Formula 1

[Coronis]

gj for pole George. T1 should be interesting. Nice to see Colapinto not at the back and Alonso well in the 10. Norris continues to shrink under pressure.

 

[Thala_0710]

That's the championship wrapped up for Piastri then

 

[kyear2]

That's the championship wrapped up for Piastri then

Max is still close and lurking

 

[ripper868]

Bit of a a nothing burger race until the end, but nice move by Kimi to get Oscar off the start.

Classy from Lando on radio to wholly own his part in the contact with Oscar, guess that kinda thing will happen when the direction is teammates can race.

 

[kyear2]

Good drive by Kimi, I don't know what Lando was thinking and was a bit of a brain fart tbh.

But in all seriousness what is Lance doing on the grid, I genuinely think he and his father is making a farce of the sport. he's past useless at this point and it can't be all down to daddy stroll, there's sponsors and the team to consider.

 

[Thala_0710]

Max is still close and lurking

Don't think the mclaren will be this bad on other tracks though

 

[Flem274*]

Boohoo Liam. Sadly my first instincts on you were probably right.

Good drive by Kimi, I don't know what Lando was thinking and was a bit of a brain fart tbh.

But in all seriousness what is Lance doing on the grid, I genuinely think he and his father is making a farce of the sport. he's past useless at this point and it can't be all down to daddy stroll, there's sponsors and the team to consider.

Lance has nothing on 2002 GOAT Alex Yoong.

F1 is more merit based than ever (so..best of those who can afford and want to make an F2 campaign, and Sunday trundlers are minimal). Every series in the world has paid grid filler.

I think F1 misses out on the best American and sometimes Asian and Australian talent due to the ability to get paid to race in popular series at home with far less junior expense, but the grid is so much closer than it used to be.

 

[Spikey]

They should punish Russell, because it would be very funny

 

[Coronis]

Super job from Hulkenberg being the only midfielder to make the medium-hard strat work. Well done by Ocon as well - has been a bit of a surprise package for me this year.

At least Lando took responsibility but yeah just completely stupid. Champ fight had to start getting heated eventually and Oscar has the wood over him.

Quality race from Merc. Felt sorry for Albon. Happy for Fernando. lol @ Ferrari

 

[Molehill]

Super job from Hulkenberg being the only midfielder to make the medium-hard strat work. Well done by Ocon as well - has been a bit of a surprise package for me this year.

At least Lando took responsibility but yeah just completely stupid. Champ fight had to start getting heated eventually and Oscar has the wood over him.

Might just be the kick up the arse Lando needed. He was clearly the quicker driver yesterday, probably quickest in the field, but until he sorts out his qualifying, he's going to find himself messing about in the pack. I could see him going on a 3 or 4 race run soon of pole position and clearing off into the distance for straightforward victories. But he can't do that until he sorts out that final lap.

As an aside, I only saw about the last 20 laps, but was it all as tedious as that (apart from a certain incident)? Another joke circuit where overtaking was nigh on impossible.

 

[Coronis]

Might just be the kick up the arse Lando needed. He was clearly the quicker driver yesterday, probably quickest in the field, but until he sorts out his qualifying, he's going to find himself messing about in the pack. I could see him going on a 3 or 4 race run soon of pole position and clearing off into the distance for straightforward victories. But he can't do that until he sorts out that final lap.

As an aside, I only saw about the last 20 laps, but was it all as tedious as that (apart from a certain incident)? Another joke circuit where overtaking was nigh on impossible.

Mhm. Big train after a gap from Alonso - pretty much the same thing occurred with the second half. Top teams and Alonso did the two stop and everyone else did 1 (pre-SC). Only towards the end of the stints did passes happen. Verstappen was able to keep pace with Russell but never seriously pressure him after the opening laps, and Russell would pull away in latter parts of the stints. Hulk in a league of his own on the medium-hard one stop and Ocon and Sainz doing good work with the hard-medium.

 

[ripper868]

It wasn't so much the race was tedious as there were overtaking opportunities, it was more that everyone was just super clean all race really, only off of not was Albon on Lap 1 across the grass and then Norris up the back of Oscar as THE moment. Perhaps the last 4 laps could of been fun if Lando and Oscar didn't tangle, but they did, so guess we won't know.

 

[Furball]

Weird that it's hard to overtake when the pace differential between the cars is **** all.

 

[andruid]

Willthe ghost of a groundhog now loo over Ferrarri for all time, or was Lewis Hamilton's pennance sufficient?

 

[Molehill]

Weird that it's hard to overtake when the pace differential between the cars is **** all.

With longer straights it's doable with DRS (Norris would've dealt with Piastri comfortably yesterday in that situation), but most of the circuits don't seem to have them.

 

[Flem274*]

The cars are whales. Close cars should make for close racing, but these things are huge and sluggish at low speed compared to a 2005 car which itself was bigger than ideal for many classic tracks.

The touring car size combined with the high aero makes wheel to wheel crap. Shrink the cars or knock the wings off.

 

[ripper868]

tbf, Lando did knock a wing off.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Do qualifying as normal on Saturday, then have the race as Go Karts.

Or, make Monaco a 24 hour race, 1 car per team. Really test the endurance.

Banana skins on the track to make the karts spin and to power them up would be good too.

 

[Furball]

With longer straights it's doable with DRS (Norris would've dealt with Piastri comfortably yesterday in that situation), but most of the circuits don't seem to have them.

It's almost been an unwritten pre-requisite for new circuits to have ever more ridiculously long straights.

 

[Coronis]

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