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Originally Posted by M5Rick

No love lost there ''how you doing Lew''

Charlie has to pit ASAP ...He is losing it by tyre graining .

He's calling to get hards ..

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Originally Posted by M-technik-3

Think Toto is having second thoughts about letting Bottas go?

BOT won't be sabotaged at Alfa ...

[Germanauto]

Verstappen came with his game face on today.

[TheBingoBalls]

Originally Posted by M-technik-3

Think Toto is having second thoughts about letting Bottas go?

Why? The W13 is just trash. BOT in the W13 isn't suddenly going to show something different than we're seeing with HAM or RUS.

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Originally Posted by Germanauto

Verstappen came with his game face on today.

He said I'll speak on the track..

[GuidoK]

PER has pu problems.

I hope Max won't get the same

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Originally Posted by M5Rick

I said this to f87 about the Ferrari graining tyres quick.

Checo just said : I'm losing power ?!?!

Damn ...

[Blindside_137]

Perez getting screwed again

[GuidoK]

So I think that VER/LEC/SAI/PER are going for a 1 stop? (and pit for white's)

Already 24 laps on yellows


...hmmm Lec going in for white's just after he set the fastest lap on mediums...

[GuidoK]

I think Max is keeping the gap with LEC steady at ~7 sec.
I think Max is sparing his tyres.

Virtual sc, lucky for RUS to get new tyres.

[M5Rick]

Norris crashes and it's a VSC.

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Norris crashed with Gasly !

SC ! Damn ...

[Blindside_137]

Man that could have been so bad for Norris at those speeds. Glad he wasn't collected by another car or the wall.

Soft tires going on!

[M5Rick]

Make that a full SC, lot of debris from Norris car.

[GuidoK]

Is HAM complaining that he's probably going to loose his place to RUS?!? (RUS just came in for new tyres)
WTF!

NOR still looks superfunny with that awesome helmet

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Originally Posted by GuidoK

Is HAM complaining that he's probably going to loose his place to RUS?!? (RUS just came in for new tyres)
WTF!

NOR still looks superfunny with that awesome helmet

A sprint race is coming up behind that SC !!!

12 laps to go ...

[F87source]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

Well, RB's floor looked radically different.
The point is that they seem to have cracked it while retaining a very fast car.
And then there is the bendy wing from last year....



You're mistaking me with that Hamlover mksixer....



You mean in Hungary?
Come on, if EVERYONE goes in for slicks and Ham doesnt, where he does the first next pas and thus everyone passes him, thats not called a mistake, it's called a monumental mistake.
And it shows in the result. When you start at pole, when all your direct competitors are either out of the race, or have huge damage to their cars, when you don't have any mechanical problems, and still don't manage to win the race.....it's a mistake....of epic proportions.




unlapping cars inbetween in a sc situation is normal practice.
Not having unlapped all the cars is a disadvantage for SAI and the rest that followed. However they didn't complain. MERC did and their complaint was overrulled. Twice.

MAx won because he pitted for new softs.
Merc didnt because they gambled that the race would finish under safetycar, despite Masi having said the race before that he prefers results being decided in race situation. So that was a big fail in human understanding.
Everyone knew Masi preferred having the race not finish under sc.


Sending out HAM on white tyres at the beginning of this year, very funny to see him sliding every way; after race admitting another mistake....
And not being able to give Russel front spoiler adjustments in imola...I think that also shouldn't be the way it works....
I think they probably make more mistakes than I believe. In any case way more mistakes than RB and I can't come up with a single team on the grid that makes more mistakes than Mercedes. Strategic thinking is by far their weakest point and it is the main reason they didn't get the WDC last year. Baku and Hungary were 2 amateuristic mistakes and preventing those alone would have given them the WDC. It is thàt simple....

That's not innovation that is just very good design to manipulate air flow based on their own flow fields- if anything alpine's floor is more extreme. Innovation is coming up a never thought of idea, while exploiting the regulations and pushing technology to a new level. Design is improving upon an existing idea or concept. The redbull floor wouldn't qualify as innovation because it really isn't that ground breaking, sure it solves porpoising but they have the flow fields and data to solve it. One is creating something brand new, one is just improvement, and either way even if you count the bendy wing (might actually count - but other teams already had it just not to the extent of redbull), floor, and suspension it still doesn't come close to what mercedes has brought to the table every single year. So like I said before mercedes is still more innovative which was the whole debate to begin with.



I barely knew mksixer.



Ham was the leader of the race, he wouldn't know if everyone was going in. That was a mercedes call not a hamilton call too.



Mercedes' protest to over turn max's win was overturned, the later investigations deemed masi to be out of line as he only allowed lap cars between max and lewis to lap.



That was the first race of the year on unknown tires. If you want to talk about those little mistakes redbull has done those too.

Well the gun didn't work for russel's wing, not merc fault there was a malfunction - that would be like blaming redbull for the crap reliability of the RB18.


If mercedes was so bad then explain why redbull weren't smart enough to box max in response to Lewis and left him like a sitting duck in spain.

[GuidoK]

Originally Posted by F87source

That's not innovation that is just very good design to manipulate air flow based on their own flow fields

Whatever dude. I disagree.

I barely knew mksixer.

He was the one who kept saying its the driver not the car.
But you were focussing that statement on me, incorrectly.

Ham was the leader of the race, he wouldn't know if everyone was going in. That was a mercedes call not a hamilton call too.

It was a monumental mistake. no matter who's call it was.
Man I lolled so much when HAM was the only one on the grid
What a stupid sight that was!

That was the first race of the year on unknown tires.

Toto himself said it was a mistake!

[GuidoK]

Did BOT just touched the wall there?

A mistake that gave both RUS and HAM a chance to pass....he won't be happy with that!

[F87source]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

Did BOT just touched the wall there?

I think he locked or something and went wide.

[Germanauto]

jesus christ Bottas smh.

[GuidoK]

What a battle between Max and Charles!
Here you can see the importance of top speed; LEC can't pass Max on the straights with DRS.
He probably has to be touching Max' gearbox to do that

And Checo was just a little bit too eager