Thus proving Alonso was talking BS about having "the best chassis on the grid" & the Honda engine was the problem.

We’ve seen their Chassis is shit but I’m not sure that’s proven the Honda engine is any good. After all they spend 2015 and 2017 blowing up at a rate of about 1.7 engines per race.

 

Good riddance to RBR, I look forward to the curse of the odd years smacking them very firmly in the face next year

Why bring back Paul Ricard? Not sure if this race will be exciting.

Paul Ricard used to be great but since they've neutered the circuit who knows how it'll be. France deserves a race though and Magny-Cours was never anything but terrible.

It looks like someone saw a massive car park and thought, what happens if I let an 8 year old loose with a spray can to design a racing track, the decided to put the barriers around the 4 edges of the track while the kid was painting just in case they went a little wild and changed their mind about the layout so then they wouldn’t need to do the barriers again

 

We need to bring back gravel. I don’t mind a large concrete run off area but directly adjacent to the circuit needs to be like 5m of gravel. Mistakes aren’t punished and we don’t see people f***ing up and getting beached in the gravel any more and that’s a detriment to F1. At least Australia, Monaco, Baku and Canada punish f*** ups with their close walls

Oh wow it really just gets worse & worse for McLaren doesn't it. What an absolute pig of a car, no excuses now with the Renault engine. Boullier needs to go, absolutely clueless.

Wow wow wow Charles Leclerc, this guy is the next Alonso for sure. That Sauber has absolutely no right whatsoever to be in the top 8 on the grid, this kid is a special talent!

Rumours that Leclerc could be joining Ferrari next season. Bloody hell pushing that Sauber into the Top8 of the grid that's impressive.

At least the football was exciting. Maybe they should make each Grand Prix a series of 20 separate 2 lap races with an aggregate score as that's the only exciting part! Mind you there be no cars left pretty quickly.

 

Seriously though much better than Canada and it's nice to welcome France back but I'm expecting Road America to provide today's racing excitement

I didn’t stay up for the race, didn’t want to watch Hamilton win on my birthday. Sounds like I missed a fun opening lap and a Renault briefly running in P3! I’m sure it got pretty dull thereafter.

Horrible looking track with all those blue and white lines, Vettel was very lucky to only get a 5 second penalty he could serve as part of a pit stop. It all went a bit boring after the first lap accidents.

3 place grid penalty for Vettel for impeding Sainz Jr during qualifying. Starts sixth instead of third.

Could Grosjean save his season and seat tomorrow if he picks up points?

A double non finish for Mercedes then. Hamilton out of the race.

I was at the GP today and I have to say the cheer from the crowd when both Mercs broke down was quite something! So pleased to see Vettel and Ferrari back on top

I was at the GP today and I have to say the cheer from the crowd when both Mercs broke down was quite something! So pleased to see Vettel and Ferrari back on top

Literally unheard of for a double Mercedes retirement both through car issues! Just goes to show this season is at least keeping things interesting in a race to race perspective if the races themselves haven't all been that special.

 

But today's was a good one! The initial Merc strategy f*** up opened things right up & I'm happy for Max to have a good run of results under his belt this season, caught right up to Ric in the standings! Plus I had money on him winning today at long odds :cheer:

Edited July 1, 20187 yr by Dobbo

Literally all drivers from 4th-13th up 3 places today when discounting the A-league teams Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull:

 

B-LEAGUE RESULTS - AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX

 

1 (4) Romain GROSJEAN - Haas - 25 pts

2 (5) Kevin MAGNUSSEN - Haas - 18 pts

3 (6) Esteban OCON - Force India - 15 pts

4 (7) Sergio PÉREZ - Force India - 12 pts

5 (8) Fernando ALONSO - McLaren - 10 pts

6 (9) Charles LECLERC - Sauber - 8 pts

7 (10) Marcus ERICSSON - Sauber - 6 pts

8 (11) Pierre GASLY - Toro Rosso - 4 pts

9 (12) Carlos SAINZ JR - Renault - 2 pts

10 (13) Lance STROLL - Williams - 1 pt

 

DRIVERS STANDINGS - AFTER 10 ROUNDS

 

1 (1) Carlos SAINZ JR. - Renault - 117 pts

2 (2) Nico HÜLKENBURG - Renault - 113 pts

3 (3) Kevin MAGNUSSEN - Haas - 113 pts

4 (4) Fernando ALONSO - McLaren - 93 pts

5 (5) Sergio PÉREZ - Force India - 81 pts

6 (6) Esteban OCON - Force India - 79 pts

7 (7) Charles LECLERC - Sauber - 65 pts

8 (8) Pierre GASLY - Toro Rosso - 59 pts

9 (9) Stoffel VANDOORNE - McLaren - 55 pts

10 (12) Romain GROSJEAN - Haas - 49 pts

11 (10) Marcus ERICSSON - Sauber - 41 pts

12 (11) Lance STROLL - Williams - 28 pts

13 (13) Brendon HARTLEY - Toro Rosso - 18 pts

14 (14) Sergey SIROTKIN - Williams - 8 pts

 

CONSTRUCTORS STANDINGS - AFTER 10 ROUNDS

 

1 (1) Renault - 230 pts

2 (4) Haas - Ferrari - 162 pts

3 (3) Force India - Mercedes - 160 pts

4 (2) McLaren - Renault - 148 pts

5 (5) Sauber - Ferrari - 106 pts

6 (6) Toro Rosso - Honda - 77 pts

7 (7) Williams - Mercedes - 36 pts

 

Renault comfortably ahead... Force India interestingly overtaking McLaren here - they're currently just behind them in the real championship. Also Sauber ahead of Toro Rosso comfortably yet behind them in the real championship.

I was at the GP today and I have to say the cheer from the crowd when both Mercs broke down was quite something! So pleased to see Vettel and Ferrari back on top

What was the atmosphere like? Did you have a good time?

Eric Boullier resigned today from McLaren. Yet another round of changes going in there. They are in a right mess on and off the track.