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[boltz]

Yea , I'm really thinking to take Sainz as a winner today as he still has 5 odds and he is still yet to win a race. Could Silverstone become his 1st win ? Well , Alonso did a pole back in 2012 with Ferrari here but he didn't manage to win the race as Webber took the W and last time a spanish driver won SIlverstone is still Alonso back in 2006.

Now if we look back on Practice 3 , Ferrari team kept Sainz to box in the last 15 minutes of the practice which was not cool for those who had a bet on Sainz top 3 as he had plenty of time for a new lap and then quali time and he goes for pole out of nowhere in complete different situation at it was clear sky in Practice 2 and full rain in Qualifiers so I don't know if Ferrari really wants Sainz to win today...but we shall see in the 1st pitstop if he manages to keep his 1st position after race start.

[leea-1334]

@boltz
Leclerc has been saying this every race he has not won that his car doesn't feel right to him. So about four races now.
This is what drivers say when they underperform in any race they are in so to put the blame on a mechanical issue and not themselves.
Or the team will just find another driver for next season.
Practice 3 is starting right now!
Qualifying is in a couple of hours from now according to sky sports on my cable box guide.

I listened to his interview, and according to him, they didn't have the best car to fight for the first position in their last three games. Well since he has admitted that they now have a good car now to go for the win and that they will go for the win my expectations are quite high. In my mind he is starting on a blank slate. This is going to different from Barcelona and Miami. I hope we're not going to hear any complaints again.

Nothing new then right? We all knew this from the beginning and the drivers have been saying it. At the same time I do not really like people to keep blaming everything else other than themselves. We get it,,, but if the engines and cars really were not worthy of the race, then we would not be allowed to use them right?

So I kind of agree with rdbase here. Say it once should be enough but keep using it as excuse is not good for the entire team too.

Glad to see he now admits they have a good car! Forget the past and go win some things!!

[Boristhecat]

I'm surprised that Russell, after free practice, still lost qualification to Hamilton. However, they will both be behind the leaders, so the race can change everything. Pretty interesting bookmaker quotes in my opinion:

Verstappen, Max - 1.66
Leclerc, Charles - 4.75
Sainz Jr., Carlos - 5.35
Hamilton, Lewis - 12.60
Perez, Sergio - 18.60
Russell, George - 29.60

Ferrari despite winning the qualification is greatly underestimated.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Ferrari were really great in the qualifying actually. Maybe Leclerc stayed in the third place but this is still good. Because Sainz made a huge improvement in this performance this time and took the pole position deservedly. Verstappen made a mistake on Sector 2 if I don't remember wrong and he was slower than Sainz's fastest lap at the end. It is going to be great to watch this race. Because Sainz also seems to be promising and he can join the race for winning the Silverstone GP.

[Gianluca95]

I'm surprised that Russell, after free practice, still lost qualification to Hamilton. However, they will both be behind the leaders, so the race can change everything. Pretty interesting bookmaker quotes in my opinion:

Verstappen, Max - 1.66
Leclerc, Charles - 4.75
Sainz Jr., Carlos - 5.35
Hamilton, Lewis - 12.60
Perez, Sergio - 18.60
Russell, George - 29.60

Ferrari despite winning the qualification is greatly underestimated.

Instead I'm really surprised about Hamilton, great 4th place. About Ferrari, I hope that finally this will be the good change for them and I hope that they will win the grand prix, I'm tired to see ferrari to stop his race because

of technical issues. Leclerc can do a good run, he is strongly motivated, and I really believe in him.

[darxiaomi]

Man what a horrible crash we see. Really good working of the HALO saving lifes.

Also the barriers working, because if that barrier doesnt work the fans can be in a very big trouble.

!0 to Russel running to see how was Zhou.

[Gianluca95]

What luck for Zhou, it was really luck considering the incident that he has had 

I really hope for ferrari, what start for Sainz and Leclerc ! They can really obtain great results this day  (Hope at the same time that race will not interrupted for other bad incident and everything will go well).

[buwaytress]

Well, I couldn't have been more underestimating of home crowd. Put all British drivers in picks so of course already lost points from Russell not making it but LeClerc pitting means Hammie's leading and the crowd are just soaking it in, damn haha. 17 laps or so to go, but I wouldn't count a Ferrari out of a 1-2 the way it's going so far. Max also had a pit and is ... in 8th now. Might be good money for a podium?

[rdbase]

Well I don't think anyone saw that coming.
Sainz winning the British grand prix in that way.
Yellow flag kept him in it with Leclerc in 1st place and Hamilton looking for a home track win but atleast he got the fastest lap.

[püsür]

I still think about the accident and how lucky that there is the halo security measures now and Zhou is still alive. Without Halo, Zhou probably wouldn't have survived. It was one of the scariest starts of recent years and many pilots were out of the race due to the accidents. After Zhou somersaulted and went upside down for a long time, he hit the rubber barriers and then the wires, and the vehicle was caught between the two. It was one of the most intense moments of F1 in the recent times. How long it took that they rescued him from the car. With these kinds of accidents, I personally just want to let it go and enjoy the race but it was so intense that I still think about it.

[KTChampions]

Well I don't think anyone saw that coming.
Sainz winning the British grand prix in that way.
Yellow flag kept him in it with Leclerc in 1st place and Hamilton looking for a home track win but atleast he got the fastest lap.

From the point of view of the final result, everything is more or less logical - Sainz made a double, another thing is that there was a certain chaos in the race and probably everyone had a chance (especially considering accidents). I see that the bookmakers did not believe in the victory of Sainz at all and probably someone took advantage of this.

[coinlocket$]

From the point of view of the final result, everything is more or less logical - Sainz made a double, another thing is that there was a certain chaos in the race and probably everyone had a chance (especially considering accidents). I see that the bookmakers did not believe in the victory of Sainz at all and probably someone took advantage of this.

He doesn't know either how he won the race.

Fun statistic, his first win was 12 years ago with the pole and victory (in another category) in the same track.


The 1st win is a huge step, he will have not to think anymore about it, and his mind will be free.

[boltz]

One of the races that we will not forget anytime soon or ever! Amazing and pure racing! Glad to hear that Albon is okay and he will be able to race in Austria but Gzhou I think it will miss the race and Kubica might take that seat for one weekend.

Sainz had pure commitment after restart and he knew he needs to overtake as soon as possible or Ferrari will most likely lose both places so that was a wise decision from him and a very hard working victory as it was under super mega pressure from both Leclerc , Perez+Hamilton , Verstappen at some point and team radio making him pushing every lap so yea,huge congrats for Sainz.

As a matter of fact , do we know how many people were there ? statistics said over 400k but no numbers were showed after that...

[xzone]

We saw an incredible crash in the race, it was one of the worst things we've seen in years. But Halo worked very well and we didn't encounter a terrible scenario. I couldn't enjoy watching the race for a long time after the accident. I am very glad that technology has advanced so much.
Congrats for Carlos Sainz!

[NeuroticFish]

I still have to look more times at least, in slow motion, to that crash. I still don't understand what has happened there. I'm incredibly happy that nobody got hurt.
The overall race was mad. I will watch it again. Indeed almost anybody could win. I am happy for Carlos though. He does deserve victories in F1. Impressive run for Checo though. And also for Lewis, I have to admit that.

[buwaytress]

Sainz had pure commitment after restart and he knew he needs to overtake as soon as possible or Ferrari will most likely lose both places so that was a wise decision from him

Yeah, against team orders too apparently, but seems like he could sense the team wasn't at their best, many questionable decisions (and I can only know post-race since I don't hear audio when following the way I do). Funny that they fix their engine issue (for the race anyway) and then find a way to screw up decision-making.

You didn't say if you managed to actually take the Sainz bet you were thinking of?

[boltz]

Sainz had pure commitment after restart and he knew he needs to overtake as soon as possible or Ferrari will most likely lose both places so that was a wise decision from him

Yeah, against team orders too apparently, but seems like he could sense the team wasn't at their best, many questionable decisions (and I can only know post-race since I don't hear audio when following the way I do). Funny that they fix their engine issue (for the race anyway) and then find a way to screw up decision-making.

You didn't say if you managed to actually take the Sainz bet you were thinking of?

I had 3 bets :

1. Leclerc to win

2. Sainz to win

3. McLaren both points.

Hit 1/3 but the odd was 5.30 I think so ended up pretty good I say but unfortunately Ricciardo had such a terrible race that he couldn't move in placed from 13rd place....

[KTChampions]

From the point of view of the final result, everything is more or less logical - Sainz made a double, another thing is that there was a certain chaos in the race and probably everyone had a chance (especially considering accidents). I see that the bookmakers did not believe in the victory of Sainz at all and probably someone took advantage of this.

He doesn't know either how he won the race.

Fun statistic, his first win was 12 years ago with the pole and victory (in another category) in the same track.

The 1st win is a huge step, he will have not to think anymore about it, and his mind will be free.

But in my opinion it is clear that the one who wins the pole has a better chance of winning than the rest, no matter what happens in the race. Maybe the bookmakers were expecting the Ferraris to retire because of the engines, but in fact we see that they were wrong in giving such generous odds on the victory of the Ferrari pilots.

[Gianluca95]

Sainz had pure commitment after restart and he knew he needs to overtake as soon as possible or Ferrari will most likely lose both places so that was a wise decision from him

Yeah, against team orders too apparently, but seems like he could sense the team wasn't at their best, many questionable decisions (and I can only know post-race since I don't hear audio when following the way I do). Funny that they fix their engine issue (for the race anyway) and then find a way to screw up decision-making.

You didn't say if you managed to actually take the Sainz bet you were thinking of?

I had 3 bets :

1. Leclerc to win

2. Sainz to win

3. McLaren both points.

Hit 1/3 but the odd was 5.30 I think so ended up pretty good I say but unfortunately Ricciardo had such a terrible race that he couldn't move in placed from 13rd place....

You were really brave to put a bet on Sainz, congratulation Sir 

There were only bad luck for Leclerc yesterday, with change of tires he would surely won the grand prix ! Why you put also a bet on Mclaren points? That is so strange 

[darewaller]

Once again proving that if you want to win as a Ferrari driver, you just need to ignore the orders .
I mean letting Charles stay upfront with those tires, just so sainz would be doing worse? Any smart team would know that you get the fresh tire upfront right away, and give the orders to Charles to keep whoever comes there for as long as possible, allowing Sainz to go as further as possible.

It was already known that Charles would have lost positions, so you would only be slowing everyone down. Sad to see crashes and all, that was a bad race but lovely to see Zhou get out and walking, and loved the race itself after that, wouldn't want harm on anyone obviously so it wasn't good in that case, but the famous shot of 5 different constructors all within like 20-30 meters was one of the most epic scenes we have seen in a long time, that rarely happens anymore.