Welcome

Hello everyone and welcome to the Canadian Grand Prix Weekend thread.

Details about this race can be found here.

Sessions

This thread will cover all the sessions this weekend, so that’s all 3 practice sessions, qualifying, and the race.

We will monitor how this goes to see if we need more granularity.

Spoilers

The rules around spoilers are not yet in place, therefore we won’t be enforcing anything around spoilers this weekend. This goes beyond the scope of this thread too.

If you do not want spoilers, please do not look in this community this weekend.

The aim is to have a finished set of rules ready by mid next week.

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    “There’s a surprising number of cars out there, considering this is approaching biblical”

    • Alex Jaques
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    🏁 Checkered flag as the rain increases

    Top 3

    HAM 1:13.718
    RUS +0.027
    SAI +0.126

      • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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        2 years ago

        Nothing to lose everything to gain, and they took the opportunity brilliantly.

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      2 years ago

      Just the perfect timing. Got the tyres into the temperature window before the rain got stronger. Not sure if those who put on the softs late will be caught out by the rain now.

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    These conditions really bring out the chasm in ability between Stroll and Alonso.

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      2 years ago

      Between Alonso and almost everybody else. Stroll was nowhere, but Alonso in his 40’s is sharper than 75% of the current grid. His reactions when the car snaps on him is unbelievable.

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      hey, not touching the wall was a display of ability

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      Which is weird considering the fact that a few years ago stroll was pretty good in wet conditions

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        I always felt Stroll isn’t good in the rain per se… but he was very quick to change from wet/inters to slicks

        He gambles and it paid off a few times

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          Well he has front row starts in Monza 2017 and Istanbul 2020. Both were wet qualifying with almost everybody on same tyres. Stroll gambled during neither of them

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            It might be that he has been Vandoorned already. His spirit has been broken.

            You have to believe you’re the fastest or you can just hang it up. Lance does not believe he is faster than Fernando it doesn’t seem. If your goal is to do slightly worse than Alonso, you’re always going to do worse than Alonso.

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    how do y’all feel about race weekends with these later than usual session start times?

    I hate them, give me my 8-9am sessions!
    How about you Euros/Asians? Are these times better or worse?

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    Q1 results

    Top 3: VER ALO HAM

    Eiminated: TSU GAS DEV SAR ZHO

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    2 years ago

    Ferrari didn’t mess up the strategy.

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    Technical issues for Zhou, that was quick

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    🟥 Red flag. Hülkenberg with engine issues

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      🟩 Green flag. This one has been a bit shorter.