Handing out penalties like candy.
Australian GP is cancelled again for this year.
Gonna be some a-hollerin' and a-cussin' after this race.
My take is simple: We laud Senna and Schumacher, and what happened today isn't even a pantomime version of how they'd race.
Chainbear’s breakdown of the incident is as always excellent. The detail of Max opening the steering and then turning back in again is telling. He’s always been very aggressive and while it is the Senna option of just making the other guy lift. He’s never really been doing it from a position of strength. Had he lifted, worst case he’s coming second and the championship points gap narrows marginally but that Red Bull was rapid on Sunday, I would have expected him to overtake later.
For Lewis, it was aggressive but with so much calculation. No way Lewis would do that had he been 30-something points ahead in the championship. I hope it doesn’t happen again but I do expect Lewis to stand his ground and try the optimistic overtake as long as he isn’t controlling the championship.
I think Red Bull did what every other team would have done had their car been in the wall. Swap the cars and Toto is sending emails about how the Red Bull was in the wrong.
I didn't say that what they did was morally okay, especially post race, which I didn't mean to imply. Just that every team is going to fight for their driver, and rightfully so. A good team boss isn't going to say, "Yeah he screwed himself and us in the process".
I would argue that Mercedes can be babies, though. Remember Bendywingate? How man weeks did they complain about that being why Red Bull was competition? We really don't know how graceful Mercedes will handle defeat yet. They haven't had any competition in 8 years.
Here's what Max had to say about people celebrating on the 2020 Bahrain podium while Romain Grosjean was in hospital having his burns treated :
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- Max Verstappen
Powerful sentiment there, I'm sure we can all agree.
No competition for eight years doesn't really stand up, unless you missed 2017 and 2018.
2017 Singapore was such a disaster because Seb had only just lost first place in the championship, thirteen races in the season, but had bounced back with Pole, seven-tenths faster than Lewis and was expected to regain the title lead before Max heartlessly crashed out both Ferraris.
In 2018 Seb had just beaten Lewis at Silverstone and was leading both the championship and the race in Germany when he put the car in the barriers with 15 laps remaining.
Even then, each driver won one of the next two races and it wasn't until Italy and after that Lewis went Ham and Ferrari couldn't answer.
Ferrari was better those years, but at no point in the past 8 years has a Mercedes been a race plus behind in the points and gone 5 races without a win. I'm not even sure there has been a point in the last 8 years where Mercedes wasn't winning the Team Championship. But to be more clear, I guess I could have said we don't know how graceful Mercedes will be in continuous defeat.
I mean, if I learned anything from Drive to Survive, isn't "they're all varying levels of hyper-competitive dicks" pretty much the answer?
Ha! They made a Clem Fandango joke during the British GP qualifying.
Haas sucks, but Mazepin also REALLY sucks, right?
EDIT: Also, it's just got to be such a drag being on a team where genuinely, your best hope is like 15th.
Any minute now Daniel...
11th is, like, tyre pole position I guess?
"Hamilton won pole!"
Oh wow!
"And the fans booed him."
Oh, well that's not....
"In Hungary."
............Ah.
/wakes up
//checks the F1 results
I'm sorry, what now?
I hope Ocon and Reb Bull both send Alonso nice presents for holding Hamilton as long as he did.
Alpine need to have a decent car next year for Alonso. I miss him being a championship contender.
Vettel has been disqualified as Aston Martin are unable to produce the 1 litre of fuel from the car required by the FIA for post-race testing, so Hamilton ends up second.
AM could only get 0.38 litres out of the car. Otmar claims there was a further 1.44l still in the car on top of that, but the team were unable to extract it for the FIA.
Aston Martin have lodged an appeal, so for now Seb has been reinstated, (or rather the penalty has been deferred) until the outcome of the appeal is decided.
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