2021 Formula One Dutch Grand Prix

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Formula One is back on track for the second week in a row, this time taking on the Zandvoort circuit for the first time since 1985.

It’s been 36 years since Formula 1 cars raced at Zandvoort. The last time a field of F1 cars raced here for the Dutch Grand Prix, names like Prost, Senna and Mansell took part, and Martin Brundle was in a race car rather than a broadcast booth.

F1 is back to the Dutch Grand Prix this weekend, hoping to put forth an exciting race after a disappointing Belgian Grand Prix. The race at Spa Francorchamps was effectively cancelled due to heavy rain, though the decision was made to run the minimum number of laps required behind a safety car to have the Belgian event classified as a race.

The Zandvoort circuit was updated in 2019 to accommodate F1’s return in 2020. The 2020 race was cancelled, but this year the updated circuit includes the dramatic banking of the Arie Luyendijk corner. The corner was understood to be sufficiently banked to allow DRS, though the decision has since been made to not allow DRS through this corner.

Max Verstappen took pole and the win at Spa Francorchamps, with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton claiming the other two podium spots. The controversial points awarded for the Belgian Grand Prix narrowed the drivers' championship to just three points.

A win at his home race would put Verstappen back in the lead of the drivers' standings, and Dutch fans will be out in huge numbers to cheer on that result. His teammate Sergio Perez will be looking to return to form after an accident at Spa happened before he could even get to his grid spot left him out of the points. Thankfully Valtteri Bottas also finished outside of the points at Spa, so the constructors’ championship is still a tight battle with Mercedes holding a seven point lead.

The layout of the Zandvoort circuit likely won’t allow for much overtaking, and the weather is predicted to be mainly sunny for the weekend, so the pole sitter will be a heavy favourite to maintain his lead until the end of the race.

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Give us your prediction for the 2021 Dutch Grand Prix in the comments below. Who do you think will take victory here, or who could surprise us with their result?
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I have been obsessed with sim racing and racing games since the 1980's. My first taste of live auto racing was in 1988, and I couldn't get enough ever since. Lead writer for RaceDepartment, and owner of SimRacing604 and its YouTube channel. Favourite sims include Assetto Corsa Competizione, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, DiRT Rally 2 - On Twitter as @simracing604

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muzikant said:
I think that the future... well better said I hope... the big car factories will invest in clean energy... Electronic driving... hydrogen...?? But none of the race fans 80% like that sound. Formula 1 teams will build their own engines in the future only for racing.
sound is part of racing... otherwise no one will come to a Formula 1 weekend. no business.. no hotels.. no restaurants. maybe a weird thought of mine.
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The big companies are to blame here. Take volkswagen group (audi lambo vw) with there diesel scandel as one example.
 
Jim Layee
Richard Wilks said:
You would be wrong actually. Viewing figures of events like goodwood, and the on track numbers of most historic events around the world has been growing rapidly in the last few years. Classic cars have never been as popular as now.
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I like Goodwood but prefer the revival to the normal one.
 
GP STONER
davehenrie said:
Bob Lutz, former BIGWIG at Chrysler & GM, long suspected cheating and eventually reasoned the blame was due to one man.(alhough several have paid the price for the shenanigans) It all came down to a Strict management style.
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It was a example..

All car factories are doing the same in one way or the other.
All cars are at there most richest mixture (fuel) from the factory.

But you can go to a tuning company
That with a little bit of software edit can make you car faster but also less consumption (bit like engine mapping in race sims and real world)

in the netherlands there is a law that you car have to have the emissions that the factory supplied
Even if you got you emissions down so it have less emissions then the factory data says
You can get a money penalty between 2000 tot 3000 euro.
If they catch you like at the dmv.
Very slim but if they do they can hand you a money penalty even if your doing good for the world
 
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GP STONER said:
It was a example..

All car factories are doing the same in one way or the other.
All cars are at there most richest mixture (fuel) from the factory.

But you can go to a tuning company
That with a little bit of software edit can make you car faster but also less consumption (bit like engine mapping in race sims and real world)

in the netherlands there is a law that you car have to have the emissions that the factory supplied
Even if you got you emissions down so it have less emissions then the factory data says
You can get a money penalty between 2000 tot 3000 euro.
If they catch you like at the dmv.
Very slim but if they do they can hand you a money penalty even if your doing good for the world
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Similarly, I've always heard, but never confirmed, that Japan forces engine replacement at 50k. American tuners buy these slightly used engines for their ....don't even know what they call them now...slammed imports? So if the engine is reused else-where, it is not really producing the results for the world, only Japan. When the Obama admin went after used cars, they were required to destroy the internals of the engines so they could not be re-used. Got many polluting cars off the market, but drove up used car prices significantly.
Getting back on topic, the British broadcast made mention of all the fans that rode bicyles or took the commuter train to the race. How much of that enviromental savings was lost to all those orange smoke bombs? Or the Race ending fireworks. Imagine sitting in the outside grandstands, just past the S/F line. You start cheering your hometoown boy's win and POOF! He's gone...your view blocked by a moving string of pyrotechnics....oh man....
 
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WPxNJ
"Similarly, I've always heard, but never confirmed, that Japan forces engine replacement at 50k. American tuners buy these slightly used engines..."

The supply of 4 year old JDM engines is due to their 4th year vehicle inspection, "Shaken" being such a hassle drivers just buy new cars...which is the government's intention all along.

I've bought plenty of these engines; mostly for Toyota truck applications.
 
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davehenrie said:
Similarly, I've always heard, but never confirmed, that Japan forces engine replacement at 50k. American tuners buy these slightly used engines for their ....don't even know what they call them now...slammed imports? So if the engine is reused else-where, it is not really producing the results for the world, only Japan. When the Obama admin went after used cars, they were required to destroy the internals of the engines so they could not be re-used. Got many polluting cars off the market, but drove up used car prices significantly.
Getting back on topic, the British broadcast made mention of all the fans that rode bicyles or took the commuter train to the race. How much of that enviromental savings was lost to all those orange smoke bombs? Or the Race ending fireworks. Imagine sitting in the outside grandstands, just past the S/F line. You start cheering your hometoown boy's win and POOF! He's gone...your view blocked by a moving string of pyrotechnics....oh man....
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Well i am dutch as you probably know by now, but yeah i agree those orange smoke thing you said.

Those bike rides yeah well good idea but badly put in action if you ask me. Lucky of the "70.000" all most every body lifes a round the corner of zandvoort so yeah bike ride is a daily something here. But what if uk france belgium spanish german people by the mass would have come.. those people dont come with bikes or train etc.

The roads up the race track are very badly (not by condition of the road btw) maybe even worst then spa.

So if next year also a lot of other country people in europa would come well even riding a bike would not help you.

So great idea but badly put in place is you ask me.
 
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Richard Wilks
WPxNJ said:
"Similarly, I've always heard, but never confirmed, that Japan forces engine replacement at 50k. American tuners buy these slightly used engines..."

The supply of 4 year old JDM engines is due to their 4th year vehicle inspection, "Shaken" being such a hassle drivers just buy new cars...which is the government's intention all along.

I've bought plenty of these engines; mostly for Toyota truck applications.
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davehenrie said:
Similarly, I've always heard, but never confirmed, that Japan forces engine replacement at 50k. American tuners buy these slightly used engines for their ....don't even know what they call them now...slammed imports? So if the engine is reused else-where, it is not really producing the results for the world, only Japan. When the Obama admin went after used cars, they were required to destroy the internals of the engines so they could not be re-used. Got many polluting cars off the market, but drove up used car prices significantly.
Getting back on topic, the British broadcast made mention of all the fans that rode bicyles or took the commuter train to the race. How much of that enviromental savings was lost to all those orange smoke bombs? Or the Race ending fireworks. Imagine sitting in the outside grandstands, just past the S/F line. You start cheering your hometoown boy's win and POOF! He's gone...your view blocked by a moving string of pyrotechnics....oh man....
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Yes, how can we take all that talk about "sustainability" and "going green" seriously, when they are making rules and incentives to just scrap perfectly good cars and produce more and more new ones...
 

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