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3 weeks with no F1, free practice already underway and no thread? Guess I will start this one up then.

Any predictions for first free practice? Mercedes have a fancy new rear wing which looks ominious. Will be intresting to see how the McHonda's go. Hoping Kimi can have a good weekend for once!

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Hamilton's time is already quicker than last years FP1 time.

Kimi just 0.138+ off

red flag - Maldonado off

Maldonado has crashed the car!

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Do you know if he was on the same tyres as Lewis?

Maldonado lost the rear @5th gear Lotus' chassis looks pretty bad.

You do surprise me!

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What a surprise... Team: "Is the car damaged... I take it yes.."

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Don't know but he's surely in 7th heaven after the contract extension!

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Whatever Honda is saying, I can't believe McLaren can make a chassis so bad that it can only beat Marussia. How could they claim it's now the chassis that is holding the engine back?

Session is go! again...

Rosberg is having a bit of a nightmare session at the moment. Hopefully he is able to get a time on the board. McHonda not looking like they've made much progress atm, but there are more sessions yet so we shall see.

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Just saw this on BBC live feed. Got to feel sorry for the guy sometimes.

http://hasmaldonadocrashedtoday.com/

Well that needs an update. I also liked the link to another website below that one.

http://hasmclarenhondawonyet.com/

Thats pretty funny too.

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No. Not in the slightest

Source: twitter

I thought those curved rear wing designs were not allowed? Maybe my memory fails but I cant remember seeing those since the end of 2008.

"Reason: Barrier Troubles"

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FA#14

A random question for anyone who knows - Isn't the Belgium GP usually on the last weekend in August? How come it's a week earlier this year?

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It is an achingly beautiful circuit.

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Probably the best in the world, I wonder if Carlsberg did it!

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La Sarthe and Nordschleife are better IMO. Although not F1 tracks.

It was

Last year the race was on the 24th and so also not on the last weekend of August.

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22-24 August in 2014

Nordschleife - definitely.

La Sarthe? Not so much. Quite a boring circuit if I'm honest, albeit challenging for the drivers.

Spa is the ultimate circuit, IMO.

Just glad F1 is back, it's felt like months since Hungary!

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McLaren 23kph down at top of hill

La sarthe is a very high speed track, I think its amazing to run it with extremely fast cars.

Pastors crash, poor mechanics.
https://youtu.be/fw-uMJZTshs

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It's a beautiful track for sure, but hasn't really thrown up a good race since 2011, IMO

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It reminds me of the old Hockenheim circuit, long straights broken up by chicanes and then a sweeping sector 3 to end the lap.

I enjoy driving it on Gran Turismo games, although I love Spa more

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It has still thrown up 2 crazy results since then (regardless of how they came about)

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FA#14

Thanks. Not a terrible effort then

Neither the Red Bulls. Or were they on softer tyres?

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Last year I recall that RBR were running a skinny wing and were quicker than the Mercs in S1 and S3, but suffered by about 1 sec in sector 2 as a result. I wonder if they're doing the same this year...or is their pace genuine over all 3 sectors?

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What happened to Williams? What happened to Sauber?

imho all top and some midfield teams will have brought a spa-spec and a monza-spec aero-package and will decide tonight or until FP3 which package they will use... Ferrari are already testing two different FW and they have brought 3 different rear wings... mercedes have the SuperDuperMegaAwesomeBananaBeerBellySpoonWingThing and a less weird even lower-drag version...

the thing is - RedBull last year benefited from having a wet-ish quali and a dry race, where they had an ultimate low-drag setup vs. all others running rather high DF due to quali conditions... this year - according to skysports at least - we have 97% of thunderstorms for sunday - so the ultimate low-drag trick might not work as well as it did last year...

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Couldn't tell you about Williams, but McNish just said that this is the first race that Sauber are using the 2015 spec Ferrari engine.

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Being fair I think a more apt name for the website this year would be "has someone crashed into Maldanado today". That's happened far, far more this season.

Not the forecast I saw. Rain was forecast after 4pm on Sunday. Has it changed?

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Yeah a couple of surprising results, but with all they hype Spa gets, they have been pretty hum drum races for a few years.

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