The Formula 1 Thread

[MotspurHotspur]

I will be in despair if Max ends up better off out of this!

 

[mezza84]

Another Hamilton mistake today. He made as many this season as I can remember in his entire career before this!

Cost Bottas as well today.

But well done to Lando and lets hope for a great race!

 

[Yid-ol]

Another Hamilton mistake today. He made as many this season as I can remember in his entire career before this!

Cost Bottas as well today.

But well done to Lando and lets hope for a great race!

It was a great call to go onto slicks and gave enough time to get them warmed up, Hamilton and others took too long to swap and didn't have enough time to make the tyres work.

Will be an interesting race, I still think mercedes have the pace to be fastest, just depends on if Hamilton does his normal crap start and goes backwards, or if he can actually overtake. Also Max coming from the back of the grid should be fun to watch, he will be hoping for a safety car past half way through I guess to help bridge some of the gap.

 

[Wick3d]

It was a great call to go onto slicks and gave enough time to get them warmed up, Hamilton and others took too long to swap and didn't have enough time to make the tyres work.

Will be an interesting race, I still think mercedes have the pace to be fastest, just depends on if Hamilton does his normal crap start and goes backwards, or if he can actually overtake. Also Max coming from the back of the grid should be fun to watch, he will be hoping for a safety car past half way through I guess to help bridge some of the gap.

With Bottas now at the back of the grid, he should be holding up Max's charge up the field. Should be a really interesting race. 3 Brits in the starting top 4, I dunno who to support now

 

[yankspurs]

3-7 is just a drs train. No one can overtake & its hurting Hamilton.

 

[tobi]

Good race today, still time for some drama.

Lando has fucked this up

 

[tommo84]

Oh Lando.

 

[yankspurs]

Omg. Bad strategy by Norris. Damn.

 

[yankspurs]

Damn. Thats gutting for Norris. He should have won this. And he had a bad stop too & earned a penalty.

 

[tobi]

The team shouldn't have asked him, they should have ordered the pit stop.

 

[Yid-ol]

The team shouldn't have asked him, they should have ordered the pit stop.

And even after Hamilton stopped, they should have made him come in. Could have got 2nd instead of well down.

 

[$hoguN]

Oh Lando.

Stupid to stay out.

 

[tommo84]

Stupid to stay out.

Weak from his team too - they could see the radar they should have ordered him to come in.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Something seems wrong about finishing nearly a minute behind, but still picking up 2nd place points...

But, very fortunate weekend for Max.

I think Hamilton will still need to take his own engine penalty later this season, so it seems like Max is still in the best spot to win the championship.

 

[freeeki]

Predictions for today, chaps?

Despite his grid penalty I have a feeling Lewis could do it.

Leclerc is looking good, too.

 

[yankspurs]

Predictions for today, chaps?

Despite his grid penalty I have a feeling Lewis could do it.

Leclerc is looking good, too.

Would like to see Lewis do it if only because Max annoys me. I’ll be paying attention to McLaren today. They’ll want a good showing for Lando to put Sochi behind them.

 

[freeeki]

Would like to see Lewis do it if only because Max annoys me. I’ll be paying attention to McLaren today. They’ll want a good showing for Lando to put Sochi behind them.

McLaren don’t have any pace this weekend sadly

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

So far, so sensible from Mercedes. A race win looking likely from Bottas, and Hamilton limiting any damage with his current strategy. Bare funny if it dries up now though...

 

[tobi]

Mercedes fucked up.

Bottas is much more relaxed since the announcement.

EDIT: OK after listening to Toto they didn't fuck up.

 

[yankspurs]

Mercedes fucked up.

Bottas is much more relaxed since the announcement.

Brutal decision. Hamilton would have held them off.