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German Grand Prix 2019: Grand Prix Weekend Thread
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Very hot, followed by thunderstorms?
'Friday’s practices will take place in extreme heat with the day’s high 39’C. That is likely to mean the track temperature will reach the high 50s, if not even higher. Saturday it will be a bit cooler with the day’s high 31’C, however, that’s because the thunderstorms are forecast to arrive. Meteorologists are predicting a small chance of rain in the morning but that should getting steadily heavier in the afternoon. There is a 45% chance of thunderstorms during Saturday’s qualifying. As for Sunday, that will be cool and wet. The day’s high is 23’C and the weatherman says there is a 70% chance of rain during the 67-lap German GP.' |
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Potential for Mercedes to struggle with race pace while running in high heat conditions again?
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It would be nice to throw a curveball like the heat into the mix
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to be honest it will be nice to see anything other than the usual mercs one two
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Well FP2 has the Ferraris 1st and 2nd (LeClerc ahead, of course
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The fear that Mercedes is just playing with its F1 rivals. From Autosport (They don't fully agree.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOzy3nVwWlc Time for pop off valves imo. |
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Don’t watch it will be boring or maybe even fixed.
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Ferrari fastest in both practice sessions, but we've heard that often enough this season
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I'm actually watching qualifying live on the tellybox. Something is very, very wrong here.
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Another qualifying session, another Ferrari issue on a car.
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Wow...at his home GP.
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Failing once isn't an option for Ferrari. They feel the need to fail twice.
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Ferrari have a truple whammy. If Vettel’s not making mistakes, the car is letting them down, and if the car’s not letting them down, the team are screwing up
Good to see both RBRs among the Mercs, they are their only serious challengers atm |
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I really think atm is unhealthy
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Ferrari have a long history of doing an act from the Keystone Cops. I thought they'd managed to get rid of it, but no, it keeps coming back to haunt them.
If it's not driving into things, or being driven into, it's appalling strategy calls or good old simple mechanical failures. I really felt for both drivers today, they didn't deserve that. |
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Well if they keep this up the red car team is likely to start blaming each other another round of changes in the team is likely.
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Unfortunately that's not the number 1 they need to look after! |
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They are their worse enemy, if they had the ability of Mercs to work together then they would not be having the problems that always seem to appear
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Never mind the issues with other teams....clearly the superstar of qualifying today was Kimi. He wasn't that far off of the pole time either.
With that stellar performance in a lowly midfield car, I may consider voting him as driver of the race before the race has started. Sent from my SM-G955W using Tapatalk |
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Do that Pete and you can bet he'll get punted off at the first corner.......
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Kimi did a brilliant job with that car in quali, but then he’s done a very consistent job all season
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