Poll: Italian Grand Prix 2016, Monza - Race 14/21

[Glaucus]

Just hope hammy gets a good start. Especially with Ferrari behind.

They must have set cars up differently, ros is over 3kph slower in speed trap. Or maybe older spec engine.

 

[Jono8]

half a second. wowzers.

 

[Housey]

That is a big difference in the same car.

On a track like Monza it's massive actually.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Wehrlein going to start from 13th, and often has good starts... that will be very interesting to see.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

Would be interesting to see what percentage of pole starters are still 1st after the chicane. Its a bit of trek between starting line and the 1st corner.

 

[muon]

Haas look like they could genuinely finish a driver above Torro Rosso and Mclaren at the end of the year.

 

[Mr Jack]

Would love half the tyre rules to be scrapped.

Yup, they're really stupid and over-complicated. Drop the rules about carrying tyres through, they just make strategy less interesting; and drop the required tyre type in the race, just make them run two tyre types. Also consider dropping the rule about all the tyres needing to the same type and let them run different types front and rear like MotoGP if they want to.

 

[MooMoo444]

Hamilton showing why hes miles better than Rosberg. 0.5seconds in the same car is huge.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I do like gp2, it all gets so messy!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Wow, the safety car picks up the wrong car and decides the outcome of the race. What a mess! Glad the FIA don't just screw up F1

Haha, the safety car now waving cars by. This is hilariously amateur.

That said, F1 has a lot to learn. GP2 is way more entertaining.

 

[TaKeN]

Button is retiring at the end of the season

 

[drunkenmaster]

The strange thing about that is, got to mean almost certainly Van in at Mclaren, but Perez appears to have committed to FI so who takes the Williams seat? Wehrlein?

Wehrlein is looking impressive for that car but he's completely untested and Merc just gave a 2 year deal was it to Rosberg. So a year or two in Williams would work great for Wehrlein, see what he can do in a more competitive but not top car, Merc get to test him out before maybe making him the no.2 in a couple of years.

Otherwise I can't really see any big names wanting the second Williams seat, Perez could change his mind but nothing about the WIlliams team or setup suggests forward momentum while FI are currently beating them and have been improving at a far better rate.

 

[Flibster]

Yup. Button out, Vandoorne in.

http://www.formula1.com/en/latest/h...ck-vandoorne-partner-alonso-mclaren-2017.html

Perez has resigned for Force India after the few rumours of him moving to Williams so Wherlein in the Williams would be interesting to see. Up alongside Bottas.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Button has had a good run to be fair. Sucks to go out with McLaren in such a sorry state though, but at least he hasn't had much pressure and expectation on him for a while.

 

[MooMoo444]

Button is retiring at the end of the season

“To be clear, I’m very definitely not retiring,”

 

[Flibster]

Ummm...

Has anyone checked on SMR recently? May want to take his shoelaces away as well as anything sharp from his vicinity.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

Ummm...

Has anyone checked on SMR recently? May want to take his shoelaces away as well as anything sharp from his vicinity.

 

[elmuzzy66.]

^^
Sounds like FIA stewards wrote that

 

[Mr Jack]

Yup. Button out, Vandoorne in.

I'm really glad to see Vandoorne get a seat; well deserved.

 

[utajoker]

He could have waited for the next GP to announce, stealing Massa's thunder!