Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM.....

[LTU_btc]

Damn, I can't believe that after such long wait season finally will begin in few days. How much time we been waiting? Let me count... 7 months... And it will be strange season especially because thst we know that some drivers will leave their current teams after this season. I'm almost sure that Ferrari will favor Leclerc against Vettel most of time and probably it will be tough season for Seb.

.....reminds me very much of M. Schumacher, where the same agreement was made and up until today we don't really know how he is doing and it can be assumed, that he until now didn't recover very much, but is stable on a low level. Lets hope the best for Zanardi.

I thought same and it's worrying thing. Now we just have to hope that he will recover...

[STT]

Schumacher suffered irreparable damage to the brain is what I gather from what I've read and its a long term case of treatment rather then this recent news.  I have a neighbour who is qualified in this subject and the only thing I know is there's only a couple surgeons who are that highly specialised in the whole country and the whole subject is not a branch of medicine where they can do a massive amount to reverse damage such as Schumacher has suffered.   If he cannot recover in some way himself they can only help to try keep him comfortable and stable rather then being able to fix it as such.   Thats just my take going on the little I know, unfortunately not every part of medicine can do much to right damage we might suffer in life.
  

[coinlocket$]

Tomorrow they will start again, Norris has posted a video from "behind the scenes".

They are doing the test for COVID to everyone

You can see more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSt3nr2kWM4

The start is for 09.30 AM CEST time.

[Koal-84]

Tomorrow they will start again, Norris has posted a video from "behind the scenes".

They are doing the test for COVID to everyone

You can see more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSt3nr2kWM4

The start is for 09.30 AM CEST time.

Thank you, at Motorsport.com also a article about the first impression behind the locked down grand prix.

First impressions inside F1’s locked down grand prix



And here the media center

[Juggy777]

Schumacher suffered irreparable damage to the brain is what I gather from what I've read and its a long term case of treatment rather then this recent news.  I have a neighbour who is qualified in this subject and the only thing I know is there's only a couple surgeons who are that highly specialised in the whole country and the whole subject is not a branch of medicine where they can do a massive amount to reverse damage such as Schumacher has suffered.   If he cannot recover in some way himself they can only help to try keep him comfortable and stable rather then being able to fix it as such.   Thats just my take going on the little I know, unfortunately not every part of medicine can do much to right damage we might suffer in life.
  

@STT Schumacher family doesn’t wish news of his health condition to be leaked to the media, and hence Felipe Massa only said that Schumacher is going through a difficult phase, but I suppose we will get more information about his condition once his surgery takes place.

Tomorrow they will start again, Norris has posted a video from "behind the scenes".

They are doing the test for COVID to everyone

You can see more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSt3nr2kWM4

The start is for 09.30 AM CEST time.

Thank you, at Motorsport.com also a article about the first impression behind the locked down grand prix.

First impressions inside F1’s locked down grand prix



And here the media center

It’s good to see that they were wearing masks and maintaining social distancing, but I yet feel that they should have worn gloves too for added protection, and further let’s hope that no one tests positive before the race begins.

Sources:

https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/is-wearing-gloves-an-effective-defense-against-covid19

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1297105/Michael-Schumacher-health-update-latest-difficult-phase-Felipe-Massa-interview-video

[coinlocket$]

Ferrari doesn't starts with New updates in the session, the fitrst updates are at Hungary. The devrlopment are in a wrong way...

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-recalibrate-programme-car-update-hungary/4817309/

At Start the Mercedes is also this years the fasted car or RedBull? Or Ferrari hold the ball flat 🤔

I didn't follow the situation in details but I eared they will have basically a new car starting from this GP.
But I can't confirm the situation.

Anyway wheater update, they probably go with rain tomorrow so will miss the action, but Saturday and Sunday they should have a sunny day.

[swogerino]

Ferrari doesn't starts with New updates in the session, the fitrst updates are at Hungary. The devrlopment are in a wrong way...

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-recalibrate-programme-car-update-hungary/4817309/

At Start the Mercedes is also this years the fasted car or RedBull? Or Ferrari hold the ball flat 🤔

I didn't follow the situation in details but I eared they will have basically a new car starting from this GP.
But I can't confirm the situation.

Anyway wheater update, they probably go with rain tomorrow so will miss the action, but Saturday and Sunday they should have a sunny day.

In testing you just have a small idea of which car is the fastest.The only true indicator is on the race day as even in official qualifying a driver can manage to pull a really fast lap with a car which is not the fastest.In race day all the doubts are cleared as we start to have a better idea of which car maybe is the fastest.

[coinlocket$]

Well well, 1st one hour and half are gone and Mercedes dominating...

New year same story, next session in a few hours.



Source pic: https://sport.sky.it/formula-1/2020/07/03/formula-1-austria-2020-diretta-prove-libere

[boltz]

I've just watched the 2nd season of trainings in F1 and to be honest Mercedes were sandbagging again but so does Red Bull as they're using the old floor so I think tomorrow we will see the real car of Red Bull and I'm hoping in a pole for Max.

What I didn't like is the fact that Alfa Romeo have so many problems with the balance of the car and the fact that Kimi was on 19th place proves it. Ferrari's car is so bad and no wonder why as they came with the car designed for Australian GP and Charles looks like he forgot to drive and should focus on playing call of duty on twitch.

[Naida_BR]

I think that Mercedes is not going to be strong in Austria.
It is a track that Red Bull has the advantage because of their high speed.
It is the time for Max to start the season with a win?

[coinlocket$]

Mercedes is dominating and the "pink Mercedes" is scary for the others.
The major news for today is the following.

Red bull made today an official protest against Mercedes for the DAS system.


 https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sport/gp/artikel/5169357/red-bull-officieel-protest-tegen-das-systeem-mercedes

[swogerino]

Mercedes is dominating and the "pink Mercedes" is scary for the others.
The major news for today is the following.

Red bull made today an official protest against Mercedes for the DAS system.


 https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sport/gp/artikel/5169357/red-bull-officieel-protest-tegen-das-systeem-mercedes

I think that they are right to make protests because that DAS system will make this already troubled season boring to death to watch as Mercedes will fly away in every race.I will just see the first 2 races in Austria and the upcoming track and if Mercedes has clear advantage I will quit seeing it as it would not produce any emotions for me or everyone else watching the race.

[Koal-84]

Good to see the first Qualifying this years but without spectors it's a little bit unusual.

Mercedes is dominating and the "pink Mercedes" is scary for the others.
The major news for today is the following.

Red bull made today an official protest against Mercedes for the DAS system.


 https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sport/gp/artikel/5169357/red-bull-officieel-protest-tegen-das-systeem-mercedes

I think that they are right to make protests because that DAS system will make this already troubled season boring to death to watch as Mercedes will fly away in every race.I will just see the first 2 races in Austria and the upcoming track and if Mercedes has clear advantage I will quit seeing it as it would not produce any emotions for me or everyone else watching the race.

After the Protest the commissioners says the DAS is compliant.

[coinlocket$]

FP3 done, Should be and easy pole position for Mercedes.



Source: https://sport.sky.it/formula-1/2020/07/04/formula-1-diretta-qualifiche-pole-gp-austria-2020

Time are very slow by the way, last year they did 1.03.3 if I'm not mistaken.

[boltz]

I think that Mercedes is not going to be strong in Austria.
It is a track that Red Bull has the advantage because of their high speed.
It is the time for Max to start the season with a win?

Well it looks like Mercedes were sandbagging hard and they still are even after last practice so I would expect them to win to a difference than more than 0.5 second which will be enormous. Also don't forget about Perez as Racing Point have the Mercedes car from 2019 so I won't be surprised with 1 2 3 4 places all going to Mercedes cars.

Wild jokers ? Max in pole or Leclerc again. Vettel is already thinking for 2022.

[Koal-84]

FP3 done, Should be and easy pole position for Mercedes.



Source: https://sport.sky.it/formula-1/2020/07/04/formula-1-diretta-qualifiche-pole-gp-austria-2020

Time are very slow by the way, last year they did 1.03.3 if I'm not mistaken.

Yes looks like Poleposition for Mercedes, so i'm exiting about the "Party Modus" froh the three engines Mercedes/Ferrari and Honda🤔

[coinlocket$]

Yes looks like Poleposition for Mercedes, so i'm exiting about the "Party Modus" froh the three engines Mercedes/Ferrari and Honda🤔

Let's see what the pink mercedes will do...

If they will end in second row I think a lot of teams will complain about the car "too similar" at the original Mercedes.

[tokeweed]

^  That Honda's looking good tho.  So far...  We could see an RBR and Merc front row.    We'll see at Q2.

And Albon def needs to do better.

Edit:  Leclerc and Vettel.  Lol.

Edit:  Albon! Vettel out.  On to Q3!

Edit:  Merc front row with Bottas on pole.  Good job by Norris getting fourth.

[boltz]

So happy that Ferrari can't manage to cheat the system again after what they've done last year and this can be seen on this qualifying results when Vettel did not even manage to get into Q3 HAHAH, so happy to see them struggle after so many years of trying to cheat. They must admit that they will never have a pilot like Schumi or Kimi to bring them another title and also Binotto in my opinion have no idea about motorsport.

Congrats to Bottas and for 3.50 odd that I just catched. EZ PZ.

[LTU_btc]

Well, we rarely can see Ferrari driver don't get to Q3 in normal conditions without any technical issues. I didn't had big expectations about Ferrari, but didn't expected that they will be so bad. Mercedes is racing in their own league again and now it seems that only Verstappen can make challenge for them.