F1 2021 Round 10 : Silverstone

Don't know why I thought that lol. Yes he barely scrapped through is right. My mistake. Tsunado is who I meant to put there.

Russell has gone into Q3 at P7. Well done George.

Well done George!

What a lap by Russell. Wow

Russell getting points for Williams seems like it's a matter of when rather than if seeing as he's improving week on week.

Props to Williams team itself, car obviously getting faster as we go on.

Verstappen is not happy with the balance in his car.

Hamilton went a bit sloppy at the last lap but he takes the pole for the sprint race tomorrow.

Verstappen was very close though with 0.075 behind Hamilton.

Looks like Mercedes have the pace this weekend alright, will max be tempted to race Hamilton for P1 tomorrow? Certainly gives it an interesting dynamic.

Great qually, WTF have they done to boards, so hard to navigate and even find this bloody thread. Looking forward to tomorrow's sprint race trial!

Lewis's voicebox is not right there with the interview with DC.

All this fawning is ridiculous. He had a car that had such a big advantage he could completely mess up and throw away 4 tenths and still get pole. Mercedes have always dominated at Silverstone, it’s much more of a car circuit than the run of unusual tracks we’ve had like Baku and Austria. Will be interesting to see what Verstappen and Red Bull can do with strategy to try and make a race of it.

It's his home race, what else did you expect 😂

George is delighted with that result while he spoke to DC on Channel 4.

Cooler temps gave Merc that pace in qualy.

Should be a close race (not the sprint), still favour RB to have the pace overall on Sunday.

I know I should wait til the weekend is finished, but I already don't like this experimental format. Maybe it would be better if Qualy and the sprint were on the same day, but it feels all very drawn out over 3 days and IMO suits the big teams.

I think the 3 days you mention are ultimately F1s plans, have an "event" each day and boost ticket sales for Friday (which I assume are the lowest gates of the 3 days)

Whats the point of fp2 today. Not like they’ll be changing the car set up. Seems pretty pointless

Only allowed drive on one set. Could be a bore feast

I wonder how much of an impact it has on team preparations. They would have had everything scheduled in a set order over a weekend so everything goes smooth.

If you had a car issue in FP1 or FP2 you had 24 hours to sort it without much impact, you just miss another practice session. Now if you have an issue in FP1 you could miss getting a grid position in quali which screws you getting a good grid position for the sprint, which doesn't bode well for the grid for the race.