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Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:00 am to


Britian put a 2 week quarantine on anyone traveling back from Turkey, so it makes a race there near impossible for team logistics to pull off.
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Posted by TigerAlumni2010
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:32 am to
I understand that they had to do this, but wish they could have picked a better choice than giving Austria another doubleheader. I would hope they would do a sprint qualifying for one and normal for the other hopefully to spice things up.
Posted by BloodSweat&Beers
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:38 am to
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I understand that they had to do this, but wish they could have picked a better choice than giving Austria another doubleheader. I would hope they would do a sprint qualifying for one and normal for the other hopefully to spice things up.


Just bring in some sprinklers 2nd race weekend.
Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 10:47 am to
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Nice breakdown of Red Bull and the strategy this past weekend. Acknowledges the faster Merc, but highlights RBR dropping the ball.
Posted by CobraCommander83
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 6:05 pm to
Romain Grosjean just got pole for this weekend’s Indy GP
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 6:18 pm to
Wow.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 7:08 pm to
McLaren apparently have a “big” announcement coming on Sunday. Some on Twitter think Hamilton is going back, others saying Apple is buying the team
Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 7:56 pm to
Another new special model Mclaren road car
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:29 pm to
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McLaren apparently have a “big” announcement coming on Sunday. Some on Twitter think Hamilton is going back, others saying Apple is buying the team

That's some pretty wild speculation.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 10:22 pm to
I like Austria. Just pass out different tire compounds for the second week and we're good to go.
Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/14/21 at 10:52 pm to
Top 10 finishing order of the first race for reverse grid of the second race if we want to do gimmicky shite.

I hate messing with the quali system they have now. It rewards teams for being the fastest on the grid, which is kind of what racing is about.
Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/15/21 at 10:03 am to
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Bit of a back and forth going on about RBR's rear wing and performance gains from it. Merc has exploited this in the past and it seems RBR is trying the same loophole.
Posted by CobraCommander83
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Posted on 5/15/21 at 2:36 pm to
Grosjean is having a great race so far at the Indy GMR Grand Prix. Started P1 and has lead majority of the race so far. Still has 45 to go but he is looking very strong
Posted by YOURADHERE
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Posted on 5/16/21 at 12:17 pm to
Mclaren will be running a special Gulf livery for Monaco




Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/16/21 at 12:37 pm to
And Apple is buying them.
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 5/16/21 at 5:17 pm to
Great job by Grojsean in IndyCar. Looking back, he got a pretty bad deal in his last few years in F1. I always liked him but he was always trying so hard and pushing himself so much he made mistakes.

I also think it’s very telling with how he said IndyCar was much more enjoyable. Drivers were friendlier, teams were more open and friendly, etc. I don’t have an article but supposedly he told some news organization he was hurt that so few F1 drivers reached out to him to see how he was doing when he was in the hospital.
Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 5/16/21 at 8:22 pm to
When he was dropped by Haas, before the incident, the only driver to reach out to him was Russell.
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 5/16/21 at 9:23 pm to
I also thought it was funn in that technically, he’s in the top 12% or so of drivers all time in podiums if you look the metrics. I saw a breakdown and there are like 699 drivers to race and only 75 have more podiums than him.
Posted by Lima Whiskey
Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 5/16/21 at 9:47 pm to
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I always liked him but he was always trying so hard and pushing himself so much he made mistakes.


I wonder if he would have done that, if he had a better car
Posted by extremetigerfanatic
Member since Oct 2003
5999 posts
Posted on 5/16/21 at 10:25 pm to
Is this where we pretend Grosjean didn’t wreck stupidly all the time to the point it was a running joke? Has Mazespin made us forget so fast?
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