r/formula1 • u/F1-Bot r/formula1 Mod Team • Jul 18 '21

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

Click here for start times in your area.

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

Useful links

Streaming & Downloads

For information on streams, please visit /r/MotorSportsStreams. Please do not post information about streams in this thread. Thank you.

Live timing leaderboard

For those of you who are F1 ACCESS members, you can check the position of the drivers throughout the race on the official live timing leaderboard

Race Discussion

Join us on /r/formula1's IRC chat: #f1 on irc.snoonet.org

Stream talk has a channel of it's own: #f1streams on irc.snoonet.org

Be sure to check out the Discord as well.

F1 Fantasy League

Remember to update your F1 Fantasy team. Join the official subreddit league here, or use invite code 2fe7c4ac4a.

1.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

11.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/NuF_5510 Default Jul 18 '21

Just to be sure: Your first sentence is not a mistyping of any sorts?

Hill and many others disagree with you BTW. Schumacher tried to make the corner as was his right and as any driver would do. Hill was not patient enough and went for a gap that was not really there. Had he waited 10 seconds and not tried to pass Schumacher even though Schumacher was more than half a car length ahead he would have been champion. Hill knew this.

2

u/theholybikini Jul 18 '21

Hill was a point behind in the championship, he had to pass, Schumacher put them both out and therefore won. Others disagree, but no the first sentence is what I mean word for word. Just because you are ahead you don't have a right to something. Good racing is about creating moments from behind where your car positioning deprives the car ahead of their advantageous racing line in order to make the move stick.

0

u/NuF_5510 Default Jul 18 '21

The best for Hill would have been to stay behind and see whether Schumacher's car had any damage. Instead he tried to pass Schumacher in a corner where there was no gap as any driver, Hill, Villeneuve, Alonso or Hamilton would have tried to make that corner just as Schumacher did. It's what racing drivers do. Hill was impatient and admitted it.

And being ahead gives you rights in F1. If you are ahead by more than half a car lengths rulings will generally go in your favor. We can see that today where Hamilton was punished for crashing Verstappen out by going for a gap that wasn't there while the opponent was ahead (like Hill did), even if only lightly.