2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

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Who will win the British Grand Prix?

Sebastian Vettel
5
19%
Fernando Alonso
6
23%
Kimi Raikkonen
4
15%
Lewis Hamilton
4
15%
Mark Webber
4
15%
Nico Rosberg
2
8%
Felipe Massa
1
4%
Paul Di Resta
0
No votes
Romain Grosjean
0
No votes
Jenson Button
0
No votes
Other
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 26

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by donald29 » 30 Jun 2013, 18:05

Listened to the race on the wireless, will watch it later but just saw the BBC News report. Massa's tyre failure with the spin looked the most spectacular, remarkable he could continue.

There are questions to be answered, but my god Hamilton is annoying me more than ever. He's spent ages moping around lately (apart from yesterday) then gets on his high horse after the race. Yes he has every right to be disappointed, but I didn't like his tone in the BBC interview at all. I preferred the moping! He was getting high and mighty about safety, but that's not what he was really fussed about. It was about losing the race. I felt the same when Vettel and Red Bull were trying to get the tyres changed.

And on Rosberg, I'd add to what mikhailv said that he only won the race by 0.7s... If Webber backed off and Rosberg didn't and he eeked out a few extra tenths...

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by mikhailv » 30 Jun 2013, 18:13

A PURPLE under yellow flags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats disgusting!

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by donald29 » 30 Jun 2013, 18:13

Interesting point, were the teams using the left hand rears on the right?

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Post by mikhailv » 30 Jun 2013, 18:17

donald29 wrote:Interesting point, were the teams using the left hand rears on the right?
lol, ofcourse they were. Pirelli say so.

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by donald29 » 30 Jun 2013, 18:20

Wonder if that contributed, teams not using the tyres how they were intended...

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by Treacle » 30 Jun 2013, 18:22

mikhailv wrote:A PURPLE under yellow flags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats disgusting!
That should have earned him a 5-place penalty for Germany... Let him keep the win, but Mercedes is getting away with so much lately.
A reprimand means nothing...
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Post by mikhailv » 30 Jun 2013, 18:29

Treacle wrote:
mikhailv wrote:A PURPLE under yellow flags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats disgusting!
That should have earned him a 5-place penalty for Germany... Let him keep the win, but Mercedes is getting away with so much lately.
A reprimand means nothing...
Yeah but neither does a 5 place penalty really. 'Dont worry, go set a purple sector when marshalls are on track, even though one died last race, and you can win the race, just start 5 places back at your home race! Oh wait, we dont want a race-winning german driver and team with a penalty at their home race! Sod it, reprimand'.

if maldanado did it, it would be a DSQ. The disparity of this sport is disgusting. Its utterly ludicrous.

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Post by Vlad-SRB » 30 Jun 2013, 19:00

It seems that Mercedes is slowly taking the role of "Being impossible to punish" team. I mean, really, what else do we need? And, yes, that was an unsafe release by Ferrari.
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Post by F1EA » 30 Jun 2013, 20:46

BTW big thanks to the "on site" reporters for putting up cool pictures and anecdotes from the action. :)

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Post by phil1993 » 30 Jun 2013, 21:40

F1EA wrote:BTW big thanks to the "on site" reporters for putting up cool pictures and anecdotes from the action. :)
No problem, it was brilliant.

Felipe Massa was pretty angry post-race and refused to rule out the possibility of a driver protest
http://www.f1zone.net/news/massa-not-ru ... ott/19587/

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by Ether » 01 Jul 2013, 03:12

mikhailv wrote:Rosberg escaped penalty then. I dont want him to lose the win or anything, but considering a marshal died last race, and he was setting fast times under double yellows with marshals on track? Surely a 3-place penalty would suffice. I mean, we lost a marshal last week and the race winner goes and belts it through the sector. Its not a great example is it?

Also surprised Alonso didnt get a penalty for the unsafe release. Did he not get anything because he recognised and stopped for Rogro or what?
If that happened and if my calculations are correct: then it would be Webber, Hamilton, then Rosberg..
Alonso would be not as close as it is right now. Do you think it's okay? :shhh: for the sake of spicing up the championship fighting Vettel on top, I think we need Alonso as close as possible :lol:

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by mikhailv » 01 Jul 2013, 06:41

Ether wrote:
mikhailv wrote:Rosberg escaped penalty then. I dont want him to lose the win or anything, but considering a marshal died last race, and he was setting fast times under double yellows with marshals on track? Surely a 3-place penalty would suffice. I mean, we lost a marshal last week and the race winner goes and belts it through the sector. Its not a great example is it?

Also surprised Alonso didnt get a penalty for the unsafe release. Did he not get anything because he recognised and stopped for Rogro or what?
If that happened and if my calculations are correct: then it would be Webber, Hamilton, then Rosberg..
Alonso would be not as close as it is right now. Do you think it's okay? :shhh: for the sake of spicing up the championship fighting Vettel on top, I think we need Alonso as close as possible :lol:
rules are rules. I dont know how Alonso got away with it

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by Joey Zyla » 01 Jul 2013, 07:24

With Vettel's unfortunate retirement, Raikkonen is the only driver to have scored points in every race this season.

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Re: 2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix

Post by majidasadi » 01 Jul 2013, 09:25

Last time a driver won the championship without scoring a point in British Grand Prix was 1999.
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