If there's one thing we've learned over the last few years it's that Bottas cannot compete with Lewis.
Lord Sir Lewis Hamilton of Stevenage
Max Verstappen
Evil Daniel Ricciardo
Less Evil Sebastian Vettel
There was something in the air that night Fernando
Sharl Leglerg
MSC mk2
Alex Albon
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If there's one thing we've learned over the last few years it's that Bottas cannot compete with Lewis.
I know Lewis is winning the war so far, but it's just showing me how good Max actually is.
Bottas isn't anywhere near Lewis.
Hamilton is miles ahead of the compo.
Monaco's back tomorrow lads.
Mazaspin to throw his car into the swimming pool.
"It's a pretty short debate, Murray."
There's a lot less of them, Lewis. That's why they're called minorities. Still, you never know who you're missing out on if you're not looking. The day a black lad/lass turns up on a MotoGP grid will be monumental. The Spanish crowds won't know what to to do with themselves.Hamilton and Mercedes have set up a foundation to try to attract more people from an ethic minority background into motorsport, and he has set up commission to look into why minorities are under-represented.
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The Spanish crowds will know exactly what to do, it's the ever competent sporting administrators who will be flummoxed.
99% of the population are excluded from motorsport, regardless of colour. The fact that a black driver made it to the top is nothing short of miraculous.
Colour aside it's amazing enough that someone from a council estate background made it as far as he did before Mclaren picked him up. Testament to the work him and his family had to put in and how good he is.
Norris outshining Ricc again I see.
Le Clerc red flagging the session whilst on pole, lol.
Nico Rosberg is proud.
Clealry he wrote himself off. Legend status confirmed.
Max will send it into turn one if he starts second and there is a chance.
So Ferrari are definitely cheating again right. They were good, found to be cheating, turned absolute dog shit, said the won't be doing any upgrades this year, and get poles? Yea right.
It's Monaco, you could probably peddle round and be competitive, it's the place where engine matters the least.
Monaco is all slow speed corners and for 19/20 drivers you'll be following someone else around. The tyres last forever too.
Not enough room for the Mercedes to stretch its legs. Almost always a dull race though.
Yeah, they could possibly manage the same in Hungary. If they manage a pole at Monza, ask questions.
Easy win for Max from here then.
Gutted for Sharl. I understand why they didn’t change the gearbox last night though. Worth the risk with it probably being their only chance for a win this season.
The dream was they collide at St Devote and all bets are off, this would suggest a bit of an open goal. If I were Toto I think I'd offer Bottas a new contract dependent on him being first by Mirabeau and Max in a barrier somewhere.
Mercedes with the full implode button there.
At least the championship is alive (ish).
Ferrari lolling Sharl out of another Monaco race was quite amusing but that was the most interesting bit of the entire day, part of me hopes he never has a good result there just so we can avoid all the schmaltzy fairytale bollocks that would inevitably ensue.
By my reckoning there was one overtake for position that wasn't completed either on lap one (there were only two of these) or during a pitstop, and even then it was Mazepin being let past by his teammate. It wouldn't be so bad if they just embraced the shitness but even on Saturday you had David Croft correcting Martin Brundle and trying to claim it was merely 'extremely difficult' to overtake rather than completely impossible. They need to lean into it, take 20 laps off the race because what possible difference would it make and turn Saturday into the attraction. If you can have wanker sprint races at some circuits why not have a different qualifying at Monaco, one that highlights the contest between drivers and removes the bullshit traffic and crashing shenanigans that normally ruin it. Do a knock out system or have some little three lap head to head stagger races, something that is an actual contest.
Qualify as normal, swap to Formula 2 machinery on the Sunday. I don't care if F1's not a spec series, Monaco is a spec circuit. Also, Max Mosley is dead. The excitement from the race probably did him in.
Formula E has a wide range of things that make it shit but the race they had at Monaco this year was amazing, they were even overtaking at Massenet. Ignore the horrible 'boost mode' shite and it was perfect, goes to show that it's the insanely big F1 cars that are more the problem but (for reasons which escape me) F1 seems wedded to having giant cars that simply don't work at tight circuits.
It's all down to aero. Thicker cars leads to a bigger floor and surfaces to funnel air through. Plus, with the turbo era cars being so full of torque, the weight at the back keeps that manageable to drive. Probably. I don't know what you do with the layout. There's very few roads you can get the cars down and the closer you move it inland, the more you have to deal with the hills. Plus the posh bastards like to watch from their yachts.
The cars are huge since refuelling went, I think Brundle said something along the lines of them occupying the same length and width of a Range Rover. Combine that with the aero making it very hard to follow another car closely means you get what we got on Sunday.
Next spec is supposed to get rid of a large part of that along with BIG TYRES, so maybe it'll be better next year. We also got no one binning it into a wall or breaking down on track this time, which is quite unusual for Monaco.
In a weird way I imagine it to be the best circuit to drive, but the worst to watch currently.
Yeah, it's definitely one for the drivers and not the spectators.
I like watching the visual and the driving skill at Monaco, but I guess people are looking for CLOSE EXCITING RACING so whatever.
Closer than dropping back 2 seconds to prevent your tyres from boiling, at least.
I would make it stupidly long. 200 laps or something. Test the endurance of car and driver, and force them to stop more than once.
They did 100 in the 60's. Historic kit already gets a run. That brings up some good racing because you've got cars out of position and they're not really doing this for a living. I'd love a grid full of those Arrow A2's though.
Fan car and that one with 6 wheels only please.
Looks like the poor lad in the Moto3 crash yesterday hasn't pulled through.
Bugger. Watching any bike race, I'm always terrified when I witness a bike strike.
In the clip I saw, I didn't really understand what happened.
Yeah, I think the camera down the main straight don't give you a proper view of it. I think someone hits Dupasquier, he's down in the middle of the track and he gets hit by a following bike. 3 bikes involved, at least.
EDIT: Seen a closer look. He goes down in the pack and the next rider (the one that somersaulted down the straight) collects him immediately. His own bike does some of the damage. No time to react.
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Small mistakes and its gsme over, as it should be. Two man wrote off in Q1
Ricciardo really isn't getting along with that McLaren is he.
He hasn't got along with anything since he beat Vettel
LeClerc again. Where's this pace come from?
A shame we were denied that finale.
It's great seeing them all this close at a race too. A shame the 2022 regs will blow that out again.
This is the closest Mazepin's been to Schumacher on raw pace, too. Shame they're a second off the Williams' but the race has safety car written all over it.
I've been a critic of Bottas in the past, but he's been done over today. He was told to play the team game and give up the tow first, which he did. If anything too well. Then for the 2nd run they sent him out first of anyone and Hamilton last. No way he could have made that up to give the tow back.
And now he starts 10th for his troubles.
Nurburgring 24 hours is under way. It's drenched.
The downfall of Danny Ricc is
Banter your car out the way Daniel, you're being blue flagged.