>Countdown to the Gran Premio dell' Emilia Romagna e del Made In Italy Pirelli150™ 309,049 all' Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari di Imola (BO): f1exposure.com/#/countdown
>News: LECPERRUS Verstappen and other drivers complaining that the Aston Martin safety car is 5 seconds a lap slower than the Merc safety car Bottas takes issue with Stroll’s racing tactics Tenth an “unimaginable” result for Albon after strategist predicted 19th Someone possibly dood at Goodwood revival? Formula-e happened today but noone cares There's an Indycar race tonight I think? Verstappen F1 fuel system issue ‘totally separate’ to Bahrain problem sez Horny Edd Straw's post race podcast is UP, driver ratings due tomorrow AM
It's poor for racing but it's a nice venue for looking at cars going zoom zoom brrrrrr The middle and final sector is some of the best corners on the calendar IMO
Jason Rogers
they will make us miss MWL VAG is a plague on motorsports
>Verstappen and other drivers complaining that the Aston Martin safety car is 5 seconds a lap slower than the Merc safety car why, how else is going to catch up to LEC?
Parker Taylor
VERSTAPPEN: ASTON MARTIN F1 SAFETY CAR ‘LIKE A TURTLE’ Red Bull driver Verstappen issued a surprise criticism of the Aston Martin Vantage safety car when asked by The Race what happened to Leclerc.
“It’s just that there’s so little grip because the safety car was driving so slowly,” Verstappen said in an effective defence of the Ferrari driver.
“It was like a turtle. Unbelievable. With that car, to drive 140km/h on the back straight where that was not a damaged car anymore, I don’t understand why we have to drive so slowly.
“We have to investigate. For sure the Mercedes[-AMG GT Black Series] safety car is faster because of the extra aero.
“The Aston Martin is really slow. It definitely needs more grip, because our tyres were stone cold.
“We went into the last corner and I could see Charles understeering, so I’m like ‘OK I’ll back off a bit more and get a better line’.
“But it’s pretty terrible, the way we are driving behind the safety car at the moment.”
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Mercedes F1 driver George Russell joked as a follow-up to Leclerc’s answer that “we don’t have the issue with the Mercedes AMG safety car” – although, in reality, there have regularly been complaints about the speed of safety cars over the years.
He then added: “On a serious note the Mercedes AMG is like five seconds, a lot quicker than the Aston Martin safety car, which is pretty substantial.”
To that, Leclerc replied: “We need to put a Ferrari so it’s then [another] five seconds quicker!”
they show up, spend billions to build an OP car, dominate for a decade while driving up the costs dramatically, smaller teams are priced out of the series, manufacturer teams leave because they don't stand a chance, finally they leave when they get bored and kill the racing series
Benjamin Garcia
>according to reliable sources on the grid wall, if George Russell wins the championship he will become a real boy.
max's restart strat is pretty stupid and will actually hurt him a lot of half of the circuits as the driver in front can use it to put him out of position going into turns
Angel Sanchez
Why are they complaining about the speed of the safety car? Why does it matter?
Logan Campbell
Good job from Alex scoring a point for Williams. How long did it take George to score for Williams?
not any more than the litres of cum i'll be pumping into her
Isaiah Adams
Been waiting for a Volkswagen Group team in F1 since forever. Hell, I actually remember that, back in 2006, there were rumours about Red Bull teaming up with VW -since their rally teams were backed by Volkswagen- and bringing back Schumacher as an advisor.
