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

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      1 year 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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      1 year ago

      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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            1 year ago

            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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      1 year ago

      I respect it. They saw a small window to put in some fast laps on softs and they capitalized on it in a big way.

      • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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        1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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.

  • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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    This new wall in the wet is pushing drivers out on to the racing line when they rejoin.

    If its wet during the race, this has some dreadful implications.

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      Yeah, those rejoins look really unsafe. This might cause a massive lap 1 incident even in the dry. Or when dive-bombing into turn 1 (which I don’t like, but it happens quite regularly here) goes worng, this might force contact instead of a bail-out.

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      They should have stuck the wall on the inside to make sure drivers are duly cautious having crossed the finish line.

      Right now, its insane.

  • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      UK. Love them. Nothing like having a good weekend ending with a live race on a Sunday evening.

    • JCPhoenix@beehaw.org
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      As an American, I greatly dislike the later times when races are on this side of the world. I don’t mind waking up like 6,7,8am or whatever to watch a session. Or even staying up very late til like 4am. Even on Fridays for FP1 and FP2.

      Idk, I like getting F1 “out of the way” so to speak, then I can do whatever else I need to do for rest of the day.

      Like right now, it’s 12:30p for me. That’s not terrible since it’s lunch time. But FP2 is at like 4pm; I tend to take a nap around then. If I was still working from the office, I’d be leaving the office around then.

    • pol5xc@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      there’s nothing better than going to bed after being let down by ferrari

    • dbloome@lemmy.world
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      European here, if I don’t have anything planned for the weekend, I love them. If I plan a night out on Saturday, I hate them. Right now, I love it.

  • jmsw22@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What’s great weekend. Canadian GP, US Open, and the Ashes. F in the chat for my wife and kids’ TV time please.

  • PriorProject@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m liking these liquipedia pages, so much context. Plus the session times posted there.

    Rawe ceek, here we come!

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    1 year ago

    🏁 Checkered flag as the rain increases

    Top 3

    HAM 1:13.718
    RUS +0.027
    SAI +0.126

  • Kidney_Thief1988
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    Could turn into a tough weekend for Ferrari with both cars (probably) starting outside the top 10.