F1 2024 - Round 15 - Netherlands - Zandvoort

rameire

Friday August 23rd

Practice 1 - 11.30 - 12.30
Practice 2 - 15.00 - 16.00

Saturday August 24th

Practice 3 - 10.30 - 11.30
Qualifying - 14.00 - 15.00

Sunday August 25th
Race - 14.00

shanec1928

looking forward to this one! Especially since I will be in attendance😀

flazio

Zandvort resembling Salthill on a Galway GAA matchday at the moment. Tis breezy.

https://youtu.be/m3hJQA4El4w?si=ACQ592dj8vi2EhlJ

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122521065#Comment_122521065

You can be our pitlane reporter for the weekend 😉

Joeface

Team Upgrades this weekend . Sauber Stake , Mercedes , Ferrari & Aston Martin did not submit any upgrades .

El_Duderino 09

That's a lot of upgrades for teams thst haven't been working on their cars for a month…

Joeface

Fp1

rock22

apparently Dutch bailiffs have itemised contents of Haas garage , although they will be able to race this weekend. But they won't be able to remove the cars and equipment until they pay back sponsorship to their previous sponsor

https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/motorsports/former-haas-sponsor-uralkali-makes-bid-to-seize-team-assets-over-outstanding-payment/ar-AA1pjaOW?ocid=BingNewsSerp

I cannot imagine this not having an impact on the mood in the pit . There is also apparently another case with Steiner suing Haas and , i think , Haas suing Steiner

shanec1928

some variation in the conditions! From the start of fp1 to finish. Qualifying will be interesting especially if the rain comes through! Can’t get over how loud they are or how much the wet weather dampened the sound.

Frank Bullitt

Could be a tight race this, meant to be dry for Sunday but lots of drivers were struggling with the windy conditions.

shanec1928

typical Logan..

Itssoeasy

local time TBC ?

Itssoeasy

rain getting into the radio mic.

Itssoeasy

it’s great to have someone who knows what they are talking about.

Itssoeasy

max went over the pit lane white line.

Itssoeasy

Perez didn’t get to the flag in time.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534905#Comment_122534905

To be fair, it's been 4 weeks since a race but the shut down was only 2 weeks for the teams...

dulpit

Really poor from Sargent here. The faces of the Williams mechanics says it all really.

I assume no quali for him, but he'll be allowed start p20 tomorrow?

https://youtu.be/RQp9NafvR7Y?si=LP4sdw5l14dIyCn3

PsychoPete

Sargeant doing what he does best, sticking it into the wall

Jordan 199

Woohoo! Gasly makes it into Q3!

Jordan 199

Anybody else here? Hello!?

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539088#Comment_122539088

…no we ve all left, im not even here

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539088#Comment_122539088

Was watching on my phone, so couldn't also post.

Cracking lap from Norris at the end. Fully expect him to finish lap 1 tomorrow in like 4th position though.

Checo did what he needed to do to silence the critics too.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539139#Comment_122539139

ah we all know checos on borrowed time, the tide will eventually turn there, and it ll be bye bye checo….

Barrett

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539186#Comment_122539186

He actually did great to secure P5 for tomorrow's race.

L Grey

Is Danny Ric gone after this season?

NinjaTruncs

You would have to think so. If he isn't beating Yuki it's tough to argue that he should keep a seat ahead of Yuki.

PsychoPete

Albon disqualified from qualifying and Hamilton given a 3 place grid penalty for impeding Checo

dulpit

Brutal day for Williams so.

I assume dq starts behind no time set? So they'll be Sargent p19 and Albon p20?

dulpit

Ah, Chris Medland has confirmed on twitter that it's a pitlane start for Albon.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1827408294400459074?t=R01-l3FdVaxKUkNMueom4w&s=19%20

Frank Bullitt

penalty for Hamilton too

NinjaTruncs

That seemed harsh, he didn't really have anywhere to go apart from stopping on the track before the corner.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122540522#Comment_122540522

But harsh, but you could make the argument that his team should have told him Perez was coming to avoid ending up where he did.

He held him up, it's pretty standard 3 place drop for that.

I expect sky to devote 15 minutes tomorrow in how this was unfair.

quokula

I don’t think I’ve seen a team as incompetently run as Williams currently is since the mid 90s when we had the likes of Forti and Pacific on the grid. Only Albon keeping them from the bottom of the championship, miles behind teams like Haas and RB who they were previously competitive with with only Sauber keeping them off the bottom thanks to two terrible drivers and zero focus on the current formula as they focus on 2026.

Williams failed to bring adequate spare parts to even field two cars at every race this season, and now they arrive with their big floor upgrade and they’ll have to throw it in the bin because they don’t measure it correctly to comply with the rules.

I really worry for Sainz going there next year as they only seem to be going backwards but let’s hope this isn’t the case.

Hijpo

You can argue Hamilton is out of the way and that the only action he could have taken was to get on the grass as the sky team put to the viewers. However, the sky team doesn't pay any attention to the speed checo arrives at, the accuracy of hitting the apex for a clean exit or the fact checo doesn't know if Hamilton knows where he is. If it was anyone else they wouldn't get that level of defence.

Checo is dirt BTW, just to be clear.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122540735#Comment_122540735

Hyperbole much?

Sauber have been truly awful this year. I'd agree that Zhou has been very poor, but Bottas has done everything and it's still not getting him anywhere.

Williams is way better now than it was a few years back at the end of the Claire Williams period. Dorilton are ploughing cash in, but it's obviously starting from a very low base so it's going to take time to improve.

I reckon they're doing pretty similar to what Sauber are doing, concentrating on behind the scenes stuff and preparing for 2026. If they're still way off the pace by then, then you can call them out on it. But as things stand, I'd give them time. They look like a better prospect than Sauber, RB or Alpine do at the moment anyway...

Hijpo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122540939#Comment_122540939

And they only have 1 driver... that doesn't cost them hundreds of thousands…

oceanman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539948#Comment_122539948

hopefully…

dulpit

Kmag starting from the pits, change of PU components.

So Sargent starts 18th without even qualifying. Not bad for him...

Itssoeasy

Was the Lewis penalty for the incident where he moved out of the way and slowed down.

Itssoeasy

I can barely hear anything Gerry.

ctrl-alt-delete

Pressure on Lando for the start, will he handle it better this time…

Jordan 199

Zak Brown. Minder, bouncer and team principal.

Itssoeasy

I know it’s nothing to do with the race but gwen stefani still looks great.

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122542098#Comment_122542098

No doubt about it.

waynescales1

Artist my arse.

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122542102#Comment_122542102

Took me a while to figure that out 😄

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122542102#Comment_122542102

oh well played.

ctrl-alt-delete

Lightening from Max

klose

Oh Lando not again

Itssoeasy

Lando got mugged before the first corner.