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Kimi has been shocking today. Took 5 laps to get past Ocon. Vettel and Bottas took about 5 corners. And yet people are still claiming team orders put Vettel ahead of him :) On few occasions, they have. That's not say that Kimi hasn't been shockingly poor for years and his last decent season was 201...

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I wouldn't be surprised if SM is drafting the contact for Alonso while he's saying that he's not interested in him. It just that way it is in sports, you deny until it is official.

I'm not saying they are working on bringing back Fernando, just that I wouldn't surprised if they did.

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Am I angry - yes - as I'm wondering about why target a driver differently from race to race - as the journalist from PF1 has done - consistently against Daniel - no problem if DR does badly and is targeted - fair enough - but this is not balanced. Is there a commercial reason to push Verstappen reg...

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Anti-Australian.

I lol'd

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Kimi is simply not good enough.

Max is pretty unhappy about Danny jumping him.

SmoothRide wrote:
Lojik wrote:Vettel coming in, about to take the lead surely?
A perfectly engineered swap.

It wasn't "engineered". Seb is simply much faster. He managed to get overcut without Kimi being stuck in traffic.

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There has been literally one overtake all race (Perez v Stroll) and they haven't showed it?

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Ferrari and Merc to lap everyone but Ricciardo. Wow.

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Vettel 100% at fault here, deliberately pushed him wide.

But he'll escape a penalty, I'm sure.

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Vandoorne tried to execute Fernando's revenge but as all things McLaren Honda - it didn't pan out the way he expected it. Stroll who has been getting harsh criticism hasn't done anything as silly as what Vandoorne just did there What he did in China was pretty silly. In fact, it was similar to what ...

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UnlikeUday wrote:I'm hoping for a race with some good overtakes.

Nice one.

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Seb bottled it. God dammit.

Alonso is god among men. P7. Are you kidding me???

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Re-live Alonso's unbelievable Q2 lap. Stunning.

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That Alonso guy looks promising. Hopefully a top team gives him a chance :-P The McLaren is realistically the 6th fastest car (Grosjean ruined his lap) which given the Honda in the back of the car is massively impressive. I'd be surprised if the package was that good to be honest. Ok, then The Alon...

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That Alonso guy looks promising. Hopefully a top team gives him a chance

The McLaren is realistically the 6th fastest car (Grosjean ruined his lap) which given the Honda in the back of the car is massively impressive.

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Alonso 0.5s ahead of Stoffel.
Sainz 0.8s ahead of Kvyat.

The Spanish guys are on fire here.

And Pascal makes it out of Q1.

Strollololololol.

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UnlikeUday wrote:Tomorrow I hope race strategies make the race interesting.

This race track will give good competition to Sochi for lesser overtakes than usual.

No one can beat Sochi 2017 for lesser overtakes. It can only be matched.

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So, I'm watching Stroll who has been very underwhelming so far but I've been saying to myself "He's only 18, give him a chance". And then I started - was there a really talented who looked out of his depth and no - I wouldn't say so. Guys like Alonso, Kubica, Ricciardo, Hamilton and Vettel all start...

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Alonso being very being non-committal about where he'll be next year when interviewed on the F1 app commentary. Said he's enjoying the new F1 cars though so it doesn't sound like he's looking to go to another series but wasn't sounding like someone who's sure he'll be at the same team next year eit...

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UnlikeUday wrote:Never earlier saw a F1 car pee!

And people dare to say that Honda don't bring innovation to F1!

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Alonso with whole 12 minutes before his McLaren breaks down.

Clear improvement, that's a good sign. Maybe they can get to the 40th minute by Abu Dhabi but I don't want to jinx it.

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I literally cannot recall an overtake on track.

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By the way, has there been an overtake on track (not counting lap 1, Riccardo's issues, etc.)?

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Herb Tarlik wrote:Honda is truly an utter failure this year.

You can lose the "this year" part.

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I'd say Honda is a joke but that's hardly breaking news.

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rant I've truly given up on Honda. No amount of testing would remedy the situation, something is really really wrong in their engineering and especially QA department. It's unacceptable that 3 years in, something fails every 5 minutes. And even when it works (as evidenced by Boullier), they are perp...

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Hamilton, Verstappen, Vettel were all great. Hard to pick one of those. Alonso was set to finish 8th (I don't think KMag was going to catch him) but totally unpredictable factors like Honda didn't allow him to.

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Look, it's quite simple and I won't post anyomre on it. You must be in grid position. The box is there for what? Guidelines?, no it's to mark your position. If you don't need to be in it scrap the box altogether as it's pointless. You're right, it is quite simple, which is perplexing why you won't ...

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Is Alonso not able to charge the battery now. My god. The good news is - it wouldn't make a difference to McLaren's pace. The bad news is - it wouldn't make a difference to McLaren's pace. :lol: :lol: Alonso won't do any more running. Kimi should do the honorable thing and retire on the stop. McLar...

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pokerman wrote:Giovinazzi from hero to zero, I think perhaps drivers shouldn't be able to benefit from ruining other drivers laps and in this case Giovinazzi should start from the back of the grid.

He probably will, given the damage to his car.

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Was Max on pace to get out of Q1 before Gio binned it?

In other news, Fernando is a god among men.

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pokerman wrote:Kimi had set up issues for the first stint.

I love it. He's never really slow, it's just that the tyres/cars/suspension/set-up that don't fit him.

Has there ever been a driver who has been given so much benefit of a doubt?

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At times like this, my mind also goes to my other favourite, Fernando Alonso. How would he be feeling? Actually, it could've been worse. His Ferrari contract had to end with 2016. Imagine being there for 7 years, leaving for 2017, THEN Ferrari immediately have the fastest car. :lol: Fernando's my f...

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Ocon wrote:People shouldn't get to excited, Lewis clearly had some issues.

Namely, not having the best car?

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PRFAN wrote:What will the Vettel haters say now??

Master drive!! The guy is fast

Well, he did have the best car, didn't he?

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How many overtakes did we see today? Perez did a couple (or was that on L1?), Stroll overtook a Sauber and Ocon overtook the Hulk.

Am I missing something?

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Raikkonen in 2007, replacing Schumacher, just about beats his lapdog Massa thanks to better reliability. 2008, beaten by Massa. 2009, beaten by Massa. 2012, beats Grosjean, who can't get his around "First Lap Nutcase" Syndrome. 2013, gets matched and then beaten by Grosjean 2014, Thrashed, thrashed...

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Raikkonen over 1 second per lap slower than Vettel, in clean air, with fresher tyres. No big deal, just collecting his salary without motivation, without words, without an effort. Seems to keep his fans happy, too. He's still one of the best, it's just that these cars don't fit him. For the 4th yea...

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Mercedes should of let Hamilton build a bigger gap the cars behind then pit. For some reason they got scared that Vettel was suddenly much quicker. No way Seb was overtaking him but I think were scared they would undercut him. Hamilton has issues, could explain why Vettel is so close. I think it's ...

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Why is Kimi so slow? Pretty standard Kimi race pace in relation to Vettel to be honest. Kimi and Bottas being consistently 0.5s slower per lap compared to their teammates is pretty shameful performance. Vettel not reacting to Hamilton's pit. Pace looks good and Lewis is about to hit traffic. Come o...

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Can we just swap Kimi & Bottas for Alonso & Max/Ricciardo?

Thanks.

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