2020 f1

[WhyOne?]

Please to hear you got back with minimum fuss and bother and have quarantined successfully.

It sounds like you managed quite an eventful trip and I daresay it isn't one you are going to forget in a long, long time!

It's good that you have received a refund on your tickets - the benefits of a 'cancelled' race? The Vietnamese race is 'postponed' and because of this, 'all tickets remain valid for the rearranged race, no refunds at this time'!

As for NSX's....mine remains stranded in Winter storage

[NSXGB]

Are we all getting exited for the coming weekend?

[britlude]

let me think as my original reply was deemed too short.....


meh!

[NZNick]

Have watched the 3 FP's and qualifying - good to see Lando & Alex up there, but can't see anything but a Merc victory. Max might get between the black cars though.
Telling that Ferrari are nowhere... and that the Merc clones are both top 10. George will be in the points (with a bit of luck)...

[britlude]

it was commented somewhere else, that P1-P19 were only 1.2 seconds apart in Q1.. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/result...-451731/?st=Q1

so the closest the grid has been for years.... unfortunately mercedes weren't exactly trying, looking at Q3 times with a 1.3 second spread over the 10 cars.... https://www.motorsport.com/f1/result...-451731/?st=Q3

[NZNick]

Well that was incident-packed!

[Senninha]

Great season opener, missed the crowds for pole and Lando’s first podium ... but he earned it with that final lap time!

So were back (or never left) Austria for the re-run albeit under a different name and track sponsorship ...

And whilst we were busy enjoying the racing, Alonso has snuck back into the paddock and landed himself the Renault seat for the coming few years ...

[goldnsx]

From what I've read Covid-19 can leave pretty undesired residuals like fatique and less concentration for example. Being a F1 driver is a pretty demanding task. Free of Covid-19 doesn't mean he'll be able to drive a F1 car. I hope Perez recovers fast without such issues.

[WhyOne?]

My understanding is that Checo's asymptomatic, so I wouldn't expect this to have any long term impact on his health.

Ther is another way we could conceivably see Nico in an F1 car this year...a red car! If the Ferrari / Seb debacle continues I could easily see one side or the other crying 'enough'!

So on to Spain and some nice hot weather. Does anyone know the tyre choices for this weekend?

[britlude]

Seb is already out at Ferrari , probably explains his sulky attitude there.

Carlos Sainz has been confirmed as his replacement already, Riccardo to McLaren, Alonzo to Renault .... Seb hasn't got many options, depends how much Aston Martin want a big name, and if Perez or stroll get dropped from stroll snr's race team...