Welcome

Hello everyone and welcome to the Canadian Grand Prix Weekend thread.

Details about this race can be found here.

Sessions

This thread will cover all the sessions this weekend, so that’s all 3 practice sessions, qualifying, and the race.

We will monitor how this goes to see if we need more granularity.

Spoilers

The rules around spoilers are not yet in place, therefore we won’t be enforcing anything around spoilers this weekend. This goes beyond the scope of this thread too.

If you do not want spoilers, please do not look in this community this weekend.

The aim is to have a finished set of rules ready by mid next week.

  • sunaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Seems like lemmy.ml is having some trouble pushing out comments to other instances from this post 😬 Many comments here are missing on other instances

    Might make sense to host these threads on a less overloaded instance?

  • smokelessndepressed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Max for the first time this season had to push to not get caught. Alonso and later Hamilton with the mediums had practically the same pace as him. It was a shame that Alonso didn’t had a new set of medium tyres and the issues with the rear brakes, he was faster than Hamilton when they had the same compound. The 33 is coming. 😎 Russell made a good comeback after the crash, having to retire the car was very harsh after all he did to get into the points again.

    • zuluwalker@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Brundle was honest - he noted how far ahead Max would be if the race was clean without incidents. So in pure race pace that would be at least 10s faster than the next two teams.

      I’m all for Alonso this season with his stupendous performance, but Max and RB’s package is still the package to beat. AM need to be smarter to beat RB and Merc later into the season. Sucks that Alo’s strongest performance yet was hindered by a rear braking issue.

      If you wanna see how fast Max is, just compare him vs Checo…

  • imasnyper@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    “There’s a surprising number of cars out there, considering this is approaching biblical”

    • Alex Jaques
  • jorge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    🏁 Checkered flag as the rain increases

    Top 3

    HAM 1:13.718
    RUS +0.027
    SAI +0.126

  • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I noticed that two teams had different orange lights outside their box. I’ve never really noticed it, but I wonder if all teams have their own unique light (shape, flashing, animation).

    I’d they do, this should so be a feature in the game as a customisation.

  • MrStrawberry@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I know that this post is for the full weekend. Could we still have a separate race discussion? I think this would make it a bit better to kepp an overview.

  • mannycalavera@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Is this the “official” race discussion thread? I couldn’t find anything on my instance so came here.

    Great race start by the way. Should be a good one. Enjoy!

  • Omgarm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Lewis is keeping up with Max. Oh wait as I type this he lost a couple tenths. Still, great pace of the Merc.

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    predictions:

    • At least 3 yellow flags
    • Alonso gets mad at someone
    • Ferrari amaze us with a strategy we’ve never seen before
    • George gets upset with Lewis
    • Lewis gets upset with George
  • jorge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Alonso has to lift and coast, and de La Rosa in the Spanish broadcast hints that he has to save fuel due to the high race pace.