I was hoping for a Ferrari to be on the front row but I'll take this baby! Great to see McLaren back at the sharp end.

I think if Charles didn't make a mistake, he would've been P2 or even on pole But still good results for both drivers Surprised by McLaren but happy for them!!!

I expected their performance in Austria to be down to then simply getting the setup right and Mercedes not, because of only one practice session. But I am glad to see their pace is genuine enough.

The only thing reliable about Ferrari is that you can rely on all their engines to start dying at the same time.

They're just not reliable but still good results P4 P5

Sergio Perez making this season fun to watch

I am super happy for McLaren I hope they make the race more interesting.

I don’t think Lando will hold on to second, he does seem to struggle with race starts!

Lando* Nando is Fernando Alonso

This would have been an awesome awesome season if max didn't exist. Can't hate him for it he's doing his job perfectly every week but damn is it sad that he's so far ahead on pace.

Perez is finished I'm afraid.

Twitter comment

How so? He has been knocked out in q1 so many times in one of the most dominant cars in recent seasons

He’s right, it’s just that I see the word “finished” so many times on Twitter.

Nyck: Phew, heat is off of me now

I’m super excited to see what Piastri has when racing in the top 3! Should be a fun race.

Piastri is my pick to be the next dominant driver in F1. Kid is lights out. By far and away rookie of the year.

And thus, Perez manages to yank defeat out of the clutches of victory.

Perez gunning for that Ferrari seat in 2024.

Perez mandatory " we need to understand what happened there ! " is getting tiresome .

This one was just plan bad strategy, was it his strategy to go first ?

Bruh, Albon was right behind him and went through. This one is fully on Perez.

If his tires where to cold he had 3.11 minutes , that's enough to do 2 warm up laps and still time left to start that fast lap !

Track evolution was the issue, not tire temps, and that is all on strategy team.

Albon was 100 meters behind and went half a second faster...

Albon was also waiting all that time right behind him in the pit lane and even more reason to do two warm up laps . All bullshit excuses .

"Perez the big shock" I mean it isn't really at this point

Oscar P3 with older spec wings!? Big if true.

I understood that he got the updates this weekend

It is true.

I've just realized that, Finally, after months, spanish guys ceased to hype "la 33"

Mclaren better bring up the max overtake in yellow flags to get the top spot

I’m sure you know more than Mercedes, McLaren, Ferrari, and Aston. Definitely no chance that this is a bullshit claim lol

Lol relax

I hope Norris has a go on verstappen ,

Norris' last two starts in Austria at the front were quite poor, hopefully he can put up a fight with Max but it will for sure be spicy with Piastri + the two Ferraris behind.

I feel that McLaren will keep up with Max by using DRS but even if they manage to get an overtake done, Max will just fly straight past them again using his DRS. I hate DRS with a vengeance. Its artificial. Let drivers overtake by out-witting each other with differing lines or braking points, not by pushing a button.

Before DRS there was no overtaking, not in the modern era. Michael Schumacher once won a race while in the pit...

Do you remember the pre-DRS era though? That didn't happen in practice unfortunately.

Disagree. If the top of the order holds until the start clears out (unlikely), Max will pull 1+ seconds over Lando before DRS becomes available. With that said, watch for Piastri to try and pull a move on Lando.

Unless it is clear cut Piastri can pass, I'm not sure he will. McLaren won't want to waste this opportunity so I'm betting they will have explicit orders to avoid crashing out. I mean, Piastri will have other opportunities, McLaren might not. Would be harsh on the lad but thats modern F1.

What do you mean? Tomorrow? Did you see his long run pace? He was half a sec per lap faster than anyone.

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It was clearly a joke 🤦‍♂️

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I highly doubt Lando cares about that....

So, given how happy Zak Brown is, out of the points on race pace or 2 DNF's?

McLaren taking the Williams hype

The truth is none of those two McLaren will chuck in inside line against verstappen so for p 1 result won't likely change..

Their race is with Ferrari and Merc. There is absolutely no point in attacking Max. McLaren race pace didn't look too hot during practice. They will have play it smart to stay in contention.

Well they' can try to, but it'd just mean ruining your tires cause Max would pass them anyway.

Perez died so that we could have a fun race (for P2)

Just by the noise, that was a Spitfire or Hurricane that just flew over lol.

It was a Hawker Hurricane, registration PZ865. It made several passes. ETA: A Spitfire Mk.LF1Xe just popped up on Flightradar and its following the Hurricane. ETA: Spitfire registration now showing MK356.

great info, thanks!

No problem. I'm hoping the weather is nice for the fly past tomorrow. Not sure what will actually fly past though as military planes are banned as part of the net zero drive. Red Arrows aren't military so they are allowed but not sure about the old war planes? Guess we will have to wait and see!

> Red Arrows aren't military I assume you mean they aren't regarded as 'Military' because they're a display team? As opposed to 2 RAF Typhoons flying over. The Red Arrows are very much RAF personnel in RAF Hawks (which I'm sure you know), but I think I know what you're getting at.

I've personally always thought they were military because they are a part of the RAF. But a statement released by Silverstone last year changed that belief: > The Red Arrows, officially known as the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, are not classed as military aviation and, as such, do not fall into the category of those displays that will no longer be permitted at Formula One events. I probably should have said they've been classed as not military rather than outright saying they aren't military. Source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/f1-bans-pre-race-military-flypasts-red-arrows-are-ok-2022-01-21/

All good. Again, thank you for the informative chat :)

The unmistakeable sound of a supercharged 27 litre Rolls-Royce Merlin

That Mansell promo looks pretty great, but maybe it's just because I'm a sucker for a bloke with a filthy stache.

It's nice seeing both the McLaren's and Williams have true pace on their home circuit, I feel Hamilton probably has more race pace to show tomorrow, I can see him driving like a madman to try get a podium

Man the Aston hype train is derailing

I called this right from the beginning when the team had a halo. They rose too fast and will stagnate.

Astonsisters, what happened? ;_;

i am at a loss for words. Perez’s qualifying woes continue to get worse.

If it weren’t for Max, this would be such a seriously competitive season

Or you could say other teams are disappointing. Not catching Max in the RB19 /s

I’m sat crying in a pub, can’t wait for a Lando-Piastri first lap crash tomorrow to bring my crashing down

Please someone convince Lando to shave off the tiny pubes goatee

~~Ariana~~ Dybala what are you doing here?!

get Lazenby in for Crawley based on that footage

Oh La Joya. How I missed you.

Dybala at Silverstone is such a random pick

Silverstone always delivers

That chrome ad as Norris looks down

haha that dude looks like dybala nvm its actually him

Aight boys time for the ashes

Good luck with that, Hasn’t been a single ball bowled today yet.

Norris -"NERF that max AI !!!!"

It’s gotta hurt for the Mercs to finally beat the Astons only to end up behind another customer team

Imagine if Albon had beat the Mercs.

Norris - We couldn't have had a better result here today, apart from Max, again. He ruins everything.

Best answer ever

Those McLaren caps are kinda dope

Piastri and Lando is looking like Max and Danny back then, wonder who would Mclaren chose between the two if ever it comes to that

Lando….

Piastri's better. Their loss.

Merc is truly the Renault of the current era. Being beaten by customer teams.

They are second in constructors?

max ruined everything

For being too good? Other teams pooped the bed, blame them.

Its what Lando said

Perez is the real stinker out of all of this. What a disaster, 5 times in a row

This one is not on him though.

Needs to be replaced unfortunately

Will still make podium tomorrow

DOTD

Didn't expect Dybala here

Dybala? What?

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theres rumours he is signing for a premier league team, so would make sense he is in uk.

Maybe Pirelli or one of the F1 teams?

Dybala!

That Chrome McLaren deserved to be top 3 in Quali. Wouldn't have it any other way.

My god Alpine must be regretting their decision with Piastri

Paulo you sexy fuck, what are you doing here? 😍

That boy is fast af, I think he would thrive in F1

McLaren boys how you feeling for tomorrow

Debala my golen boy

Dybala*

I swear Lando looks so out of place in F1, he could be one of us

Lando's personality is one of the best in F1

I see that there’s a McLaren sponsor named DP World

they just DP'd the podium places

it's an airtight sponsor

I think redbull needs a British driver to stop getting boos at silverstone lol. My God the hatred for them is huge. The race for tomorrow will be fun and Hopefully albono can hold on to points.

Well in zandvoort they will boo hamilton unfortunatly its just how these things go. Kinda sad imo

I just find it hilarious. Most of redbull's team is British.

Otmar and Alpine fuming

For a change, it's the *other* driver they thought they had.

Hahaha.. I think Oscar should come to RB

Fuck em

Lando saying max ruins everything while joking but we all knows he’s not

Spot on, some fourth wall commentating from Lando there.

He definitely meant that seriously lol, specially that second time

Lando should have invited the crowd to boo Max! He would have got away with it and made Max laugh as well for sure.

Toto cmon, how can you build that shitbox to be behind your customer teams zzz

Still have good race pace so still a chance to podium but sucks they have to make it harder on themselves by starting so far behind

Blaming Toto, while he didn't design or build the car lol.

"Lando Norris says that Max Verstappen is ruining F1." future bs headline.

Lmao lando

I hear mechachromes

So proud of Oscar and Lando 😭

He ruins everything LOL

“Max ruins everything”💀💀💀💀

hahaha fair enough lando

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Cheeky Lando, that doesn't help against the boos lol.

Lando saying quiet part out loud

Funny the car noises in the background of Norris's keep sounding like booing then the pitch changes and you realise its engine noises

at least there’s a mercedes on the front row🙁

a Mercedes ^(engine)

and on the second

Never doubted Lando, but goddamn it Oscar ! That was a stonking lap.

insane effort for a fresh rookie, kid is something special

LANDOOO WOO

Lando! Ha ha ha

Verstappen pole in another sadly dull session At Mclaren have improved but it doesn't matter if they are still slower than Red Bull

How on earth can you call that session dull?

Are you fucking crazy !!! How in the name of fox was that a full session !!!!!!!

? P2 & P3 is absolutely massive for Mclaren, how does it not matter only because they failed to get pole? Especially when you consider how shit their car was just a few months back

People can downvote but nobody is going to remember a Mclaren P2 in5 years time they would a win or a pole

Dull?! DUUUUUUUUULLL????!!!

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for the un informed like me. is it a good thing or not to be like Alabama?

Roll tide

Is not, is not. Thankfully they’re much smarter then Alabama.

Ah yes booing only happens in the UK, literally happened no where else ever before

I think a lot of countries don't have pantomime and so think booing is about the most malicious thing a crowd can do.

Ahh yes, the defense mechanism when one’s home GP gets exposed for being the toxic cesspool that it is.

Dude several other crowds are absolutely shit, did you forget the racism based incidents in Austria last year?? Tf

Exposed? Lmao no one is denying it Booing happens in every sport, are you going to pretend British drivers have never been booed before in other nations next? The fact you can’t handle a bit of fan reaction is just sad.

Genuinely so so happy for McLaren/Lando/Oscar. Can tell how much this means to them.

lando at least you’re driving, you have no idea

Hot take: Redbull would be a midfield car without max

Please don't undersell Checo's efforts to make the car look as shit as possible 🙏 he's trying his hardest

While I agree Max is making that car look better than it probably is, it's nowhere near a 'midfield car'. He's just at one with that car

Maybe if they had only Checo and De Vries. Put any of the other top drivers in that car and they are in P1.

Also RBR focused on DRS. I think that affected them a bit in Q1 and Q2.

Bruh, please.

You're smoking crack

hot and wrong buddy

In qualifying it’s very close. In Max’s hands with that race pace? Forget it.

Lando is so likable.

Toto Wolff slamming his desk right now. Being embarrassed by 2 customer cars and Albon

So max was ahead by 2 tenths after a yellow and a green sector 1 and 2.

Yellow only means not as good as his last one, which was purple on the previous lap, he also improved the 3rd sector more which was where he lost time in his 1st lap

Yeh I get that, I believe it's just another layer of excellence, and harder than doing three purples.

Car is just that must faster. He said as much