Simon Ellis

Professional Engineer, Everton FC and Williams F1 fan along with most sport, runner / Park Runner, views are all my own.

[Simon Ellis @grfirestorm]

Hi @EastMidRailway what time return trains can you get to Derby from London on using an off peak return? Is it anything departing London other than 17:00-19:00?

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@nationalrailenq I assume off peak returns between Grantham and London on Sunday’s are valid on LNER and Hull Trains? It says any train through Peterborough but as Hull don’t stop there, I’m still assuming they go through it so it’s a valid route?

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@mikeysmith @AdamWhitell That’s fair enough but they should have said that in opposition.

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@WilliamsSupport @williamsf1 I don’t understand why crash damage is in the cost cap. 10% of budget gone though, you wonder what plans we’ve had to sacrifice to pay for the damage.

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@c7carl @WilliamsdbF1 I don’t know, they would have just added 10 seconds to the race time. This was another race to forget.

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@c7carl @WilliamsdbF1 @artiF1ed This could be one way of recovering the cost of all the crashes 🤣

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@c7carl @WilliamsdbF1 It would be so simple to ban resale for profit, like they do for football tickets. It would be massively popular and can’t see who would lose other than a few touts.

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@WilliamsdbF1 @triptube @COTA Little did he realise it was going to get worse! Well maybe he already had a feeling 2019 was going to be a disaster by that point!

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@Jeffrey62093861 @PickardJE That’s what I was thinking, might as well be proper British Steel rather than just sending so much money to subsidise Chinese Steel companies. Also bring in carbon tax for imported steel so UK steel can compete.

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@c7carl @MrMartinStreet @WilliamsSupport @williamsf1 I was surprised Franco’s car was still on a truck and not heading back to the garage when Stroll crashed.

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@WilliamsSupport @williamsf1 The virtual safety car really helped Alpine sadly, think Perez would have caught Gasly without it.

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@WilliamsdbF1 @WilliamsSupport @nick_cat7 @elnathkran @fergalreid Ah sorry I meant Kimi R not Kimi A!

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@WilliamsSupport @WilliamsdbF1 @elnathkran @fergalreid I know. F1 could do with running its own junior F1 team. Wouldn’t t take away money from the other 10 but gives a 1-2 year drive for the F2 champ of the previous year so they can prove their worth or not in F1. At the moment being F2 champ is pointless as they never get a drive.

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@WilliamsdbF1 @elnathkran @WilliamsSupport @fergalreid I was thinking the same. F2 seems pretty redundant now as you have champions that can’t get seats but lower ranking drivers do yet are actually performing really well in F1. Franco and Logan had similar F2 performance but massively different F1 performance.

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@Kevin_Maguire Are those past figures or adjusted for 2024?

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@WilliamsSupport It’s really odd that for something so important such as 2025 tyre testing, they don’t put a full day on after the race or a specific test. They had a month between Singapore and Austin to fit it in.

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@WilliamsdbF1 @WilliamsSupport @williamsf1 Yep, really not sure what is happening to our pit stops, we used to be up there with Red Bull, even in the awful 2019-2020 period we were good at stops but now rarely grace the top 10.

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@WilliamsSupport @harpetho @williamsf1 We seemed good on the hard. Difficult to know on the medium as Albon was damaged so early but sprint quali went well on the Austin medium.

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@kieran_30 @thegranturismo Cars and circuits. It’s really odd how the game has so much content but so little gets used in daily races. Same with strategy options with tyres, they could do so much but so often just go medium or hard with one mandatory stop.