2023 British Grand Prix - Silverstone, July 07 - 09

[Sevach]

Williams the third fastest car over a lap here? Anyone have that on their bingo card?

2 sessions in a row, WTF is going on?

[dialtone]

Williams the third fastest car over a lap here? Anyone have that on their bingo card?

2 sessions in a row, WTF is going on?

It's just FP2, they'll sort it out come quali. Oh wait, wrong team.

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Williams the third fastest car over a lap here? Anyone have that on their bingo card?

2 sessions in a row, WTF is going on?

I expected Silverstone to be one of their worst

Let's see how their race pace shakes out. When everyone else did their long runs both Williams drivers scrubbed a set of softs with laptime similar to one lap on high fuel and immediately boxed. And they're on medium/hard runs whilst Ferrari/RB did softs so slightly offset. Hard to read the numbers

[AR3-GP]

Williams the third fastest car over a lap here? Anyone have that on their bingo card?

2 sessions in a row, WTF is going on?

It's just FP2, they'll sort it out come quali. Oh wait, wrong team.

behave

[CaribouBread]

That's the Pirelli Special (tm) for Silvestone

[InsaneX_Badger]

Mercedes eh, they always deliver, for a laugh.

[Willy]

Long run pace suggests it's Red Bull followed by Mercedes and Ferrari who are probably half a second behind Red Bull. I doubt the fuel levels of Mercedes though, may be lower than both Red Bull and Ferrari. Once again, Aston seems in a distant group with Williams and Alpine.

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Yes Merc seems to be fine on race pace. Remains to be seen what they can do on one lap - was that just sandbagging?

[AR3-GP]

Yes Merc seems to be fine on race pace. Remains to be seen what they can do on one lap - was that just sandbagging?

Only RB and Ferrari were in lockstep with the fuel and tires (S - M). We don't know what fuel Merc was on for the soft tire run.

[Willy]

Russell doesn't sound very encouraging after the FP2.

[AR3-GP]

Russell doesn't very encouraging after the FP2.

I'm watching that same interview. He doesn't look amazed.

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Yes Merc seems to be fine on race pace. Remains to be seen what they can do on one lap - was that just sandbagging?

Only RB and Ferrari were in lockstep with the fuel and tires (S - M). We don't know what fuel Merc was on for the soft tire run.

That's true. I guess they started with the same laptimes as Ferrari and RB so I'm assuming that they were running roughly the same fuel

[cplchanb]

Russell doesn't sound very encouraging after the FP2.

we shall see what happens tomorrow. for sure mick will be in the sim all evening to sort out whatever issues they have. cryptic message from carlos' radio near the end where he said hams 33.6 and 34.4 lap times were "quick". was that in jest or does he know something that us armchairs are missing?

[Willy]

Russell doesn't sound very encouraging after the FP2.

we shall see what happens tomorrow. for sure mick will be in the sim all evening to sort out whatever issues they have. cryptic message from carlos' radio near the end where he said hams 33.6 and 34.4 lap times were "quick". was that in jest or does he know something that us armchairs are missing?

Sam Collins was pointing out in the post race show on F1 that, Sainz's message was weird considering he was doing quicker time than Hamilton at that point. Sam also pointed that Mercedes and McLaren are the slowest cars on the hangar straight, which he believes is potentially due to higher drag factor for both of them.

Williams which usually was the fastest car on straight, wasn't. But they were quicker through corners than previously. They have bolted a bit more downforce.

[F1PuertoRico]

Did anyone knows if the cars from the movie APEX are in fact Mercedes Benz AMG from previous season??