Just hope the German pensioner doesn't try to drive into the back of Charles' car in the first corner. Let's go get those points and put those papaya boys in their place, Forza!
Happy Race Day!! https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-f1-tyre-strategy-differences-could-decide-the-portuguese-gp/6500940/ With little to choose in pace terms between the F1 title rivals at Portimao, the two teams are heading into the race on Sunday with completely different options available in their respective bids for victory. While both squads will be starting the race on the medium tyre, it is the compound that they switch on to for their second stint that will likely lead to them diverging. Having run different programmes in free practice, Mercedes has no new sets of hard tyres available for either of its drivers, while Red Bull has no new sets of soft tyres available. The impact of that could be significant if the two teams are battling each other closely in the key pitstop-window phase of the race. The soft tyre should in theory offer a greater performance, and a strategy of switching to it from around lap 26 does works out slightly faster than moving on to the hard. However, the soft tyre has been a tricky compound to manage over the race weekend and Mercedes in particular has found it to actually be slower than the medium over single laps. There will also be uncertainty about how long it will be able to last before losing performance. The hard tyre will be much more durable than the soft for the final stint, but it will likely be slower and could take some time to warm up.
Hamilton just spun off track! Tire puncture and wing damaged! His race is ruined! Oh wait, a safety car just deployed due to another accident elsewhere on the track. Insert time and lap here __________
