Poll: Official 2023 British Grand Prix Thread - Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone - Round 11

[Mr Jack]

shocking for McLaren, but then Piastri hasn't been better

That's just not true. Piastri has been much closer to Norris than DR was - and Piastri is a rookie, he's getting better all the time.

 

[Jono8]

Be interesting to see McLaren's race pace tomorrow.

 

[Skyboat]

Norris - We couldn't have had a better result here today, apart from Max, again. He ruins everything.

Good job they're friends. Imagine if Lewis said this, I think the Internet might actually explode for good

 

[Flibster]

So, given how happy Zak Brown is, out of the points on race pace or 2 DNF's?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Huge cheer for Norris...

Silence for Verstappen...

British crowd, not surprising.

 

[Slam62]

British crowd, not surprising.

Goddam are they all British?

 

[Jono8]

Just realised how mega close 2-7 is. Only separated by 2.5 tenths .

Race should therefore be quite interesting. If Mercs race pace leapfrogs McLaren's and Ferraris like it has done in quite a few times this season, they might actually be in with a shout of a podium.

 

[Mesai]

British crowd, not surprising.

Nothing unites them more than disliking a foreigner doing a better job than a local

 

[Mr Jack]

Norris to tangle with Max at the first corner, Piastri takes his first win.

 

[SDK^]

Mika called it about 6 weeks ago

 

[AlphariusOmegan]

Alpha Tauri fined 5k Euros for unsafe release of Nyck
Bottas seems to have failed to supply a 1 litre fuel sample after stopping on track

 

[413x]

Mclaren second best team now?
Great driver pair too. Piastri did well to escape alpine by looks of it.

Alpine falling away. Pretty poor performance there.

Perez... Oh dear!

 

[Flibster]

Bottas in trouble.

And a fine for AlphaTauri

 

[chrismscotland]

Fantastic for McLaren, I hope they've got real pace tomorrow

 

[AlphariusOmegan]

Alpha Romeo team representative has been summonsed over the fuel sample breach

 

[Mr Jack]

Alpha Romeo team representative has been summonsed over the fuel sample breach

Slam dunk DSQ, isn't it.

 

[AlphariusOmegan]

if AR can't prove that enough of a sample is able to be taken from the car then i'd say yes its a DSQ from Quali. The tricky part is he stopped on track so the stewards are calculating 1 litres plus X to account for getting back to the pits = 2.39 litres needs to be available in the car. i'd argue that they need to be able to take 1 litre the rule doesn't say 1 litre plus running fuel... but we'll see.

 

[Flibster]

Slam dunk DSQ, isn't it.

Yeah. 0.09 litres of fuel recovered. Someone made a huge mistake in the team.

 

[Mesai]

Slam dunk DSQ, isn't it.

Similar happened to Seb when he was at AM I think, so let's see how consistent they are.

 

[Flibster]

if AR can't prove that enough of a sample is able to be taken from the car then i'd say yes its a DSQ from Quali. The tricky part is he stopped on track so the stewards are calculating 1 litres plus X to account for getting back to the pits = 2.39 litres needs to be available in the car. i'd argue that they need to be able to take 1 litre the rule doesn't say 1 litre plus running fuel... but we'll see.

You have to make it back to the pits under your own power. If not, you need to have the fuel available to make it back to the pits as well as the litre sample.

All due to drivers stopping on track with critical fuel on the cool down lap during quali. They implemented this a few years ago. They're also not allowed to dismantle the car to get the fuel out either.