Hamilton's going to have a lot of trouble with Verstappen.
F1 2019 season
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Haas really hate Grosjean...
Max will end up 2nd.
Ferrari don't have race pace either. Great
Albert Park attendance 324k compared to 295k last year.
Hamilton is getting absolutely murdered here. Irrespective of Ferrari's lack of pace, this is pretty embarrassing for him.
Mah...we are the third car by now.
What has happened to Hamilton?
Lewis is going to lose his shit if Max takes 2nd now.
Why did riccardo end up retiring? further issues from the first lap, or other issues?
Mercedes pitted him very early to cover off Vettel and he's been conserving tyres since to try and make sure Verstappen can't just cruise past.
So no problem for him?
Oof. Charles backed off?
No problem, just tyre management to keep second.
They won't let him past Vettel.
Max with the fastest lap.
This fastest lap thing aint bad, its like a Q3 at the end of the race.
Go Max go!
Hate off to Bottas. Fantastic race. Ferrari better to look at themselves.
Well done Bottas, brilliant from him and he gets the bonus point as well.
What a race by Bottas.
Well done to Bottas!
A lot of work to do at Ferrari.
Bottas smashed that, fair play to him
Couldn't have had a worse start Ferrari.
Awful race. Awful weekend.
Awful race. Awful weekend.
Thought Ferrari would have a better challenge today.
Hamilton pitting too early sort of masks the dominance of Mercedes here, that was easy.
Agreed. Some extra fun for the last 10 laps of a race.
Bottas with the 'I want 26 points' and boy did he get it. Flawless drive.
Guess the only potential bright side to take from this, is Bottas may actually put some sort of challenge forward if the Mercedes is comfortably the better car at other tracks as well.
Shocking race though has to be said, they went on about the more powerful DRS yet nothing really happened unless the tyres fell off a cliff. Race track Ofcourse plays a big part in it but it wasn’t a great start.
Thank God Bottas is stepping up - seems like we might be in for a pretty dull season up top otherwise. Redbull look like they might be decent but Ferrari almost a full minute behind, wow.
Ferrari is the Everton of Formula 1: we win when it doesn't metter.
It still a very worrying di un though because i expected to finish at least 3rd.
Lesson learned, never do winter testing from next season onwards, might heartbreak Ferrari's fans worldwide.
Its hope thats kill you.
Its hope thats kill you.
Its all a load of shit. They use to crap on about it back in the mid 2000's that we'll decrease the drag by banning xyz, but the reality is, they claw most of it back by season start and you'll still get the same dirty air getting thrown up behind the cars. Its a complete load of bollocks and always will be. If anything they need to return refuelling and Pirelli need to work on the tyres to not drop off a cliff, but loose performance quicker.
Also Ferrari were muppets for not bringing Vettel in. They had the perfect opportunity to stick soft rubber back on the car and take a gamble on a safety car towards the end of the race but played it safe. Even Mark Webber was urging them to do something along those lines in the comm box.
Sky post race coverage has gone to shit, need to bring back Ted Kravitz.
Only the first race and they're already so conservative with their strategies.
The pressure is really mounting on them.
How the people watch this without fast forward?
Sickening to see that in the first bloody race, at least my prediction of the fastest lap point perking everyone up was correct.
Team orders on race 1 at Ferrari. Let them bloody race!
Sad but true 