Formula 1 Pirelli British Grand Prix 2020 - LIVE THREAD

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Silverstone Circuit

First Grand Prix

Hosted the inaugural Formula 1 World Championship round on May 13 1950 From 1943 to 1945 BOMBED Nazis
	Circuit length		5.891 km or 3.661 Miles, unless you take the wrong turn....
	Number of laps		52, unless Bottas is leading then 53 to allow Lewis to win.
	Race distance		306.198 or 312.089 km (see above)
	Lap record		1:27.369 Lewis Hamilton (2019)	on/off... if you want on or off the F1 list mash here to get added/removed TV Race Stuff Here...http://www.tvracer.com goodbye girls, we’ll miss ya...

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Silverstone F1 race page up. Sorry for my HTML efforts, I was asked at last moment.... but the Girls are looking good!

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All the links are screwed up. :(

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Thanks, I will see if they can be fixed....

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I call 2nd from right...

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thank you...

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You’re welcome. Of course my HTML skills are wanting. Hope you feel better.

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thx... it’ll be awhile

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Sorry for my HTML efforts

It all looks fine to me. Thanks for posting.

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Thanks for posting.

I'll second that. Thanks muchly, Lockbox!

And, can I say from all of us, we hope our good buddy Chode enjoys the qualifying and the race.

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THE HÜLK IS BACK FOR SILVERSTONE

Nico Hülkenberg will drive for BWT Racing Point F1 Team in this weekend’s British Grand Prix, lining up alongside Lance Stroll.

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Thank Y’All for covering My butt. < /smacking self upside the head in shame > Had to spend a few hours in Hours in Networking land making things work again.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/53704691

Racing Point: Five teams to appeal against fine in ‘copying’ row

Five teams - half the grid - have said they intend to appeal against the decision to punish Racing Point for illegally copying Mercedes parts.

Racing Point were docked 15 points in the constructors’ championship and fined 400,000 euros (£360,000).

However, the verdict allows them to continue running those parts.

The five teams are Racing Point, Renault - who lodged the initial protest after Friday’s decision - Ferrari, McLaren and Williams.

Protesting against the verdict allows wider issues - in particular the philosophical question of how much copying of a rival team’s design is permissible - to be dealt with in front of a panel of lawyers at the FIA Court of Appeal.

The decision found Racing Point guilty of using an effective copy of Mercedes’ 2019 rear brake ducts on their 2020 car, which is forbidden by Formula 1 regulations.

The information regarding these parts had been supplied legally by Mercedes in 2019, but a change of regulations before the 2020 season made brake ducts a part of the car that teams have to design themselves.

Despite the ruling saying the parts had been designed illegally, were run illegally at the first four races, and would continue to be in contravention of the regulations if they remained on the car, Racing Point have been allowed to carry on using them.

Stewards said this was because the verdict was considered to be an appropriate punishment for the breach, and as a result of problems caused by asking Racing Point to redesign parts given the knowledge they already have.

But rival teams are also concerned about the wider issue that the entire car is a virtual copy of the 2019 Mercedes.

Racing Point say they achieved this by taking photographs of the Mercedes and designing their car from them, a claim treated with scepticism by their rivals, who argue that if this was possible to this extent, other teams would have done it before.

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto, speaking before Ferrari made their intentions clear, said: “One thing that is important is that it has somehow been clarified that there has been a breach of regulation. That is the starting point.

“Obviously that is relative to the braking ducts, but there is an entire concept behind, which is about copying. Are we allowed to copy, or not, an entire concept?

“But the two things need to be split. On the braking duct there is a breach of regulation - that is a fact and it has been clarified. Is the penalty sufficient or not?”

McLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown said: “My initial reactions are that Racing Point has been found guilty and I am concerned that they still have those… what were deemed illegal in Austria on the race car now.

“That is confusing for the fans, how something that is not legal in Austria is still on the car.

“This is, potentially, the top of the iceberg, the starting point of looking at what’s happened here, because I don’t think it’s healthy for the sport.”

Renault F1 team boss Cyril Abiteboul said: “We need to recognise that what Racing Point has done, based on a car that has such an advantage, against anyone else on the grid, has been a shock in the system, has been a disruption. We need to see how we deal with it.”

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said: “The verdict that came out today is extremely complicated. It comes up with an interpretation that is new - new to all of us. We have provided certain data in 2019, which was totally within the rules.

“I don’t think the brake ducts are the reason that they suddenly compete for the first six positions. I think it’s a splendid engineering team there that has extracted the most from the regulations. I think we can have the debate of ‘do we want this going forward?’ in terms of having copies of whole cars.”

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However, the verdict allows them to continue running those parts.

Found guilty of cheating, stripped of the points but can run the parts for the rest of the year? Kind of cutting the baby in half.

From what I hear many teams appealed to buy time to digest the ruling. They may not actually appeal but what'd to have that option after review of decision.

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only in F1...

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Mercedes messed up, they should of held Lewis back in 3rd. Given Bottas 2nd and keep him one point behind Max instead of 3 points.

Teams always need a strong 2nd driver and Mercedes lack of action did damage not only with fewer points for Bottas, but Bottas is going to be slighted again which could cause issues later.

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