In the round-up: Daniil Kvyat is looking forward to returning to Zandvoort.
What they say
Speaking in an Instagram interview with Pirelli, Kvyat talked about the Dutch circuit where he won in F3 seven years ago:I love the track, it was amazing. I think was probably the coolest because it was so old-school, so nice. It’s different, you know, that we need tracks like this a bit now, really old-school.
I think now they also changed the bit to adapt to modern standards of safety. We’ll see how it is in Formula 1. I still think in qualifying we’ll be really cool track.
In the race, let’s see. The straights, if I remember right, they’re quite short. Maybe with DRS and everything we can still have some good racing. So let’s see.
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Kurzarbeit auch bei Alfa-Sauber in Hinwil (Blick - German)
Alfa Romeo has placed some of its F1 staff on a Kurzarbeit - 'short-time work' - plan, meaning the state pays part of their income while they are temporarily out of work, in a similar arrangement to furloughed F1 staff at McLaren, Williams and Racing Point.
F1 needs to be recalibrated to survive Covid-19 crisis - Todt (Autosport)
"I don't think that the priority number one now for a manufacturer is to secure continuity in motor racing. I am hoping that everyone will stay."
Formula E and FIA introduce cost saving measures amid global health crisis (Formula E)
"We listened to feedback from the teams and manufacturers and worked closely with the FIA to push back the launch of the Gen2 EVO and limit teams to a single homologation over the next two years. By doing so we have cut the projected car development costs in half."
Channel 4 'fully committed' to current F1 deal (Motorsport Broadcasting)
"Yesterday, the broadcaster outlined 'a number of measures' to help them navigate through the forthcoming months, as Covid-19 hits the broadcasting sector, with advertising revenue plummeting."
Motorsport UK Announces £1m Club Continuity Funding Package (Motorsport UK)
Chairman David Richards: "These are unprecedented times for the nation and for motorsport. Our community looks to us to provide leadership and help protect motorsport from the financial fallout of this pandemic. We have taken measures to reduce the overheads of the core organisation, while continuing to provide the essential levels of service to the sport. Today we have launched a series of financial measures that member clubs can access, in order to try and mitigate some of the hardship they are inevitably suffering."
TT Isle of Man - Ride On The Edge 2 | Accolade Trailer (Nacon via Twitter)
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Comment of the day
@Stefmeister thinks F1 is making a mistake by trying to squeeze in as many races as it can this year.
I feel like trying to cram so many races into a relatively short period of time would be a mistake.
Like many others I’ve been stuck inside for about two weeks and when I’m finally allowed to go out and things start getting back to something close to normal I then don’t want to be stuck indoors every weekend watching F1 so having a race virtually every weekend for five to six months isn’t something I’m that looking forward to.
And consider everything else is also going to be starting up again in that time. Are people really going to want to stay in every weekend having spent weeks/months not been allowed out?
I love F1, I love Motorsport I really do but the prospect of three weekends on with one off for five to six months isn’t something I’m looking that forward to even though i’m looking forward to getting things started.
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On this day in F1
- 70 years ago today Juan Manuel Fangio won the non-championship Pau Grand Prix in a Maserati
Jamie B
10th April 2020, 0:07
Old school tracks are important, but I’d rather F1 stayed away if it means sanitising them. I was very relieved, for example, that Donington didn’t get ruined for F1 a decade ago as was originally planned. I watched the rerun of the 1997 Jerez race on youtube the other day. The layout itself is not that special, but it’s surrounded by grass and gravel. That track has now had the tarmac treatment in many places and is immediately less interesting.
If anyone wants a laugh, check out this video about Ricciardo and Verstappen’s crash in Baku
Jere (@jerejj)
10th April 2020, 7:30
@Jamie B But Baku City Circuit is a street track, so concerning run-offs, it isn’t directly comparable to permanent tracks.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
10th April 2020, 7:43
Thanks for sharing that video here. I’d seen it earlier on reddit, and it was truly amusing. I guessed the patriarch wrong, though, I thought it’d be Helmut Marko.
Tommy Scragend
10th April 2020, 8:14
If there had been tarmac runoff on the outside of Dry Sac in 1997, Schumacher might have got away with it.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th April 2020, 7:29
Regarding the COTD: The probability of that format is quite low. The season could solely consist of triple-headers, there’d have to be double-headers and also standalone-events for that to work realistically.
There’s a good number of old-school tracks in F1 at present. I’m happy with the overall variation in what types of circuits there are in F1.
frood19 (@frood19)
10th April 2020, 8:06
Re COTD, does anyone think they will bother holding any races of there is no chance of enough (8) being held for a championship? I’d be happy with just a handful and they could just count as race wins i.e. official GPs but no title would be awarded.
Tommy Scragend
10th April 2020, 8:16
If there weren’t enough races to count as a championship, individual race wins wouldn’t count towards a driver’s total either. The win tallies of Fangio, Moss, Clark etc. don’t include non-championship wins.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
10th April 2020, 8:36
Wasn’t for the music that would be the most impressive trailer I have ever seen in my life.
Aiii (@)
10th April 2020, 8:51
This might be a good opportunity to revisit spec engines, or at least seperating engine manufacturing and team ownership and having FIA be able to regulate so we can have engine equality.
I know, I know, “it’s not real F1,” but boy would it be a ton more fun if we didn’t have to watch almost a decade of one manufacturer-team winning both championships year in year out. Perhaps they could even loosen the aero rules a bit if they had engine equality and the new rules reduce dirty air issues to an acceptable degree. I’d love to watch that F1.
Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
10th April 2020, 10:03
I think it might be one of the options this decade, manufacturers’ involvement is seriously threatened under current circumstances. And it wouldn’t be a bad thing for a few transitional years before F1 finds out what technology should it be about in the future.
Dave
10th April 2020, 9:33
Re COTD – am I the only person who records sports, avoids the results, and then watches when convenient?
Jimmi Cynic (@jimmi-cynic)
10th April 2020, 10:31
Not only.
But this season the PVR cupboard is bare. Only Hungary & Silverstone 2019 survived my pre-season purge. If only I had waited a few weeks…