Poll: Belgian Grand Prix 2017, Spa-Francorchamps - Race 12/20

[NooBish AbbZ]

More bad luck for Palmer. Being a **** for most of the rest of the season reduces the sympathy though.

Saw Channel 4 F1 tweet that he said 'it's a shame the car couldn't hang on', or something like that. Does he do anything other than moan? Does strike me as a ********...

 

[drunkenmaster]

That tyre oscillation looks terrible. Never seen it to that extent before, surely that could shake the rear of the car apart if it kept happening lap after lap? What a cracking pole lap from Lewis.

Lap after lap won't be too much of an issue, in qualifying they are giving it everything and taking everything out of the tires for laptime, in the race they need to protect tires and will have a heavier car, they won't push traction out of corners to that degree in the race but yes, i think if the cars were still doing that under lower loads I could see lots of parts on the rear of the car failing easily in the race. The danger there being if a vibration causes a crack but not a failure then down the end of a straight at 320kph or something they slam on the brakes and the rear fails.


For the first time in ages I barely watched practice, I had a cursory glance at posts on reddit for what happened but, was this seen in practice at all? If not it really suggests this only started when the cars were in absolutely full qualifying pace and wouldn't happen at race pace.

 

[Glaucus]

Apparently the wheel was on wrong anyway. So won't be an issue anyway.
Although I don't really understand how you put on a wheel wrong and how it results in that wave.

 

[Mr Jack]

That tyre oscillation looks terrible. Never seen it to that extent before, surely that could shake the rear of the car apart if it kept happening lap after lap? What a cracking pole lap from Lewis.

I'm not sure to what extent it is new and to what extent it's merely become visible with ultra-slomo cameras at the right track position.

 

[Big Spender]

Apparently the wheel was on wrong anyway. So won't be an issue anyway.
Although I don't really understand how you put on a wheel wrong and how it results in that wave.

Perhaps the tyre was mounted on the rim wrong and I don't know but maybe the tyres are designed with a difference in inside edge and outside edge so if the tyre was mounted the wrong way round then the outside edge would be on the inside edge now. Just a theory

 

[Flibster]

Pirelli are investigating the tyre wobble. Oh dear... could be another Pirelli issue.

You do often see the tyres deform slightly under hard acceleration, but not skip around like that.

 

[MooMoo444]

Heres to a good race

 

[Merlin5]

Blimey, not a single crash at the start. That has to be a first

 

[MooMoo444]

Alonso

 

[UTmaniac]

Glad I didn't solely postpone my bike ride solely because of this race, while it's my favourite track, I'm not expecting much "racing."

Main main ride postponement is the midday sun and not wanting the weight penalty of ~3Kg of water for a 3+ hour ride up hills.

 

[MooMoo444]

Poor Fernando, already on the radio slamming honda.

 

[Flibster]

Verstappen slow.

Aaand stopped. He's a car breaker.

 

[RJC]

Max out

 

[MooMoo444]

The red bull curse is with Max this year.

 

[UTmaniac]

Max is a braver man than me, climbing Eau Rouge on track with no power, while those behind approach at 300+ kph.

 

[Flibster]

Just seen this. Alonso dropped out of Q3 lap due to his Honda system getting confused after he took Pouhon flat out.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-qualifying-spa-honda-mclaren-945396/

 

[Flibster]

Raikkonen under investigation. Failing to slow under yellow flags.

 

[MooMoo444]

Perez cuts corner making 2 places, seems a bit dodge.

 

[Flibster]

Ouch... 10 second stop and go penalty for failing to slow for double waved yellow flags.

So they think that it's the same seriousness as deliberately hitting another car...

 

[MooMoo444]

wow that is incredibly severe for Kimi