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Last race at this track

70th Anniversary GP - heavy tire wear from Mercedes allowed a dominant performance for Max Verstappen while Racing Point made a questionable call to pit Hulkenberg

Season standings
after round 9

DRIVERS
POS   DRIVER   NATIONALITY   CAR   PTS
1   Max Verstappen   NED   RED BULL RACING HONDA   182
2   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   MERCEDES   150
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   RED BULL RACING HONDA   104
4   Lando Norris   GBR   MCLAREN MERCEDES   101
5   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   MERCEDES   92
6   Charles Leclerc   MON   FERRARI   62
7   Carlos Sainz   ESP   FERRARI   60
8   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   MCLAREN MERCEDES   40
9   Pierre Gasly   FRA   ALPHATAURI HONDA   39
10   Sebastian Vettel   GER   ASTON MARTIN MERCEDES   30
11   Fernando Alonso   ESP   ALPINE RENAULT   20
12   Lance Stroll   CAN   ASTON MARTIN MERCEDES   14
13   Esteban Ocon   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   12
14   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   ALPHATAURI HONDA   9
15   Kimi Räikkönen   FIN   ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI   1
16   Antonio Giovinazzi   ITA   ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI   1
17   George Russell   GBR   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
18   Mick Schumacher   GER   HAAS FERRARI   0
19   Nikita Mazepin   RAF   HAAS FERRARI   0
20   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0

CONSTRUCTORS
POS   TEAM   PTS
1   RED BULL RACING HONDA   286
2   MERCEDES   242
3   MCLAREN MERCEDES   141
4   FERRARI   122
5   ALPHATAURI HONDA   48
6   ASTON MARTIN MERCEDES   44
7   ALPINE RENAULT   32
8   ALFA ROMEO RACING FERRARI   2
9   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
10   HAAS FERRARI   0

Timetables
all times are local (GMT+1)

THURSDAY 15th JULY        
Formula 1   Press Conference   15:30 - 19:00
Formula 1   Formula 1 Pirelli Hot Laps (High Speed)   15:55 - 16:25
F1 Experiences   F1 Experiences Track Tour/Grid Photo   16:30 - 18:30
F1 Experiences   F1 Experiences 'F1 Live On The Grid'   18:30 - 20:30
         
FRIDAY 16th JULY        
W Series   Practice Session   09:40 - 10:10
Masters GT Challenge   Practice Session   10:35 - 11:05
FIA Formula 2   Practice Session   11:30 - 12:15
Promoter Activity   RAF Falcons Air Display   12:20 - 12:50
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Tour   12:30 - 13:00
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   12:30 - 13:00
Historic Cars   Best of British - Historic F1 Cars (High Speed)   13:05 - 13:20
Formula 1   Formula 1 Pirelli Hot Laps (High Speed)   13:25 - 13:55
Formula 1   Practice 1   14:30 - 15:30
W Series   Qualifying Session   15:55 - 16:25
Formula 1   Press Conference   16:00 - 17:00
FIA Formula 2    Qualifying Session   16:50 - 17:20
Formula 1   Qualifying   18:00 - 19:00
Formula 1   Press Conference   19:00 - 20:00
Formula 1   RM Sotheby's F1 Car Demonstration (High Speed)   19:30 - 19:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   19:50 - 20:20
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Tour   19:50 - 20:20
         
SATURDAY 17th JULY        
FIA Formula 2   First Race (21 Laps or 45 Mins)   08:50 - 09:40
Historic Cars   Best of British - Historic F1 Cars (High Speed)   09:50 - 10:05
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   10:00 - 10:30
Masters GT Challenge   First Race (30 Mins)   10:20 - 10:55
Formula 1   Team Pit Stop Practice   11:05 - 11:25
Formula 1   Formula 1 Pirelli Hot Laps (High Speed)   11:10 - 11:30
Formula 1   Practice 2   12:00 - 13:00
W Series   Race (30 Mins+1 Lap)   13:25 - 14:05
Promoter Activity   Air Display - Battle of Britain Memorial Flight   14:20 - 14:25
FIA Formula 2   Second Race (21 Laps or 45 Mins)   14:45 - 15:35
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   15:55 - 16:25
Formula 1   Sprint (17 Laps or 30 Mins)   16:30 - 17:00
Formula 1   Sprint Victory Lap   17:00 - 17:30
Formula 1   Press Conference   17:00 - 18:00
Formula 1   RM Sotheby's F1 Car Demonstration (High Speed)   18:00 - 18:15
Formula 1   Scuderia Ferrari 1st Win 70th Anniversary Demonstration (High Speed)   18:20 - 18:35
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   18:40 - 19:10
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Tour   18:40 - 19:10
         
SUNDAY 18th JULY
     
Masters GT Challenge   Second Race (30 Mins)   09:35 - 10:10
FIA Formula 2   Third Race (29 Laps or 60 Mins)   10:50 - 11:55
Formula 1   Formula 1 Pirelli Hot Laps (High Speed)   12:10 - 12:30
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   12:15 - 12:45
Formula 1   Scuderia Ferrari 1st Win 70th Anniversary Demonstration (High Speed)   12:35 - 12:50
Historic Cars   Best of British - Historic F1 Cars (High Speed)   12:55 - 13:10
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   13:15 - 13:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Tour   13:15 - 13:45
Formula 1   Drivers' Parade   13:20 - 13:50
Promoter Activity   Red Arrows Air Display   13:50 - 14:16
Formula 1   'We Race As One' Gesture   14:43 - 14:44
Formula 1   National Anthem   14:44 - 14:46
Promoter Activity   Air Display - Red Arrows Fly Past   14:46 - 14:48
Formula 1   Grand Prix (52 Laps or 120 Mins)   15:00 - 17:00

one of those races where saturday gather more attention than sunday, hanging on the Sprint Race flop

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

I hope all teams or at least half of the field boycotts the Sprint Race by pitting on a warm-up lap. If not, then hopefully we see Hungary 2004 type of boredom forcing Brawn to admit (yeah right) the whole thing was a mistake.
Well, at least the weather should be dry. The thing I was afraid was British rainy weather during the sprint race, creating chaotic spectacle that would be used as an argument for making sprint races permanent from 2022 onwards. But whatever happens, I guess it's inevitable. The more gimmicks, the better for Liberty Media. Screw them.

I'm sure sprint races will suck but I'm interested to see how it will unfold anyway.

Just a thought, perhaps they could apply grid penalties on sprint races so that could be an incentive for drivers to push a bit more in such a situation

Just an even better thought. Why not mixing the two worst qualifying formats ever? Sprint races with lap knockouts. It would be the ultimate gimmick

I’ll read about the sprint race afterwards. Expecting brawn to visit me in the next fewxweeks to personally apologize to every F1 fan

Or, you guys can just not watch it, and let the more optimistic fans enjoy an additional race and a new format being tested. It's weak to hope for failure of something that doesn't impact you negatively. You'll get your main race on Sunday, just tune in.

I haven't found any good info about the format and/or what the reason for it being, I'll just have to see as it unfolds.

We already seen attempts using different types of qualifying during the weekend, because changing the race itself seems to be the issues for some fans. Anything for a change is a good thing imo.

Indycar does double headers and I think it works well there, so does other motorsport series which I find more interesting than F1.

going full Need for Speed (the classic ones with supercars, not those modern with riced tuning). I like it



I believe this could work in F1. Do two separate races of around 45 minutes, with no need to do pit stops and let them race, but for that they cannot save fuel or equipment to work

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

I'm off to wedding this weekend, no qualifying race crap for me.

The lost chance was the reversed grid.

Friday qualifying sets the sunday grid, and the sprint race grid backwards. Win win.

I went to a wedding during Austria 1, based on that example, weddings=SHIT RACE

(I can also remember being at a wedding and missing Hungary 2000 for another example. SHIT RACE)

Obviously, after a good few weeks of intermittent rain, we're now predicting a 30 Degree heatwave for this weekend.
FML

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

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Twitter:

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Two things after looking at that schedule.

1. They have FP1 and then Qualy on Friday and then FP2 on Saturday? Are teams allowed to change their cars after qualy? If not, what the hell is the point of FP2?

2. The sprint race is 17 laps???? At least make it half of normal race distance and have every one be on the softest tyre to complete the gimmick. The FIA can't even get that right.

Maybe it will surprise us, but my expectations are incredibly low. You need the softer tyres to provide wear, or else it will likely be a 17 lap parade (unless someone fast is out of position).

At least the Q3 positions should be inverted

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

And they will still wait 3 laps to activate the drs? They should give everyone drs after the first lap since it's such a short race

I still don´t know if winning the sprint race will count as an official victory. Say Norris qualifies 2nd on Friday and wins the sprint race, will the record books show that he won his first race, or that he scored his first pole position?

they say there'll be no podiums, trophies, anthem or champagne, so it doesn't counts

but will the friday pole count as pole?

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

We have an amazing sprint race happening and all comments are bitching moans, so TBK.

I think the most TBK part of this is that it hasn't even happened yet and has already been comprehensively trashed

Official Pole Position will be count for the winner of the Sprint Race.

Friday quaifying only sets the starting grid for the Sprint.