Round 3: Poortugal Race thread

[John]

The generic Portuguese:

[DoubleFart]

Mongol Update?

[John]

Mongol Update?

They've reached Persia. They'll hang around there for a while.

[MonteCristo]

Is that guy buying a house online for $5?

[Picci]

With each race I see Merc improving its pace compared to RBR. Won’t be long before we go back to 2020.

[Ruslan]

Friday Practice Session 1
POS DRIVER NATIONALITY ENTRANT TIME
1. Valtteri Bottas Finland Mercedes 1:19.648
2. Max Verstappen Netherlands Red Bull Racing Honda 1:19.673
3. Sergio Perez Mexico Red Bull Racing Honda 1:19.846
4. Charles Leclerc Monaco Ferrari 1:19.884
5. Lewis Hamilton Britain Mercedes 1:19.967
6. Pierre Gasly France AlphaTauri-Honda 1:20.444
7. George Russell Britain Williams-Mercedes 1:20.529
8. Lando Norris Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.635
9. Carlos Sainz Spain Ferrari 1:20.680
10. Esteban Ocon France Alpine-Renault 1:20.800
11. Lance Stroll Canada Aston Martin-Mercedes 1:20.894
12. Daniel Ricciardo Australia McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.995
13. Yuki Tsunoda Japan AlphaTauri-Honda 1:21.090
14. Fernando Alonso Spain Alpine-Renault 1:21.303
15. Kimi Raikkonen Finland Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:21.381
16. Sebastian Vettel Germany Aston Martin-Mercedes 1:21.405
17. Callum Ilott Britain Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:21.806
18. Mick Schumacher Germany Haas-Ferrari 1:21.939
19. Nicholas Latifi Canada Williams-Mercedes 1:22.293
20. Nikita Mazepin Russia Haas-Ferrari 1:24.224

[Ruslan]

Observation: Of the six teams that has one experienced driver and one new driver to the team, in all six cases, the experienced driver was faster than the new guy. This has seemed to be the pattern for the first two races of the season.

[White six]

Observation, this circuit is boring as fck

[Circuitmaster]

Observation, this circuit is boring as fck

Observation, your observation is terrible

[Ruslan]

Friday Practice Session 2
POS DRIVER NATIONALITY ENTRANT TIME
1. Lewis Hamilton Britain Mercedes 1:19.837
2. Max Verstappen Netherlands Red Bull Racing Honda 1:19.980
3. Valtteri Bottas Finland Mercedes 1:20.181
4. Carlos Sainz Spain Ferrari 1:20.197
5. Fernando Alonso Spain Alpine-Renault 1:20.220
6. Esteban Ocon France Alpine-Renault 1:20.235
7. Charles Leclerc Monaco Ferrari 1:20.360
8. Daniel Ricciardo Australia McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.418
9. Lance Stroll Canada Aston Martin-Mercedes 1:20.427
10. Sergio Perez Mexico Red Bull Racing Honda 1:20.516
11. Pierre Gasly France AlphaTauri-Honda 1:20.558
12. Lando Norris Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.757
13. George Russell Britain Williams-Mercedes 1:20.976
14. Yuki Tsunoda Japan AlphaTauri-Honda 1:21.053
15. Sebastian Vettel Germany Aston Martin-Mercedes 1:21.074
16. Kimi Raikkonen Finland Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:21.225
17. Antonio Giovinazzi Italy Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:21.238
18. Mick Schumacher Germany Haas-Ferrari 1:21.537
19. Nicholas Latifi Canada Williams-Mercedes 1:21.855
20. Nicholas Latifi Canada Williams-Mercedes 1:22.638

[Ruslan]

A few observations:

1. For FP2 this new drivers on 4 of 6 teams were faster then their teammate. We shall see if this holds up during qualifying.
2. Latifi is so bad that he listed in the last two places. I assume the other tail ender is Mazepin.
3. FP 2 is not faster than FP1.
4. Most of the cars ran on medium tires this session.

[Picci]

Observation, this circuit is boring as fck

Observation, your observation is terrible

I LOL’ed.

Well we have grass and gravel here which is always a relief. Oh and we have inclines too. But don’t worry, we’ll progress to the next batch of Tilkedromes soon.

[Everso Biggyballies]

A few observations:

2. Latifi is so bad that he listed in the last two places. I assume the other tail ender is Mazepin.

Hehehe in fact yes the other tail ender was Mazepin.... 8 tenths slower than Latifi and over a second shy of Schumacher.
@Ruslan thanks for posting the times etc.... I had friends for dinner last night and so did not get to watch any of practice or even check what was going on until this morning.

[Ruslan]

@Ruslan thanks for posting the times etc.... I had friends for dinner last night and so did not get to watch any of practice or even check what was going on until this morning.

Yea, I was surprised. Much rather you do it than me.

[MonteCristo]

Interesting to see Alpine higher up in FP2. Probably a false dawn though.