British Grand Prix 2016, Silverstone - Race 10/21

Glaucus said:
no its not, the other year when first brought in, it was far less strict. there's a huge list what can and cant be said. this has been banned specifically. nothing to do with codes or anything else. for some reason they want to ban this.
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So what you are effectively saying is that the FIA intended reliability issues to always result in DNFs.

I simply do not believe that to be the case.

In fact one of the permitted messages is the mitigating of "loss of function" of specific items, as long as performance doesn't end up higher than before the "loss of function".
 
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I think the FIA have drawn a line in the sand.

From now on teams just need to work out if the problem will cost them 10 seconds over the entire race, if it will, then send the message, it it won't - don't send it.

Pretty sure if merc had known that would have been the price in Baku they would have told Lewis what to do.
 
Average race overall I thought. It was really neutered by the stupid decision to start behind the safety car. Yes, there were plenty of parts of the track with standing water but the sun was shining and there was no more rain - let them race.

Rosberg was always going to be the villain at this race: home race for Hamilton and immediately after Austria. But just for balance, I don't see why there's so much anger against him? Like many other drivers this year, he just asked the question. The engineer can refuse to answer and tell him so, or in this case answer the question and risk sucking up a penalty.

Clear penalty imo - brings in perspective the problems that Perez had in Austria where the team were unable to help him and his brakes subsequently fail causing him to not only end the race but to crash. The rule is stupid and incompatible with the complexity of the cars.

Cracking race by Hamilton though, absolutely brilliant.
 
Watching some of the highlights back it was great to see Hamilton absolutely on the edge with the car darting about in the early stages. He really is brilliant in those conditions, especially at Silverstone.

I would love to see max in the other car to replace Rosberg. Let's get someone in there who isn't obsessed with Hamilton and who can actually hold his own without cheating or needing preferential treatment from the team.
 
Ugh. 'Greatest opening lap of all time'? No. Not even close.

Had Verstappen been in second place Hamilton wouldn't have been 3.7 seconds in the lead.

This is now the second race in succession in which Verstappen has beaten his highly regarded team-mate Daniel Ricciardo fair and square... To be fair, Ricciardo was, as Red Bull team boss Christian Horner pointed out, disadvantaged by the deployment of the virtual safety car on lap seven.
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Well that's not exactly 'fair and square' then is it? Especially as Ricciardo pulled over 5 seconds back on Verstappen after the stops. God, Benson is such a tool.
 
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Spunkey said:
Ugh. 'Greatest opening lap of all time'? No. Not even close.

Had Verstappen been in second place Hamilton wouldn't have been 3.7 seconds in the lead.

Well that's not exactly 'fair and square' then is it? Especially as Ricciardo pulled over 5 seconds back on Verstappen after the stops. God, Benson is such a tool.
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Unfortunately Benson is not the only 'Chief Writer' at the BBC who has a hard'on for specific people or teams. Phil McNulty (McNumpty) is just as bad, twisting every story he writes into something about Man United.

Coupling this with the tabloid like head lines / writing that are more and more prevalent these days with the BBC
 
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