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The first truly impressive thing Norris has done all season really. Good job. But does he have an upgrade that Piastri does not? His first lap certainly was impressive, as was his 2nd, but we don't really know just how impressive it was given Verstappen and his team mate both got robbed of a 2nd la...

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As per the article below, Austria won't be Colapinto's last race & he'll at least be racing again at Silverstone. Supposedly, this all was hogwash (Colapinto has 5 races to prove himself) to justify Doohan getting replaced. It's also mentioned that his performance will be evaluated race by race whi...

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Looking at those (air) temperatures, I'd expect this to favour McLaren. If the Red Bull upgrades work though, it could make for a good scrap. Just a response to Jezza's earlier post: Probably my favourite track on the calendar... During the late 90s / early 00s (when it was badged as the A1 Ring) I ...

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Just got back from seeing it. Oh it's bad. Obviously the footage of the racing is OK, but we can see that for real every other weekend. The dialogue is cringe inducing and the acting awful. Pitt is so charismatic that is has the unfortunate effect of showing up the rest of the cast. Condon is the e...

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The bottom end of the top 10 (Hulkenberg, Ocon, Sainz) all made good accounts for themselves. I'm tempted to plump for Sainz, as his qualifying position was largely out of his comtrol and he / Williams maximised the race strategy (even if it needed a DNF or two ahead to achieve that final point).

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It's a problem that has existed for years, it seems that some Verstappen fans have only just woken up to the problem because it's affected him. Well, it isn't me. I have advocated for a while that consistent stewarding is preferable over good stewarding. Predictability trumps fairness. And it is no...

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That's clearly part of a bigger debate though that lead up to Verstappen deliberately hitting Russell, excuses needed to be made to try in some way blame everyone else , Leclerc, Russell, the stewards, his team. I looked to take part in all of that, Leclerc shouldn't be penalised, Russell should ha...

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Drivers close (and open) gaps under all conditions: green, yellow, VSC and - more obviously! - SC and Red Flag. If there is any apparent dangerous, or perhaps even unsportsmanlike, driving it's generally referred and, if so, the stewards either take action or decide that no action is necessary. What...

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That's because my understanding of the rules was that the car in front was allowed to do that so as long as there's room for the other car to move into which Perez apparently had, Sainz was not penalised so why would I even consider that Leclerc should be penalised. I see you are consistent with th...

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I stand corrected. You can polish a turd but no-one will ever be able to make Lance Stroll a good Formula One driver. Good on the whole I agree, but there are a few occasions where he is good and even fewer when he is sometimes great, but is just so rare. Although this season I would say half his r...

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It's a shame to lose Imola but, like Portamo and Istanbul, this was reintroduced during 2020 when Covid affected the race calendar, and it was a shame to lose those circuits as well.
I'm not really sold on the Madrid circuit but will reserve judgment until the race has taken place.

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I think Verstappen was just entertaining the possibility that he might catch Piastri napping into, what is it, Tabac? The green flag (light) was lit on the approach to this and Piastri was, from the exit of Nouvelle chicane, leaving the door open. I suspect that Verstappen was starting to accelerate...

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The WDC is going to drive a McLaren. The McLaren is comfortably the best car and may even be considered dominant by season end. As said on another thread, for all Piastri has looked the better McLaren driver, he is still only 10pts clear. I think Norris will improve a bit. For all Norris' not-quite...

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There was space on Verstappen's left to move into, if Verstappen had been on the edge of the track then it's a slam dunk penalty for Leclerc. Questions to be asked would be did Leclerc move across too quickly or did Verstappen do enough to avoid contact in a situation where Verstappen was clearly l...

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Red Bull must have known there was a real chance that the FIA would give Max a penalty so they decided to play it safe by asking Max to give up the position. Given the (in)consistency of stewarding I don't think anyone here would say there was a 0% chance of Max getting a penalty if he hadn't. Like...

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No otherwise he hits the car veering across the road towards him which then happened when Leclerc veered across the road towards Verstappen with Verstappen wishing to hold a straight line. Surely even you can see that Leclerc simply turns in. How that is not Leclerc's fault is completely beyond me....

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Hopefully this might clarify the muddied waters - I've taken some selected posts from the top end of this, which I believe to be relevant to the topic at hand: by pokerman » 27 May 2025 13:15 … why wasn't Verstappen investigated after trying to pass Piastri under double waved yellows, Verstappen him...

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Red Bull must have known there was a real chance that the FIA would give Max a penalty so they decided to play it safe by asking Max to give up the position. Given the (in)consistency of stewarding I don't think anyone here would say there was a 0% chance of Max getting a penalty if he hadn't. The ...

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Are we inventing rules here, Leclerc has the need to avoid Verstappen's car when being squeezed but Verstappen can just hold his ground when being squeezed. Of course not. No driver is ever on any obligation to yield when driving in a straight line along the trajectory of the track as long as an al...

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Red Bull must have known there was a real chance that the FIA would give Max a penalty so they decided to play it safe by asking Max to give up the position. Given the (in)consistency of stewarding I don't think anyone here would say there was a 0% chance of Max getting a penalty if he hadn't. The ...

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In my view, Verstappen started to drive towards the center of the track taking Leclerc more & more on the right hand side of the track. I think Leclerc mentioned in the cool down room that he didn't want to keep going on the right due to that part of the track being littered with tyre marbles + he ...

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Verstappen likely felt that he had been screwed over by his team twice: the tyre choice and the call to give Russell the position. In between, he was also likely unhappy with a lack of action from the stewards. I suspect that his bomb on Russell was a demonstration of what he had been subject to in ...

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I realize FIA stewarding doesn't operate by precedent (it sometimes seems to operate by the magic eight-ball), but it's an awfully dodgy look to establish between two races that deliberately cutting a chicane to overtake a competitor is worse than deliberately ramming a competitor. I can kind of un...

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I've gone with Hulkenberg. Yes, the SC helped him but he put himself in a position to take advantage and did take advantage effectively - a bonus position, thanks to Verstappen's indescretion, was a little cherry on top.

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Red Bull just throws away a great initial strategy with another terrible decision/execution, and then Max completely throws it away. Either keep the place or give it up, don't do something that gives to the place AND gets a 10 second penalty. How old were Verstappen's tyres? 7 laps I think (though ...

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pokerman wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 01, 2025 2:21 pm

mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 01, 2025 2:19 pm
The Red Bull team of old would have left Verstappen out and got track position.
That's never been their play plus he would have been a sitting duck.

Isn't he now? From what I gather, everyone has been avoiding the hard tyre like Stroll has been avoiding adult magazines.

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While I first thought Russell's penalty was harsh, I hadn't quite realised that he used his move as a tactic to get ahead, and knew he would get a penalty. That if anything makes the penalty fair, and if anything lenient given it had no impact on his position at all. I now think that given Russel i...

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TheGiantHogweed wrote: ↑
Sat May 24, 2025 3:14 pm
Crofty is dreadful. Telling us Norris has pole 2 and a half minutes before the end of the session. Good job brundle said to him... So far....

To be fair... he did get it right!

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Also, what does a pit stop mean ? Can they just drive through ? Or stop and go ? Had to change tires ??? It's two tyre changes, using at least three different tyre sets (not tyre compounds): For the race in Monaco, each driver must use at least three (3) sets of tyres of any specification described...

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Just a couple of queries relating to recent posts - and please correct me if my assumptions are wide of the mark: Was Piastri's tyres genuinely going off? I'm sure I noted a few drivers complain but go reasonably long without a significant pace drop-off anyhow - and thought that McLaren had been a b...

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Any explanation from the FIA as to why Ocons breakdown was a VSC yet Antonelli's was an SC? Ocon was close to a gap in the fence to recover. Antonelli was a long way from the gap and on a steep hill. I thought that the differentiator had to do with the danger to both drivers and responders of the d...

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Piastri was crap in imola, slow bad strategy, and let Max drive around him in T1, was the kind of race you'd have expected from him before this season Personally I think the strategy ruined his race and he did well to finish on the podium. Yes, he was overly cautious into T1 off the start but what ...

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... It could be argued that if Russell leaves Mercedes, Wolff will try his best to get Verstappen. But would Wolff want Verstappen to come & annihilate his star in the making Antonelli week in & week out? Surely any team principal would relish the opportunity to have arguably the best driver on the...

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Piastri and Leclerc were both unlucky with their respective strategy calls and did well despite those. However, Piastri's turn 1 and Leclerc's defence on Albon blotted their copybook a little. Verstappen and Albon made full use of the VSC and (barring Albon's issue with Leclerc, as mentioned), likel...

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pokerman wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 2:38 pm
Verstappen gave the two McLaren drivers a driving lesson.

And Red Bull gave McLaren a strategy lesson.

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Jezza13 wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 2:33 pm

tootsie323 wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 2:32 pm
... and does Hamilton have a shot at a podium?
No

Oh no - oops, I'm a lap behind!

tootsie323

... and does Hamilton have a shot at a podium?

tootsie323

What's the verdict likely to be with Leclerc / Albon then?

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aftershocksinthebath wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 2:11 pm
Mclaren have screwed Piastri with Pit Calls today.

What is their thinking? Between this and the VSC / SC 'coin toss', there are some weird-looking decisions going on.

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Jezza13 wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 2:08 pm

tootsie323 wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 2:07 pm
So full SC now..?
So what's the difference between Ocon & Antonelli issue?

Entertainment, I guess... (so need that facepalm emoji)

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