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Laz_T800

Wow, does anyone have any clue how to defend in f1 anymore?

Laz_T800

This is Red Bulls race.
Having cars 2 and 3 give them the upper hand with strategy.

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sandman1347 wrote:
Laz_T800 wrote:slam dunk penalty for Vettel
I actually don't think it should be. Racing incident and certainly Vettel is to blame but there was no bad intent nor was it an egregious error.

Well he's ruined Valteri's race and he's ahead of him. Slam dunk usually regardless of intention

Laz_T800

slam dunk penalty for Vettel

Laz_T800

At present I'd go with Max.
He's a proven race winner who has the most out and out speed on the grid, with the possible exception of Lewis.
LeClerc has potential but all i can really be sure of is that he's better than Ericsson

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Interesting Qualifying. When you look at the lap time differences and the length of lap, for both here and Spain, it looks like the Mercedes advantage is pretty similar across both tracks. Kind of points to it being a tyre specific advantage and that the development of the 2 cars in the meantime has...

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France

1/ Vettel
2/ Bottas
3/ Hamilton
4/ Verstappen
5/ Ricciardo
6/ Raikkonen
7/ Sainz jr
8/ Hulkenberg
9/ Ocon
10/ Grosjean

Laz_T800

This thread is almost pointless because most of the vocal people in here are completely biased. This year Ferrari have the slight edge. It's plain to see. That doesn't mean their edge will endure throughout the season but, as of now, they are ahead. I don't know how you can watch the race weekends ...

Laz_T800

Bottas will win.
Hamilton will pit early, Seb will cover it and Bottas will stay out for longer and cruise to the win.

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I don't think Seb has stretched his legs yet. Think he'll get pole by 2 tenths.
Kimi or Lewis for P2.

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AravJ wrote:Standout is Lewis and Alonso. Both on ultrasofts.
Lewis engine on seventh race wow, Merc still holds a massive engine advantage.
Alonso and even Stoffel always looked good in fp1 and fp2 so good signs coming from mclaren

Lewis set his time on Supersofts.

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Canada

1/ Hamilton
2/ Vettel
3/ Verstappen
4/ Ricciardo
5/ Bottas
6/ Raikkonen
7/ Ocon
8/ Hulkenberg
9/ Alonso
10/ Magnussen

edit.........I wish they'd make up their minds about Ricciardo's penalties!

Laz_T800

Ricciardo and Hulk. Everything else was kind of average.

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Jeepers, the DVD of this race would make millions as the cure for insomnia.

Laz_T800

I see Vettel winning this. I have a feeling that Ricciardo and Vettel will open up a big gap at the front and when Danny pits he'll get held up by Kimi just enough for Vettel to jump him.

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I am wondering about pit strategy with all of the front runners. Everyone but Fernando Alonso (on Ultras) is on the Hypersofts. For Qualifying they were saying that the Hypers were only lasting a couple of laps at optimum performance. I wonder if the temps remain high, whether a one stop will work,...

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Monaco

1/ Vettel
2/ Verstappen
3/ Hamilton
4/ Ricciardo
5/ Bottas
6/ Raikkonen
7/ Alonso
8/ Sainz Jr
9/ Magnussen
10/ Ocon

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http://www.planetf1.com/news/ferrari-facing-fresh-protest-in-monaco/ The SF71H has come under a lot of scrutiny already this season as Ferrari continue to explore the limits of how the 2018 regulations can be interpreted. The Scuderia introduced new mirrors attached to the Halo in Spain, but the win...

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Clarky wrote:
KingVoid wrote:At least a Hamilton win will make Pirelli happy and they might not have a secret 1000 km test after the race this time.
Shock comment...!!!

Someone seems to be a very little bit bitter lol

Laz_T800

Went with the top 3. Could have gone Leclerc but he did get caught sleeping by Alonso and lost a hard earned place.
On another note, WTH was Ricciardo doing today.
He dropped way back then started sticking in new track records?

Laz_T800

Another good race yesterday. Excellent stuff from George Russell and Lando Norris.
They both look to have the right stuff to make it in F1.

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. Is it going to rain tomorrow, and if so when (and how much) ? . I believe it's already rained & the F2 race was in the wet conditions. Even if it's sunny tomorrow, all the grips been washed away. Lol, the f2 race had a few drops of rain. Not enough to even cause the times to drop. Maybe some rain...

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McLaren's improvement from Gonesurfin on AS... Alonso Faster RB Pole AUS +1.813 +2.528 BAHR +1.814 +2.254 CHINA +1.436 +2.137 BAKU +2.108 +2.521 SPAIN +0.905 +1.548 Can you add some context to this? I seriously have no idea what it's trying to demonstrate.

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Spain

1/ Vettel
2/ Bottas
3/ Ricciardo
4/ Verstappen
5/ Hamilton
6/ Raikkonen
7/ Hulkenberg
8/ Perez
9/ Alonso
10 Sainz Jr

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The idea that Alonso can drag a 'bad' car into a good position appears to be supported by those behind the scenes, going on this article from the BBC concerning his effort in Baku after his car had been hit on the first lap. The Alonso hype machine is strong with that one. A significant amount of d...

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Yeah the whole "Alonso would do this" or "Alonso would do that" thing has been tired for years. People talk about what he would have done in such and such a situation as if they know it for a fact. Alonso is performing very well this year IMO for the record but he is far and away the best driver am...

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Good news I think.

I'm in shock, Sauber and Ferrari voting against each other!

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The problem with that is we have no benchmark at all to judge Vandoorne as an F1 driver. Well, we have one, which is Alonso - kind of two, if you include his one-off in Bahrain alongside Button. But benchmarks aside, I dispute your statement that it's just as likely for Vandoorne to be totally usel...

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Whenever you try to judge driver performance all you are really doing is comparing them to their team mate. That's why when you do get a direct comparison it's always more useful. I'm not comparing him to Vandoorne. Even assuming Alonso has equal speed to those around him you couldn't place the Mcl...

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A very small data set. Alonso has been in F1 for 16 seasons. Indeed. For a comparison purpose though it's surely better to use 1 year as direct competitors within a team, over 15 with different equipment? Not if you want to draw a balanced conclusion. Is it best to judge Vettel solely by 2014 or do...

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As i recall the ‘Verstappen rule’ was removed from the rulebook. Yep and today we see why it needs to be in. When cars are doing 340kph moving twice that close to the corner is incredibly dangerous. That said I think this covered by the moving twice rule anyway which as far as I'm aware is still in...

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I would say 90% Ricciardo. Max picked his line, and was straight when shifting back. He braked after moving. His steering movements were minor. Dan was frustated because he came out behind Max, even though his pitstop was faster. He was beaten in the in- or outlap. Dan was never gonna make that cor...

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I would say 90% Ricciardo. Max picked his line, and was straight when shifting back. He braked after moving. His steering movements were minor. Dan was frustated because he came out behind Max, even though his pitstop was faster. He was beaten in the in- or outlap. Dan was never gonna make that cor...

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BOTH HAVE BEEN REPRIMANDED!!! My take is that they are both to blame. Yes Max moved twice but I also thing Daniel braked far to late. If that had been between 2 different teams Max would have been punished in my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of Dani's "move or we both crash" attacks myself. I don't t...

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I posted one above. Is that enough? Who lost 16s for a pit stop, I can't find anyone. It's all over 20s. if you look at the post before you listed the timings website, it's all there. Is my maths that bad? No, just your source. Vettel Hamilton 29 1:46.507[1] 1:46.115[3] +0.392 -28.303 17 30 1:50.53...

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Now maths isn't my strong point, but if Vettel was 23.6 seconds ahead of Hamilton before he pitted and came out 7.9s ahead of him, that means he lost a net 15.7s in the pits. Call it 16s. And he lost 16.5s to Bottas. So as Bottas had comfortably more than that over Lewis, that meant he would have c...

Laz_T800

Zoue wrote: I posted one above. Is that enough?

Who lost 16s for a pit stop, I can't find anyone.
It's all over 20s.

Laz_T800

No he was going to come out a few seconds behind http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page=chart&gp=1000&graf=3&dr1=Valtteri%20Bottas&dr2=Lewis%20Hamilton Yep, Hamilton was 20 secs behind and the time lost in pits was between 25 and 26 secs. I thought it was 20 seconds for a pitstop when I checked. H...

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Mayhem wrote:

Bottas would have came out on new ultras giving him a chance for the win on his strategy. He was the better merc today imo.

You need to check out the times posted on ultras. They were not that quick mate.

Laz_T800

No he was going to come out a few seconds behind http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page=chart&gp=1000&graf=3&dr1=Valtteri%20Bottas&dr2=Lewis%20Hamilton Yep, Hamilton was 20 secs behind and the time lost in pits was between 25 and 26 secs. edit :This was a bit off due to the fact Lewis lost time go...

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