The Formula 1 Thread

[SirNiNyHotspur]

What was Bottas doing more interested in closing Hamilton to the right and letting Verstappen in on the left.

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

What was Bottas doing more interested in closing Hamilton to the right and letting Verstappen in on the left.

Think both Mercs just weren’t brave enough on the brakes. Max absolutely swept through.

Poor Bottas though

 

[SirNiNyHotspur]

Think both Mercs just weren’t brave enough on the brakes. Max absolutely swept through.

Poor Bottas though

Left way too much space on left, they were just talking about it now, was a gift

 

[MotspurHotspur]

Argh! Damned Red Bull! Bottas must be the most useless team mate ever. He would rather try to point score against Lewis than help him and the team.

 

[Thewobbler]

Argh! Damned Red Bull! Bottas must be the most useless team mate ever. He would rather try to point score against Lewis than help him and the team.

Hes leaving and probably bitter about being 2nd best all the time. Why would he help lewis.

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

Argh! Damned Red Bull! Bottas must be the most useless team mate ever. He would rather try to point score against Lewis than help him and the team.

Agreed baffling that he chose to get spun by Ricciardo and then purposefully opted for a terrible pit stop

 

[yankspurs]

Omg. Both Verstappen & Hamilton might be about to get back of grid or pit lane start for breaking rules. Holy shit.

 

[tobi]

Surely they can't penalise Verstappen because others have done the same in the past with no grid penalty.

Max was very silly for doing that though but I suspect he's taking a calculated risk and trying to bring attention to something.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Omg. Both Verstappen & Hamilton might be about to get back of grid or pit lane start for breaking rules. Holy shit.

Hamilton might but no way Verstappen does. Hamilton’s rear wing potentially illegal, but all Verstappen did was go look at it and out hand near to measure. Two very different infractions, so punishments should be different.

 

[Yid-ol]

Omg. Both Verstappen & Hamilton might be about to get back of grid or pit lane start for breaking rules. Holy shit.

Even if the both went to the back( can't see max being put there). Max will be fine as his car can overtake, Hamilton would be fucked haha

 

[Rocksuperstar]

50k fine for Max for "interfering with Hamilton's car"

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Stolen from the BBC website;

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Hamilton disqualified from qualifying!
Starts at the back for the sprint race

 

[tobi]

I think its a fair outcome, sucks for the driver but its a team game.

 

[Delboy75]

Max champion now surely bar something very odd happens. 30+Point lead likely after this weekend.

 

[Yid-ol]

Does Hamilton even bother with the sprint race? Will he get enough gain in the short time to get enough overtakes to not drop him back to the back of the grid!

Would be amusing if he did 1 lap and then just parked up in the pit!

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Imagine if other sports adopted the sprint race format; bobsledding, where all the sleds go down at once, or 10 pin bowling, everyone fling em at the same time!

It's literally qualifying, but everyone has to go at the same time to cause as much chaos as possible, but I'm interested to see if teams are tempted to start doctoring their finish, to get clean-track or on particular circuits with a favored side to the grid. Could be absolute mayhem.

 

[tobi]

Hamilton can definitely get on the podium tomorrow.

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

Even if the both went to the back( can't see max being put there). Max will be fine as his car can overtake, Hamilton would be fucked haha

Aged well

 

[Barmy_in_Palmy]

Imagine if other sports adopted the sprint race format; bobsledding, where all the sleds go down at once, or 10 pin bowling, everyone fling em at the same time!

It's literally qualifying, but everyone has to go at the same time to cause as much chaos as possible, but I'm interested to see if teams are tempted to start doctoring their finish, to get clean-track or on particular circuits with a favored side to the grid. Could be absolute mayhem.

I’ve always like the idea that if F1 went back to Indianapolis that they could do a double header with Indycar.

Now obviously F1 cars are faster than indycars so there’s no point them racing on the same track. So F1 would race on the track circuit and indycar would race on the oval circuit.

Now some may point out as if I didn’t know, that the track circuit and the oval circuit go in the opposite directions. But I think that that would merely show how talented the drivers are that at the same time they’re trying to pass cars on the main straight, that they also have to keep an eye on oncoming cars.

I think it’ll be exciting.