F1 season start - Austria

ACitizenErased

Engine problems for Stroll now

Hamilton very slowly catching Bottas. Only need a tenth of a second a lap really.

Cork Trucker

***Changes TV channel***

flazio

Norris 3-4 seconds behind Albon. Hopefully can fight for the podium.
Or maybe Perez can make it a Merc 1-2-3

ACitizenErased

Ricciardo engine problems, jesus christ

ScrubsfanChris

Red bull should have spent more time on their own car than complaining about other teams

namloc1980

Ricciardo goosed now.

PsychoPete

Nothing has changed with Renault anyway

ACitizenErased

Is the heat fecking up the engines?

This is it

Ricardo gone too

skipper_G

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Is the heat fecking up the engines?

Might be, there were quite a few failures in the F3 & F2 races as well

Jordan 199

Cork Trucker wrote: »

***Changes TV channel***

Which channel?

Harika

Time to get strawberry and cream served. Ah no Wimbledon either...

PopePalpatine

Only a matter of time for Stroll, he's plunging down the order.

ACitizenErased

This is a disaster of a race

skipper_G

Damn it there goes one car. Stroll out

mrkiscool2

Wow. So many failures so far.

TheDoctor

3 cars with reliability issues in the first 20 laps.

Been a while!

This is it

No way Hamilton doesn't win this :rolleyes:

Back start to the season tyres-wise. Looks like a handy enough one-stop for the season-opener on a very hot day.

TheDoctor

Grosjean hit by Ericsson

This is it

This is it wrote: »

No way Hamilton doesn't win this :rolleyes:

Aye, piece of piss. Even funnier if they pit him first. :P

naughto

Grosjean will put the hanns to the wall how they didn't get rid of him I'll never no

TheDoctor

That gap is coming down at the front

ACitizenErased

And another one

This is it

Magnuson gone

3 second gap at the front.

PopePalpatine

Ocon's onboard sounds like a blender when he's accelerating.

K-Mag's had a brake failure.

This is it

Safety car. Good for the field to catch up but Hamilton and Bottas will tear off again

ACitizenErased

Williams pushing for top 10 hahaha

theballz

A lot of engine issues and retirement today. The skysports team reckon it could be down to cars being inactive the last few weeks. What do you guys think?

This is it

Perez nearly took Norris out

Jordan 199

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Ocon's onboard sounds like a blender when he's accelerating.

The blender would be more reliable.

Perez the only one to put on Mediums? Thought most would have done it. Would understand Merc going Hards to try and have less racing between their two drivers but thought everyone else would make mediums work til the end handy enough.

skipper_G

Putting aside my obvious bias in favour of Racing Point and Perez, that looked an unsafe release

skipper_G

theballz wrote: »

A lot of engine issues and retirement today. The skysports team reckon it could be down to cars being inactive the last few weeks. What do you guys think?

A combination of factors, much warmer than expected, thinner air at altitude which hinders cooling, and it's the first race of the season.

PopePalpatine

theballz wrote: »

A lot of engine issues and retirement today. The skysports team reckon it could be down to cars being inactive the last few weeks. What do you guys think?

My guess is that the engine suppliers can't provide on-site support.

That said, there were quite a few mechanical failures in the F2/F3 races.

ScrubsfanChris

That Merc GTR safety car sounds a million times better than anything else out there

flazio

As long as Perez doesn't get a penalty, he's on mediums while everyone else around him is on hards.

How many sets of hards did each team have? Could have sworn there was a race with 1 set, would be interesting if they haven't had running on them already.

namloc1980

Vettel!

weekaizer

Oh dear spinerella is back!

PsychoPete

What was Vettel even trying to do

BikeRacer

Seb....What were you thinking there.....

ACitizenErased

Russell pushing for points here

Awful stupid from Vettel there has to be said.

This is it

Exciting restart!

This is it

So silly from Vettel

deafroadrunner

Ah Seb

skipper_G

Vettel was locked up before the contact. I think that's on him