FORMULA 1 2018 ROLEX BRITISH GRAND PRIX

But now, for ranting...

LECLERC REPLACE RAIKKONEN. HE MESSED UP MY FANTASY AND POOL PICKS.

Good race, Lewis lost it at the start, I'm amazed he wound up 2nd after having to come back from the back of the grid. Raikkonen competitive tells me Ferrari had the car today. Attrition city. Who knows where we'll be on the results. I've got yard work a plenty, hopefully will be back in a couple of hours.

I couldn't disagree more...

Raikkonen is normally very good at Silverstone, it's one of his strongest tracks and he showed this in qualifying. If he hadn't have made a mistake in qualifying he would have been on pole position because Hamilton kept making small mistakes in the slow corners.

As for the race, Hamilton on Mediums vs other drivers on Mediums was going 1+ seconds a lap faster than them and when he was on old medium tyres he was able to match Ferrari on new soft tyres. The softs are about a second a lap faster than medium tyres Just look when Hamilton was in clean air in P2, he was matching Vettel in the lead who had soft tyres on which makes sense because most of the race Hamilton was a second a lap faster when in clean air.

If Hamilton had not been crashed into at the start or had kept P1 at the start I'm sure he would have walked this race.

Hamilton would've killed this race if Raikkonen wasn't a fuckin fuckin idiot!! That said, 2nd place after the first lap where I thought Lewis was going to park it due to a broken suspension.....it's one hell of a comeback. But the moment I saw Kimi lccking up and Hamilton going around the outside I was like 'oh god no' and 1 second later seeing that lazy spin.....sigh.

Again, Grosjean proves to be a fucking moron....I'm so sick of this guy I feel like punching him repeatedly square on his nose. A real freaking imbecile, especially when he keeps saying "Oh no big deal, I was squeezed, we'll sort it out". His freaking imbecility is the issue, not any other driver out there.

#Crashtel and #Crashkinnen, the killer ferrari duo. That's one way to help win a Championship, if you can't beat em, knock em out! Fucking clowns. Though I'm 100% there was nothing deliberate, it sure doesn't help when they "ACCIDENTALLY" gain from it!

I agree with what Hamilton and Mercedes are doing currently, put the pressure on them and make a few snide accusations.....maybe they'll watch themselves 1% more from now onwards. Goddamn crash kids.

I felt like kicking Raikkonen in the face but I think 10 seconds is fair. He rarely gets into accidents, so 10 seconds is most definitely fair. Just because it was Hamilton at his home race doesn't mean he needs a special penalty.

Grosjean on the other hand needs to be beaten up senseless after yet another dumb screw up and saying "Oh he turned into me". Man I really can't stand this guy, I never came close to this level of dislike with Maldonado. I really hope France loses their next match. 

speaking of penalties.... chalk and cheese moment!
Whats-his-name in F1 gets I think a 2 race ban for a deliberate drive into another car (actually his team-mate). I remember a certain F1 driver delibertately driving into another car not too long ago, he only got a stop-go didn't he....

I was beginning to think Steiner is quite a moron but then came across this article.

Haas not at 'tipping point' with Romain Grosjean yet


Haas team principal Guenther Steiner admits he's getting frustrated with Romain Grosjean's tendency to get involved in incidents.

After scoring his first points of the season in Austria, Haas was hopeful it was a turning point in his season. Grosjean -- who had crashed during Friday practice -- collided with teammate Kevin Magnussen on the first lap and then crashed out of the race after a collision with Carlos Sainz in the closing stages. The incident with Magnussen had already relegated both Haas cars down the order at a race it had looked set to be the fourth best team again.

"I wouldn't call this bad luck,'' Steiner said. "It's a little bit frustrating. We all hoped for him that we are going uphill and now we are down again in the dumps and we need to get out of it again. We will get out of it. It's always hard work.

"We should put our hard work into scoring points instead of getting up again. We should be up and trying to hit high but at the moment we are using a lot of energy just trying to get out of the dumps. Always chasing instead of trying to move ahead.''


Grosjean has finished in the points just once in 2018. Mark Thompson/Getty Images
Steiner says he will continue to support Grosjean but warns it could reach the 'tipping point' with the Frenchman's future at the team still not sorted for 2019.

"And I will be [supportive] because that is what I need to be because we want to succeed as a team, I don't know where the tipping point is. I am are not there yet but at some stage, as I said before we need to stop losing points., that is the tipping point.

"We can't keep on doing this. We are through half of the season and we must have lost a lot of points because of our own mistakes and that is not actually acceptable.

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This is as far as a team boss can go in order to say "My driver is a fuck up".

Though I think the appropriate response would've been firing this dimwit 2 races ago. It's incredible, so many years in the sport and he is still screwing up AND incapable of accepting his mistake!! His team radio right after crashing into Sainz "He turned into me" was unbelievable, really deserves a massive kick in the face.

Except they weren't faster in quali... Hamilton had the best overall time he just never put a fully clean lap together.

Raikkonen: 27.512 + 34.911 + 23.567 = 1:25.990
Vettel: 27.516 + 34.752 + 23.636 = 1:25.904
Hamilton: 27.520 + 34.708 + 23.643 = 1:25.871

Even then Hamilton's best sector times weren't the fastest he could go, look at all of the onboards and you can see how much more Hamilton could have improved and how little Ferrari could have improved.

As for the race...

Hamilton:
- 1:31.254
- Semi-Dirty Air
- 26 lap old tyres (should be -7 because of safety car period)
- Medium tyres (Are -1 second a lap slower)
- Already had one stress cycle through them at start of stint.

Vettel:
- 1:30.696
- Clean air
- 13 lap old tyres (should be -7 because of safety car period)
- Soft tyres (Are 1+ second a lap faster)
- Hadn't been through a stress cycle as it was the start of the stint.

Hamilton was 1+ second a lap faster in the race compared to Ferrari on when they were on the same tyres. If Hamilton was on the soft tyres at the end of the race his potential lap times would have been low 1:30's, which would have matched Mercedes' Friday race run performance where they were 4~ tenths of a lap faster than Ferrari on the long runs.



If the safety car hadn't have came out, Hamilton had the pace to win because Hamilton had really low degradation. Hamilton didn't really gain anything from the safety cars because all it did is put cars behind and in front (Vettel) on much faster tyres. Sure he was closer to them but was at a huge tyre disadvantage.

The pit stop time loss is 19~ seconds, 8 laps before the safety car came out Hamilton had pitted and brought a 28 second gap down to just 22 seconds and could have easily got it below 19 seconds so would of had track position on Vettel as they probably would have pitted Vettel around lap 40~ which would have been enough time for Hamilton to get the gap down to less than 15 seconds and then he would have been in clean air.