Pick the Podium - F-1 - AWS Gran Premio De Espana, 2023, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmelo, Catalonia, Spain, June 02-04, 2023

[Retroram52]

The F-1 teams move to Spain this weekend. After being in the tight corners and circuit of Monte Carlo, they move to the wide-open, long straights of Barcelona-Catalunya. Should be fun to see if Hamilton's new Merc gets any better to intrude into RB's worked.

 

[Retroram52]

Verstappen and Perez take 1-2 in F-1 practice. That pesky Ocon is back in Third.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Verstappen and Perez take 1-2 in F-1 practice. That pesky Ocon is back in Third.

curious is what they put in Ocons wheaties!

 

[Retroram52]

After all the bellyachin' Hamilton did about his car not being able to get past 12th place, he finishes Third in FP-3 behind Perez and Verstappen. I guess that is what Hamilton does to get his team to fix his car.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Weird ass Qualifying. One driver from all the top teams dont make it to Q3.

Gonna make our picks pretty interesting this week.

 

[forty_three]

VER
HAM
SAI
NOR

 

[Hank Kingsley]

After all the bellyachin' Hamilton did about his car not being able to get past 12th place, he finishes Third in FP-3 behind Perez and Verstappen. I guess that is what Hamilton does to get his team to fix his car.

They were plain slow yesterday. They stayed up late working on issues and it worked for Hamilton. Not so much for Prince George. I thought Hamilton might end up P2. And that bit at the end of Q2 was embarrassing for the team.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Verstappen
Hamilton
Sainz
Ocon

 

[obxyankeefan]

Verstappen
Norris
Hamilton
Ocon

 

[ckhokie]

VER
HAM
SAI
OCO

 

[Retroram52]

I'll go with the prevailing winds:

Verstappen
Hamilton
Sainz
Ocon

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Verstappen
Sainz
Hamilton
Perez

 

[Retroram52]

Verstappen takes the win, followed by Hamilton with a nice podium finish. Russell surprises and gets back to Third Place, and Perez ends in Fourth Place.

 

[Retroram52]

Here's How We Did:

ckhokie: 17 points - Correctly selected Verstappen for First Place; Correctly selected Hamilton for Second Place

Forty_three: 17 points - Correctly selected Verstappen for First Place; Correctly selected Hamilton for Second Place

Hank Kinsley: 17 points - Correctly selected Verstappen for First Place; Correctly selected Hamilton for Second Place

Obxyankeefan: 10 points - Correctly selected Verstappen for First Place

RetroRam: 17 points - Correctly selected Verstappen for First Place; Correctly selected Hamilton for Second Place

Schmoopy: 13 points - Correctly selected Verstappen for First Place; Correctly selected Perez for Fourth Place

Season Totals

ckhokie -115 points
forty_three - 88 points
Hank Kingsley - 88 points
Obxyankeefan - 74 points
RetroRam - 115 points
Schmoopy - 95 point

Quote Quote

 

[Retroram52]

Ties remain and onward we go to Canada in two weeks. See everyone then!

 

[Retroram52]

Looks like the fight is between the Mercs and RB. Russell really had a great run and Hamilton came back from Fifth Place qualifying run. Perez came back from way back and finished Fourth.

 

[ckhokie]

Perez is such an asshole. His last 2 races are pretty inexcusable.
For anyone who though he had a legit shot at the title this year, there are likely higher odds he’s out of a RB seat next year.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Looks like the fight is between the Mercs and RB. Russell really had a great run and Hamilton came back from Fifth Place qualifying run. Perez came back from way back and finished Fourth.

RB off in the distance. 24 seconds adrift or so.

MB is still racing Ferrari and Aston.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

For the record, I took Panzerwagon for a sunny day victory lap.

It felt like a win.

 

[ckhokie]

Looks like the fight is between the Mercs and RB. Russell really had a great run and Hamilton came back from Fifth Place qualifying run. Perez came back from way back and finished Fourth.

Ignoring Monaco, Max has still won his last 3 races by more than a full pit stop.