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Last week's race

In a fairly boring race, severe tire wear caught 3 drivers off guard. Eventual winner Lewis Hamilton crossed the line with a punctured tire

Season standings
after 4 races

DRIVERS
POS   DRIVER   NATIONALITY   CAR   PTS
1   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   MERCEDES   88
2   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   MERCEDES   58
3   Max Verstappen   NED   RED BULL RACING HONDA   52
4   Lando Norris   GBR   MCLAREN RENAULT   36
5   Charles Leclerc   MON   FERRARI   33
6   Alexander Albon   THA   RED BULL RACING HONDA   26
7   Sergio Perez   MEX   RACING POINT BWT MERCEDES   22
8   Lance Stroll   CAN   RACING POINT BWT MERCEDES   20
9   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   RENAULT   20
10   Carlos Sainz   ESP   MCLAREN RENAULT   15
11   Esteban Ocon   FRA   RENAULT   12
12   Pierre Gasly   FRA   ALPHATAURI HONDA   12
13   Sebastian Vettel   GER   FERRARI   10
14   Antonio Giovinazzi   ITA   ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI   2
15   Daniil Kvyat   RUS   ALPHATAURI HONDA   1
16   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   HAAS FERRARI   1
17   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
18   Kimi Räikkönen   FIN   ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI   0
19   George Russell   GBR   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
20   Romain Grosjean   FRA   HAAS FERRARI   0

CONSTRUCTORS
POS   TEAM   PTS
1   MERCEDES   146
2   RED BULL RACING HONDA   78
3   MCLAREN RENAULT   51
4   FERRARI   43
5   RACING POINT BWT MERCEDES   42
6   RENAULT   32
7   ALPHATAURI HONDA   13
8   ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI   2
9   HAAS FERRARI   1
10   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0

Full timetables
all times are local (GMT+1)

THURSDAY 6th AUGUST        
Formula 1   Team Track Walks   09:00 - 12:30
Formula 1   Press Conference   14:00 - 17:35
         
FRIDAY 7th AUGUST        
FIA Formula 3   Practice Session   09:35 - 10:20
Formula 1   Practice 1   11:00 - 12:30
FIA Formula 2   Practice Session   12:55 - 13:40
Formula 1   Press Conference   13:00 - 14:00
FIA Formula 3   Qualifying Session   14:05 - 14:35
Formula 1   Practice 2
15:00 - 16:30
FIA Formula 2   Qualifying Session   17:00 - 17:30
FIA Formula 3   Press Conference   17:45 - 18:15
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup   Practice Session   17:55 - 18:40
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   18:15 - 18:45
         
SATURDAY 8th AUGUST        
Formula 1   Team Pit Stop Practice   08:10 - 08:40
FIA Formula 3   First Race (20 Laps or 40 Mins)   09:25 - 10:10
FIA Formula 3   Press Conference   10:25 - 10:55
Formula 1   Practice 3   11:00 - 12:00
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup   Qualifying Session   12:45 - 13:15
Formula 1   Qualifying   14:00 - 15:00
Formula 1   Press Conference   15:00 - 16:00
FIA Formula 2   First Race (29 Laps or 60 Mins)   15:45 - 16:50
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   17:05 - 17:35
         
SUNDAY 9th AUGUST
     
FIA Formula 3   Second Race (20 Laps or 40 Mins)   08:45 - 09:30
FIA Formula 2   Second Race (21 Laps or 45 Mins)   10:10 - 11:00
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   11:15 - 11:45
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup   Race (13 Laps or 30 Mins)   11:25 - 12:00
Formula 1    Drivers' Presentation   12:20 - 13:00
Formula 1   End Racism Recognition   13:53 - 13:54
Formula 1   National Anthem   13:54 - 13:56
Formula 1   Grand Prix (52 Laps or 120 Mins)   14:10 - 16:10

I guess this one no drivers will be allowed to cross the line on 3 wheels

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So, any chance of they changing the tyres, or are they keeping the softer sets as previously planned?

Keeping them as far as I know. Until proven otherwise, the signs point to debris causing the punctures.

Thx

Yet to watch this but might be nice:

Even with the tyres staying the same, I doubt we'll see a repeat as the teams will know what to do now. Any chance of rain on Sunday?

Well pointed out. Will look forward to see how they solve this problem. Already making this race quite unique and special.

Hotter weather just to add to the mix. Now this may be the only race in ages that I may prefer that it doesn't rain.

It looks bone dry until Tuesday next week.

Are we still going to spain?

I thought they were talking about staying at Silverstone an extra week because things looked so bad there?

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Chapel kerb has been extended.

Not heard any thing but surely they can't be about to do another Melbourne? That would be an utter joke.

Surely has nothing to do with blown tires then.

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seeing the engagement the last lap thrills Liberty would take a kne jerk approach and randomly place explosive charges in random tires set to explode in the final lap, just for the DRAMA!!! as cars will keep distance avoid big wrecks

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Think it's not too late to jury-rig Silverstone's sprinkler system to wet down the track?

Current forecast is the same as last week. Hot Friday (31C), warm Saturday (26C), cooler Sunday (23C).

There hasn't been a lot of rain here (I'm in one of the driest parts of the UK, about 100 miles from Silverstone). We had rain Saturday night before the race, and Monday morning after the race Hopefully the warmer weather will bring a storm in (long range forecasts suggesting rain on Tuesday - Thursday after the race).

Am I missing something regarding Spain? Their daily death figures are always lower than the UK, but it's dangerous there and safe here? Or is there an outbreak near the circuit?

Yesterday, Spain recorded their highest number of new cases (5,760) since April 24th. There is quite clearly a second wave in progress.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... try/spain/

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Apparently Paul Di Resta is Mclaren's reserve driver for the time being.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/di-r ... e/4850096/

Probably that their second wave is coming earlier than the UK's, so Silverstone got lucky having its races when it did

There was a news report a couple of weeks ago saying if things got worse in spain, they'd stay at Silverstone and have a third race, but that went quiet I guess, probably when things DID get worse in spain and they had no intention of cancelling the race there...

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley

I saw this at motorsport.com and started looking for the related article about Lando or Carlos having covid. If nothing's happening with the main drivers who gives a shit who the reserves are? They clearly didn't when they had Guttierez listed as reserve for multiple teams all year despite the fact he doesn't meet requirements to drive in F1.

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Yeah, that's what I don't get.

Edit:
Actually, could it be that it's because Di Resta raced DTM up to last year and is racing in WEC whereas Guirerrez has barely done anything since 2017?

There has to be something there, in the quote from the rulebook (rulebook meaning Wikipedia article).

Di Resta raced once in 2017, meaning he should be within the 3 years to be eligible for a superlicence. He didn't raced since 2013, so probably it was testing mileage that kept him eligible prior to that.

Gutierrez last raced in 2016, four years ago, so he wouldn't be eligible straight away.

My question is, do Superlicences expire each year? I mean, if neither Gutierrez nor di Resta renewed their superlicences after their last races and if they expire at the end of the year/beggining of the next, makes sense to me that Di Resta is eligible and Gutierrez isn't.