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mkone

The problem with Ferrari today was they lost pace during the race. On the soft they were slow. They were slower than Hamilton to be precise. Precise about what exactly you think they would have been faster than the Redbull if it was on the softs. Wouldn't matter if they Ferrari would have been slow...

mkone

This is the second race this year to make me angry about Abu Dhabi all over again. Max still wouldn’t have had nearly the tyre disadvantage that Lewis had in Abu Dhabi and yet it is a VSC and Red Bull breathing a sigh of relief. If Lewis did win under a spectacle car, it would have been the tiniest...

mkone

I would very interested to see Leclerc’s timing on hard vs medium and whether either stretching out the medium would have been a better option. In retrospect, if he had another set of mediums, he would have been better off on those and then do a short stint at the end on softs.

mkone

Ferrari possibly had the fastest car today. However, they messed up the strategy because of continually looking in the rear view mirror. Too reactive. They need to act like a front running team with a top driver and let their driver earn his wages and give him the fastest strategy to win the race.

mkone

I think they should avoid having DRS sides too close to each other if they can help it. The DRS chicken is silly.

mkone

To think, the record would be his if Mclaren and Honda weren’t so terrible Or if he wasn't his own worst enemy at time (see spygate), which got him out of McLaren back to a by then uncompetitive Renault, then risking it all for McLaren Honda after ditching Ferrari, who have turned out to be Mercede...

mkone

Hamilton didn't squeeze Kimi at all though. Kimi just had some understeer there. Hamilton left a full car's width. Yes he left a full car's width, and was 100% not at fault for what happened. But part of what makes Fernando Alonso great (and I am not really a fan of him) is how he seems to be able ...

mkone

I know that Kimi was wholly at fault for his incident with Hamilton, but sometime I wonder it drivers could be a bit more careful not to squeeze other drivers and make some allowances e.g. for cold tyres, a possible lockup etc. Similarly for the Grosjean / Sainz incident. If Sainz had left a bit mor...

mkone

Mercedes threw away a podium here. Not pitting Bottas was a huge mistake.

mkone

Could Vettel use the ultrasofts at the end of the race?

mkone

Without reading a single post on here the ONLY one to blame was Vettel. Raikkonen had the best start by far and was ahead of Verstappen and Verstappen gave him room to get by until Vettel pulled the ridiculous squeeze on both of them in an attempt to keep from losing the lead going into turn 1. It ...

mkone

pause at 0:19. Kimi steered into Max PPuyooS0QqY Replay shows: Vettel swerving fast to cover Max Max being away of Seb and slightly turning left and realising Kimi was there Kimi coming up and trying to encourage Max to move over a bit by slightly turning in to him Both Ferraris unaware that they h...

mkone

There appears to be an assumption that Vettel could have avoided the incident by being more cautious. In this specific incident, maybe given that Max had started to back out. However, in other races, there may well have been other cars behind him and being too cautious can actually be a bad idea as ...

mkone

Was a racing incident.

Blame Kimi's good start for this one.

mkone

Ferrari's strategy worked much to the surprise of most... myself included!!! Hats off to Lewis for giving the position back to Bottas. I, honestly did not think that he/they would do it. :thumbup: He has to. If he doesn't, Bottas doesn't agree to it next time and Hamilton doesn't get the chance to ...

mkone

MistaVega23 wrote:The stewards have Vettel a 30 second penalty?

When did this happen? I can't find any mention / confirmation of it anywhere.

mkone

Ferrari looking quick! Could they do P2 in supersofts? That would be interesting from a strategy perspective.

mkone

I like the idea for one reason. It means more pressure on drivers to beat their team mates, and makes qualifying even more important. At the moment, a second driver in a really good car can be happy to qualify just behind his team mate. This system would stop that and reduce the car advantage for th...

mkone

People keep saying that. But Vettel has delivered every time he had a car capable of winning the championship. *cough* 2009 *cough* Championship was sewn up early by Button. The double-deck diffuser on that Brawn gave them an insurmountable lead. Brawn did nearly as much as they could to throw it a...

mkone

Ferrari's strategy only worked because they had a genuine pace advantage today. No, they really did not. Source: live timing throughout the race. The Merc was faster like for like. But that isn't the whole story. Of course, the Merc, on fresher tyres, is faster. But it chews through tyres too quick...

mkone

Alonso is superior to Vettel, that's not a secret. People keep saying that. But Vettel has delivered every time he had a car capable of winning the championship. Alonso hasn't, at least 3 times. Once when he had (rookie) Hamilton as a team mate, and for Vettel's first championship where he threw it...

mkone

<Putting a tinfoil hat>. What if that was a pose by Merc? Just second race, big fuss by "some" teams about their total dominance, and voila..."Merc: see? Ferrari does it. So it's your fault". Now the "some" teams shut up, everyone is calm and next Merc blows again everyone out of the water with the...

mkone

We (well, some of us) missed it.

mkone

The finger is back!!!!

mkone

Hamilton seems to be losing performance on his new tyres

mkone

Mercedes thought they had this in the bag, and didn't think to optimise their strategy.

mkone

I still don't really get how engine limits save much in the OVERALL cost scheme of things. If it costs X millions to develop an engine (and all the hybrid ancillaries) and you only 'make' Y number of engines. The real cost per engine is X divided by Y - yes? If you make 10 times the number of engin...

mkone

Yesterday's accident was a freak accident that could've happened on any other day. There is ALWAYS a risk of a repeat incident at a corner. Wet, dry or otherwise, it can happen at any race. Are we supposed to deploy a safety car at every off? No. That's simply not practical. You can't legislate for...

mkone

They were massively quick, especially just before Vettel's last stop. They were taking several seconds per lap out of the Mercedes pair at one point. Vettel really started slowing before the stop and Button and Ricciardo closed seconds per lap on him, but when he got the new rubber he got back up t...

mkone

I am reminded of Brazil in 2003, where Yoong (I think), then Pizzonia, Montoya, Schumacher and Button all went off in exactly the same place. In aquaplaning conditions I don't think any recovery vehicle should be on the track without SC. I'd much rather crash into another F1 car than a JCB. Exactly...

mkone

Ricciardo once again drove great and he definitely deserves this win. He was lucky the first 4 didn't pit on the first lap of the safety car - had Vettel pit first that may have been him on the top of the podium but Vettel did look a little lackluster on the opening lap and the spin didn't help thi...

mkone

Lewis has retired from 31% of his pole positions. All the other times he started not from pole, he has retired from 9%. wow thats a stat. How much of the retirements were his fault I wonder? Or are they mostly technical and bad luck? It's not 31%, but 25%. And officially, 21.8%, since he crashed in...

mkone

I always thought that Red Bull were not going to play it safe. Better to get a concept that they believe is fundamentally fast, and then build on it, even if it takes them a while to get it under control, than go safe and not have any development room. That being said, it could well be that Mercedes...

mkone

It would be very ironic if, by virtue of a possible bad start to the season, Red Bull wound up winning either championship due to the double points awarded at the final race. Judging by what transpire in 2013, it is possible that Red Bull has a slow start, and winds up with the fastest car by the la...

mkone

Maybe they should introduce a penalty chicane at each circuit where feasible (i.e. all circuits apart from Monaco). The chicane would add approximately 6 seconds to a lap. A driver who has been punished would then be required to go through the chicane a number of times that would reflect the severit...

mkone

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mkone

After all the WDC doesn't lie and for the last four years Vettel has been the best driver. He's been the best driver more times on the grid than any of the other drivers. That's a fact . Then this: Yes but it can be true that the WDC is the best driver. It's perfectly fine for people to say Vettel ...

mkone

To me, it's Alonso who is the best, because he has proven to be a top driver and winning races with three different teams, on the other hand Vettel has only won with the Red Bull, and well, that race with Toro Rosso under extraordinary circumstances where the TR was much likely the best car on the ...

mkone

Monaco 2004. Although Trulli had his only win in that race, I really wanted to see what Michael could have done once the safety car came back in. He was first then and the second placed car had just stopped for fuel and tyres, so Michael still had one extra pit-stop to make, and needed to pull out ...

mkone

Has to be Schumi's engine blowout in Japan. If that counts as something I can change so to speak. Massa 2008 is more complicated. If he wins Hamilton isn't WDC. So I would also want Hamilton to be the 2010 WDC (Vettel can have 3, I don't want to take Raikkonen). Third would be Schumi wins Monaco 20...

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