Austrian Grand Prix 2016, Spielberg - Race 9/21

Skeeter · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Psi Jay said:
I missed the WDC standings flash up, what's the gap between Ros and Ham now please?

Pending...

timmeh · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Skeeter said:
Rosberg destroyed his ultras in 10 laps while Hamilton made them go 20+. There was zero reason to put Hamilton on the Softs.

Wasn't that down to Hamilton having a GP2 car behind him for a bit of the opening stint and Rosberg having to deal with traffic?

steve45 · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Nico under investigation? for causing accident and not stopping with badly damaged car.

thecremeegg · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

A penalty for Rosberg would be lovely!

drunkenmaster · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Skeeter said:
Rosberg destroyed his ultras in 10 laps while Hamilton made them go 20+. There was zero reason to put Hamilton on the Softs.

yes there is, softer tires are generally always faster for qualifying. Over a stint a softer tire is simply not always faster. Sometimes teams put a driver on mediums over softs not because they need the tires to last but because the tires were actually working better in the conditions.

MooMoo444 · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Potential penalty for Rosberg

UTmaniac · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

CaptainRAVE said:
German fans not happy. Good.

Or were they maybe some right-wing Austrians? Their recent President election is being re-run after some dodgy things happening (kids getting a vote; polling boxes opened by unauthorised people; whole villages having votes missing etc.), the right-wing candidate gets another chance to be elected after losing the first election by ~30000 votes.

MagicBoy · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Flibster said:
Rosberg under investigation - Causing a collision and failing to stop with a seriously damaged car.

Only investigating Rosberg too. So Hamilton is in the clear.

DSQ plus ban hopefully.

smr · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:41

Kimi looks ecstatically at the trophy.

stulid · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

MagicBoy said:
I had to rewind for that.

Image please.

Glaucus · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

so two potential penalties.

utajoker · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

Psycho Ned said:
Best trophies of the season for me, something different

ordered them from here i think. http://www.tracksculptures.com/

on my wish list.

LzR · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

Skeeter said:
Pending...

Ha ha good one

Skeeter · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

Steedie said:
Would be amazing if he got a big penalty

It will be the equivalent of a black flag to fix a broken car, so a drive through which will be 25 second penalty.

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

Hopefully Rosberg gets a time penalty that takes points off him, not just a grid penalty next race.

Psycho Ned · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:42

Fans booing Lewis (not Nico for a change!) but for once I don't think you can even argue for both sides of the case. He was over half a car length ahead on the outside took a wide line and just got ran into!

CaptainRAVE · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:43

Eurovision...cringe!

smr · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:43

Rofl good old ocuk... rosberg potential penalty.. ok it kinda sank in the first time.. dont need it repeating 15 times lol.

MooMoo444 · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:43

She's a QT

drunkenmaster · 3 Jul 2016 at 14:43

timmeh said:
Wasn't that down to Hamilton having a GP2 car behind him for a bit of the opening stint and Rosberg having to deal with traffic?

Hamilton frequently makes his tires last longer. Being in traffic is no where near the tire killer people make it out to be. Rosberg was just driving to a two stint pace, Hamilton was driving to a one stint pace. If Ham had been driving to a two stint pace the whole race he'd have never been behind Rosberg, not by a mile.