#petition for this to be the starting grid for sprint races

[33max]

here is the 2022 starting grid if we were to organise them by wikifeet ratings instead of quali

our pole sitter!!!!! mick schumacher: 6.17/5

He looks like he has good feet.😋

alex albon: 5.75/5

a very high rating but no comments unfortunately 😔

lando norris: 5.36/5

Cute feet. Unfortunately he doesnt show them off as often as his socks, but at least he knows that they're nice.

fernando alonso: 5.33/5

He looks so good in flip flops. What hot feet.

daniel ricciardo: 4.99/5

sorry to the other reviewers, but this man's feet are simply a disgrace. the bones are too visible, and the curvature of his toes reeks of a man who has pressed his poor little piggies into shoes that are too small for far too long. the arch is overly flat, and the heel is too pointed. his toenails are too wide, giving the appearance similar to the thumbs of a major star of the transoformers movie series. i don't understand the hype and i wish i did but i have reflected long and hard and these simply aren't for me.

charles leclerc: 4.96/5

i love a fat toe but maybe his toes are a little too fat. nice friend of his though!

lewis hamilton: 4.95/5

Yeah he is so sexy his feet are so smooth and soft there is some things I can't say that I would do to them

carlos sainz: 4.94/5

Carlos is HOT!!! He reminds me a lot of Noah Centineo who is so damn SEXY as f_ck!!!😘😋😛

george russell: 4.9/5

George has such nice feet! His long toes are so lovely! He’s gorgeous too

pierre gasly: 4.85/5

i'd be showing off those sexy race winner feet too. the arch. the instep. the dip of his ankle bone. the golden ratio applies to these feet and these feet only.

max verstappen: 4.81/5

I would be so banned if I were to talk about all the things I want to do with this guy and his perfect feet

sebastian vettel: 4.68/5

nice LITTLE sexy feet !!

lance stroll: 4.62/5

no comments 😔

esteban ocon: 4.5/5

no comments 😔

sergio perez: 4.41/5

disgusting he's gripping the step too hard with his toe... toes arent meant for such hard labor

no wikifeet for zhou, bottas, kmag, latifi and yuki😔😔😔

[petit-papillion]

2024 Miami Grand Prix

FP

Charles spun after 2 laps and was unable to get going again.

Despite the red flag, everyone else got in some decent amount of practice.

P1: VER / P2: PIA / P3: SAI

Sprint Quali

Fairly drama-free quali with only a couple impeding incidents, no crashes, no yellow/red flags

HAM and RUS out in SQ2

LEC back to his Quali King self

RIC surprises with a P4

P1: VER / P2: LEC / P3: PER

Sprint

Even before the formation lap, Charles is hit in the pitlane by Ocon, who ignored his team when leaving his garage. 10 wecond penalty for Ocon. Damaged wing for the Alpine, Charles's tyre is okay.

First lap crash between ALO, HAM, STR and NOR ends up with a Safety Car, a retirement for both Lando and Lance, a €50,000 fine + a reprimand for Norris for walking across the track. No investigation/penalties for the crash itself.

Under Safety Car: Ocon serves his penalty, Hamilton picks up a 20-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane - given after the Sprint ended.

K-Mag leads a DRS train behind teammate HUL and in his efforts to keep HAM behind he racks up a total of three 10-second penalties and is also called to the stewards for unsportsmanlike behavior.

Meanwhile, Danny Ric does a phenomenal job with keeping up with Checo and keeping Carlos behind him. He ends the race in 4th place and his race engineer Pierre Hamelin is ectatic on team radio. Well done.

At the front nothing changes and Charles finishes 3 seconds behind Max.

P1: VER / P2: LEC / P3: PER

Quali:

RIC cannot repeat his form from earlier in the day and is out in Q1 qualifying P18 (Note: he also has to serve a 3-place grid penalty from China).

ALB causes a double yellow when driving straight at turn 17, gets going again but his tyres are gone and he ends up in P14.

LEC tops the times in Q2.

The top 3 is determined in the first run of Q3 as no one is able to improve on those times in the final run.

P1: VER | P2: LEC | P3: SAI

Petit's Race Notes:

Checo was braking way too late in Turn 1 and almost took out Max and Carlos. Charles had a bad start but was able to get back to P2 after Checo’s torpedo incident.

Max took out a bollard that then went for a bit of a ride on his car and ended up on track. A VSC was needed for marshals to retrieve it + some debris. (Max ended up having damage from both Checo and the bollard)

K-Mag got himself another 10-second penalty, then another penalty for not serving the penalty correctly, and finally took Logan out of the race by clattering into him and sending him into the barriers. Which led to another 10-second penalty. He now also has 10 penalty points. If he gets 2 more before March 2025, he will face a race ban…

It also resulted in a Safety Car which came in behind Lando Norris, the only one who hadn’t pitted yet of the front runners. He was able to get a pit stop and keep the lead of the race.

Meanwhile the Piastri-Sainz feud reached new levels as some hard racing between them escalated. First Piastri pushes Sainz wide while he (PIA) is ahead at the apex. Sainz comes on the radio repeatedly. insistent that Piastri needs to give back the position and deserves a penalty. I don’t think so, say McLaren, and so say the FIA – no investigation necessary. Sainz is clearly mad, tells Ricky to stop talking to him, and goes after revenge. He deliberately “sends it” ((as he will later say in post-race interview with Sky) and hits PIA’s front wing with his tyre. He regains P4 and Oscar has to pit for a new wing – his race ruined. After the race Sainz is summoned to the stewards and he gets a 5-second penalty (dropping him to P5) plus 1 penalty point, and Checo is promoted to P4.

NOR manages to stay ahead of everyone and takes his first win. Everyone is happy for him: drivers wave at him on track and hug him in Parc Fermé, he jumps on top of his crew who also carry him aloft, and Max & Charles completely douse him in champagne on the podium.

Top 3: P1: NOR | P2: VER | P3: LEC

Fastest lap: Oscar Piastri

Driver of the Day: Lando Norris

Fastest Pit Stop: Ferrari/Charles Leclerc (1.94)

[effervescentdragon]

Hiii Akira, may we please a lefreres fic on occasion of arthur's birthday and to forget all the heartache the past few weeks have brought us? thank u, i love u so much

hi anon! i am currently working on the chicfest fic and it's kicking my ass, so im trying to concentrate on that, BUT. since it is arthur's bday, i will share a part of the fic i started writing after spa but havent been much in the mood for with all the other insanity, which is literally just lefreres. i hope you like it :) let me know what you think! kisses to you <3

Lorenzo does what he always does; he watches his brothers. 

(He watches over his brothers.)

He watches his brothers on Saturday, hugging after the F3 sprint race. He sees the pride on Charles' face and the relief on Arthur's, after that abysmal qualifying. 

He watches his brothers on Saturday after the F1 qualifying. He sees the strain on Charles' face and the worry on Arthur's, after that joke of quali and rule changes.

He watches his brothers on Sunday after the F3 feature race. He sees the disappointment on Arthur's face, finishing just outside of the points and losing the third place in the Championship, and the knowing understanding on Charles'.

He watches his brothers after the F1 race on Sunday. He watches the hurtful resignation on Charles' face after losing the second place in the WDC and that absolutely unnecessary pitstop which cost him a five-second penalty and a grid place in the final result, and the barely restrained fury on Arthur's, and the way they hold each other tight, Arthur letting Charles lean on him for an almost imperceptible second, before Charles has to go back to pretending everything is alright. 

Lorenzo looks at his brothers; really looks. They came back from the break, and even though they have both gotten enough rest physically, the shadows around their eyes return quicker than they should. The triple header is one third done, and his brothers already look tired, even though they hide it well. He knows Charles is supposed to fly to the Netherlands on Tuesday with the Ferrari private jet, while he and Arthur are supposed to fly with Lorenzo's friend, also on Tuesday.

Lorenzo looks at his brothers, and the way Arthur's eyes cannot hold back the incredulousness and the anger, impotent as it is, and the way Charles' eyes are red-rimmed and the way his lips shake when he speaks to the press. He twists the golden pendant on his necklace. It's a simple gold plate with five letters on it. He twists it around and around with his fingers as he watches his brothers and the myriad of suppressed emotions on their faces. He is only able to read them because he has seen them grow up since birth, and has seen every single iteration of those expressions grow along with them. They can hide from the world, and they do so miraculously, but they can’t hide from their big brother.

The sun hits him straight in the eyes suddenly, coming out of nowhere in the rainy Spa, and blinds him completely. He raises his hand to cover his eyes and he raises his head up, simultaneously hiding from and seeking the sun. He lets the warmth at the end of a frustrating weekend caress his cheeks, and he smiles. 

"Alright," he says out loud into the sky, quietly and softly. "Message received." 

Lorenzo turns around and goes to make some phone calls.

*

❤️ LEFRÈRES 🙊🙉🙈

enzoNOTferrari 🙊⛵:

[17:54] lefrères council meeting in arthurs room before or after dinner 🙃

[17:54] as dinner also works

[17:55] not sure when you'll be free @charlemagne  🙉🎹

petit 🙈🍭:

[17:55] and what abt me huh @enzoNOTferrari 🙊⛵

[17:55] maybe im BUSY did u wven think of that??? 

[17:56] maybe my rooms not free??

[17:56] 🙄🙄😤😤😤 

[17:56] the audacity

enzoNOTferrari 🙊⛵:

[17:58] i didn't know you knew how to spell audacity, good job petit ❤️

[17:59] and shut up, i know you're free, i literally MADE your schedule 

petit 🙈🍭:

[18:00] yeah well u suck ✌️

enzoNOTferrari 🙊⛵:

[18:01] do you want me to reply to that 🙂

petit 🙈🍭:

[18:02] OH EW EW EW ENZOOOOO WTFFFF

[18:02] UR THE WORST LEFRERE

[18:03] MY EYES 😭😭😖😖😖

[18:03] imma go eat some bleach or pour it on my eyes or something

enzoNOTferrari 🙊⛵:

[18:04] you started it 😘

petit 🙈🍭:

[18:04] did fucking not 😭

charlemagne 🙉🎹:

[18:15] is it okay if pierre comes too? im still not sure if im going w him to milan or not

[18:16] and pls can we have dinner too? im starving 😿

petit 🙈🍭:

[18:16] @charlemagne 🙉🎹 yah ofc i love beau-frere 🔥

enzoNOTferrari 🙊⛵:

[18:16] of course! i'll get us all dinner ❤️

charlemagne 🙉🎹:

[18:18] thanks petit, and thanks enzo, youre the best ❤️

[18:18] half an hour or so and we ll be there 

Lorenzo doesn't think he's imagining the dejected tone in Charles' messages or the way he ignored falling for Arthur's obvious bait, which only makes him doubly sure that he is doing the right thing with his little spontaneous plan. He opens the text thread with Pierre, ignoring Arthur's incoming messages in their own private thread.

To: Pierre G. 🏎🇫🇷

[18:19] hey, congrats on a good job today! :) two questions - what do you want for dinner, and would you mind terribly if Charles didn't come to Milan with you this time?

From: Pierre G. 🏎🇫🇷

[18:20] thank you enzo! 😘

[18:20] get me the chicken stir-fry pls, and a greek salad if they have it, or any if they dont

[18:20] and no, i just thought to cheer him up a bit before the fuckery starts again 🙄

[18:20] why? 

To: Pierre G. 🏎🇫🇷

[18:21] no problem! and that's good, i've had an idea, i'll tell you all about it at dinner 🙂

Pierre sends him a thumbs up, so that should be okay until dinner. Lorenzo is pretty sure Pierre understands more than he lets on, and that he won’t say anything to Charles yet. He skims Arthur's messages next, which are mostly him trying to find any wiggle room about his diet. Enzo rolls his eyes and sends him just one message.

To: petit ❤️

[18:24] ur not getting chocolatw cake OR espresso, and you better not bribe pierre to bring you any either tonight 😉

He thinks for a moment, then sends a message to Charles, too.

To: bébé ❤️

[18:26] don't tell arthur, but i'm getting you dessert, we'll just have to hide it from him like we used to 😉

[race-week]

Hi Al! You’be probably answered this sometime before but whats your opinion on the petit prixs? Personally im indifferent to them because it doesnt really change the main results much but it does give a slightly more exciting factor with the setups being locked after just one fp.

I personally don’t like them, I’m not really a fan of anything that’s intention is to ‘create’ drama

I think that it detracts from the race weekend as a whole as it separates arguably one of the best parts of a Grand Prix (the Race Start) away from the race, as any drama that happened in qualifying, which resulted in a mixed up grid just gets rectified in the sprint.

If anything it disadvantages midfield teams who qualified higher up the grid than they should of and gives an advantage to the front runners who may have qualified poorly.

It doesn’t change the race result as a whole but it just makes the GP less exciting imo.

I just feel like they are both too long and too short to be properly interesting and I don’t like the fact that they are such a blatant cash grab.

I’ve kind of come to terms with the fact that they are here to stay but I’m not a fan.

[clickclackadinfinitum-blog]

Gregor-ton

Twenty years of indignant stares and stilted, non-verbal correspondence made short work of any goodwill Karmen held toward her neighbors. Her home wasn’t the most presentable, certainly; but she at least had the decency to clean up the corpses when things got hairy. The brutes across the street never bothered to trim the grass, let alone aid in the composting of the roaming beasts that would fall victim to their security systems and flop over like a well-baked slab of meat right onto their lawn. It was barbaric to leave one’s home surrounded by such grisly corpses, no matter how exciting it was to watch the foul things die.

It certainly didn’t help that events in the more rural districts of Morlin City were starting to get out of hand. What once was a brief crossing generally involving one herd of long-haired Dripbones became an absolute horde of various beasts that required strong buildings or smart planning to ride out. Karmen had lived in the city for more than forty years, yet all she felt was contempt for time’s passing. It hadn’t been long since the cities surrounding her country’s capital, Vilnaril, began to modernize their buildings and services to match the increasing pressures of survival in the face of booming beast populations. While these enhancements were necessary, the changes brought with them an unsettling monotony to life.

Clean the security systems, remove any and all beast corpses, go to work, maintain composure during the rolling blackouts, ensure generators for security systems are secure in both the workplace and the home, return home before 7:45 PM unless your work takes you to the ‘Bestial Beachhead,’ then activate your security systems when the automated alarm blares from whatever device is connected to your government provided cable box.

Karmen had grown tired of it. She was used to enjoying the ocean waves crashing against rocky crags as she camped outside of town with her friends; fires being snuffed out and bodies being drenched by large waves generated by the movements of the local Gregor-ton on the horizon, forcing them to move to higher ground as they chortled over their luck. The towering, all-seeing Gregor-ton brought an element of excitement and uncertainty wherever it went, even if it could sometimes be inconvenient to those it protected. That all ended twenty-one years ago. It was hard to forget the sight of a Gregor-ton doing its best to work up a lumbering sprint as it made its way to protect Morlin City directly. Its debilitatingly large, seven-hundred meter tall vessel prevented it from properly moving through the deepest sections of the ocean fast enough, even with decently humanoid proportions. While the Gregor-ton was an excellent mass-defense automaton for ages gone by, it simply could not do its job fast enough to destroy every one of beast nests that had fallen from the stars. She could still hear the Gregor-ton attempting to shout its last words to the city as it finally jumped out of the water and dove to grab at one of the rocky, blood-soaked nests. “The body will rust, do not attempt to aid-” Even as it sacrificed its structural integrity so carelessly by purposefully falling over, it tried to assure the populace that attempting to save it was frivolous. The body would rust, certainly, but what of the essence of the proud warriors who had given their lives to protect their homes as one? What of the other Gregor-tons? Would they too ruin themselves in futile attempts to delay the inevitable? The most pressing question was one that only Karmen had ever thought to ask, at least in Morlin City. “How much do the Gregor-tons feel? Do they have the capacity to be angry at themselves, or was the Morlin Gregor-ton just barking an order?” Karmen was having the conversation of the century with her Petite-breed Dripbone. “What do you think, Whorl?” A raspy bark confirmed Karmen’s suspicions-- It was rather hard to have an existential conversation with a domesticated beast. The wisps of water vapor emanating from Whorl’s diminutive eye sockets were beginning to condense against the chilled window of Karmen’s bedroom, making her usually perfect view of the ‘Bestial Beachhead’ somewhat obscured. When the diverse range of nests had first landed just outside of Morlin’s sand strewn shores, the flood of truly nightmarish creatures made the once quiet city almost uninhabitable. Those in power across the nation of Vilnis did their best to send warriors to drive back the innumerable horde of beasts until a more permanent solution could be found, but the inactive Gregor-ton broke the spirits of many just as effectively as the beasts themselves.

Since the day that Morlin’s Gregor-ton fell, its body has laid atop the massive forest next to the city center; oxidation claiming it over the years until it finally began to lose parts of itself to the elements. A more recent restoration effort turned the Gregor-ton’s vessel into a habitat itself, Its remaining pieces being joined together with glass and heating installations in order to create a massive greenhouse to house the sort of tropical flora and fauna the unlucky people of Morlin almost never got to see. For a time, even Karmen took great pride in the turn around of morale this installation brought, but as the warriors of Vilnis were thinned in number to slowly introduce the ‘modern security,’ she could feel the city’s soul dying.

Why must I contemplate these things at a time like this?

Karmen was merely distracting herself. Trying to search through the past to justify the state of the future, pinpointing the exact moment it became okay for these laser-based, tag-reading defense systems to practically flame-broil every passing animal; the day it became acceptable to leave the dead on your lawn in the hopes that a passerby may take interest in their carcass for valuables or food. The day she bought Whorl she had to race down to the local vet, hugging the beast to her chest as she ran through sensor grids, just to get her tagged for safety’s sake. Even if the defense system was unable to hurt humans by their very design, it still made her feel trapped; not because she feared the system, but because she feared she had become unable to live without it.

The point these lamentations drew Karmen to were always vague. Or, in her own words: “I keep thinking of this bullshit, but I can’t bring to mind the bull.” In the forty-four years she’s seen, from her raucous birth to her quiet rumination of the past in the present, the only thing that she was unable to figure out that truly frustrated her was the inability to decide what action she figured ought to be taken. As she eyed the slightly fogged window of her room, she could see the beast’s nests wriggling with activity, their grey, flared tops poking drably just above the water’s surface. But just to the right… laid the Gregor-ton. Teeming with life just behind the glass. The beasts from the stars never seemed interested in the more tropical creatures so plainly inhabiting the soulless vessel, it seemed so pleasant inside. Perhaps tomorrow Karmen would visit the Gregor-ton Habitat, just for a little while…

Karmen shrugged off the faint chill running through her body, noting that the air seemed to be getting cooler. Whorl didn’t help things one bit, clacking her frigid skeletal head against Karmen’s chin for warmth. Maybe Whorl might like to come, too. Now that she thought about it, Karmen had no idea how well a Dripbones could handle truly warmer climes.

So hey, if you read this whole fuckin’ thing, thanks! This is among my oldest pieces, yet I’ve come back to it time after time, and I have a feeling it might be easy to pinpoint where I’ve come back to add in or change things. Or maybe not, who knows? Either way, this was the first time I tried really putting my heart into writing a new world, and I’m honestly still interested in trying to expand it. Maybe if this hobby of mine expands out, it might just end up being something I try to publish! Those are big dreams for later though. For now, hope you liked it!

Also, sorry about the abrupt ending. I tried to think for a while how to continue it (this being about five months ago) and work got in the way, so I’ve just kinda let it sit.

[petit-papillion]

FP1

Lots of running on track in this one session on a track we haven't been to since 2019. Despite it having rained just a day earlier, the grass in turn 7 suddenly catches fire and the session is briefly red-flagged so the marshalls can put it out.

Sprint Quali

Track again on fire at the end of SQ1. In SQ2 RUS unexpectedly out, ZHO unexpectedly through to SQ3 to the delight of the Chinese crowd. Light rain but conditions fine. LEC P2. Then rain arrives for SQ3 and everyone is skating like Bambi on ice. Charles spins, crashes into the barrier but miraculously has no damage to either wings. He does go into the pits to have his car checked and get new tyres. It's cost him time and he ends up only P7. Max and Lando go off track, get their laps deleted, then Alonso takes pole, then Hamilton, then Norris. NOR gets his lap deleted again, and just as we think HAM has sprint pole, it is reinstated! Crazy quali!

P1: NOR / P2: HAM / P3: ALO

Sprint

Chaotic start that sees Norris lose pole immediately and drop numerous places. Of course VER eventually works his way up to the front from P4 and wins by 13 seconds. Behind him lots of battles take place between ALO, SAI, LEC and PER. At one point ALO and SAI collide, leading to some floor damage for SAI and a puncture for Alonso, ultimately retiring him from the Sprint (he later also receives a 10-second penalty for causing a collision). PER takes advantage of all the squabbling in front of him and moves up to 3rd. LEC tries some daring passes on SAI who resorts to pushing LEC completely off track in a move Nico Rosberg deemed penalty-worthy (but FIA deemed not worth a further investigation after noting it). LEC fights back though and passes SAI with a wonderful overtake for a P4 finish.

P1: VER / P2: HAM / P3: PER

Quali

In Q1 SAI hits the gravel in the last turn, spins, and luckily ends up only barely hitting the barriers on the other side of the track. The car is stalled for 1 min 17 seconds before he is able to restart it, while the session is red-flagged. He limps home on the ruined tires and without a front wing. Car is repaired by the time the track is cleared of gravel. Aston Martin later filed a complaint that he was stopped on track too long and should have been penalized, but as usual the FIA rules are too vague (what is too long?) and the complaint is dismissed. Lewis shockingly doesn't make it through to Q2 and qualifies P18.

P1: VER / P2: PER / P3: ALO

Petit's Race Notes

Carlos tried to fight Charles at the start leading to not only RUS but also HULK to get ahead of both of them.

Charles was going to work his tyre management magic again with a 1-stop, but BOT's car died and caused a safety car allowing everyone to pit.

Right before the start Lance Stroll missed seeing the train of cars in front of him braking and ended rear-ending RIC quite spectacularly (ultimately leading to RIC retiring) which also damaged PIA's car.

More chaos at the restart as K-Mag made a pit maneuver on Yuko who ended up retiring.

Then it rained penalties: 10 seconds for STR and MAG for causing a collision; 10 seconds for RIC for overtaking HUL during SC (and because he couldn't serve it before he DNF-ed, it will be a 3-place grid penalty in Miami); SAR also gets a 10-second penalty for a SC infringement.

The Ferrari's are not doing as well on the Hards as on the Mediums and we cannot catch NOR (who had been sure the Ferrari's were faster than him before the race started) and PER, but we do stay ahead of RUS and ALO (whose team gambled with putting him on Softs during the SC, and were forced to pit him again).

ZHO gets to park on the grid and soak in the love from the Chinese crowd as the first Chinese driver to ever drive in the Chinese GP. 🥰

Top 3: P1: VER | P2: NOR | P3: PER

Fastest lap: Fernando Alonso

Driver of the Day: Lando Norris

Fastest pit stop: Red Bull/Max Verstappen (1.90)

[petit-papillion]

2024 Austrian Grand Prix

FP1:

Some visits to the gravel, including NOR.

VER came to a halt on track, leading to people already speculating about him needing to take a grid penalty before the car and even rolled back off track.

But it was just a sensor issue, so VER was back on track in no time and set the fastest lap of the session.

P1: VER / P2: PIA / P3: LEC

Sprint Quali:

SAR qualified ahead of ALB for the second time this year, but for the first time on merit as the commentaro=s said at least 3 times!

All the teams waited until there were only a few minutes left in SQ3

Leading to cars at the front holding up cars behind them

And ultimately 3 cars (PER, GAS & OCO) not having enough time for a slow outlap + hot lap.

Even worse, Charles's anti-stall kicked in while waiting in line in the pitlane and he had to move off to the side, completely shut everything off and restart the engine.

In the end, he missed going across the line by 2 seconds, got no time on the board and qualified P10...

P1: VER / P2: NOR / P3: PIA

Sprint:

Sprint start was aborted due to photographers being in an unsafe place in T1. After second formation lap we were finally underway.

Charles was able to pass 3 cars in the first lap and move himself into P7

NOR battted with VER and was in the lead for 1 corner before VER took back the position

And PIA passed NOR as well, after NOR "left the door open like an amateur" (as he said in the post-race interview)

SAI got ahead of RUS, but RUS overtook him again later, so he finished where he started in P5

HUL pushed ALO off track and received a 10-second penalty after the Sprint

P1: VER / P2: PIA / P3: NOR

Quali:

Unsafe release at HAM's garage where a hose still attached to his car pulled a dolly (€5000 fine)

HUL noted for pitlane infringement

VER driving on helium, it seems, putting 4 tenths on the rest of the field

PIA dropped from P3 because of lap deleted due to track limits

Charles was on a fantastic lap but pushed too hard, lost control, went off track and ended up P7 (P6 after PIA dropped to P7)

P1: VER / P2: NOR / P3: RUS

Petit's Race Notes:

Zhou starting from pitlane after some changes in Parc Fermé.

Race start saw a fender bender between Oscar and Charles as PER squeezed them 3 wide on track.

Oscar had no damage and was able to continue overtaking cars, ending his race 5 places higher than he started.

Charles had to pit for a new wing (and Hard tyres), and it was the first of 4 pit stops for him in a race to quickly forget. Despite running in P19/20 for a great part of the race, he finished P11.

HAM and ALB both went across the pitlane line and received 5-second penalties.

ALO tried some bumper cars with ZHO: 10-second penalty.

The Alpines were battling it out in the midfield, ultimately won by Pierre with a sassy. "Ciao!"

Slow pit stop and having to wait for NOR to get by led to VER's 9-second lead on NOR to be reduced to just a few seconds.

NOR got bold, despite being under investigation for exceeding track limits, but ended up having to give the position back when he passed VER off track.

NOR kept pushing to get past VER who complained on the radio that it was dangerous.

And indeed: it did not end well with NOR and VER colliding, both getting a puncture, NOR's tyre shredding parts off his car.

VER got a 10-second penalty (which he did not agree with), and ended in P5.

NOR DNF-ed and was classified P20 with a 10-second penalty applied for track limits.

The big winner was George who ended up with the win: Yabbadabbadoo!!

Top 3: P1: RUS | P2: PIA | P3: SAI

Fastest lap: Fernando Alonso

Driver of the Day: Lando Norris

Fastest pit stop: Ferrari/Charles Leclerc (1:95)

📷 Scuderia Ferrari, F1 / 🎥NINEEEv

[race-week]

Okay listening to me on this one ! Imagine the Silverstone weekend like that :

Friday morning : FP1 - 1 hour

Friday afternoon : Sprint race, 100km, 17 laps but you to have the starting grid you take the Austrian GP final classification, you reverse the top 10 and you have the sprint race grid.

He give points to the first 5, the winner gets 5, the second gets 4, etc

No Parc fermé after the race

Saturday morning : FP2

Saturday afternoon : Quali (normal, the fastest gets pole position) sets the grid for the Sunday race.

Sunday : Normal race

TELL ME IT WONT BE A GOOD IDEIA

-F1notebook

That’s a good idea, you could then have parc ferme in it’s normal spot after qualifying, the only thing with reverse grids is that the teams won’t agree because the cars can’t overtake but it’s definitely a better option for next year.

As long as they call the sprint race a petit prix

Thanks for your contribution I love this 💕

Let’s all approach Liberty and Ross Brawn with better ideas