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2016 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE


Season standings



1997 - Championship decider round see Frentzen earning pole position on a triple tie. Mika Hakkinen wins his first career victory and Jacuqes Villeneuve is world champion after Michael Schumacher DNF


2009 - Rubens Barrichello keeps his hopes on championship with his first victory with Brawn GP


2012 - An epic race with the last podium finish for Michael Schumacher and an emotional victory for Fernando Alonso

Timetable
all times are local

Friday 17 – Sunday 19 June 2016

Practice 1 Friday 13:00 – 14:30
Practice 2 Friday 17:00 – 18:30
Practice 3 Saturday 14:00 – 15:00
Qualifying Saturday 17:00 – 18:00
Race Sunday 17:00 – 19:00

you'll see this race right after 24 Heures du Mans

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

I have no idea what to expect. Everyone will either love it or hate it. Probably both. At least it looks more challenging than Valencia or Sochi, but so should Montreal be and it sucked big time. Looking forward to FP1.
Oh, and GP2 will race here

I'm going to miss it, why is it so damn close to Canada?

because they don't want to see F1 drivers racing Le Mans?

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

No DRS?

For anyone else reading the opening post and wondering...the race is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

lets see how big the crowd is

i.e., Asia...not Europe. Baku is farther east than Iraq.

If there was an Iranian Grand Prix they sure as hell wouldn't call it the European Grand Prix.

Although it is a member of the Council of Europe, whatever that is. Europe has always been a pretty vague geographical term anyways, as has Asia.

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Council of Europe is nothing to do with the European Union (and not to be confused with the Council of the European Union which is).

It's main claim to fame is the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights, both of which are completely separate entities to the European Union (in case you were wondering, no Brexit won't mean the end of the Human Rights Act in the UK).

it was a former soviet country so it still counts as european to me

quite as much as a team from Vladivostok playing european competitions

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

#TheSpeedIsHigherInTheLandOfFire

I imagine a lot of it will be like Valencia, where there is still miles of run off and it's very forgiving for a street circuit. There is a really narrow section somewhere on the circuit, though. That could be interesting.

It's going to be tight:

They're going full Gran Turismo! You can actually scrape that castle if you're going full Maldonado!


Dude! How many F1 tracks ever had an actual castle as an apex! That's Gold!

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"Indy doesn't give you a second chance. You have to earn it."

I love this track already to be honest. That long, long, looooooooooong straight and that section above mhhhhhhhm.

It's going to be sunny and hot all weekend, with Sunday being the hottest day. No chance of rain.

time to see some degradation then.

if the straight is long, they'll be holding on throtle to improve fuel mileage and tire saving

I would like to see more pics of other corners, to see if there's runoff

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The most horrid track can produce a thriller if the circumstances are right.

Hope that is the case this weekend, although I have to say the track looks anything but horrid from what Ive seen.