Welcome
Hello everyone and welcome to the Canadian Grand Prix Weekend thread.
Details about this race can be found here.
Sessions
This thread will cover all the sessions this weekend, so that’s all 3 practice sessions, qualifying, and the race.
We will monitor how this goes to see if we need more granularity.
Spoilers
The rules around spoilers are not yet in place, therefore we won’t be enforcing anything around spoilers this weekend. This goes beyond the scope of this thread too.
If you do not want spoilers, please do not look in this community this weekend.
The aim is to have a finished set of rules ready by mid next week.
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Wow, Williams with the big balls strategy, nicely done
I respect it. They saw a small window to put in some fast laps on softs and they capitalized on it in a big way.
Just the perfect timing. Got the tyres into the temperature window before the rain got stronger. Not sure if those who put on the softs late will be caught out by the rain now.
Vowles’ experience shows
What a clusterfuck that was at the end.
Gasly got screwed.
Yeah so much. This was crazy by sainz
Sainz and Tsunoda have been tripping over people all weekend. It’s shockingly bad.
how do y’all feel about race weekends with these later than usual session start times?
I hate them, give me my 8-9am sessions!
How about you Euros/Asians? Are these times better or worse?UK. Love them. Nothing like having a good weekend ending with a live race on a Sunday evening.
And me, bugger all on TV anyway so perfect Saturday/Sunday night activity
there’s nothing better than going to bed after being let down by ferrari
As an American, I greatly dislike the later times when races are on this side of the world. I don’t mind waking up like 6,7,8am or whatever to watch a session. Or even staying up very late til like 4am. Even on Fridays for FP1 and FP2.
Idk, I like getting F1 “out of the way” so to speak, then I can do whatever else I need to do for rest of the day.
Like right now, it’s 12:30p for me. That’s not terrible since it’s lunch time. But FP2 is at like 4pm; I tend to take a nap around then. If I was still working from the office, I’d be leaving the office around then.
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European here, if I don’t have anything planned for the weekend, I love them. If I plan a night out on Saturday, I hate them. Right now, I love it.
As a European I quite like the late races, frees up the day for other things.
These conditions really bring out the chasm in ability between Stroll and Alonso.
Between Alonso and almost everybody else. Stroll was nowhere, but Alonso in his 40’s is sharper than 75% of the current grid. His reactions when the car snaps on him is unbelievable.
Which is weird considering the fact that a few years ago stroll was pretty good in wet conditions
I always felt Stroll isn’t good in the rain per se… but he was very quick to change from wet/inters to slicks
He gambles and it paid off a few times
Well he has front row starts in Monza 2017 and Istanbul 2020. Both were wet qualifying with almost everybody on same tyres. Stroll gambled during neither of them
It might be that he has been Vandoorned already. His spirit has been broken.
You have to believe you’re the fastest or you can just hang it up. Lance does not believe he is faster than Fernando it doesn’t seem. If your goal is to do slightly worse than Alonso, you’re always going to do worse than Alonso.
Go on Albon!
I know that this post is for the full weekend. Could we still have a separate race discussion? I think this would make it a bit better to kepp an overview.
There are a couple of reason why I’m going to say no to this now.
- I don’t want to change how we’re operating a race weekend during the race weekend.
- I’d like to see the experiment of one post per race weekend through.
If we get enough feedback asking for more granular threads then when will absolutely consider how we change things for future races.
Tomorrow there will be a post-race discussion. Perhaps in there you can make this point again?
Good call on not changing things as we’re going! I personally do prefer to have separate threads, definitely easier for me to avoid spoilers that way when watching after the fact as opposed to live.
Not OP, but fair points.
Let’s see how the discussion goes tomorrow. Enjoy the race!
“There’s a surprising number of cars out there, considering this is approaching biblical”
- Alex Jaques
“Good weather for a duck”
- Valtteri Bottas
Sainz is getting a penalty for that surely
Nice amount of impeding today.
🏁 Checkered flag as the rain increases
Top 3
HAM 1:13.718
RUS +0.027
SAI +0.126What an action-packed FP1!
Edge of the seat stuff!
Wow we need rain every weekend. This qualifying is nuts
Q1 results
Top 3: VER ALO HAM
Eiminated: TSU GAS DEV SAR ZHO
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The session times do not match with weekend warmup because F1TVs coverage of practice sessions now includes a 15-minute preshow. 13:30, 17:00, and 12:30 local time are the correct times.
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Nice formatting, how did you get the red text!?
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Looking at the source it looks like they used backticks ( ` ) for code blocks.
TestGrey code blockred code blockI didn’t realise the different code block implementations would give different colours. Very useful!
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Yeah, slam dunk.
Williams with 2 fastest sectors, just like we ll predicted.
Williams dominance could bore fans
