2023 British Grand Prix Practice Sessions - eviltoast

Welcome to the discussion post for the 2023 British Grand Prix practice sessions.

Last weekend the race thread was created by one of our users and that went down really well, so I see no reason to not do that from now on.

Given the amount of comments during practice, we may as well keep them all together for now.

Please, if you don’t see a post for Qualifying and the Race, feel free to make it. I’ll keep an eye out and pin them if they’re made. We’re still working on bots!

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    1 year ago

    Thanks a lot. I think this is a good approach with a combined training and separate quali and race threads for now. And hopefully the community and the amount of comments per session keeps growing.

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      1 year ago

      To quote the greatest video game ever made:

      “High speed, low drag.”

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        1 year ago

        I was bitterly disappointed that this video game did not show up as the top result and indeed at all when searched it alongside this quote then stupid me realised it wasn’t from Starcraft😅

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    1 year ago

    Charles and not being able to run in a practice session. Name a more iconic duo. It’s frustrating to see…

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    1 year ago

    Many cars all queued up right at the start, plenty of aero measuring devices attached.

    Only thing that could be better was me actually being there!

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      1 year ago

      Is Silverstone a good track for GA? I’d love to go one day and wander around if there are a few places with decent views you can get to.

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        1 year ago

        Yes! I went years ago now and on Friday you could also sit in the grandstands.

        Sadly there are fewer spots now to sit and watch the race for GA, so I’d recommend scouting where you’d like to watch the race from on Friday, and getting there very early doors on Sunday.

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    1 year ago

    Both Williams faster than both Red Bulls

    Williams dominance could bore fans

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    1 year ago

    My predictions for the race:

    1.VER 2. RUS 3. HAM

    Good performance: Piastri in the points

    Bad performance: Stroll out of the points

    • tom@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Piastri is having a decent season, don’t you think? He’s limited by the McLaren being a bad car, but he’s not a million miles from Norris in the same car. Hopefully people are noticing that and he can move on in a few years.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, there’s clearly potential there.

        He’s avoided the constant errors that you often see from rookie or 2nd season drivers (Yuki, Mick Schu and de Vries being the recent examples). Think he’s only had one (?) major crash this season which was in the wet in Canada.

        From what we’ve seen in F1 so far he deserves a shot in a faster car one day.

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      I think we can all agree that Max is going to be P1 if there is no crash or technical failure. Sorry, but P2 and P3 seems a bit like through the lens of a Merc or UK fan.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it was a bit bold. In the predictor that I do I went Ver, Per, Ham.

        It was expected that Mercedes would be better this weekend due to the high speed nature of the track. I still think Russell will be around 3/4/5.

        Where Perez finishes mainly depends on his qualifying. He can relax a bit and accept qualifying 2/3/4 or push like crazy for pole with the massive risk of being out in q2.

        Would like to see the long run pace analysis.

    • evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      The Mercs will struggle to get through Q2. They looked awful on every lap, both long and qualy runs.

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    1 year ago

    So I get that more durable tires are bad for performance, but why are they getting worse long before tirewear should cause that?

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure of the context of the question, but on a green track like Silverstone currently is, the lack of grip can cause the wheels to slip which generates surface temperature which can cause the tyre to overheat and thus be at a suboptimal temperature and pressure, meaning reduced grip.

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        1 year ago

        Context is that drivers are reporting that the track doesn’t seem to be rubbering in like they’re expecting with the changes that supposed to have happend to the tires during fp1 now. Maybe it’s just a matter of not being rubbered in enough, I guess?

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        1 year ago

        Why is it green? Has there not been enough racing prior to this f1 race to bring it in? Or is it the weather that’s washing it clean?

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          1 year ago

          They’re the general reasons for a green track, so probably a combination of the two.