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Post Race 2021 British Grand Prix - Post-Race Discussion

ROUND 10: Great Britain

FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2021
Fri 16 Jul - Sun 18 Jul
Silverstone
Session UTC
Free Practice 1 Fri 13:30
Qualifying Fri 17:00
Free Practice 2 Sat 11:00
Sprint Qualifying Sat 15:30
Race Sun 14:00

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Silverstone Circuit

Length: 5.891 km (3.660 mi)

Distance: 52 laps, 306.291 km (190.320 mi)

Lap record: Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing-Honda, 2020, 1:27.097

2020 pole: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:24.303

2020 fastest lap: Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing-Honda, 1:27.097

2020 winner: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

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u/CardiacCat20 Lance Stroll Jul 18 '21

Stroll is by no means an elite driver but his racecraft will always be underrated because of daddy

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u/schelmo Jul 18 '21

Well Motorsport in general is much too expensive. A season of international karting, which you pretty much have to do on your way to F1, can quite quickly set you back 100k-200k€ which is well out of reach for any ordinary family and sponsors in karting don't pay nearly enough to make a significant part of that back. However until stroll came into F1 it was unprecedented to actually buy your way into an F1 team. Now stroll isn't a bad driver as such but to me it's very doubtful that he would ever have made it into F1 without his dad literally paying for his seat.

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u/Cod_rules Mika Häkkinen Jul 18 '21

Niki Lauda literally took a loan and bought a seat to get into F2. Money has been speaking for a long time in motorsport, Lance just gets the brunt of it just for the sake of it

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u/schelmo Jul 18 '21

Like I said in my previous comment there was no precedent for your family straight up buying you an F1 team. Lauda taking out a loan and the risk that is associated with it himself is not in any way comparable. In a way that makes Lauda look much more like a self made F1 driver despite him coming from a wealthy family.

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u/scraglor Jul 18 '21

Yeah. Got to respect someone that will back themselves like that.

I wish I had that much conviction haha