluded then.

Itssoeasy

Deleted User wrote: »

So these laps don't count towards race distance? What about fuel? ****ing bunch of clowns.

it's a farce so far. I mean as you say the cars are fueled depending on how many laps the race is. So we could easily see cars run out of fuel.

skipper_G

devnull wrote: »

Thing is what about fuel? That would be my worry, they've effectively had a few extra laps added so this is going to be about fuel management as well which is going to probably result in less action on track to conserve fuel.

They have now reduced the race distance to allow for those extra laps so no issue now.

TheDoctor

Be people pitting after a lap or two for inters

Dcully

64 laps now

ctrl-alt-delete

devnull wrote: »

Thing is what about fuel? That would be my worry, they've effectively had a few extra laps added so this is going to be about fuel management as well which is going to probably result in less action on track to conserve fuel.

Those laps did not count, but they've reduced the number of laps by 3.

Verstappen with a terrible start.

PsychoPete

Nice work from Kimi

antodeco

I reckon they'll all peel in the end of this lap to swap tyres!

devnull

Jeez, this is very tentative, like a bunch of sunday morning drivers.

Cool_CM

Seb up about 6 places, hope he can get out of that bunch soon

Itssoeasy

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Those laps did not count, but they've reduced the number of laps by 3.

Verstappen with a terrible start.

looked like a person walking across a wet floor.

Dcully

Vettel passes 6 in 5 corners lol