Twitter's @GrandPrixDiary goes all Mystic Meg to see what will happen this year

DRIVETRIBE's resident psychic peers into a crystal ball (ok - the bottom of a pint glass) to see what might happen in the second half of the F1 2017 season...

JULY

The Austrian Grand Prix, held at the Red Bull Ring Pull is won by Max Verstappen, much to the delight of team owner, track owner and race sponsor Dietrich Mateschitz, who reportedly spent a sum the equivalent of the national income of Ghana for this precise moment.

At Silverstone a week later, there is drama, as some over-exhuberant post-victory crowd surfing by Lewis Hamilton sees him carried out of the front gate and dumped on the Towcester by-pass.

Despite the race attracting another massive crowd and being a superb success, Bernie Ecclestone says it is a dump and it's place on the F1 calendar is threatened, before he is told, that despite the job title Chase Carey gave him, he is not in charge of F1 anymore and nobody any longer gives a toss what he thinks.

© Red Bull Media House © Red Bull Media House

The Hungarian Grand Prix sees Mercedes wrap up both the drivers and constructors titles, with Toto Wolff telling everybody how difficult it was, how unexpected it all is and how much tougher 2018 will be. Maurizio Arrivabene starts to gently weep.

AUGUST

This month is the toughest time of the year to be an F1 fan. Not only is there just one race in August, it is right at the end of the month. Social Media users will by this time have been carpet bombed for four weeks with smug pictures of F1 drivers, who travel the world in luxury for work, now travelling the world in luxury 'for a well earned break'.

The only good thing about this, is that the race in question is the Belgian Grand Prix. Every single person will spend the lead up to the race, the race itself and most of the week after, talking about rain, or the lack of it, and how incredible Eau Rouge is. Among all this, nobody noticed who won but Niki Lauda and Toto Wolff are seen grinning on telly. Again.

SEPTEMBER

The European season draws to a close with the Italian Grand Prix. Ferrari chief, Sergio Marchionne spends all week telling the press he has told the team that this is a 'must win race' and that he has great confidence in them. As usual, this has the effect of turning everybody there (except Kimi) into a quivering wreck. Sebastian Vettel is heard screaming 'Blue flags! Blue flags!' in the middle of the night. Predictably, it is yet another disaster as Mercedes canter to another win.

Meanwhile, in Singapore, there is a competition between the Sky F1 and Channel 4 commentators, to see who can mention just how awfully hot and humid it is most frequently and who can bang on the most about having to reset their body clock for the night race. Twitter will be utterly dominated by tweets along the lines of: "Here I am at breakfast, or is it supper? LOL".

7pm: time for breakfast. LOL! © Red Bull Media House 7pm: time for breakfast. LOL! © Red Bull Media House

OCTOBER

European F1 fans prepare to face those races, Malaysia and Japan, where it is not deemed socially acceptable to drink beer while watching on TV, as it is unfortunately breakfast time. Tweets on this sad state of affairs will prompt angry responses from other continents, bemoaning that they have to put up with this situation for most of the season.

Malaysia will be as brilliant as usual but as the race fee is so eye wateringly expensive it may well be the last. Chase Carey says this is a 'sad state of affairs' before scanning the atlas to look for a sucker to replace it.

The Japanese Grand Prix sees the driver moves for next season start to take place, as most of them eye up Bottas's seat. Mercedes will, once again, enjoy making everybody sweat about who will drive for them until sometime in January 2018.

It's all fun and games til Trump slaps you with a travel ban © Red Bull Media House It's all fun and games til Trump slaps you with a travel ban © Red Bull Media House

Problems for Sergio Perez as he arrives in Austin for the US Grand Prix and it takes five days for him to clear customs. Maybe that anti-Trump protest he fronted at the start of the year wasn't such a great idea after all.

The Oxfordshire based Haas F1 team look forward to their er... home race. Everybody else looks forward to the annual sight of drivers looking ridiculous in stetsons and cowboy boots.

Dan Ricciardo's debut country and western album will be entitled 'Down on the Farm' © Red Bull Media House Dan Ricciardo's debut country and western album will be entitled 'Down on the Farm' © Red Bull Media House

The Mexico Grand Prix rounds off a stupidly busy month of F1. Four races in one month sees some seriously tired people and that is just the TV viewers. Despite this, Liberty Media again say they want to increase the F1 calendar. To 40 races. All of them as big and as spectacular as the Superbowl, as if using the Superbowl as an example of what is a great sporting event is a good idea. For Mexican readers, I predict a rousing home win for Sergio Perez. At least they can dream I suppose.

NOVEMBER

The Brazilian Grand Prix and a teary, emotional Felipe Massa announces his retirement. However, nobody is fooled this time. Nobody gives him a guard of honour at the end of the race and Claire Williams doesn't give him an F1 car.

Another long goodbye from Felipe?! Pic: @FelipeMassa19 Another long goodbye from Felipe?! Pic: @FelipeMassa19

Abu Dhabi, and as the season finally reaches it's conclusion, Sauber, still trying to finish the Italian Grand Prix, are happy about securing tenth place in the championship, before realising they had nobody to fight for it this year anyway.

Nico Rosberg, seeing how easy things have been for Mercedes, decides on a comeback. Bottas gets sent back down to Williams. Back to square one...

Will you put your money on ANY of that happening? Who knows, this is F1 after all...