The Portuguese Grand Prix @ Interlagos

[John]

Disclaimer: This is Part 19 of 20 in the series "The best GP introductions in the world". The author takes no responsibility for the relevance of the content regarding the actual GP itself.

What.

RISE OF THE COLONIES!



You are a horrible person.



Take a look at the Portuguese world cup squad from 1994.

Allright, it's not funny anymore.

These introductions never were.

And the No. 1 hit song in India, I've been told.



Vengaboys - Brazil. @SB83 can perhaps confirm this.

Mongols?

No mongols.

I can't wait for next year when these previews are over.

Me neither.

[caneparo]

Watchout what you say or the new brasilian president will shoot in your head

[MonteCristo]

I want more of these in 2019.

2020 too.

Please.

[John]

Watchout what you say or the new brasilian president will shoot in your head

Would have been too easy points to claim.

But I sort of miss DILMA already.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Pirelli are taking Supersoft(Red), Soft(Yellow) and Medium (White) tyres for the Portugese GP at Interlagos. No Hyper and no Ultra soft compounds. Yay

Needless to say the tytes selected by the teams / drivers are skewed towatds the Supersoft.

Brazilian Grand Prix tyre choices
DRIVER MEDIUM SOFT SUPERSOFT
Lewis Hamilton 1 3 9
Valtteri Bottas 2 2 9
Sebastian Vettel 1 3 9
Kimi Raikkonen 2 3 8
Daniel Ricciardo 1 3 9
Max Verstappen 1 3 9
Sergio Perez 1 4 8
Esteban Ocon 1 4 8
Lance Stroll 2 2 9
Sergey Sirotkin 1 3 9
Nico Hulkenberg 2 3 8
Carlos Sainz Jr 1 4 8
Pierre Gasly 2 3 8
Brendon Hartley 1 4 8
Romain Grosjean 1 3 9
Kevin Magnussen 2 2 9
Fernando Alonso 2 4 7
Stoffel Vandoorne 2 4 7
Marcus Ericsson 2 2 9
Charles Leclerc 1 3 9

[caneparo]

No hypershit thanks god

[John]

Have we had the hard compound brought to any race so far?

[Michkov]

[DoubleFart]

"Interlagos literally translates to between lakes"

"Bico de pato, the ducks beak"

Drink for every time you hear them..

[John]

"Interlagos literally translates to between lakes"

"Bico de pato, the ducks beak"

Drink for every time you hear them..

Not to forget, Fisi's car catching fire after winning the race. And any mention of Barrichello running out of fuel when on the verge of winning.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Not a race winning changer but I always remember Kovalainen taking off down pitlane with fuel hose behind spraying fuel onto Kimi's car behind.

Kimi, asked after if he felt the heat or got burnt, said he had burt his eyebrows and lashes.... but that was his fault because he keeps his visor slightly open till he gets to the end of pitlane to stop fogging!

[SBan83]

@John that song WAS loudly audible in neighborhood parties more than any I can remember, and that's including Bollywood songs too, so probably, yea.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Have we had the hard compound brought to any race so far?

Silverstone was the only time the hard was used/offered IIRC. The Super Hard that Pirelli nominated as one of the 7 options pre season never got used.

[caneparo]

Pirelli website says the orange tyres were designed only for extreme cases and actually not meant to be used. The blue hard tyres i think were brought in silverston but probably nobody choose it. I find it easy to explain, with the graining the cars had this years with harder compounds i think i supersoft set would have lasted longer than a superhard. Increasing the compounds meant reducing the temperature range they actually worked. They messed everything up. I don’t think next year will change much as it seems they will use the same compunds choice for gp renaming them simply as soft medium hard according to the gradation scale. I have been critical of pirelli many and many times, I won’t go further here.

[erwin greven]

@caneparo At the begin i thought Pirelli would improve, but nowadays i am convinced there is only one solution: Tire war. Open to more manufacturers. Pirelli is not improving.