Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2016

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:59 pm

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2016

Season Standings

1981 - Gilles Villeneuve overcomes rain and lack of visibility for crowd's delight. Jacques Laffite wins the race.

1989 - Thierry Boutsen masters wet weather to win his first F1 race

1995 - Jean Alesi is brought back to the pits by Michael Schumacher after an emocional first (and only) victory.

Timetables
all times are local (UTC-4)

Friday 10 – Sunday 12 June 2016

Practice 1 Friday 10:00 – 11:30
Practice 2 Friday 14:00 – 15:30
Practice 3 Saturday 10:00 – 11:00
Qualifying Saturday 13:00 – 14:00
Race Sunday 14:00 – 16:00

Salut Gilles for one of the best racetracks of the season

JJ · PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:34 pm

Canada usually delivers great races and I don't see why this year should be an exception. Can Mercedes be beaten? Will Red Bull beat Ferrari again? Ultra Softs and Monaco was a difficult combination, so perhaps they will again cause some additional drama. The wall of champions is always hungry; perhaps taking Verstappen this year?
Also, a slight risk of rain for Sunday. All the elements of exciting weekend are there.

webbsy · PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:53 pm

How long will the ultra softs last? I know that Monaco was a different set of circumstances than normal with track conditions etc but still, the softest tyre in your allocation lasting 40 odd laps is an absolute joke.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:00 am

Best event of the year. Not many cities embrace their race as much as Montreal.

webbsy · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 3:53 am

mclaren2008 wrote:

Best event of the year. Not many cities embrace their race as much as Montreal.

The way it should be, yet Bernie constantly threatens the race. I lived in and around Shanghai for 5 years and you wouldn't even know that there is a race there. Zero promotion and no one gives a shit.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 6:02 am

aerogi · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 6:51 am

[quote="LucasWheldon]

1989 - Thierry Boutsen masters wet weather to win his first F1 race
[/quote]

I remember this one very well. Very eventfull race!

great pic!

Fabs · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:03 am

webbsy wrote:

How long will the ultra softs last? I know that Monaco was a different set of circumstances than normal with track conditions etc but still, the softest tyre in your allocation lasting 40 odd laps is an absolute joke.

Blame the teams and drivers bitching the last seasons about the tyres. Next season will be even worse.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:01 pm

if the ultrasofts keep it hard like it was at Monaco the race could be only two stops

at least tires in Canada suffer a bit more

Bleu · PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:56 pm

This is the tyre selection chart as it hasn't been pictured yet.

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:18 am

Now let me remind you that Montreal race in 1997 where tyre choice was way too soft and people had to make unexpected stops with visibly destroyed rear tyres

I want to believe

Bleu · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:36 am

coldtyre wrote:

Now let me remind you that Montreal race in 1997 where tyre choice was way too soft and people had to make unexpected stops with visibly destroyed rear tyres

I want to believe

I remember that, and it was also very random between sets. Coulthard's first set could be run for 40 laps and his second set was destroyed in 12 laps which cause him to make the fateful pit stop.

Ditto for Schumacher who was on two-stop strategy but had to make third stop after eight laps or so.

webbsy · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:28 am

I see you Canada 1997 and raise you a Barcelona 1997 the race before. Commentary from Martin Brudndell "Coulthard's done three stops in 40 laps, I don't see him doing 25 till the end of the race" Come on Pirelli, tell the teams to suck it and produce your original set of tires again!

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:54 pm

Bleu wrote:

coldtyre wrote:

Now let me remind you that Montreal race in 1997 where tyre choice was way too soft and people had to make unexpected stops with visibly destroyed rear tyres

I want to believe

I remember that, and it was also very random between sets. Coulthard's first set could be run for 40 laps and his second set was destroyed in 12 laps which cause him to make the fateful pit stop.

Ditto for Schumacher who was on two-stop strategy but had to make third stop after eight laps or so.

Because of that, when Panis crashed, most people thought it was a rear tyre failure at first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-i7yO7IzFYY#t=156

Damn, what a shitty way to end what was pretty interesting race. He'd have been better off sliding along a bare concrete wall at that angle, even in a '97 car.

Yet it took them 10 years and another serious crash (the near-fatal Star Mazda pile-up in the mid 2ks) before finally putting a nice smooth barrier to slide along instead of a dead-stop tyrewall.

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 1:01 pm

let's hope for a wreckfest

Stoegi · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:41 pm

coldtyre wrote:

Bleu wrote:

coldtyre wrote:

Now let me remind you that Montreal race in 1997 where tyre choice was way too soft and people had to make unexpected stops with visibly destroyed rear tyres

I want to believe

I remember that, and it was also very random between sets. Coulthard's first set could be run for 40 laps and his second set was destroyed in 12 laps which cause him to make the fateful pit stop.

Ditto for Schumacher who was on two-stop strategy but had to make third stop after eight laps or so.

Because of that, when Panis crashed, most people thought it was a rear tyre failure at first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-i7yO7IzFYY#t=156

Damn, what a shitty way to end what was pretty interesting race. He'd have been better off sliding along a bare concrete wall at that angle, even in a '97 car.

Yet it took them 10 years and another serious crash (the near-fatal Star Mazda pile-up in the mid 2ks) before finally putting a nice smooth barrier to slide along instead of a dead-stop tyrewall.

.

That was back in '06, horrible accident. Although rumours of a driver (Brad Jaeger, who was hit in the head by a flying car) being revived were never confirmed tbh.

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:13 pm

That crash was ten years ago now? :ohmy:

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:20 pm

Was it also 10 years ago when the track started to come apart at the hairpin leading to a few people running wide and a bit of a random element to the race?

amq55 · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:22 pm

codename_47 wrote:

Was it also 10 years ago when the track started to come apart at the hairpin leading to a few people running wide and a bit of a random element to the race?

Wasn't that in 2008?

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:48 pm

amazing, never saw that crash before

nobody died on that one, right?

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