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Post by ChrisM on Jun 25, 2018 7:18:04 GMT
Predictions in the other thread please.
Don't forget this takes place just a week after the French GP, and in turn is followed a week later by the British GP.....
3 GPs on 3 successive Sundays
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 1, 2018 13:58:19 GMT
I would say that it surprises me, except that it doesn't any more, that the top teams seem able to employ the most bungling, inept, incompetent people as their strategists. Sometimes (many times?) common sense makes things easier, if only the top teams had any
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 15:37:42 GMT
Top team, singular. Only one team failed to stop for tyres. Probably too busy looking at telemetry for their broken car. Not that stopping would've helped, as their other car broke down as well!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 16:53:15 GMT
Some good racing and the result was as predictable as a one legged Eskimo race around the Icleand branch nty. After all, I thought it was next weekend. Really good tactical awareness.
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Post by Tim on Jul 2, 2018 8:59:20 GMT
It's a pity that someone paid £10sM in a top team can't decide when to stop, presumably the highest paid guy in the team knew there was a virtual safety car courtesy of his team and/or flashing lights on his dashboard?
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 2, 2018 9:21:41 GMT
Hmm. Mercedes seen to be suffering from Germanitis. They set a defined plan and follow it to the letter. When it's all going really well they storm the field, sweeping all in front of them aside. Then when there is a hiccup they try to maintain the plan, because after all the plan was put together efficiently to deliver the result, and it all falls by the wayside.
Raikkonen is amusing: he set the fastest lap of the race on the last lap just to remind Ferrari, Le Clerc, other team owners that when he's on it he is the real deal. He's still the last man to win the world title for the Scuderia.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2018 14:35:39 GMT
Might've kept his seat if he'd not waited until he was replaced to do that...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2018 16:55:32 GMT
I wonder what Kimi will do next?
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Post by humphreythepug on Jul 2, 2018 18:28:20 GMT
Might've kept his seat if he'd not waited until he was replaced to do that... That's what annoys me about him, he is super fast and still has it but he tends to nod of until contract renewal time and then shows what he's capable of. |
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Post by Eff One on Jul 3, 2018 11:51:07 GMT
Kimi often frustrates me, particularly when he seems to go missing in races. But I thought he was good last weekend. Granted it didn't come off, but he had a good go at taking the lead on lap 1, and managed to rejoin without clouting anyone or losing his position. And he also did bloody well to hang on to the car when Verstappen tagged him. With hindsight, Ferrari were too cautious with tyre management in the middle of the race (as Kimi said himself) - given free rein to push sooner, he had the pace to win.
It seems highly likely that he's going to be replaced, and I hope he wins at least once more then.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 3, 2018 13:48:15 GMT
Look at Kimi another way:
He's still probably more more popular than any other driver on the grid.
He's still the last man to have won the title in a Ferrari.
He won the title with Ferrari against a far superior McLaren package piloted by arguably the two best drivers of their generation (2nd and 3rd best naturally gifted drivers after Kimi)
What the hell does he need to be proving to anyone?
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Post by Tim on Jul 3, 2018 14:03:40 GMT
What the hell does he need to be proving to anyone?
That he can still do it consistently to justify his salary and place in a big team?
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 3, 2018 20:31:03 GMT
They’ve had that debate last season. Kimi is still there.
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Post by scouse on Jul 4, 2018 12:33:10 GMT
i hated the sucking up they did to Hamilton. Alright, Mercedes dropped the ball, but Hamilton is still just an employee, driving a car that the entire grid would sell their grandmothers for a chance of driving. The message should have been more along the lines of 'we dropped the ball, but you're still the fastest guy on the grid in arguably the best car, now crack on.' The fact that the car failed not long after is by the by.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 12:33:28 GMT
I hope he stays for at least another year but cannot see it.
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Post by Tim on Jul 4, 2018 12:52:54 GMT
The message should have been more along the lines of 'we dropped the ball, but you're still the fastest guy on the grid in arguably the best car, now crack on.'
They should show him the video of Schumacher making up a load of time in the Ferrari at Hungary in whatever year that was.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 13:28:51 GMT
But in today's F1 the tyres fall to bits if you go too fast or the car might run out of petrol. Add that to the aero preventing overtaking and it smashing into a thousand carbon shards if you clip a kerb and you have a joke of a racing sport.
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