2016 F1 News and Prediction Tournament

[Pleng]

Meanwhile Alonso thinks it will be an exciting race and Hamilton doesn't think it's extreme enough.

[PeteC]

Baku qualifying results. Uggggh...Hamilton crashes and starts 10th.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/36567285

1. Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 42.758s
2. Sergio Perez MEX Force India-Mercedes 1m 43.515s*
3. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull-TAG Heuer 1m 43.966s
4. Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 43.966s
5. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 44.269s
6. Felipe Massa BRZ Williams-Mercedes 1m 44.483s
7. Daniil Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 44.717s
8. Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams-Mercedes 1m 45.246s
9. Max Verstappen NED Red Bull-TAG Heuer 1m 45.570s
10. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes-Mercedes 2m 01.954s

11. Romain Grosjean FRA Haas-Ferrari 1m 44.755s
12. Nico Hulkenberg GER Force India-Mercedes 1m 44.824s
13. Carlos Sainz Jr ESP Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 45.000s
14. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren-Honda 1m 45.270s
15. Esteban Gutierrez MEX Haas-Ferrari 1m 45.349s
16. Felipe Nasr BRZ Sauber-Ferrari 1m 46.048s

17. Rio Haryanto INA MRT-Mercedes 1m 45.665s
18. Pascal Wehrlein GER MRT-Mercedes 1m 45.750s
19. Jenson Button GBR McLaren-Honda 1m 45.804s
20. Marcus Ericsson SWE Sauber-Ferrari 1m 46.231s
21. Kevin Magnussen DEN Renault-Renault 1m 46.348s
22. Jolyon Palmer GBR Renault-Renault 1m 46.394s

Read more at http://www.crash.net/f1/results/231380/ ... WCFotSV.99

[pharvey]

Seems to be an incredibly narrow track in places - Hamilton working his way up the order.......

[EDIT] Obviously understand the "street track", but still.....

[PeteC]

Baku results:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/36571236

1. Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes-Mercedes 51 laps 1h 32m 52.366s
2. Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari-Ferrari +16.6s
3. Sergio Perez MEX Force India-Mercedes +25.2s
4. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Ferrari-Ferrari +33.1s
5. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes-Mercedes +56.3s
6. Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams-Mercedes +60.8s
7. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull-TAG Heuer +69.2s
8. Max Verstappen NED Red Bull-TAG Heuer +70.6s
9. Nico Hulkenberg GER Force India-Mercedes +77.7s
10. Felipe Massa BRZ Williams-Mercedes +85.3s

11. Jenson Button GBR McLaren-Honda +1m 44.8s
12. Felipe Nasr BRZ Sauber-Ferrari +1 lap
13. Romain Grosjean FRA Haas-Ferrari +1 lap
14. Kevin Magnussen DEN Renault-Renault +1 lap
15. Jolyon Palmer GBR Renault-Renault +1 lap
16. Esteban Gutierrez MEX Haas-Ferrari +1 lap
17. Marcus Ericsson SWE Sauber-Ferrari +1 lap
18. Rio Haryanto INA MRT-Mercedes +2 laps

Not Classified

Rtd. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren-Honda 42 laps completed
Rtd. Pascal Wehrlein GER MRT-Mercedes 39 laps completed
Rtd. Carlos Sainz Jr ESP Toro Rosso-Ferrari 31 laps completed
Rtd. Daniil Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso-Ferrari 6 laps completed

Fastest lap

Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 46.485s Lap 48

Read more at http://www.crash.net/f1/results/231441/ ... F1Q7rII.99

[PeteC]

Rosberg wins, Hamilton has problems, and Vettel is getting closer. Not as bad a race as I anticipated, and Baku adds some flavour and diversity to the schedule. Let's see if it's continued next year.

Bsdk1960 had the best race with 18 points. Here is an example of someone who waited until after qualifying to make picks and won. So, it is possible to forego the early bonus point and qualifying point and come out on top. No one picked Rosberg to have the pole, it appears checking quickly everyone picked Hamilton.

The top 3 are now Parahandy, RZR and Pitsch.

1 - Parahandy 117.50
2 - redzonerocker 113.00
3 ▲1 pitsch 109.00
4 ▼1 mwbrown 108.50
5 ▲2 BigBoy 108.00
6 - lindosfan 106.50
7 ▲1 Terry 106.00
8 ▼3 pharvey 104.50
9 ▲1 JJBones 101.00
10 ▲1 bsdk1960 99.00 (Yellow Cap)
11 ▼2 Vital Spark 97.50
12 - Pete 92.00

Next up is Austria. Good luck to all! (Note: I'm not going to be around for the Austrian or British GP. Please check results yourselves and I'll summarize when back later in July.) Pete

https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-we ... stria.html

Austrian GP

Qualifying

Saturday 2 Jul 14:00 (local)
Saturday 2 Jul 19:00 (Thai time)

Race

Sunday 3 Jul 14:00 (local)
Sunday 3 Jul 19:00 (Thai time)

[PeteC]

[Nereus]

Ricciardo excited by Ferrari links

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport ... inks/#stop

Daniel Ricciardo says he would jump at the chance to join Ferrari as speculation grows about the future of Kimi Raikkonen with the Italian Formula One giants.

Ricciardo is regarded as the best young talents in the sport and has endured a frustrating season with Red Bull with off-track bungling costing the West Australian two race victories this season.
The 26-year-old's contract with Red Bull expiries at the end of next year and he's believed to be top of Ferrari's wish list to replace Raikkonen, with the team yet to decide if they want to keep the veteran Finn for a fourth year.

[PeteC]

Austrian qualifying:

http://m.crash.net/f1/results/231780/1/ ... sults.html

[PeteC]

F1


Austrian Grand Prix


1 - Parahandy 134.00 (Yellow Cap)
2 - redzonerocker 125.50
3 - pitsch 122.50
4 - mwbrown 121.00
5 - BigBoy 121.00
6 ▲ 1 Terry 120.50
7 ▼ 1 lindosfan 118.00
8 - pharvey 117.50
9 ▲ 1 bsdk1960 112.50
10 ▼ 1 JJBones 112.50
11 ▲ 1 Pete 107.50
12 ▼ 1 Vital Spark 106.50

[PeteC]

Austrian GP scores:

Parahandy 16.5
Pete 15.5
Terry 14.5
bsdk1960 13.5
pitsch 13.5
BigBoy 13.0
pharvey 13.0
mwbrown 12.5
redzonerocker 12.5
lindosfan 11.5
JJBones 11.5
Vital Spark 9.0

[PeteC]

http://m.crash.net/f1/race-report/23181 ... clash.html

[PeteC]

http://m.crash.net/f1/results/231819/1/ ... sults.html

[PeteC]

British GP qualifying:

Driver Team Fastest Lap
1 HAM Mercedes 1:29.287
2 ROS Mercedes 1:29.606
3 VPN Red Bull 1:30.313
4 RIC Red Bull 1:30.618
5 RAI Ferrari 1:30.881
6 VET Ferrari 1:31.490
7 BOT Williams 1:31.557
8 HUL Force India 1:31.920
9 SAI Toro Rosso 1:31.989
10 ALO McLaren 1:32.343
11 PER Force India 1:31.875
12 MAS Williams 1:32.002
13 GRO Haas F1 1:32.050
14 GUT Haas F1 1:32.241
15 KVY Toro Rosso 1:32.306
16 MAG Renault 1:37.060
17 BUT McLaren 1:32.788
18 PAL Renault 1:32.905
19 HAR Manor 1:33.098
20 WEH Manor 1:33.151
21 NAS Sauber 1:33.544
22 ERI Sauber

[pharvey]

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[Nereus]

Now we have the manufacturer of those wonderful tyres dictating how they should be used:

http://www.eurosport.com/formula-1/pire ... tory.shtml

Pirelli has issued Formula 1 teams with recommended maximum stint lengths for each of its tyres compounds for the first time at this weekend's British Grand Prix.

The tyre supplier stressed to teams that they should still base their race strategies around their own wear data, rather than taking the number of laps given by Pirelli as a guarantee of tyre life.

Pirelli has suggested nobody should exceed 26 laps on the hard tyre, 28 laps on the medium, and 15 laps on the soft compound in Sunday's race at Silverstone.
It explained that the medium is predicted to last longer than the hard because the harder compound has experienced some graining this weekend.

"Our advice is not to exceed these numbers during the race," Pirelli added.

Its pre-race prediction for the best strategy is a two-stopper, featuring two 12-lap stints on the soft tyres and a 28-lap stint on the medium.

In last weekend's Austrian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel suffered a spectacular tyre failure while stretching the life of his first set of tyres, which had completed 29 laps of the Red Bull Ring including mileage from qualifying.