[Official] British Grand Prix 2024

[Aysedasi]

Hugely enjoyable!

Man though, can things get any worse for Checo?

[GT6]

Well that was a real race, plenty of action plenty of changes in lead and as far as i can recalled apart from the early hass leaving the track which was accepted the stewards had nothing to do. That is how all F1 races should be. Never been a Lewis fan but he proved today just how good he can be, pity next year he will be in a midfield car

[Lancsbreaker]

Lando really needs some counselling - sure having tasted victory anything less is a disappointment, but he really shouldn't be that hard on himself for a 3rd spot....


Overall a great race.

[Sodemo]

Great race, again I thought DRS was totally unnecessary.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Sodemo

Great race, again I thought DRS was totally unnecessary.

DRS was disabled at one point and that's when the best overtakes happened.

[morninggents]

Great race. One of the best I've seen for a long time. Lots of skill shown by most drivers and good to see Lewis win again. I've never been a great Lewis fan but he really deserved that one.

[bjohnsonsmith]

On reflection, Lewis's victory at Silverstone, was the perfect end to the Lewis Hamilton/Mercedes era and what an amazing era it has been.

[P38 in workshop]

Since nobody else has mentioned it,I was impressed by Hulkenberg's result.It justifies Sauber signing him and the improvement in the Haas car must give hope to Oliver Bearman and anybody who might be wavering about signing a Haas contract for next year.

[GT6]

Well Haas are certainly doing something right recently,

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by midgetman

Really difficult thing to ban that. TP's wife happens to be in their hotel a mile or so upwind and rings in. "Hope you took your coat, darling, it's pouring down here."

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Just to put some flesh on this from the past, from memory the ban was introduced as one of the cost cutting measures that were introduced over the years some time before they brought in the cost cap. Again from memory, the team's weather spotting had gone had gone to some extreme measures, with some even hiring helicopters to circle miles away from the circuits to provide constant updates on approaching weather fronts.

[GTRMagic]

Mr Hamilton is absolutely enjoying the win..!
From videos on the MercAMG pages, and loads of fans. Crowd surfing and being absolutely genuine about how much the win means to him.

The passion is absolutely alive..!

I hope the mainstream media picks at least some of this up.. you just can’t buy this level of excitement and fulfilment..

I hope Mercedes has lifted to that level of consistency and confidence… for the rest of the season & beyond

[Lancsbreaker]

Thinking about it, when was the last time Verstappen didn't lead a single lap of a GP?

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Lancsbreaker

Thinking about it, when was the last time Verstappen didn't lead a single lap of a GP?

Monaco 2024

[Richard C]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Just to put some flesh on this from the past, from memory the ban was introduced as one of the cost cutting measures that were introduced over the years some time before they brought in the cost cap. Again from memory, the team's weather spotting had gone had gone to some extreme measures, with some even hiring helicopters to circle miles away from the circuits to provide constant updates on approaching weather fronts.

I can't find any specific FIA documents that speak to this, but this is how I remember it as well. I don't know if the rules exclude teams from having their own meteorological resources or if the fact that FIA provides comprehensive services that it mostly negates the need for teams to provide their own solution (of which some teams may not have been able to do this fully... such as Doppler radar setups). I believe the FIA contracts this out and it was initially Metro France and then now UBIMET who does this. In which they cart around a doppler radar setup which is located on or near the circuit along with meteorologists who then provides data via the existing data streams/software the teams already use. This has to be extremely convenient for teams to use the FIA setup. I believe this same FIA setup is also used for other things such as defining the official "ambient temperature" which is part of determining legality of fuel temperatures and probably other similar situations. I can imagine that teams might enhance this on weekends that are expected to have wet weather with circuit weather spotters? As called out earlier in the thread, it would be difficult to police this as it could even be a somewhat informal function. But who knows, maybe that function is banned. As mentioned, I can't find any FIA documents that covers this topic. It might be buried in the myriad of documents (such as Technical Directives) that FIA provide to the teams that are not made public.

Richard

[S griffin]

We’ve had some great races this year. Not expecting them all to be for the rest of the season, but we’ve had enough to remember for years to come

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by Richard C

…I can imagine that teams might enhance this on weekends that are expected to have wet weather with circuit weather spotters? As called out earlier in the thread, it would be difficult to police this as it could even be a somewhat informal function. But who knows, maybe that function is banned. As mentioned, I can't find any FIA documents that covers this topic. It might be buried in the myriad of documents (such as Technical Directives) that FIA provide to the teams that are not made public.

Richard

I’ll see if I can find that bit from the race where Zack was talking about it (on SKY) but it did sound like he was talking about asset’s McLaren had in the field or specifically in the air. It was all off the cuff so who knows.

[Lancsbreaker]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Monaco 2024

Ah, of course......I guess in my head I don't think of that as a race.....

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by chillibowl

I’ll see if I can find that bit from the race where Zack was talking about it (on SKY) but it did sound like he was talking about asset’s McLaren had in the field or specifically in the air. It was all off the cuff so who knows.

I'm sure Horner mentioned spotters at some point on Ch4...

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Lancsbreaker

Ah, of course......I guess in my head I don't think of that as a race.....

I never even bothered to store it in my mind palace......

[E.B]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Monaco 2024

Prior to that Max led just the opening lap in Australia this year before retiring on lap 3. Prior to Monaco Singapore 2023 was the the previous last 'Max didnt lead a lap' event.
Prior to that Saudi Arabia 2023

[steve_r]

I would imagine that Hamilton will be hoping to inherit Sainz's strategy team at Ferrari for next season and not LeClerc's.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by steve_r

I would imagine that Hamilton will be hoping to inherit Sainz's strategy team at Ferrari for next season and not LeClerc's.

I'm not convinced it is only an issue of the team behind the driver, I see Carlos as a significantly better driver/strategist than Charles whose naivety seems to be on show more and more often these days.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by steve_r

I would imagine that Hamilton will be hoping to inherit Sainz's strategy team at Ferrari for next season and not LeClerc's.

This Autosport article discusses the possibility of Peter Bonnington moving to Ferrari with Hamilton.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/me...move/10572001/

[steve_r]

Here's a theoretical question for you. Mechanical breakdowns aside. Based on pure pace, if it stayed dry for the whole race, would we have seen a British 1-2-3?

[morninggents]

I doubt it. I think Max would have been somewhere in the top 3. Probably 2nd.