Grand Prix 2024 Spanish, Austrian, and British Grand Prix Practice, Qualifying & Race Discussion

This weekend see the start of a "triple header" of F1 races, starting at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, in Spain, then on to the Red Bull Ring, for the Austrian Grand Prix on 30th June, and ending at Silverstone, for the British Grand Prix, on the 7th July. This will test the stamina of the team personnel, especially if we have a repeat of the start to the Austrian GP in 1987, where it took the grid three goes to make it past the first corner.


The third restart was nearly two hours after the race was supposed to start. You can imagine nowadays that the TV companies would be briefing their legal team, ready to sue the drivers for interrupting their schedule.

Spain is not usually too exciting, but let's not put the cart before the horse, it may surprise us. And testing was in Bahrain (wasn't it?), so the teams don't have mountains of data to tell them how to set the car up. McLaren have found some pace, and on the right circuit the Ferrari's look quick. Even Mercedes claim to have found some speed in their car, although none are, as yet, quite as fast the the Red Bull in Max Verstappen's hands. Here are the times for the Spanish race (BST), which for some reason F1.com insist on listing in reverse date order :dunno:.

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Austria has a Sprint race, so only one practice session on Friday

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There is no Sprint race at Silverstone this year.

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If, like me, your significant other is not a great sports fan the next few weeks will be punctuated with comments such as "I can't believe your watching Afghanistan versus India" or "do you really need to watch Georgia versus Ukraine?". Need, no. Want, yes.

So sit back, fill a glass with whatever beverage is your choice, and enjoy numerous multi-millionaires getting aggy because they haven't won.
 
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F1Brits_90 said:
the sprint race move was weird omen for what was to come. because again he outbraked himself & then somehow assuming a terrible exit lost the lead despite having a DRS advantage & even overtook by piastri

you 1 thing that has been forgotten because of the huge controversy. how much the relationship has now dedirated between the alpine drivers. i expect him overtaking another driver. bit frustrated feeling like your held up. but not your teammate
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Was it really that friendly to start with
 
Given its a new rivalry perhaps those people saying it was too expensive to go to Silverstone might now flog to the race and not whine about the ticket prices

Hamilton is definitely under dog this week
 
I think this year is going to be Lando and George, I think that Lewis doesn't have it any more to to consistently be in the top four, the car helps but if he and Ferrari think there's a WDC for him the need a car like last years RB in terms of dominance for him to do it, at the moment he is a poor second to George, and when he does beat him it's due to team tactical decisions with tyres.
 
So much for them having sorted the traffic out getting in and out of Silverstone then.

Imagine how much worse it would have been had they actually sold out.
 
Was Mercedes sand bagging on FP2 as with Max, the figures don't ring true, neither teams seemed looking at a qually time, either running a high fuel load to assess the soft or trying something else, there's no way they are that slow.
 
Verstappen doesn't often top the time sheets in Practice. Austra was a notable departure from that presumably due to it being Red Bull's home GP
 
cider_and_toast said:
So much for them having sorted the traffic out getting in and out of Silverstone then.

Imagine how much worse it would have been had they actually sold out.
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90 mins later he told us he had got 5 miles away. so travelled 7 miles in a hour & a half

i dont know how we consistently having these issues. its not a new problem its probably happened for 40yrs
 
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It's probably impossible to overcome that amount of vehicles travelling into a natural bottleneck without very expensively adding 5 or six new one way roads exclusively for Silverstone traffic staring at least 6 miles away leading to individual car parks. Still expensive but an circular elevated 4 lane highway surrounding the circuit with exits to the car parks, even then there is the problem of checking tickets and those taking the wrong exit and cocking the whole thing up because there will be no exit until the end of play for the day.
 
things got very interesting on sky sports F1, simon said he was going to be probing mike krack, now i didnt think that was allowed before the watershed
 
no surprise to anyone this

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809591368001466725

not sure what was worse was sheer desperation in his voice to try to rejoin or bringing out the red flag. he must be under huge pressure. & with horners comments yesterday "we thought the contract would help, it hasnt" & shaking his head. does perez have a seat after the summer break

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Why do Channel 4 keep saying it's the first 123 for Brits qualifying since 1968, it was only 1&2 in 68 Chris Amon was a New Zealander, ****ing researchers
 
Jim Clark died before the 68 GP it was actually Graham Hill and Jackie Oliver, I went to Brands Hatch in 68 on April 7th for a sports car race Jim Clark was supposed to be driving a new prototype Ford sports GT but went to Hockenheim for a F2 race Lotus had no chance of winning. On the way back the BBC announced Jim had been killed.
 
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done some digging. its the 1st all british front row at the British GP since 1977 with James Hunt & John Watson. next previous best was 1995 when Hill & Coulthard had qualified 1-3

quite surprising that Russell is the 1st British driver that isnt Lewis to be on pole at British GP since Damon Hill
 

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