Wet, to dry, to wet again. Would have made a really chaotic race. Shame it petered out in the end. But top lap by Max.
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And not just once but three times. What was he thinking?
I mean from his own lap initial lap.
He was always going to go quicker on his second lap, because of the RB anti-dive system on the front of the car means a RB needs 2 laps to get tyres upto optimum temps.
Parking it in the middle of the straight as well. Its bizarre. Once is a accident, twice is careless, three times? Thats just utter incompetence from ferrari
Max Max Max, Super Max Max, Super Super Max Max Max, Super Max Max!
Calm down , maybe cut your sugar intake
The man is a monster. Yeah the car helps as it always does when someone does well -but the cojones he showed again to put that large of a gap on the rest of the field in the wet while literary drifting at times is just something you should simply admire.
Calm down , maybe cut your sugar intake
There is a heavy overweight of Lewis Love on this forum. Someone needs to be the counterweight
When is the last time Max made a mistake that cost him? I’m sure he has but I genuinely can’t remember. Way too consistent and I’m not just talking about this season.
What???? Sainz only got a 3 place grid penalty? what a yoke
That’s what happens when you poach drivers from McLaren…
Good benefit, minimum egg on face for Ferrari.
Lucky it’s not during the Massey days or he’d be toast.
Someone didn't do their yob this ebening
3 place grid drop for Sainz after 3 incidents any one couldn’t caused a huge accident and Hulk gets the same for a red flag issue, just crazy.
PROVISIONAL GRID
1 Max Verstappen
2 Fernando Alonso
3 Lewis Hamilton
4 George Russell
5 Nico Hulkenberg (3 place penalty)
6 Esteban Ocon
7 Lando Norris
8 Oscar Piastri
9 Alex Albon
10 Charles Leclerc
11 Carlos Sainz (3 place penalty)
12 Sergio Perez
13 Kevin Magnussen
14 Valtteri Bottas
15 Pierre Gasly
16 Lance Stroll (3 place penalty)
17 Nyck de Vries
18 Logan Sargeant
19 Yuki Tsunoda (3 place penalty)
20 Zhou Guanyu
1 Max Verstappen
2 Fernando Alonso
3 Lewis Hamilton
4 George Russell
5 Nico Hulkenberg (3 place penalty)
6 Esteban Ocon
7 Lando Norris
8 Oscar Piastri
9 Alex Albon
10 Charles Leclerc
11 Carlos Sainz (3 place penalty)
12 Sergio Perez
13 Kevin Magnussen
14 Valtteri Bottas
15 Pierre Gasly
16 Lance Stroll (3 place penalty)
17 Nyck de Vries
18 Logan Sargeant
19 Yuki Tsunoda (3 place penalty)
20 Zhou Guanyu
Nah, I think the love and hate is spread pretty even for him and Max.There is a heavy overweight of Lewis Love on this forum. Someone needs to be the counterweight
Personally I think both are excellent drivers , Max at the top of his game right now and both can be utter cocks.
I give praise and criticism when needed.
Unlikely to make a mistake while hes sleep driving to the title. Needs a proper challenge from outside RB to see how he copes with the pressure of a proper championship challenge.
Not his fault, fault of other teams not producing a car thats good enough.
Hes doing what he needs to, thats his job. Driving very well though.
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Agree with this statement.
Yes it was good driving by him. But swap him out of that RB for alonso or hamilton and they would have done the same.
Theres a reason these guys are the best of their generations, they have the talent and the ability to use application of said talent. However it cant be understated just how special this seasons RB is. It might be the best car they have ever created in F1.
When a car is that good and you have the talent to go with it, you can make it look very very easy. Hamilton did the same during the domination of mercedes years.
Ferrari remind me of us.
In other news, Verstappen is still completely unreachable.
In other news, Verstappen is still completely unreachable.
Hulk penalty is a joke.
Tsunoda gets a three-place grid penalty for impeding Hulkenberg in qualifying. Drops him to 19th on the grid.
FIA stewards at it again. How Sainz only got a 3 place grid penalty is beyond me. It's as if they looked at all incidents as 1 infringement instead of separately. Should have been 6 or 9.
So they have now shortened the T2 barrier by 4 metres.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f...n-1-barrier-after-driver-complaints/10484499/
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f...n-1-barrier-after-driver-complaints/10484499/
Sets a bad precident for future qualifications, im thinking hungary, italy and singapore for example.
We all agree it's not the driver's fault - it's the teams and their inability to let the driver know of the situation on the track fast enough for them to know how to react. Consistently punishing the drivers is imo wrong and FIA needs to either work out a system where all teams use the same way to deal with traffic or change the rules and punish the teams and their staff instead.
Disagree, driver is at fault as well. Its not like saniz is a newbie. The team arent responsible for sainz parking his car in the middle of the track like an idiot, on multiple occasions.
These grid penalties make no sense to me. Sainz should've been given more than 3.
They are punishing the teams by giving grid penalties.
Parking your car in the middle on last-second notice is miles better than changing the driving lane and causing potentially hazardous moments. Both our commentators agreed on that - senior motorsports figures.
Martin Brundle, critized Sainz during qually yesterday for parking in the middle of the track. More than once since he did it more than once.
That will help.
Just incredible. The most impressive driver I've seen since Schumacher. Personally, i don't think there's anyone on the grid at the moment who could match him, over the course of a season, even if they were in the same car.
Sainz only getting a three place penalty is insane. He fecked up TWICE, and one of those times in particular was really dangerous. I don't get it. Nowhere near enough, IMO.
Sainz penalty is an absolute joke, he could have caused a serious incident at least twice, and completely fecked Ocon up who'd have probably got into Q2 without him getting in the way
One of these days, because the penalties are so lenient so no deterrent to it, someone is going to have a major major incident by someone effectively stopping on track. The thought of someone doing a hot lap, being unsighted and hitting the back of an extremely slow car....
One of these days, because the penalties are so lenient so no deterrent to it, someone is going to have a major major incident by someone effectively stopping on track. The thought of someone doing a hot lap, being unsighted and hitting the back of an extremely slow car....
Only logical explanation for me is, some of their bloody cameras are still not working because he was effectively a mobile chicane last evening.
for once we are in total agreement. Sainz should be at the back of the grid
Is there any threat of rain?