Poll: European Grand Prix 2017, Baku - Race 8/20

[MooMoo444]

Looks like Palmer is going to miss qualifying due to the fire on his car.

That blows pole wide open

 

[Merlin5]

Eddy Jordan just did a film piece saying Petronas will be leaving the sport at the end of 2018 which will mean millions less money for Mercedes. He also mentioned about Mercedes-Benz supplying engines to McLaren, and he talked about Mercedes leaving the sport by 2020 with companies already queuing up to buy the company including a company called China F1 or something like that. Toto denied it all to Eddy saying it's fake news.

 

[SS-89]

Think merc 1-2, Vettel having to use PU1 which is down on power and kimi seems to be a tad off the merc pace.

 

[Glaucus]

lol at Alonsos interview, I think they just get confused about our speed. probably think we are pitting, but no this is our fast lap

 

[Flibster]

Red flag with 3:33 to go. They've stopped the clock too.

So it's going to be a 1 lap sprint at the end of the session.

 

[Glaucus]

LH should have already had it, without that mess up he might have even snuck into the 1:40s

 

[Flibster]

LH should have had it, without that mess up he might have even snuck into the 1:40s

He was about .3 up so even if he matched Bottas he would have done something around a 1:40.9

 

[Flibster]

1:40.593

Ferrari 1.1s slower.

 

[Glaucus]

wow

so much for just sneaking into the 40s

 

[el_dazza]

That's an outrageous lap.

 

[Merlin5]

Absolutely exceptional driving yet again from the Ham!

 

[Junglist]

66th... Not bad

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Incredible lap! He probably could have improved by another 2/10ths had he really pushed the track limits IMO.

Edit: LOL at this interviewer!

 

[MooMoo444]

Vettel seems nowhere at this track.

 

[cainer]

damn this geezer doing these interviews sucks hard

 

[Flibster]

Someone needs to take the Red Bull away from Valsecchi...

 

[Flibster]

Vettel saying he's not a big fan of excuses?

That's new. Normally it's is blue flags, backmarkers, traffic, tyres, and formally Renault...

 

[deuse]

What a lap from Hamilton

 

[Steampunk]

Hamilton pulls it out of the bag at the last moment, as he so often does.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Hamilton seemed to take a while to get comfortable in this car, but damn, when he did, he seems utterly unbeatable again.

As for Stroll, what a massive improvement. He was almost half a second faster in Q2 than Q3, Massa was less than 1/10th slower in Q3. So Stroll was almost half a second faster than Massa on their fastest laps. Considering where he's been that is a monumental improvement.