The Ostrichish Grand Prix chat and prdictions

sorry, I thought the next one was 2 weeks away

 

I'm quite looking forward to this, mainly because I couldn't watch the last GP due to being on holiday. I was in Tenerife and every bar was showing the World Cup matches (of course). The Hotel Wifi was rubbish so only got a splodgy mess when I tried to stream it and had to settle for following the text reporting on the BBC F1 webpage.

 

Bottas .

Just to be different .

 

Nice title

 

Wot no Charles?

 

Sticking your neck out there a bit......

 

Subtle

 

This track always reminds me of an oversized go kart track

 

I still think Sirotkin comes across FAR FAR better than the brat .

Not saying he is the better driver , I simply don't know .

 

I'm going to bury my head in the sand and again predict a Hamilton win with that new Merc engine.

 

Feels like a Hamilton bogey track.
Also Hamilton's back in the lead of the championship so he won't be at his best. Bottas will sneak it I think. Followed by the bulls.

 

Merc upgrades seem to working out nicely. I've gone Hamilton.

 

imo this championship has changed utterly with Mercedes unleash8ng shock and awe.

vettel.has ****ed this up by not having a.60/70 pount lead.. quite.how he managed it with best car up to 2 weeks ago is amazing.

as.of now hamilton has this championship in his hands. that Merc has a half.second improvement and so I can't see anything but.a procession coming

 

Can't decide if you are being serious or pretending you're Andrew Benson.

 

perhaps a bit of both.

 

I think the Merc still edges it, but it's no longer total dominace it has become more track specific, which shows the engine gap has narrowed a lot. After Hamilton & Bottas the next Merc runner was 13th fastest.

 

Excellent quali from Bottas, thoroughly dissolved pole!

Meanwhile Vettel has a 3 place grid drop for impeding Sainz. The real penalty however is he has to share a row on the grid with Grosjean.

 

Meanwhile, Markelov being Markelov in F2:

 

another vettel error.

Mercedes straight jacket on for this race now. won't be any racing up front after first corner so we are in for a radio whine from hamilton. Raikkonen not being able.to get near etc etc

 

FIA trying to give Hamilton the championship by giving Vettel harsh penalties.