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Grand Prix thread HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2023

Discussion in 'Formula 1' started by ched999uk, Jul 20, 2023.

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Who will finish first?

Poll closed Jul 22, 2023.
  1. Max Verstappen

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  2. Charles Leclerc

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  3. Daniel Ricciardo

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  4. Fernando Alonso

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  5. Lewis Hamilton

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  6. George Russell

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  7. Lando Norris

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  8. Carlos Sainz

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  9. Sergio Perez

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  10. Any Other

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  1. eddie_squidd

    eddie_squidd Well-Known Member

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    Well normal service was resumed depressingly quickly.
     
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  2. ched999uk

    ched999uk Well-Known Member

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    Looks like Riccy hit Occon!
     
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  3. Mark Blow

    Mark Blow Well-Known Member

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    Why are we spending 2+ minutes on the alpine when we need to be watching the racing?
     
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  4. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Shame for Gasly, he'd taken a great line, looks to be on Zhou, hero to zero.
     
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  5. Mark Blow

    Mark Blow Well-Known Member

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    I know it’s good for Piastri to be up to 2nd but is he holding his team mate Norris up?
     
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  6. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    "I've been talking to Mike Krack" gets me every time.
     
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  7. eddie_squidd

    eddie_squidd Well-Known Member

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    <laugh>
     
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  8. Mark Blow

    Mark Blow Well-Known Member

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    Can I fast forward the race by 90 minutes somehow?
     
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  9. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    yeah, it's called sleep.
     
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  10. Viva_Giggsy

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    McLaren helping Norris passed he's teammate.
     
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  11. Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    It's unlucky for Piastri, but McLaren needed to cover Hamilton. No sense in losing the double podium for the sake of teammate fairness
     
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  12. Mark Blow

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    The pace Lewis is going it wouldn’t have mattered
     
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  13. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    thank God for perez and norris.

    its a pure drs snooze fest

    perez closing for a 1/2.

    piastri has spent all afternoon going backwards after a great start.

    Hamilton just tooling about

    Ferrari awful.

    I think norris is going to prevent a grandstand finish here but we will see.

    the Aston have utterly fallen apart in terms of competing. sad.

    at least mclaren shows what a bit of copying can do to jump the field.
     
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  14. eddie_squidd

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    Both Mercs on the move.

    Good move by George on Carlos.

    In the meantime Lewis closing at about a second a lap on Perez.
     
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  15. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    Ferrari have decided to ask sainz to stop Russell and so have ensured that both will end behind Russell.

    Ferrari even pulled into the marvels to let Russell by.

    serious discontent in that team now.
     
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  16. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    back markers will stop the grandstand finish
     
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  17. TopClass

    TopClass Well-Known Member

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    Dishwater Dull.
     
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  18. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    perez might actually wake up soon.

    just needs to use the last of the tyres for 3 laps if he does wake up.
     
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  19. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    stop croft.

    it's not nip and anything.

    reality check.

    verstappen by 33 seconds with fastest lap having done nothing but keep his tyres going longest of all . everyone else had an effective 5 lap under cut on him.

    he literally just drove the first corner and that was that.

    just disappointed mclaren undercutting piastri and then the kid just went backwards rather than react and push on.

    he will need to learn from that.
     
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  20. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    pay driver overtakes half the field on a track it's hard to overtake on.
    well done FIA, close racing indeed.
     
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