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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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.
“There’s a surprising number of cars out there, considering this is approaching biblical”
- Alex Jaques
“Good weather for a duck”
- Valtteri Bottas
Seems like lemmy.ml is having some trouble pushing out comments to other instances from this post 😬 Many comments here are missing on other instances
Might make sense to host these threads on a less overloaded instance?
Jepp I sadly have the same problem.
Are comments from other instances coming through alright though?
Others pushing to lemmy.ml seems to be working as far as I can tell (except for some brief errors about 10 minutes ago).
But if lemmy.ml does not manage to push some of these external comments out, then they will only be visible on the source instance and lemmy.ml, and nowhere else on the federated network.
Thanks, this explains it. I was wondering where all the comments were
Is it 0% chance of race before and during the race or just during?
I recall the weather prediction a few days ago said rain during the race is unlikely but there could be rain a few hours beforehand.
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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 keep 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?
Not OP, but fair points.
Let’s see how the discussion goes tomorrow. Enjoy the race!
I see this post is apparently pinned, but I have to scroll way down in the community to find it
is this happening for anyone else? I think the pin feature on Lemmy is broken or something
Not just you. I’ll try to unpin and repin it.
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.
Wow we need rain every weekend. This qualifying is nuts
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!
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UK. Love them. Nothing like having a good weekend ending with a live race on a Sunday evening.
there’s nothing better than going to bed after being let down by ferrari
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 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.
What an action-packed FP1!
Edge of the seat stuff!
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.
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Yeah, slam dunk.
Q2, with more rain coming
Go on Albon!
If the rain picks up now and the softs take 2 laps to get to working temperature, those who just came in might lose out heavily.
Wow, Williams with the big balls strategy, nicely done
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
Amazing battle between Alonso and Hamilton!
