Three week what now?!
What am I supposed to do with no F1 for three weeks?!
I suppose I can spend time with my wife. By all accounts she’s lovely.
Edit: found this two minutes after posting 
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Best you hope your lovely wife doesn’t find this in turn
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2022 French Formula 1 Grand Prix
Round 12 | Circuit Paul Ricard | Le Castellet
O la la. Vive la République! Vive la France! Croissant et baguette! It’s the French Grand Prix weekend.
The world’s oldest Grand Prix, it was first held in 1906. 32 competitors raced on a 106 km closed public road circuit east of the small town of Le Mans in the Sarthe region. The event was run over two days, with competitors completing a total of 12 laps of the circuit - a total of 1 238 km of racing!
That race was the first ever to be called a Grand Prix. A literal “Great Prize” of Fr45 000 was the first place prize. At the time, the French franc was pegged to the gold standard at a rate of 0.290 grams per franc. That means that prize for finishing P1 at the very first French Grand Prix was worth the equivalent of 13 kg of gold - over R12-million at current values. A genuinely Great Prize indeed!
This weekend will see Lewis Hamilton mark his 300th Formula 1 race start. F1’s journalists and reporters reflect on their standout memories of his remarkable F1 career.
Hamilton will become only the 6th driver to reach the 300 F1 Race Starts milestone. A stat he may not want to hear though, is that not one of the previous five who have 300+ races to their name, won a single GP after reaching 300. Not one.
So many choices, so little time
Circuit Paul Ricard is flat and fast. And with its lack of gravel run-off areas and barriers far off the racing line, sticking to track limits is going to be a challenge for the drivers, and a nightmare for the stewards to monitor.
The 5,842 km circuit is characterised by the black and blue run-off areas with their speed retarding gritty surfaces. The circuit can be configured into any of 167 different layouts making it a prime vehicle testing venue. The configuration used by F1 includes the Montreal chicane (T8-T9) mid-way down the nearly 2 km long Mistral straight which leads to the high speed Signes (T10) and the high G Beaussett (T11) corners.
Time to drive
The Frenchies are good time tellers and know that SAST is the only one that matters, so they set their clocks the same as ours.
Chaud! C’est très chaud!
Fortunately for the F1 cooling system engineers, the absolute worst of the current heat wave that has seen record high temperatures across Europe will pass today.
It’s still going to be très chaud throughout the weekend though, with race time temperatures above 30°C. Drivers are going to have to manage overheating brakes and tyres, and hope the Carlos Sainz Ferrari fire at the Austrian Grand Prix is not repeated.
Side Note: What odds Seb Vettel’s cause du jour this weekend will be climate crisis related?
Les nouvelles
Keep track of all the news leading up to the race weekend, and then all interviews, results, and reports from Paul Ricard throughout the weekend, on the official F1 site.
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upside is that I decided to burn some valuable work time and looked at the time it took all of them to get to 300 races. It has taken Hamilton the least amount of time to get to that 300. so he has time still to get that W.
I might as well post the stats since I wasted the time anyways.
Purely looking at start year to 300th race year(if you really want me to ruin my work day, I can find months lol)
Msc: 1991 - 2012 - 21 years
Bar: 1993 - 2010 - 17 years
But: 2000 - 2016 - 16 years
Alo: 2001 - 2018 - 17 years
Rai: 2001 - 2019 - 18 years
Ham: 2007 - 2022 - 15 years
I’m pretty sure I wasted time and there is already a nice stat someone else made already with this info.
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Obviously the number of races in a season has an impact on the amount of time it took each one. Most of the seasons in the 80s, 90s, and 00s had 16-17 races. From around 2010 it’s gone up to 19, 20 and more per season. That also supports your suggestion that LH still has time to get another win. If he does just one more season, he’ll have another 35-odd chances to break this stat too.
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That’s a very cool video. I’m suitably impressed and surprised it’s from the FIA 
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Race Day !!!
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I was wondering what they talked about making them making crepes
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Caps On and It’s time to Race!!!
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Ferrari… Ffffffffff. Can confirm, Max wins the world title again. Ferrari 2nd in constructors if they are luckily.
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The f$#K is going on with that car. Throttle issue again?
Hamilton is still going to put pressure on Max. Unless Perez can get in front of Hamilton
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Eish, it was a mistake… Charles wharrapen 
He tries too hard man.
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Another race for Redbull. Im happy XD
time for a victory beer
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That was a bad call from the Ferarri team again. Sainz was doing great, what a recovery drive. Ferrari is doing everything they can to gift the mercs that second place in the constructors.
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Yeah, Ferrari strikes again amirite?
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At least Sainz is starting to fight them on it, he should have refused to box
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