The F1 Thread

[GiGi]

If Ricciardo is still in a seat when his contract's up he'll be a lucky boy.

[Ginaro]

4 minutes ago, die hard doonhamer said:

Hamilton absolutely fucked that restart. He went far too early. 

Leader in F2 waited until pit entry and drivers started crashing behind like at Mugello: 

[Iminavest]

Another super weekend for Fernando. Just a shame we'll likely not see him in one of the top cars again. 

[Benjamin_Nevis]

Sky's excuses commencing immediately. Glorious

[Jan Vojáček]

Crofty absolutely bealing here. He sounds so gutted  

[Bob in Denny]

Now known as Blewthis Hamilton

[Iminavest]

[die hard doonhamer]

I think it showed pretty clearly at the end that Verstappen would have won either way, he’d have comfortably have got passed both of the Mercedes if they both had the mediums on. They didn’t know that at the time, though, and so probably should have held as they were. Russell made the right call for himself, but the team should have said no. 

[Mr. Brightside]

What the f**k are these clowns on Sky talking about? Saying that leaving Russell out could've won the race for Hamilton?! Verstappen drove past Hamilton without DRS, so would've done that to Russell on the restart then probably would've walked past Hamilton at the end of the next lap.

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[Mr. Brightside]

#teamlh44 folk saying Red Bull told AT to cause a safety car

[Benjamin_Nevis]

20 minutes ago, Mr. Brightside said:

#teamlh44 folk saying Red Bull told AT to cause a safety car

The tin foil hattery over this is absolutely brilliant fun. Nutters man

[Mark Connolly]

So Mercedes didn't bother changing Hamilton's tyres, leading to Verstappen just cruising past him to a win?

The Race Director should be sacked.

[vikingTON]

4 hours ago, Iminavest said:

Another super weekend for Fernando. Just a shame we'll likely not see him in one of the top cars again. 

And another utterly fraudulent one from Ricciardo, who shouldn't even be allowed to 'compete' in the remaining races of the season. 

[ajwffc]

4 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

So Mercedes didn't bother changing Hamilton's tyres, leading to Verstappen just cruising past him to a win?

The Race Director should be sacked.

sounds strangely familiar 

[Iminavest]

2 hours ago, virginton said:

And another utterly fraudulent one from Ricciardo, who shouldn't even be allowed to 'compete' in the remaining races of the season. 

Bizarre. Can only imagine he knows what he's doing next year, in F1 or not, and is happy just to go through the motions.

 

[IrishBhoy]

7 hours ago, Day of the Lords said:

Sky's excuses commencing immediately. Glorious

The moment when the Safety Car ended and Max went past Lewis literally yards after the start finish line was superb. You could feel the deflation in that commentary team come through the screen.
 

Is Button going to be a regular on comms? I didn’t think he was great, although it’s clear he knows a tonne more about the sport than the others. Was funny when Crofty kept going on and on about Tsunodas seat belt and why he would come in to the pit lane for a seat belt problem etc., and Button eventually stepped in to clarify that Yuki would have loosened his seat belt when he thought he was getting out of the car, and the mechanics were just tightening it. 

[Miguel Sanchez]

For whatever anyone says about Hamilton losing the lead and Russell pitting, he handled that restart terribly. He went about as early as possible which was basically the worst thing you could do in that situation.