Poll: Portugese Grand Prix 2020, Portimao - Race 12/17

[steve45]

30 minute delay, due to drain covers...

 

[Steedie]

Guarantee Hamilton wouldn’t have got just a warning for that Russell was lucky

 

[vanpeebles]

Welcome to......Port Meow!

 

[Mr Jack]

Well. That's a thing.

 

[vanpeebles]

That cement will take hours.

 

[vanpeebles]

Can’t see any quali today.

 

[Freakbro]

This is as interesting as watching cement dry...

 

[Psycho Ned]

This is what you get for paying Irish travellers to do a job......

 

[this_is_gav]

This is going to be running qualifying tomorrow at this rate if the shots we are seeing are live.

 

[muon]

Lol, that heatgun will do nothing. They need something much bigger.

 

[Freakbro]

Agree with Brundle, can't see why they need to fix them all for Qualy, if a lot of them are on the sides of straights etc. Just fix ones around the racing line and sort the rest before tomorrow

 

[Mr Jack]

Madness to have crowds like this as Portugal's second wave is kicking off.

 

[muon]

They could also modify track limits.

 

[Mr Jack]

F1TV takes its audio from Sky but not it's pictures. Which makes Norris narrating the lap odd.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Drain covers greatest hits now on SSF1

 

[Merlin5]

Lol, that heatgun will do nothing. They need something much bigger.

They don't want to drain resources.

 

[Flibster]

Hamilton lost 1.2s in the final sector? He was 1.2s up at the end of S2.

This is all a bit shambolic. Track looks great, but doesn't seem to be ready for F1. Surface is horrible, track limits changing for every session, drain covers falling apart all over...

 

[Mr Jack]

Another Russell special. Great work

 

[Kenai]

Is the sound choppy for anyone else watching via NowTV? Video is fine, audio seems to be having issues - wondering if it's my stream or the feed itself?

 

[Entai]

Hamilton lost 1.2s in the final sector? He was 1.2s up at the end of S2.

This is all a bit shambolic. Track looks great, but doesn't seem to be ready for F1. Surface is horrible, track limits changing for every session, drain covers falling apart all over...

It's a stunning circuit, great mix of corners and gradients.

Unless F1 run somewhere regularly, how are issues supposed to be found out?

Personally I detest billiard table smooth tracks, lumps, bumps, huge tyre deg, should be the norm, not an extreme, good teams show through, as the ones who get setup right quickest.

Brand new green tarmac for every race should be the norm too, again, shows strength in depth in a team on how they cope with setup.

As for track limits, that's what white lines are, should be used every corner, every track, one mm of tyre over the white line is time lost (in practice and quali) you get three warnings in the race then 5 sec stop and go, really do not see any valid excuse as to why they cannot keep within the white lines 100% of the time.
Instead of red and white stripes build two foot high concrete walls, drivers will stay inside the track limits then

My opinions anyway