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Post by ChrisM on Oct 5, 2021 20:31:11 GMT
TBH with the high number of covid cases and deaths in Turkey, I'm a little surprised that the race still seems to be going ahead. Let's hope that all participants, teams, media, spectators etc remain virus-free
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Post by Big Blue on Oct 8, 2021 9:44:27 GMT
Lewis takes his engine penalty. That means Mercedes are comfortable with their performance here and in a following couple of races. They might drop points but looking at early pace possibly fewer than they might and they also fancy Lewis to make any championship gap up to Verstappen in a subsequent race.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 13:56:44 GMT
Just to clarify, does pole mean the drive who gets pole, or the drive who starts from pole after penalties?
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 8, 2021 14:26:04 GMT
Pole = driver who starts the race on pole, so it won't be Lewis, or Sainz who is also taking an engine penalty
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Post by Alex on Oct 9, 2021 22:06:36 GMT
That must be more than half the grid who have taken an engine penalty which either means that the teams and F1 rule makers have grossly underestimated the ability of 3 engines to survive a sustained competitive campaign that lasts 20+ races or they did know but knew that nobbling the front runners in the later stages of the season would make for more entertainment.
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Post by humphreythepug on Oct 10, 2021 7:30:50 GMT
Given Hamiltons/Mercedes pace in qualy and Vestappens/Red Bull’s lack of pace in comparison, I can actually see Hamilton winning this.
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Post by Alex on Oct 10, 2021 11:14:10 GMT
Given Hamiltons/Mercedes pace in qualy and Vestappens/Red Bull’s lack of pace in comparison, I can actually see Hamilton winning this. All depends on Bottas. If he actually pulls a digit out and beats Max away from the lights he'll win. There's just no way he's going to let Lewis through later on in the race even if Toto comes out to the pitwall and screams at him to. If he can't pull away he needs to at least hold Max up but we saw last time out just how much of a clumsy job he made of it. |
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