Grand Prix 2019 British Grand Prix Practice, Qualifying & Race Discussion

*Engage grumpy mode*

With no deal in place for 2020 this could well be the last British Grand Prix to be held at Silverstone for the foreseeable future. News stories out today suggest Liberty is now actively pursuing a London Street race to replace Silverstone for next year. This is just criminal in my opinion, the removal of good race tracks in place of street tracks and all for the purpose of money is just driving F1 into oblivion. Lets see how this one develops. Hopefully it is just a negotiating tactic by Liberty.

Strange one for me this race, I have lots of happy memories of visits and I love watching the coverage of what I truly think is one of the best tracks on the calendar. Yet actually visiting Silverstone is a mixed bag, yes the race is good, great views over a large percentage of the track, but the facilities particuarly for campers have always been under invested and a poor experience. In someways I can see why Liberty want to give them a kick up the ass just as Bernie did several times over the years.

I've been to Silverstone 5 times over the years but after the mud baths in 2011 and 2012 I swore I wasn't going back unless they put proper roads in the camp sites. They still haven't. I guess it's all irrelevant now, if the F1 circus is heading to London in the future it really will be a sport only for the rich as you will not only have the ticket cost but London hotel prices to add in as well. For old time sake I have added a link to my 2012 post below, lots of nice photos and a diary. GL's Silverstone Diary

*grumpy mode cancel*

On a lighter note.

What can we expect from this weekend? Well free live race coverage YAY. It's the only CH4 race to be shown in full and live for every session this year. Also if you love seeing Mercedes win, and who doesn't, I suspect that Mercedes will be back on top as they have always done well here in recent years with the exception of last year as Lewis ended up at the back after a first lap collision. Indeed Mercedes have won 5 out of the last 6 races here and Lewis has won 4 out of the last 5. Ferrari may need a bit of luck as they had last year if they are to win again.

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So on with the show.
 
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Good news on the new deal. That means us channel 4 viewers will continue to get one live race per year, lucky us :thumbsup::snigger:
 
What's going on with Haas and Rich Energy? Why have Rich terminated the sponsorship deal? Their tweet suggests it was due to poor performance but they also complain about PC attitude and F1 politics.
 
What's going on with Haas and Rich Energy? Why have Rich terminated the sponsorship deal? Their tweet suggests it was due to poor performance but they also complain about PC attitude and F1 politics.

Well, Gene Haas can cover the bills for a while.......

But in the end, there are always a flakey sponsor or two in F1.
 
for me Im still waiting for the apologies weve been hacked but it never coming & interesting to see what cars we get in germany. because by the minute this is getting more real, because the message was so beyond parody which that account has been for months that. sounds like someone hacked them

well for ages we have all suspected something dodgy from the fact that no one can locate the stuff to buy it despite spending 30m ish on main sponsorship. I hope the Williams extending rokit sponsorship for another 2 years is not a coincide, because that would be brilliant revenge served ice cold
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there an issue with Rich Energy and another company due to similar logos? Or am I mixing them up with someone else?
 
Thanks Sobriety :cheers: I thought there was something about another product with the same logo, I just couldn't be bothered to look it up.
 
England have just gotten through to the World Cup Cricket final and that means Channel 4 will air this which means they are going to need to shuffle the British Grand Prix to another channel

Well lets see which one is not going to be on Channel 4 then
 
Could be showers, some heavy and thundery this afternoon apparently which means FP2 might get interesting if that happens.
 
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