2020 Russian Grand Prix - Sochi Autodrom, September 25 - 27 Sportsbook

[Tom]

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[Tom]

Weekend Schedule

Friday:

• FP1 09:00-10:30
• FP2 13:00-14:30

Saturday:

• FP3 10:00-11:00
• Qualifying 13:00-14:00

Sunday:

• Race 12:10-14:10

This is arguably the worst track on the calendar, a horrible Grand Prix.

 

[Fraser]

This is arguably the worst track on the calendar, a horrible Grand Prix.

I've not paid too much attention to this track. What are the chances of drama and safety cars?

 

[Tom]

FP2 Result

Ricciardo having a good weekend so far. Red Bull not so much

Pos	Driver	Car	Gap
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1m33.519s
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	0.267s
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1.058s
4	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren/Renault	1.204s
5	Lando Norris	McLaren/Renault	1.328s
6	Sergio Perez	Racing Point/Mercedes	1.371s
7	Max Verstappen	Red Bull/Honda	1.529s
8	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1.533s
9	Esteban Ocon	Renault	1.620s
10	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1.664s
11	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri/Honda	1.691s
12	Alexander Albon	Red Bull/Honda	1.723s
13	Daniil Kvyat	AlphaTauri/Honda	1.942s
14	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo/Ferrari	1.997s
15	Nicholas Latifi	Williams/Mercedes	2.044s
16	George Russell	Williams/Mercedes	2.056s
17	Lance Stroll	Racing Point/Mercedes	2.108s
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas/Ferrari	2.210s
19	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo/Ferrari	2.534s
20	Romain Grosjean	Haas/Ferrari	3.339s

Crazy gap between the Mercedes and the rest of the field.

I've not paid too much attention to this track. What are the chances of drama and safety cars?

If there is drama, it will probably be only in the first 3 laps after the start. This track is usually a procession.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Can't see anything other than another Hamilton win. He was 0.776s quicker than Bottas after FP3 with Sainz Jnr (0.817s), Ocon (0.960s) and Perez (0.973s) making up the top 5.

Vettel (1.135s) and Leclerc (1.527s) showing much better in FP3 in 7th and 12th places respectively.

Red Bull continues to struggle with Verstappen down in 6th and Albon 19th.

I'd imagine another pole coming today for Hamilton.

 

[Best]

Vettel out. Big crash. Red flag.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Really poor from Sainz. He misjudged that horribly.

 

[Bandit]

Big winners right now are Haas, both cars running in the points. At least until the safety car comes in

 

[Son Of Jack]

Hamilton has a 5 second time penalty for a practice start outside the permitted area.

And possibly another 5 second penalty for Hamilton too.

Who said this was going to be boring?

 

[Fraser]

5 second penalty for Lewis - it'll probably make no difference

Wait, 2 violations, so 10 seconds?