Poll: British Grand Prix 2021, Silverstone - Race 10/23

Rate the 2021 British Grand Prix out of ten

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englishpremier said:
The Sprint race is too risky for some to even bother doing anything, and others have nothing to lose by just sending one up the inside.

Bottas for example has little to lose by sending one on Max or Lewis for that matter. The top two, aren't going to want to risk getting into a dirty fight with him and potentially running wide and finishing 7, or tangling and finishing 17th.
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They were just talking about this now in FP2.

As for Bottas, I'm not sure why they talking about helping Lewis. Not even 1/2 way through the season yet, and anything could happen with COVID, or injuries etc... He needs to be scoring maximum points for himself.
 
What exactly are they hoping for the sprint race to offer? take pit stops out of F1 and very little happens besides a few cheap DRS overtakes (depending on track) and with the talent and excessive safety regulations in F1 today chances are that half of the 17 laps will be spent behind the safety car.
 
englishpremier said:
Is there such a thing as a casual F1 viewer? I would imagine that it is too technical for that. I've met a fair few people into F1 and they all know their stuff. I've never met anyone who's take or leave, or that will only watch the odd race here and there. Interestingly, many of the F1 fans I've met have no interest in motorsport on the whole. It's just F1, or MotoGP.
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Most sports can have casual viewers that miss some of the nuances. I will typically watch perhaps 5-10 races a season these days. I couldn't even tell you who is 3rd in the championship right now without looking it up. In the 90s (Mansell / D.Hill era), I followed it a lot closer but that was in part because it was on terrestrial TV whereas other sports like football weren't.
I guess the average man on the street would class me as more than a 'casual' but as you said a good chunk of F1 fans will be all over it, so I'd certainly be casual in their eyes.

An example would be, with tyres I know you are now limited to having to use a specified collection of tyres across the weekend, effectively mandating switching to a different compound at some point, but I couldn't tell you the specific details without looking it up. Generally what happens with F1 is, every now and then I'll see a race that piques my interest again, a few years ago there was a wet race in Canada where Button did really well, marshalls sprinting out to retrieve debris from the track and that sort of reinvigorated my interest for a bit, but then there will be other times I'm sat watching a procession and just end up mindlessly swiping on my phone with it in the background.

A friend of mine is into both MotoGP (goes to races) and F1 in a big way.

edit: I guess the point of my post was, some sort of innovation like sprint race, even if it ends up being a farce and maybe even less exciting than normal qualifying in the eyes of hardcore fans, is the sort of thing that makes me take a look (rightly or wrongly).
 
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The whole weekend so far has come across like an Americans wet dream. Lots of hyping up the races, the setup and the drivers.

The weird gushing over Silverstone like god himself made it...like come on its a great track but let's not get too carried away.

All just feels really tacky, like they kinda know they ****** up already with the format but they 'need' it to work.
 
I think it'll end up fairly dull at the front as a point here or there isn't worth the risk. If Max is 2nd on the last lap does he take a punt up the inside and potentially knock himself out of Sunday or does he take his 2 points and work out a strategy to win on Sunday? He'll back off every day.

Lower down maybe they'll have a bit more rough and tumble.

Baring in mind all the races I've seen here this weekend (W Series and F2) have been proper dull!
 
Isn't a pit stop at Silverstone faster than completing a lap? So so it might make sense to make a stop.

iamtheoneneo said:
The whole weekend so far has come across like an Americans wet dream. Lots of hyping up the races, the setup and the drivers.

The weird gushing over Silverstone like god himself made it...like come on its a great track but let's not get too carried away.

All just feels really tacky, like they kinda know they ****** up already with the format but they 'need' it to work.
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Thay have that weird gushing every year, which is one of the reasons I don't Silverstone. The other is that it's too long for MotoGP when that ran there.
 
So with this format of the sprint race deciding the grid tomorrow what's to stop teams using their B drivers to take out their rivals when the opportunity arises? ie. Perez colliding with Hamilton or Bottas with Verstappen.
 
Tyres time...

Hamilton - New Medium
Verstappen - New Medium
Bottas - Used Soft
Leclerc - New Medium
Perez - New Medium
Norris - New Medium
Ricciardo - New Medium
Russell - New Medium
Sainz - New Medium
Vettel - USed Medium
Alonso - New Soft
Gasly - New Medium
Ocon - New Soft
Giovinazzi - New Medium
Stroll - Used Medium
Tsunoda - New Medium
Raikkonen - New Soft
Latifi - New Medium
Schumacher - New Medium
Mazepin - New Medium
 
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