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[coinlocket$]

True true..  I was just thinking Mercedes should prolly get somethin going with the car this week after the weak showing they had last week.  But yeah, we'll see.  Hope it's a good race between Verstappen and whoever is behind him.  A funny little stat for Silverstone is out of 6 races only a couple won from pole.  :/

And good one with McLaren and Norris comment.  I kinda forgot about them.  Lol.  But yeah, an English team with an English driver.  You guys think he could finish top 6?  Seems like a fair bet at 2.50.

Mclaren has been reborn with the recent upgrade.
Piastri will have to this weekend and they didn't install all upgrades the past week.

The top 6 will be hard but if everything works, why not.

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The top 6 will be hard but if everything works, why not.

not sure if they are able to pull top6, but they are improving, it can be seen on each race
but I expect a lot from Hamilton during the weekend, it is home ground, and he should not fight for places outside of podium, since winner is already known, expecting at least fight for position 2, Perez showed skills in Austria, and have better car, but home ground is home ground

not sure what Ferrari can do, two good race in a row, third would be too much

[swogerino]

True true..  I was just thinking Mercedes should prolly get somethin going with the car this week after the weak showing they had last week.  But yeah, we'll see.  Hope it's a good race between Verstappen and whoever is behind him.  A funny little stat for Silverstone is out of 6 races only a couple won from pole.  :/

And good one with McLaren and Norris comment.  I kinda forgot about them.  Lol.  But yeah, an English team with an English driver.  You guys think he could finish top 6?  Seems like a fair bet at 2.50.

Mclaren has been reborn with the recent upgrade.
Piastri will have to this weekend and they didn't install all upgrades the past week.

The top 6 will be hard but if everything works, why not.

Lando Norris is also on the home track and if they will add some other upgrades to that McLaren then they can fight against Ferrari as they have already beaten Mercedes and Aston Martin in the last weekend race in Austria with a great performance with some nice overtaking done.I think Silverstone is a better track,a bit more technical,in fact a lot more technical then Austria and most likely we will see more battles here than we saw in Austria.

I think it will be easily achievable for Lando to be in top 6 in the race taking into consideration that they will upgrade even more the car then I think Redbull and Ferrari will be ahead but no other team like Mercedes or Aston will be able to fight against such McLaren.

[coinlocket$]

Fun fact we got I think 3 GPs with rain in a row so far.

Now we are going in Britain where the rain is almost daily and according to weather website it will not rain for the 3 days needed for the race.

[CLS63]

This is a really important race for Mercedes especially. Because both of their drivers are British. The last race on Silverstone track didn't end well for Russell. He was out of the race at the beginning already. But there was a really serious incident at the same time. Zhou had a really serious accident and thankfully he was okay after it.

I hope we can see a clean race here this time. Hamilton was on podium in the last race on this track. I wonder if we can see the same effort from him. But I'm still favouring Ferrari rather than Mercedes to collect more points in this race. Sainz was even the winner of the last British GP.

If Ferrari don't make big mistakes with strategies they can carry both of their drivers to top places.

[Koal-84]

What do you guys think of either Russel or Hamilton finishing in the podium.  It's their home race so they're prolly gonna be extra motivated for this one.  Odds for them are 4.25 and 2.00 respectively.  Both lines are kinda juiced but what can you do...

Very difficult to assess, motivation alone is not enough, at the last race in Austria I expected Mercedes to be stronger and in contrast Ferrari was stronger. In terms of track layout, i think Silverstone is similar to the Red Bull Ring.

Last year it was a three-way battle between RedBull, Ferrari and Mercedes, I will wait for the practice sessions, fortunately this weekend is not a sprint race.

[swogerino]

This is a really important race for Mercedes especially. Because both of their drivers are British. The last race on Silverstone track didn't end well for Russell. He was out of the race at the beginning already. But there was a really serious incident at the same time. Zhou had a really serious accident and thankfully he was okay after it.

I hope we can see a clean race here this time. Hamilton was on podium in the last race on this track. I wonder if we can see the same effort from him. But I'm still favouring Ferrari rather than Mercedes to collect more points in this race. Sainz was even the winner of the last British GP.

If Ferrari don't make big mistakes with strategies they can carry both of their drivers to top places.

I see both of such drivers out of the podium places,the car is in a complete downtrend and I doubt within one week Mercedes to fix all their issues,other teams are working better,McLaren for example is the team with the biggest step forward in terms of upgrades and performances and I definitely see Lando or who knows even Piastri in some top 6 places.

I also think that Ferrari has a chance here only if Redbull screws up like last time where Verstappen had a problem and he could not recover after it which was why Sainz was the winner of this race last season.

[CLS63]

This is a really important race for Mercedes especially. Because both of their drivers are British. The last race on Silverstone track didn't end well for Russell. He was out of the race at the beginning already. But there was a really serious incident at the same time. Zhou had a really serious accident and thankfully he was okay after it.

I hope we can see a clean race here this time. Hamilton was on podium in the last race on this track. I wonder if we can see the same effort from him. But I'm still favouring Ferrari rather than Mercedes to collect more points in this race. Sainz was even the winner of the last British GP.

If Ferrari don't make big mistakes with strategies they can carry both of their drivers to top places.

I see both of such drivers out of the podium places,the car is in a complete downtrend and I doubt within one week Mercedes to fix all their issues,other teams are working better,McLaren for example is the team with the biggest step forward in terms of upgrades and performances and I definitely see Lando or who knows even Piastri in some top 6 places.

I also think that Ferrari has a chance here only if Redbull screws up like last time where Verstappen had a problem and he could not recover after it which was why Sainz was the winner of this race last season.

Yeah the Austria GP didn't go well for Hamilton at all as he had a huge problem with penalties. It was due to the car's being really difficult to drive of course. But Mercedes are really interesting this season. Sometimes they look quite fast and sometimes they don't. Therefore it isn't easy to be confident of anything about the British GP for me.

But if we consider the last race the most then yeah they don't look promising for this one either. As for Lando and Piastri I think Lando would again stay way ahead of Piastri in this race. The last race was horrible for Piastri. His performance isn't so different than Ricciardo so far.

[rdbase]

Fun fact we got I think 3 GPs with rain in a row so far.

Now we are going in Britain where the rain is almost daily and according to weather website it will not rain for the 3 days needed for the race.

The drivers who can navigate their cars on this track good enough in the rain will do well in the race.
We will see who can handle the wet conditions if there are any today for the first practice which begins in approximately and hour and a half from now.

Nice countdown clock at the top right hand corner on the F1 site for those who want to know when each practice run begins at their own local time:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2022/races/1114/great-britain/practice-1.html

edit: Watching the feed for the timings there it is showing a 0% of rain 
So @coinlocket$ you are right and we just might finally have a dry British GP in a long while!

[swogerino]

Fun fact we got I think 3 GPs with rain in a row so far.

Now we are going in Britain where the rain is almost daily and according to weather website it will not rain for the 3 days needed for the race.

The drivers who can navigate their cars on this track good enough in the rain will do well in the race.
We will see who can handle the wet conditions if there are any today for the first practice which begins in approximately and hour and a half from now.

Nice countdown clock at the top right hand corner on the F1 site for those who want to know when each practice run begins at their own local time:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2022/races/1114/great-britain/practice-1.html

Rain in a track as legendary as Silverstone?Of course the drivers with the best skills should be high in the rankings here if we manage to have a wet race.For the practice they don't need to overdo it,they only need to collect as many data as possible by conducting as many laps as possible and this will be valuable insight to the teams before the official qualifying tomorrow,in which from this data they can obtain the perfect setup for such event.

There is even a better way to know the times of every session,free practice,qualifying and races by just using our phone app Flashscore (which I assume every gambler should have in their phones) and there it shows directly on local time for each of us,although I agree with you formula1 website is the best resource for these type of things.

[tokeweed]

True true..  I was just thinking Mercedes should prolly get somethin going with the car this week after the weak showing they had last week.  But yeah, we'll see.  Hope it's a good race between Verstappen and whoever is behind him.  A funny little stat for Silverstone is out of 6 races only a couple won from pole.  :/

And good one with McLaren and Norris comment.  I kinda forgot about them.  Lol.  But yeah, an English team with an English driver.  You guys think he could finish top 6?  Seems like a fair bet at 2.50.

Mclaren has been reborn with the recent upgrade.
Piastri will have to this weekend and they didn't install all upgrades the past week.

The top 6 will be hard but if everything works, why not.

Lando Norris is also on the home track and if they will add some other upgrades to that McLaren then they can fight against Ferrari as they have already beaten Mercedes and Aston Martin in the last weekend race in Austria with a great performance with some nice overtaking done.I think Silverstone is a better track,a bit more technical,in fact a lot more technical then Austria and most likely we will see more battles here than we saw in Austria.

I think it will be easily achievable for Lando to be in top 6 in the race taking into consideration that they will upgrade even more the car then I think Redbull and Ferrari will be ahead but no other team like Mercedes or Aston will be able to fight against such McLaren.

And what if the McLaren engineers were slowly getting their upgrades in during the races prior in order to get the car really ready to fight for a top 6 spot for their home race?   

I think the Mercedes engineers could bring something good here too as it's both of their drivers' home race.  But we'll see.  Sometimes I just like to imagine different possible scenarios...  Prolly why I always lose money betting on these.  :/

The team that could decline is Aston Martin if both Ferrari and Merc could get their act together.

[coinlocket$]

Nevermind guys rain is expected for Tomorrow but Sunday it will be sunny according to Sky Sports Italy.

Should be an easy pole for Max Verstappen in this race.

[Koal-84]

And what if the McLaren engineers were slowly getting their upgrades in during the races prior in order to get the car really ready to fight for a top 6 spot for their home race?   

Mercedes does not have the most powerful engine this year (power train) but still competitive, but I see RedBull, Ferrari (since the last update) and Mercedes also Alonso ahead of McLaren.

Even though Leclerc was really bad today I think he could play a role in the race.

The FIA has also published the new calendar for next season with a total of 24 races, so it's very tight from the beginning of March until almost mid-December.

[Ulven]

Fun fact we got I think 3 GPs with rain in a row so far.

Now we are going in Britain where the rain is almost daily and according to weather website it will not rain for the 3 days needed for the race.

The drivers who can navigate their cars on this track good enough in the rain will do well in the race.
We will see who can handle the wet conditions if there are any today for the first practice which begins in approximately and hour and a half from now.

Nice countdown clock at the top right hand corner on the F1 site for those who want to know when each practice run begins at their own local time:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2022/races/1114/great-britain/practice-1.html

edit: Watching the feed for the timings there it is showing a 0% of rain 
So @coinlocket$ you are right and we just might finally have a dry British GP in a long while!

You're absolutely right! Rain can add an exciting and unpredictable element to a race, and Silverstone is known for its challenging track conditions, making it even more legendary. In wet races, the skills of the drivers truly shine as they navigate the slippery track and make split-second decisions!!!wet races at iconic tracks like Silverstone can create thrilling moments, and teams need to gather as much data as possible during practice sessions to optimize their setups for qualifying and the race. Flashscore is a handy app for quick updates, while the Formula 1 website provides more in-depth information for avid fans.

[darxiaomi]

Man i dont see the free practice but WTF, Albon on podium?, and Logan Srageant 5?. Mercedes making a mess, and Leclerc with 0 laps in the second practice.... I dont know what picks to put (aside of Verstappen winning  )

Please i hope the rain make his appearance so we can see a more funny race.

[boltz]

Man i dont see the free practice but WTF, Albon on podium?, and Logan Srageant 5?. Mercedes making a mess, and Leclerc with 0 laps in the second practice.... I dont know what picks to put (aside of Verstappen winning  )

Please i hope the rain make his appearance so we can see a more funny race.

To be honest in last 3 races , Williams and especially Albon have showed great potential in that car and I would love to see Williams back on podium once again because even if Russel got one in Spa 3 years ago , it was due to heavy rain and the race was cancelled.

Oh , if the rain will appear during Sunday race on this track...we are surely set in for a chaos race from start to finish. Great for the viewers but not so great for the drivers.

[CLS63]

Mercedes absolutely need to bring some solid upgrade to Silverstone. Because this is the most important race for them in the calendar. A win is very difficult to get maybe but their maint target would be to be on podium at least. Carrying both Mercedes drivers to podium would be just a dream for them as long as the other teams don't mess up things that much. Toto Wolff gave an interview together with Domenicali recently by the way. He emphasized how skillful driver Hamilton is and said that they owe the 8th title to him.

However in the circumstances winning that title is too difficult for Hamilton I'm afraid. He will need to be more patient to have a chance in the future maybe. 2026 season could be a chance maybe depending on the changes to be made then.

[Koal-84]

Please i hope the rain make his appearance so we can see a more funny race.

I just had a look at the weather forecast, could be a dry qualifying today, according to my weather forecast only a slight chance of rain, and that more on the evening, but the race tomorrow could be in rain or changing conditions.

Mercedes absolutely need to bring some solid upgrade to Silverstone. Because this is the most important race for them in the calendar.

Yesterday Mercedes tested a lot of new parts and didn't do any laps with the red tyre, the focus was on the new parts and not the fastest lap, I'm curious how qualifying will go for Mercedes.

[swogerino]

Mercedes absolutely need to bring some solid upgrade to Silverstone. Because this is the most important race for them in the calendar. A win is very difficult to get maybe but their maint target would be to be on podium at least. Carrying both Mercedes drivers to podium would be just a dream for them as long as the other teams don't mess up things that much. Toto Wolff gave an interview together with Domenicali recently by the way. He emphasized how skillful driver Hamilton is and said that they owe the 8th title to him.

However in the circumstances winning that title is too difficult for Hamilton I'm afraid. He will need to be more patient to have a chance in the future maybe. 2026 season could be a chance maybe depending on the changes to be made then.

In 2026 Hamilton will be 41 if I remember correctly and that age would be a great achievement if he can win a title,it is like Alonso is today and sure Alonso the best overtake of his career he did it in the damage of Hamilton during one of the races of this season so age is not a determining factor.

Mercedes will have a huge difficulty bringing both cars to the podium in the race of tomorrow but to clear any doubt I may have I will wait for the official qualifying to finish and see their performance,if it is not good then I am going to place a bet on Mercedes both cars out of top 3 and even out of top 6 I will try.

[CLS63]

Yesterday Mercedes tested a lot of new parts and didn't do any laps with the red tyre, the focus was on the new parts and not the fastest lap, I'm curious how qualifying will go for Mercedes.

I have also read later on that Mercedes have brought a new front wing to this race weekend. It might be a good improvement for them to increase the grip more. Because this was the main issue for Mercedes in the Austrian GP last week. We should be seeing improved lap times technically but let's see.


We are in FP3 and there is no rain yet. I wonder what the weather will be like during the race time.

In 2026 Hamilton will be 41 if I remember correctly and that age would be a great achievement if he can win a title,it is like Alonso is today and sure Alonso the best overtake of his career he did it in the damage of Hamilton during one of the races of this season so age is not a determining factor.

Mercedes will have a huge difficulty bringing both cars to the podium in the race of tomorrow but to clear any doubt I may have I will wait for the official qualifying to finish and see their performance,if it is not good then I am going to place a bet on Mercedes both cars out of top 3 and even out of top 6 I will try.

Drivers like Hamilton really don't lose much from their skills even when they are 41 such as Alonso. Alonso is one of the most consistent and successful drivers of this season in the end. Making big positive changes on Mercedes' car can make Hamilton believe in his 8th title again. Otherwise he isn't likely to make this happen while Red Bull are dominant this much.