Hang in there... only 23 days till Spa :)

aaahhh....but it's not "blood" red..... (or should I say "bloody"....?)

 

In your bed?

 

Forgit about it.

 

Thank God, we're on the same drugs

 

What? Pills for ills....? (Not for thrills.... )

 

Grosmoan must be hoping he has a real race horse underneath him ..instead of a err.. Hass

 

Haas? You must mean Hoss....

Allrighty....back at the Ponderosa...errr....I mean....Spa.....

 

Many weather channels are predicting rain for Sunday. Spa being Spa, and the weather there being unpredictable, not all agree...

Rgds

https://www.rtbf.be/services/meteo/belgique-ville_spa?id=1091

 

Seems variable overall. Maybe rain, maybe no lol

https://weather.com/en-GB/weather/weekend/l/BEXX0031:1:BE

 

Merc run new engines; Vandoorne's 35-place penalty | PlanetF1 : PlanetF1

 

Spa predictions of rain I always take with a pinch of salt. It can happen, and often does...but especially at Spa it can rain 10 meters from the track but never actually hit it. Or we'll have half a wet track (as we've so often seen, and I bloody loving seeing that!), or it'll be really wet....or bone dry!

I'm not getting my hopes up whether it'll rain or not.

 

Spa being Spa: unpredictable. I like it when tradition is respected....

Rgds

 

Hoss? ahh yeh 'one ace too many' man that was sad when he didn't comeback..ever.

 

Hoss as in Cartwright, from Bonanza.

Less than 24 hours to go! Yippee!

 

Yes that ,was,him.RIP

 

The only drivers to win more than twice at Spa:
Schumi 6
Senna 5
Kimi ,Clark 4
D.Hill 3
Fangio3

Maybe Kimi can make it 5?

 

Mercedes AMG feeling the heat?



AUGUST 24, 2017

Mercedes may re-think team orders issue says Lauda



Niki Lauda has admitted Mercedes may take a different approach in future when it comes to 'team orders' between Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.

While Sebastian Vettel is the clear de-facto 'number 1' at Ferrari, his main championship rival Hamilton lost points in Hungary by voluntarily giving up a place to his teammate Bottas.

Team boss Toto Wolff initially defended the team play but subsequently told La Gazzetta dello Sport that Mercedes may "have to adjust" given that Ferrari is putting all its eggs in the Vettel basket.

"Of course we are discussing how we deal with such situations in the future," team chairman Lauda now tells Osterreich newspaper.

And not just that, in Hungary before the summer break Ferrari clearly dominated with a one-two.

Lauda says Mercedes must now hit back.

"We were not allowed to do anything for two weeks but now our engineers are in demand," he said. "We want to catch up with Ferrari's advantage on the slower tracks."

But Spa-Francorchamps may not be a problem for Mercedes, whose 2017 car is always competitive on the faster circuits.

"The track will suit us better than Hungary did," Lauda agreed.

However, the 2017 championship may in fact come down to which driver is stronger, and Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko thinks Vettel is better mentally than Hamilton.

"That's nonsense," Lauda insisted. "Lewis is mentally equal to Vettel, if not better. And with Bottas we clearly have the better driver combination."

 

Veddy gooood.

But only Jimmy (my one and only "hero") four in a row.

 

for those interested......

Note: Hamilton & Bottas to run new Merc engines (4th ICE, turbo & MGU-H). Everyone else

is current.
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****Just testing how this line chart would look given said parameters (its accurate

though)....****.....ugh...just as I thought.....its too small
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Marcus Ericsson to receive 5-place grid penalty at Spa (gearbox). #AMuS

 

Slightly better than Stubble V Doom who will be starting from somewhere in Holland

 

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-new-suspension-spa-944259/

3rd damper, low downforce wing and new floor for Ferrari

 

And the psycho bull**** starts: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hamiilton-vettel-teammate-mercedes-ferrari-944234/

Again the fable how he wants to race the greatest while others don´t...although apart from Alonso in his first season none of his team mate might have been one of them...and looking at his psycho games and the moaning last year I would say that he already had his hands full with Nico so I doubt he really wants to have Vettel as his team mate either

 

And again, like in the hat thrown story with Nico the small but important word "BACK" is missing...he gave the place BACK that indicates he was given it before by Bottas!!!