#41

Yeah typical Ferrari. Zzzzzz

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#42

Can’t risk upsetting Seb obviously :wink:

#43

at least Bottas strolling to victory is more interesting than Hamilton doing it - an actual battle between them might be OK?

Ferrari being shit and deploying team orders already is pretty rubbish, although I don’t get why they didn’t stop Leclerc and give him a go at the fastest lap if he wasn’t allowed past Vettel, unless they decided that might upset Vettel too?

commentary seemed really shit even by Sky standards today too, took about five laps to realise what happened to Kubica and Croft tried to shrug it off saying “we can’t see everything” despite it literally being shown on screen in a replay, kept getting drivers wrong too.

#44

massively this, at this stage of the season we don’t know how close it could be by the end, they had a free attempt at getting an extra point (surely they’d have got it by large margin?) and didn’t take it, it’s completely ridiculous

storming drive from Bottas, fair play to him

if the rest of the season is like this in terms of Lewis and Vettel being challenged by their team mates it could be pretty interesting

shame we didn’t get to see Gasly up at the front

can’t wait to see a race on a circuit where it’s easier to pass

Williams are essentially just going to be testing this season, they’re about 2 seconds slow than the next fastest teams!

#45

the whole Williams situation is really weird. it’s the kind of thing I expected from Lotus/Virgin/HRT/the various forms they eventually all took, not a team that’s won multiple championships.

feel sorry for Russell and Kubica, Russell getting lapped by Norris after beating him in F2 last year must have hurt :confused:

#46

Bottas’ drive and Verstappen overtaking Vettel aside, a wildly boring race. I do enjoy Hamilton getting a midrace tyre sulk on though, “I’m never going to make it to the end, these tyres are shit and I hate you”, then with three laps to go and on the same tyres saying “really need this fastest lap point guys”, as though they can do anything about it.

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#47

forgot to mention this earlier but i thought Russell came across very well in the interview i saw this weekend

we’re heading towards a formula with only A and B teams

Ferrari now have multiple B teams, Merc kinda have Williams but they’re not much use, all that’s available this year is to see how Russell (who’s their driver) matches Kubica but no one knows how good the latter is having had so long out

aah who knows

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#48

Probably a plea to be allowed to change the engine mapping after previously being told not to.

#49

Spoilsport.

#50

Sorry, I meant to say

Fnar fnar. Isn’t Hamilton a whiney baby.

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#51

good to see that Ferrari seem to have sorted themselves out going by today’s practice sessions :+1:

also the Hulk is smashing the Honey Badger so far, very interesting

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#52

bollocks, a week ago I was gonna put some money on Ferrari doing well this weekend

my thinking being that the cars might be suited to the same tracks as last year, last year Merc got pole in Aus by 0.7s - same as this year - and then Ferrari was ahead in Bahrain quali

Hulk is rated incredibly highly for his junior career but suffered once in F1 because a) he was teammates with Perez and they were fairly equally matched b) Perez has managed to get on podium multiple times across his career and Hulk hasn’t, with 4 of those coming when they were teammates c) Perez got smashed by Button when they were teammates the year before he teamed with Hulk d) Hulk was solidly beaten by Barrichello, during his debut season, the year after the latter had been beaten by Button in his championship year

all of that is expected to translate as Hulk also being a fair bit below the top tier… but he solidly outperformed Sainz who looks good given his results at Red Bull - on a similar level to Ricciardo imo

Hulk vs Max would be incredible

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#53

I still really rate Hulkenberg, shame he didn’t go to Ferrari instead of Raikkonen a few years ago when that was on the table. if he keeps this up over the season then it’ll be impressive, although realistically his only hope of getting that podium is if Renault sort themselves out, doubt any spots will be opening up in the top 3 teams any time soon (unless Mercedes decide they want a German or Vettel has a strop when Leclerc beats him).

#54

incidentally, they announced the F1 2019 game yesterday - out in June rather than August, has F2 for the first time, been working on it for a couple of years. could be good :+1:

#55

For a guy who had an incredible junior career, got a very unlikely pole position in his debut season (in the wet in :brazil:), won Le Mans on debut and has dragged some amazing points finishes out of unworthy cars, he does go under the radar because he doesn’t have a podium to his name. Think there was a worry that he didn’t have the bottle to cross the line when he had chances in the past (Brazil 2012), when Perez could do that in the same machinery and Maldonado, Grosjean, Stroll, Kvyat et al managed a podium despite not having the outright talent. Hope he doesn’t have a Heidfeld-style “nearly man” career, would be a waste.

#56

Hülk promptly goes out in Q1 today.

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#57

Leclerc :clap:

reckon the race could be pretty good tomorrow

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#58

textbook jinxing really, will need to antibants him into Q3 in China

#59

Vettel have a meltdown is going to be fun

#60

Heidfeld is an excellent comparison. Kubica took the headlines as he won a race, was the first Polish driver in F1 but when teammates with Heidfeld they were very evenly matched

that pole in Brazil is a funny one cos it was a case of taking the opportunity when he had the chance, which as you say in races he’s never managed to do!

definitely definitely should’ve put money on Leclerc for this weekend after Aus

still, at least i have my two bets of Leclerc to win the championship and Kyren Wilson to win the World Snooker, and the same but with John Higgins. couple of hundred quid profit if either of those come off