F1 2022 Season

Typical, raining on theast lap FFS. Why couldn't it rain 10 laps earlier :rolleyes:
 
Max was unstoppable today, Ferrari throwing away a championship here. Solid result again for Merc.
 
RedBull have won this race for Verstappen with some stunning strategy calls
 
Max is Hamilton like in preserving his tyres. He pitted the earliest of them all
 
That was a great race. What a race from Verstappen, there is just no stopping him, he's on a level of his own this year.
Embarrassing from Ferrari again
 
Ferrari are such a shambles. Embarrasing.
 
Ferrari need to fire their race strategists. That should have been a ferrari 1-2. What a mess.
 
Merc have reliability nailed down, if they can keep edging forward relatively to RB and Ferrari on pace, they could make things interesting for the second half of the season. Not enough to challenge for either title id think, but certainly enough to disrupt RB and Ferrari.
 
Just astounding clownery from Ferrari. This has to be a good shout for worst call of the season, and they've already put up some strong contenders.

Comfortable win in the bag and they decided they'd rather be 6th.

The commentators knew it was stupid, everyone in this thread knew it was stupid, everyone watching who has seen more than a handful of races knew it was stupid. It's almost impressively shit.
 
Absolutely gutted for Leclerc. Let down by Ferrari once again. However, can't neglect the fact that even if he finished 1st, Max most likely would have finished 2nd/3rd. The bad days at Ferrari are so much more costly than the bad days at Red Bull.
 
Fantastic by Mercedes. Thought they're going to be back to 5th and 6th after Friday.

Ferrari should sack Moyes, the title was gone weeks ago but you can still save your dignity.

Fun fact as we go to the summer break. It's Leclerc not LeClerc or Le Clerc.
 
Lewis finding out Ferrari were on hards in the drivers room.

‘They we’re on hards?’ He said incredulously.
‘Yeah’ said Verstappen, chuckling.

Ferrari really are a laughing stock
 
Max raced a good race but he can't be driver of the day given the spin - if Ferrari weren't idiots it would have cost him the win.
 
Mickeza said:
Yup. And pit stops!
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The call for Max to come in for his second pit stop was actually brilliant. It’d have been easy to go status quo because Max was faster than the cars in front and realistically would have overtaken them. But they really considered all the factors, knowing if they pit now, either Ferrari don’t pit Leclerc meaning Leclerc would come out behind them when he pits albeit on softs, or force them to pit now knowing that with the number of laps left and already using both medium compounds, they couldn’t go soft unless they wanted to pit twice, only leaving the hards. It shows an incredible level of thinking beyond anything that Ferrari have shown, who really should have preempted it by sending both cars on the softs on the second stint which would have eliminated that move from Max.
 
Great drive by Max. The PU change looked like a great decision given how he was flying the entire race except for the sudden loss of talent after changing to mids.

It's kinda suprising Ferrari manage to turn up at the right tracks at the right time with this management in place.

Steadily improving mercs might actually make them 3rd at the end of the season :lol:
 
Maddest race of the year that.

What an unbelievable drive by Max. Even without the Ferrari feck up for Leclerc he would have got second. Unbelievable.

Great drive by Russell and Lewis as well.
Right on Ferrari's heels in the constructors.

Perez needs to improve big time after summer but atleast he held off Charles at the end.
 
Leclerc must be totally fuming. This is the 4th time that he has lost a race win because of Ferrari strategy this season.

Ferrari seem to want to make sure he doesn't win the title. His mediums in the second stint were used less than Hamilton's softs in the last stint. What were they thinking pitting him then and putting him on hards.

He was miles ahead of everyone on pace. It's like Ferrari said - you are lapping a .5 second or so faster than everyone else. Let me put you on hards and make it 1 sec a lap slower. How's that for a challenge!
 
Jesus Christ Ferrari.

Like seriously??

That might be one of the worst strategy calls in years.

Still trying to figure out what they were thinking.
 
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Between reliability, then in the races where they don’t fail, awful strategy, and then in those races where neither of those things (which is rare) happen, driver error, how many truly clean races have they had this year?
 
Of course there's no rain during the race but the moment I get off the train in Budapest and try to get home, it's raining all over the city. Typical.
 
Race of the year for me. Max was unbelievable, Lewis needed another 10 laps and it was his for the taking. Shame for Russell but he will get his chance.

Less said about Ferrari the better
 
The Hilton said:
Max raced a good race but he can't be driver of the day given the spin - if Ferrari weren't idiots it would have cost him the win.
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To be fair he was getting 2nd from 10th regardless of the Ferrari feck up so think he is driver of the day.

Lewis close second in best drive for 7th to 2nd
 
Red Shorts said:
Race of the year for me. Max was unbelievable, Lewis needed another 10 laps and it was his for the taking. Shame for Russell but he will get his chance.

Less said about Ferrari the better
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Tyre difference/advantage probably maybe would have started to fall off by then.

Mediums versus softs with what 10 lap difference? The best off the softs was already worn of
 
Red Shorts said:
Race of the year for me. Max was unbelievable, Lewis needed another 10 laps and it was his for the taking. Shame for Russell but he will get his chance.

Less said about Ferrari the better
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I thought it was reasonably boring to be honest. Max was a clear cut winner from the second Ferrari decided on hards. Sky did there best to make it seem interesting with the rain when it wasn’t really there. It doesn’t touch Silverstone
 
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