2016 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix

[phreezee]

Alonso vs Hamilton to see who starts further back.


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Ive been looking on my telus TV to watch this. What channel does it play? and what time?

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Tsn 5 for sure. Sometimes it's on tsn1 as well if there's nothing else more important on. TSN5 has the full drivers parade, pre race, race, and post race coverage.

[schocker]

Belgian Grand Prix
Friday, Aug. 26 – Practice at 7:45 a.m. ET on TSN2
Saturday, Aug. 27 – Qualifying at 7 a.m. ET on TSN
Sunday, Aug. 28 – Pre-Race at 6:30 a.m. ET on TSN
Sunday, Aug. 28 – Grand Prix at 7:55 a.m. ET on TSN5
Sunday, Aug. 28 – Post-Race at 10 a.m. ET on TSN1/4/5

Another 6am race, always messes up my sleep schedule

Should be a good race, hopefully ferrari can podium this weekend. Also will be interesting to see what Ocon can do.


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Gutierrez gets a 5place penalty for never being aware of his surroundings.

[revelations]

Prediction = Hamilton will make top 10.

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Top 10 is a given. You can see from the Rosberg vs Verstappen quali laps that the Merc is going to have a huge edge on the straights. I'm going to say top 6 for Ham, and podium if there's a SC involved.

There's also a chance of rain tomorrow which means Ham could be 1st or last.

[phreezee]

Alonso won the battle against Hamilton:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJn403Qhfsh/

[npham]

Excited to get some racing on TV again. Should be entertaining to see what Hamilton can do from the back of the pack and driving with purpose. He's been on cruise control for a while now.

[schocker]

Oh come on Ferrari

Obviously a first turn that tight is always going to be a bad time.

[rage2]

Holy fuck! What a crash. Nothing left of that Renault.

And Alonso is in 6th.

Edit 4th! Haha

Edit red flag, free pit stop. Huge break for Ham in 5th and Alonso in 4th.

[rage2]

So Ros on mediums now, Ric still on softs but needs to use Mediums at some point. Ham is on new softs and has 3 new sets available and has gone through his medium already. Ham is going to win this one.

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Welp. Stupid Merc strategy for Ham. He's going to have to pit again with top 2 running till the end.

[revelations]

3rd place, unreal. Wonder how Nico would have faired in the same situation.

Also, what happened to Kimi? From 3rd -> 9th ?

[rage2]

Kimi got Vettel'd.

[revelations]

And appears Verstappened got Vettel'd too .... looks like a 3 way into that first corner

[rage2]

Ya. I'd say it was vettels fault for squeezing in so tight.

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Originally posted by rage2
Ya. I'd say it was vettels fault for squeezing in so tight.

I think he had no idea max tried to squeeze through and figured kimi would turn in more. Max's driving style otherwise was quite dangerous but not penalty causing. Pushing kimi and Sergio off the track at the chicane was pretty dickish.

[revelations]

Kimi looked more like he had Vettel in his blind spot and turned too much. He had plenty of room to his left still.

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Originally posted by schocker

Max's driving style otherwise was quite dangerous but not penalty causing. Pushing kimi and Sergio off the track at the chicane was pretty dickish.

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Haha. Max will likely cause a collision before he starts getting penalties. I feel like he's the untouchable poster child right now.


Great race for Force India; would like to see Hulkenberg get his first podium eventually.

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I think Max is getting way too much criticism here. There's a reason why he's not being penalized or even investigated. He's defending hard to the letter of the rules. Sure it might be a dick move, but it's perfectly legal. If he was making passes and pushing people off the track to make a pass, that's a different story, but defending, you're allowed to make the moves that he's making.

His moves are no different than the moves done by the greats, Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton, Alonso. The difference is that he's new and has t earned the "respect" to make those moves, which is bullshit. I mean look at this race, the Kemmel straight move was identical to Schumacher/Hakkinen fight from 2000 at the same spot, and his defense in the corners is no different than Hamilton pushing Rosberg wide when defending against him through the last couple of years. Or hell, even Kimi himself pulled the same move on Hamilton at the last chicane in 2008 and Hamilton got penalized for it.