just now some drips but no more now

looks like kimi being sacrificed to slow down hamilton by pitting early

LOL.... vettel never have any luck racing at hockenheim

Ferrari in Kimi's hand was surprisingly pretty quick in the wet and almost got pole if not for getting stuck in the spray behind other cars. Seb somehow was not as quick. Anyway in this kind of condition, Ham is still the best, not just about the car bu the driver too. So yeah tough task for Seb in the race today whether wet or dry, and Ham looks more likely to extend his points lead even more unfortunately. Hopefully Bottas and Kimi could spoil Ham's party during the start.

Lol, Toto Wolff praised Bottas played a great wingman role, but Bottas was hurt and not wanted this role actually... Internal politic?
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autospor...rian-Grand-Prix

kimi last win is australia 2013

alonso last win spain 2013

both ol veteren last win is 2013     

For Alonso, at least it's not the driver but the car. If he's in a Ferrari or any other winning cars, surely he would have more wins.

Well it's obvious that McLaren also doesn't have a strong chassis as they claimed to be. So RB winning with Honda is not really just because of Honda but also because RB builds better chassis. McLaren itself has been going downhill before Alonso joins. But yeah, Alonso keeps ending in the wrong team all the time. If he was more patient and stayed with Ferrari, he obviously would have been more wins, maybe have won a title.

His biggest mistake was fighting with Lewis & Ron during his first year at McLaren, trying to sabotage Lewis in Hungary during qualifying. If he did not do that, he would not be penalized in that race and he would have been champion at the end of 2007. Then his 2nd biggest mistake was leaving Ferrari for McLaren fr the 2nd time.

In McLaren case, I think it's also largely due to arrogance of McLaren team, typical of a team which was so successful in the past. They just didn't want to accept that they are not as good anymore in developing the chassis so try to put Honda as the scape goat which partly true also (nobody denies that Honda that time was also very underpowered). It's simply Honda did not design well to begin with and develop fast enough while McLaren (and also Alonso) do not have enough patient to wait for more than 3 years for Honda to come good. McLaren is partially to blame also for not having a better chassis. I think Alonso's capability to outdrive a racing car to some extent masked McLaren chassis weaknesses. It's just not meant to be I guess, and it can be RB's luck if they win races next year as they bear the fruit of Honda's and McLaren's pain & sacrifices.

To me it's just a pity that a team as glorious as McLaren and a racer as outstanding as Alonso are languishing at the back, therefore risking to loose Alonso to other racing series.

Agreed. The way I see it McLaren would not compromise their design to accommodate the Honda engine. Honda tested their engine on the workbench extensively and went on great but when installed in the car, things didn't go so well. Honda had to design everything around the McLaren chasis but still it didn't work. Maybe it was Eric Boullier, maybe board of directors but definitely not the drivers since they didn't design the chasis. Toro Rosso has done a lot better as a comparison, the rate of engine failures are significantly less, only problem I see is inexperienced drivers but still the managed to get into the points in the first year of partnership with Honda.

Somewhat true but modern F1 cars drivers don't have much say in chassis development as it involves a lot of computation and simulations. Drivers in the past literally work on their own cars whenever they are in the pits. Drivers nowadays when get to the pits they change to their fancy corporate uniform and look at the data and provide input(some of them).

Daniel Ricciardo moving to Renault next year!

https://www.crash.net/f1/news/902559/1/offi...es-renault-2019

Can be a wrong move by Ric. Seems like its about money that makes him move.

So who do you guys want to fulfill the RB seat? I wish Alonso would go there but I know it's wishful thinking coz RB would not want to pay his very high salary demand and Honda would not want to work with him anymore. So it's either Gasly or Sainz.

I think this the best decision Alonso make, he has no where to go in F1 stuck in a uncompetetive car and just the time he go chase other crown.

Raining in Q3. Almost guaranteed pole to hamilton

Nailed it. He's on pole after an unreal lap. Both Force India on 2nd row (Ocon P3 is the best part)