2016 F1 News and Prediction Tournament

[Nothappyjan]

Looking forward to the first corner with the two Mercedes drivers going for it

[PeteC]

2016 British Grand Prix Results


Driver Race Time Pts
1 Hamilton 1:34:55.831 25
2 Rosberg +0:06.911 18
3 Verstappen +0:08.250 15
4 Ricciardo +0:26.211 12
5 Raikkonen +1:09.743 10
6 Perez +1:16.941 8
7 Hulkenberg +1:17.712 6
8 Sainz Jnr +1:25.858 4
9 Vettel +1:31.654 2
10 Kvyat +1:32.600 1
11 Massa Lapped 0
12 Button Lapped 0
13 Alonso Lapped 0
14 Bottas Lapped 0
15 Nasr Lapped 0
16 Gutierrez Lapped 0
R Magnussen Retired (49) 0
R Palmer Retired (37) 0
R Haryanto Crashed (24) 0
R Grosjean Retired (17) 0
R Ericsson Retired (11) 0
R Wehrlein Crashed (6) 0

[PeteC]

British Grand Prix Standings

Pos Player Tot
1 - Parahandy 152.00
2 - redzonerocker 142.50
3 - pitsch 142.50 (Yellow Cap)
4 - mwbrown 140.00
5 ▲ 1 Terry 139.50
6 ▲ 1 lindosfan 137.50
7 ▼ 2 BigBoy 133.00
8 ▲ 1 bsdk1960 128.00
9 ▲ 1 JJBones 124.50
10 ▲ 1 Pete 123.00
11 ▲ 1 Vital Spark 120.00
12 ▼ 4 pharvey 117.50

[PeteC]

British Grand Prix Results



pitsch 20.0
lindosfan 19.5
mwbrown 19.0
Terry 19.0
Parahandy 18.0
redzonerocker 17.0
bsdk1960 15.5
Pete 15.5
Vital Spark 13.5
JJBones 12.0
BigBoy 12.0
pharvey 0.0

Pharvey, you should get default picks if this is first time missed. I'll follow up when back later this month.

[pitsch]

Someone stole my yellow cap.
Because Rosberg got a penalty, but mercedes will appeal.

[pharvey]

British Grand Prix Results
Pharvey, you should get default picks if this is first time missed. I'll follow up when back later this month.

Could have sworn I picked.......

[Pleng]

Looking forward to the first corner with the two Mercedes drivers going for it

Unfortunately the FIA, seemingly intent on making the sport into a total farce, deprived us of that.

[Nereus]

Looking forward to the first corner with the two Mercedes drivers going for it

Unfortunately the FIA, seemingly intent on making the sport into a total farce, deprived us of that.

Yes, and in doing so introduced a big dangerous situation in the pit lane when the safety car withdrew.

[PeteC]

Nico Rosberg: Mercedes withdraw appeal after British Grand Prix
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/36768573

I'll update the pool results and standings in a few days. P.

[PeteC]

Final, revised results after the British GP. Seems they have assigned you points, Pharvey. Pete

redzonerocker 18.0
pitsch 17.5
Terry 17.0
lindosfan 17.0
mwbrown 16.5
Parahandy 16.0
Pete 16.0
pharvey 15.5
bsdk1960 13.5
Vital Spark 13.0
BigBoy 11.5
JJBones 11.5

1 - Parahandy 150.00
2 - redzonerocker 143.50 (Yellow Cap)
3 - pitsch 140.00
4 - mwbrown 137.50
5 ▲1 Terry 137.50
6 ▲1 lindosfan 135.00
7 ▲1 pharvey 133.00
8 ▼3 BigBoy 132.50
9 - bsdk1960 126.00
10 - JJBones 124.00
11 - Pete 123.50
12 - Vital Spark 119.50

[PeteC]

[pharvey]

Final, revised results after the British GP. Seems they have assigned you points, Pharvey. Pete

Still disagree as I'm surely owed 24 odd points? How can that barsteward RZR be that far ahead?

[Nereus]

F1 drivers must pit under new radio rules

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport ... les/#page1

Abhishek Takle - AAP on July 21, 2016, 8:43 pm

Formula One has clarified the rules on radio communication between teams and drivers in the wake of incidents that have cost competitors points this season.

The clarification from the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the sport's governing body, makes clear that a team can inform a driver of a problem with his car but must order him to enter the pits for a decision on what to do.

The technical directive, from Formula One race director Charlie Whiting ahead of Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, defines more clearly what teams can tell drivers during a race.

The document says "any message of this sort must include an irreversible instruction to enter the pits to rectify the problem or to retire the car".
The FIA has acted following some high-profile incidents relating to instructions from teams to drivers on the track.

At the British GP on July 10, Mercedes' Nico Rosberg was found to be in breach of the rules restricting what information could be conveyed.
The German, nursing a potentially terminal gearbox problem, was hit with a 10-second time penalty that demoted him from second to third after the team gave him instructions on how to get around it.
At the time, Mercedes, which decided not to challenge Rosberg's penalty, argued the messages were legal as the rules permitted communication regarding a terminal problem.

Force India's Sergio Perez crashed out on the last lap of the Austrian GP a week earlier with brake problems after the team felt the rules prevented them informing the Mexican of the issue.

Following the clarification, teams will be forced to bring a driver into the pits if they inform him of a critical problem where they will then be free to help him fix it or retire the car.

Coming into the pits will, however, cost the driver a significant chunk of time.

The fresh directive also clarifies that the radio restrictions will not apply if a car is in the pit lane, whereas earlier they kicked in as soon as the car left the garage.

[Nereus]

Rosberg to stay at Mercedes in F1 til 2018

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport ... 018/#page1

Formula One championship leader Nico Rosberg has signed a new contract that will keep him at Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton until the end of the 2018 season, the team said on Friday.

The team tweeted video of the 31-year-old German, runner-up to Britain's Hamilton in the championship for the past two years, signing the contract to race for the team for a further two seasons.

"We are delighted to announce that the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team has signed a two-year contract extension with Nico Rosberg for the 2017 and 2018 Formula One seasons," Mercedes later confirmed in a statement.

[PeteC]

Hungarian qualifying results:


1. Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 19.965s
2. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 20.108s
3. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull-TAG 1m 20.280s
4. Max Verstappen NED Red Bull-TAG 1m 20.557s
5. Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 20.874s
6. Carlos Sainz ESP Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 21.131s
7. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren-Honda 1m 21.211s
8. Jenson Button GBR McLaren-Honda 1m 21.597s
9. Nico Hulkenberg GER Force India-Mercedes 1m 21.823s
10. Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams-Mercedes 1m 22.182s

11. Romain Grosjean FRA Haas-Ferrari 1m 24.941s
12. Daniil Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 25.301s
13. Sergio Perez MEX Force India-Mercedes 1m 25.416s
14. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 25.435s
15. Esteban Gutierrez MEX Haas-Ferrari 1m 26.189s
16. Felipe Nasr BRA Sauber-Ferrari 1m 27.063s

17. Jolyon Palmer GBR Renault-Renault 1m 43.965s
18. Felipe Massa BRZ Williams-Mercedes 1m 43.999s
19. Kevin Magnussen DEN Renault-Renault 1m 44.543s
20. Marcus Ericsson SWE Sauber-Ferrari 1m 46.984s
21. Pascal Wehrlein GER Manor-Mercedes 1m 47.343s
22. Rio Haryanto INA Manor-Mercedes 1m 50.189s


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