Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?
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Turns out, this:
Close call, Mercedes would have almost managed to keep their position, but damn. When Verstappen pitted a second time and Mercedes didn't counter the undercut, I was pretty certain that Mercs won't even be able to finish without pitting themselves. Imagine Hamilton and Bottas had had to pit 10 laps after Verstappen's second stop. That would have been shameful.
Absolutely. The race had many instances of the dreaded "push button - receive overtake" issue, but all that aside, there was a really, really great strategic play between RB and Mercedes that was rewarded at the very end.
Also, some points for AM makes me happy, gotta give it to Stroll, starting 19th and ending up 10th is a pretty good feat. Hope the next tracks will favor whatever it is AM is good at. Ferrari, on the other hand, is completely screwed on tracks like this. They seem to do well on tracks where acceleration is key, but any track with lots of high-speed straights and corners and they get handed back by most other teams. Pretty brutal, especially for Leclerc, who fell back so far, even compared to Vettel's last season, that result is hard to swallow. Leclerc sure as shit ain't to blame here, the car just can't compete on this track. Much like AM, one hopes the next few tracks will give it something to work with.
That race was a classic. Classic come-from-behind victory from Verstappen, it's why I'm a fan. And great drive by Perez who got the one stop to work and beat Bottas (who, to be fair, got shafted by Mercedes. He shoud have pitted right when verstappen did and he and Max would be 1-2 in either order)
Bottas was pretty pissed in the last couple laps, too.
It feels like Mercedes is not taking him seriously any more, which is quite a stupid thing to do, since they sure as shit won't get any useful input from Lewis "I refuse to properly prepare for a race" Hamilton. Maybe that's why they are doing so bad as of late. Merc decided to ditch Bottas by the end of the season, so they now treat him in a half-assed manner and since they don't respect his input, their strategies and setup are shit.
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And now imagine if they really ditch Bottas and replace him with Russell. Hamilton might be shaking in his boots because Russell is fast and young and probably not as "soft" as Valteri. Silver Wars reloaded perhaps?
Bottas' patience with Mercedes team orders is wearing thin quick. If they announce his replacement at any point they can kiss goodbye to any team orders trying to beat redbull. The redbull guys on the other hand seem perfectly happy to work together to defeat Mercedes.
I'd love to see Bottas completely ignore team orders for the rest of the season and go balls out until his car gets sabotaged by obviously staged incompetence in the pits. What is Mercedes gonna do, fire him? Meanwhile, I find it very interesting that he did much better with Hambone's chassis than he did with his own.
It was great seeing Hambone as the meat in an RB sandwich on the podium. Max and Checo showing it how it's done. If RB has any sense they'd sign Checo up for the 2022 season. He's exactly what the team needs rn i.e. a team player who is there to help RB win a Constructor's Championship, and he's been the most reliable wingman for Max thus far.
Big ups to Lando and Danny Ric for a solid race. Stroll the Younger is really beginning to show some chops as an F1 driver. He's no George or Lando, but he might just shake off the pay driver tag in the same way that Checo has though it'll be difficult given that AM is effectively the Stroll family business. That all boils down to how AM performs under the new 2022 rules and beyond.
I doubt Russel would be in a position to challenge Hamilton. Not for a lack of talent, but he'd get a contract that makes it very clear that he either plays by Merc's rules or he's out. And even for someone as promising as Russel, it might be hard to find a new ride. Mercedes might even throw their weight around so anyone tied to them will unfortunately not have a free seat for some weird reason either.
And on a sidenote:
Apparently, Mercedes is now looking into "illegal pit equippement" or some such bullshit, no trick is too dirty, no scheme too obvious.
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Oh I am just waiting for RedBull to take Mercedes to the FIA courts because of their own Flexi frontwings. Wouldn't that be funny if Mercedes gets punished while RedBull will not?
Would be the funniest thing in a long time.
Mercs bitch about a flexing rear wing on RB, kicks FIA into high gear so they make a new system to check for wing flexibility and RB end up being awwwright while Merc's front wing suddenly gets the shaft.
Would be like something straight out of a comedy.
FIA: "So it has been brought to our attention that someone -I don't wanna name any names here- is using a rear wing that's too flexible. We have decided to change our system to test the flexibility of wings, so we will perform checks on every rear wing..."
Mercedes: *chortles in the background*
FIA: "... and on all front wings."
Mercedes: *muffled squeaking sound while their monocle drops from their eyelid* "All what now?"
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Who in their right mind believes anything at Mercedes is "great" right now? One driver is too used to everything going his way, the other is fed up with nothing ever going his way, and Toto's pretending it's all smiles.
Yas Marina changing track layout to aid overtaking at F1 season finale (21st June 2021)
If only they could turn the double chicane after the first straight into just one turn, and change some of the turns in sector three... but these changes look pretty promising. Of course it will not be amazing, but the circuit could raise from terrible to ok.
Called it. I knew after all the wing batching didn't stop redbull they'd be crying about something else. They just can't understand they're being beaten fair and square.
If only they could turn it into an entirely different track, in an entirely different place without going anywhere near yas marina.
In before these changes *somehow* massively favour merc and hambone.
Also apparently Mercedes strategy with Bottas was just fine. It was all Bottas' fault it wasn't a merc 1-2.
I've never understood Rossberg's boner for Hamilton. The amount of times Hamilton spat the dummy and ran Rossberg off the track when he was overtaking, insinuated that Rossberg doing well was because his mechanics were sabotaging his car and generally being a piss baby that someone dared to stand up to to him and not roll over. Than again it is a prerequisite of a Sky F1 job so I suppose he had to kneel down and start slupring like the rest of them.
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Rosberg is very active as a commentator in German F1 circles and I usually liked his input, but when I read those comments he made, I literally went "What the fuck is wrong with this fool?"
Bottas was left out to dry on dead tyres, Mercedes can be happy both cars made it to the finishing line. Imagine a tyre failure or them starting to slip off the track during corners or having the wheels outright explode.
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If he's still getting paid as an ambassador for Mercedes' brand it makes sense not to ride them too hard about what they do on the track.
Coulthard thinks highly of himself these days
You do crap commentating for free race hilights, I doubt you are particularly high on his radar let alone having strong feelings about you.
That and you must have known saying a driver is finished, has no way back and is just there as a punchingbag for the owner's son would probably lower your access to him giving you voluntary interviews right?
You do crap commentating for free race hilights, I doubt you are particularly high on his radar let alone having strong feelings about you.
That and you must have known saying a driver is finished, has no way back and is just there as a punchingbag for the owner's son would probably lower your access to him giving you voluntary interviews right?
Oh boy, 90s version of Bottas weighs in, I'm sure on the edge of my seat with this one!
Joking aside, what does Coulthard expect, that literally every driver owes him time and affection for being a driver himself?
Maybe Vettel really dislikes Coulthard, maybe he just is entirely indifferent towards him? This whole thing sounds like a "please don't forget I still exist" kinda thing tbh.
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