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mcdo

Stewards were harsh on Lewis today. How? Looking back at the crash, it was impossible for him to round the bollard unless he faced the oncoming cars. The other option was to go round the track with a broken wing. I beg your pardon? He made a driving mistake, then just cut it to pitbox like there is...

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Cmax, then do another lap. The bollard (and the space after it) is to be treated as a wall. That would have been a more unsafe option, with bits of front wing hanging off. The logical thing to do was pit immediately. But again today the black & white interpretation of the rules got in the way of lo...

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UnlikeUday wrote:
cmax wrote:Stewards were harsh on Lewis today.
How?

To be fair I think the 5 sec penalty was extremely harsh. The dude had just crashed

Regardless, the person that did the most damage to Hamilton today was Hamilton himself

mcdo

Verstappen, Kvyat, Stroll

I docked Vettel for being stuck behind Raikkonen for about 40 laps

mcdo

The star of 2019 has won the race. I think he could take anyone on now and succeed

mcdo

This is the lowest low for Ferrari since they built that dud in 2014

mcdo

mcdo wrote:Germany

1. Hamilton
2. Leclerc
3. Vettel

I thought I was gambling by putting Hamilton to win. Turns out I was gambling by including any Ferraris in my podium!

mcdo

Germany

1. Hamilton
2. Leclerc
3. Vettel

mcdo

Jezza13 wrote:Bit of news on the proposed aero regs for 2021

https://au.motorsport.com/f1/news/new-f ... 23/?nrt=54

I'm delighted with this news. Hopefully we get the full works, not a version watered down over time

mcdo

Not a vettel fan but I have the utmost respect for him as a driver. I thought that he would come out this year guns blazing and ready to shut all of the naysayers up. But then he went on to resort to his old tricks against Hamilton in Bahrain. That is when I really started to worry about him. From ...

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1150431410685206531 Poor Verstappen, the guy just wants the inside line. :lol: It's funny but the truth is that it was a matter of time before his late defensive moves (and in the case of the Baku incident, moving twice) came back to bite him. When you defend on the limit and expect others to avoid...

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1150431410685206531 Poor Verstappen, the guy just wants the inside line. :lol: It's funny but the truth is that it was a matter of time before his late defensive moves (and in the case of the Baku incident, moving twice) came back to bite him. When you defend on the limit and expect others to avoid...

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I think he needs a fresh environment but I don't know where. Dunno why Merc would go for him, dunno why he would partner Max at Red Bull, McLaren are full, dunno why he would partner Dan at Renault... Alfa with Kimi? I guess he's stuck where he is but he's never going to win a title with Ferrari. He...

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I'm starting to buy into the Vettel retirement rumour. Since Canada his performances have fallen off a cliff in terms of raw pace vs Leclerc. I wonder if realising he's not got a chance at the title this year and a young hotshot teammate has made him consider if he can be bothered anymore, and then...

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j man wrote:I voted Leclerc. Given that shoving others off the track is considered acceptable by the stewards, it was good to see him getting his elbows out against Verstappen after being bullied off last time out.

Exactly what he needed to do after Austria

mcdo

Option or Prime wrote:According to Eddie Jordan on C4:

Vettel to retire
Hamilton to Ferrari
Verstappen to Mercedes

I'm not sure but this could be his craziest one yet

mcdo

OK so they still aren't even lined up and the car has been cleared. So why on earth was it not dealt with under the VSC! Why not just leave the car there in the first place? It's not in a dangerous place; the only thing that makes its place dangerous is retrieving it. Since there's no reason for do...

mcdo

One of the best races in a long time. Austria was only 2 weeks ago. That was way better than this The intrigue in this race was far higher as after a long time, we witnessed 2 pit stops across all the drivers. There was pure racing throughout the field. I dunno, when a race win is decided by Lap 20...

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UnlikeUday wrote:One of the best races in a long time.

Austria was only 2 weeks ago. That was way better than this

mcdo

Vettel you clown

mcdo

Bottas has to pit again. At best 4th for him Strange strategy To be honest, Merc didn't know the SC was coming out 5ish laps later No I thought hards might be good to the end? Maybe...but from when Bottas pitted, it's a bit of a gamble. His pace was so good that if no SC came out for the rest of th...

mcdo

This sport makes me so miserable. A cracking race finished 20 laps in. Load of rubbish

mcdo

Are you joking me? Hamilton gets a soft pitstop

mcdo

Don't like the defending by Max on Vettel on the straight. Too much weaving for me

mcdo

Yesterday's race was so good, so entertaining. Like Baku x10! So many head-in-hands moments. It was highly unlikely JEV wouldn't wrap up the title - and he didn't! On we go for one last hurrah this evening! Cannot bloody wait

mcdo

Vettel behind Gasly is just awful. Hard to believe he won this race last year

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Sainz Sainz Sainz, well below par

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Dunno where Perez and Grosjean got their times from

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Britain

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Vettel

mcdo

I think Ocon has a very outside chance of Red Bull if he can sever ties with Mercedes. Wouldn't this be hurt somewhat by the fact that he and Verstappen pretty much hate each other? That seems like a move designed to create a toxic team environment. Oh yeah Brazil. Ocon probably isn't a popular guy...

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Could we consider Bottas lucky or talented for continuing into the 3rd year at Mercedes? If Wolff wasn't his manager, would he be elsewhere but Mercedes? e has beaten Hamilton at times in qualy or race but I owe this success to the car as I don't believe he's in the same tier as Hamilton. No doubt ...

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No, top tier drivers do show their class pretty much immediately, there is no 'potential' there, they are already delivering on it. There is a long list of world champions that don't fit this I recently had a debate with someone over Lewis Hamilton's impact on the sport. What had he actually change...

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Wow. The likes of Bottas, Perez, Ocon and co. are solid but still essentially 'making up the numbers' type drivers. They are not the Senna's and Schumacher's of this world so all of them are replaceable and disposable. Ocon has proven that he is not top tier, so if he never makes it back to F1, the...

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Wow. The likes of Bottas, Perez, Ocon and co. are solid but still essentially 'making up the numbers' type drivers. They are not the Senna's and Schumacher's of this world so all of them are replaceable and disposable. Ocon has proven that he is not top tier, so if he never makes it back to F1, the...

mcdo

Here's one for the rumour mill - Fernando Alonso has officially left McLaren! https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/news/f1/fernando-alonso-ends-partnership-mclaren-after-indy-500-debacle?amp But... would that actually have any bearing on Alonso's future in F1? I can't imagine McLaren would've stood i...

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JN23 wrote:Alonso and Mclaren have both rubbished the rumours about them splitting

You'd wonder how a publication could so confidently state an event has occurred without it having happened at all. Am I right in remembering that "Mattiacci fired Alonso" story came from the same magazine?

mcdo

Here's one for the rumour mill - Fernando Alonso has officially left McLaren!
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/news ... ebacle?amp

mcdo

As per a report / article I read, if Vettel does retire after 2019, Ferrari are interested in Bottas & Ricciardo as suitable replacements. If either go, it opens the door for Ocon as well. First of all I don't see Vettel retiring this year, it's interesting that Alonso is being seen as totally out ...

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Masi has said incidents from over 3 years ago are not relevant. I read this too, but I wondered why he made that statement. I don't recall the rule on crowding a competitor off the track was changed around that time. The rule hasn't changed but the interpretation of the rule pretty much has. Masi m...

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As per a report / article I read, if Vettel does retire after 2019, Ferrari are interested in Bottas & Ricciardo as suitable replacements. If either go, it opens the door for Ocon as well. First of all I don't see Vettel retiring this year, it's interesting that Alonso is being seen as totally out ...

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