2022 F-1' GP's Race Schedule

aryudahum

I would imagine any of the teams located in UK would know the track well too (ie. Red Bull, Williams, Mclaren)

dragondick

aryudahum 发表于 2022-6-24 00:19
I would imagine any of the teams located in UK would know the track well too (ie. Red Bull, Williams ...

British-born drivers with potential would have raced in Brands Hatch or Silverstone ever since they were old enough to drive a race car.  

Teams, even if based in UK, might have "imported" drivers whose knowledge of the tracks might be discounted.  

aryudahum

That's true, I'm just thinking that they would do most of their testing in Silverstone, could be wrong on this though.

dragondick

Practice Session of 2022's British F-1 GP has just concluded.

Please be reminded that it was a practice NOT Qualifying Session, but we can guess what might happen.
In this final Practice session, Max was clearing ahead of everybody else, however, all 4 close followers are within 0.5" of the leader.

1.  Although Max was ahead in the practice, I cannot speak for its power unit's reliability because during previous races, RB had several DNFs due to mechanical issue.  So did the Ferraris.

2.  MB improved & was inching forward.  MB did not exhibit any mechanical issues as display by RB & Ferrari in the first half of 2022's racing season.

I think this Race might be the best of 2022 so far as it will be CLOSELY competitive & interesting!

dragondick

Qualifying session has finished & the starting grid will be:

Sainz (Ferrari)     Max (RB)
LeClerc (Ferrari)  Perez (RB)
Hamilton (MB)     Norris

The top four cars all have a history of mechanical reliability issue,  IMHO, Hamilton has a better than average chance of making it to the podium! ....... well, we will see!

dragondick

Qualifying Highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTsG8SjxIsA


It was a WET qualifying session!  If the actual race is also run on a wet track, it will be even more interesting - but not for the drivers!

aryudahum

Tough quali session, even goatifi made it to Q3... rain truly levels the playing field

dragondick

The British F-1 GP was the BEST race of the 2022 season so far!

The Race started with 2 accidents right between the first and second corners from the start, & it created a lot of anxiety.   Lercler's car touched Zhou's car which flipped up-side-down, skid through sand track, hit tire barriers, went airborne, landed & pinned Zhou's car between safety tires and saftey barrier.  Zhou was pinned inside his car for a long time until rescue car & equipment arrived.  IF, the car caught fire at that point, Zhou would be roasted to "well done".  Anyway, Zhou was retrieved after 30', stretchered to, and left in an ambulance to a nearby hospital for a check up.  Zhou was pronounced OK.  What a relief!

Due to accidents, the race was red flagged & stopped for one hour, & had to restart with 3 cars out of action.

The Race got really, really, interesting, exciting & thrilling with about 15 laps to go.  There were so many position changes that I lost count..............

Finally, Sainz secured a well-deserved maiden F-1 win,  Perez was second, and Hamilton 3rd.

If a race highlights video is available, I will upload and let you all enjoy it!

dragondick

Correction first:  Zhou's accident was between him & George Russell, NOT Leclerc.

Here is the video of the accident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xruJPJ76uOI

dragondick

A video from a spectator's camera of Zhou's accident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwH4mpRzNKw