I think the only way they could manufacture Hamilton ahead would have been 'accidentally' putting a set of hards on Russell at the pit stop. These guys will not yield to their team mate ever, unless they're on a cuck contract like 'Checo' or in a title fight (remember those).
Hamilton's garage needed to gamble on the [obvious] safety car if a split wasn't going to be acceptable.
Missed the end. What happened glorious George who was looking to push for the win all day?
He needed to steer left to go around a corner but forgot. Easily done, could happen to anyone.
I think if that’s Hamilton or Verstappen as well who’s in Russell’s place they win. Russell had a fairly big gap on Hamilton when they came out the pits as well and lost that before they caught Leclerc.
Sky sports appear to have fiddled with the thumbnail of Russell's post-race interview to make him look like he's been crying.
EDIT: Oh, he has been crying.
With Russell I always remember the time when he threw it into the wall at Imola under the safety car when positioned for rare Williams points. Of course he was younger then but this was exactly the same lack of coolness under pressure and I'm certain there have been two or three other examples as well. It's not enough just to be quick.
Still looks like Merc’s only hope at winning a race. Hamilton hasn’t really come close in 2 years now.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeRussell63/...42456581165423
What a legend. Can't fault the lats tbf.
He absolutely loves himself
Perez is an absolute terrorist of a driver at times. Didn’t get noted down never mind a penalty for either of these:
https://x.com/big_data_master/status...u7vqqhYWpbnwgQ
https://x.com/fiagirly/status/170365...u7vqqhYWpbnwgQ
That first one.
First one's a textbook pass on old F1 games/Gran Turismo.
Poor Tsunoda. Back to back F1 races without getting a lap in. Commentators were obsessed by the fact he retired with a puncture too. His car was a complete mess
Even worse that his bad luck has coincided with a rather positive debut stint by Lawson. It's a shame the latter will have to wait longer for full debut.
Or they could just send Ricciardo out to pasture.
I'm thinking more long term (Ricciardo is just a stop-gap surely/hopefully). If I suddenly bring Lawson and he outperforms Tsunoda in 3 out of 3 races (2 DNFs of course but still), maybe I should just bin Tsunoda and gamble on a second young driver.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I don't see why you wouldn't run the pair next season. Tsunoda has done a pretty solid job overall and worthy of a continued F1 career I would say, and Lawson has shown he has at least some of what it takes. If there was some tearaway kid coming up then they would have gone with him over Lawson at this point.
Just watched the race. Fantastic from Sainz at the end there.
Tsunoda is a Honda driver so I would expect him to stay at AT until they don't have their engines, and at that point he could be a good bet to turn up at Aston. Lawson has looked impressive (and for longer than a cup of coffee like de Vries), assuming Tsunoda isn't binned they should try and get him into Williams for next year and see if he continues to get better because Sargent has not done enough yet.
Just finished it myself and I'll go one further, he was great all weekend and seems as close to Leclerc as he's ever been. Crucially he qualified ahead and therefore avoided getting fucked over in the pitstop as was inevitable for whoever was running second and as you say he showed good awareness at the end to keep Norris a credible obstacle whilst never giving him a sniff of taking the lead. Tellingly he won a race with a slower strategy than the chasing Mercs, if they'd have been the other way around it may have turned out differently but Hamilton was someone else paying the price for a poor qualifying.
Sounds like AT are keeping both drivers on for next year. Not at all surprising really, the team shouldn’t even exist.
The winner gets humiliated by Verstappen in 2025.
Looks like F1 are being scammed.
https://lkysunz.com/
Red bulls looking strong again (shock). Can we move go back to Singapore pls
Can’t see Williams retaining Sargeant now. Another hefty repair bill.
Got to think that's good news for Liam Lawson.
Has to be. Makes too much sense.
I can't remember as dramatic an in-season improvement as there has been from this year's McLarens.
They’ve got to work together to wipe Verstappen out otherwise he’s driving off into the sunset a full minute clear.
Ever since they improved, your recommended strategy for them to win a race has been for everybody in front of them to be wiped out.
It remains the only viable way of beating Verstappen at a racetrack not based in Singapore. Unfortunately it hasn’t happened nor won’t happen and he’ll piss every race for the rest of the year.
I think Horner gave away the game in his interview, he said Williams aren't going to want to sign him for just a year suggesting he'll be their fourth driver for 2025.
It's unreal what they've done.
McLaren in 2009? Back of the field in Aus to winning in Hungary, iirc.
I don't want to be Mr Negative.... but 4 laps under safety car to clear a pretty small amount of debris is, well shit.
Logan Sargent is so far away from being F1 standard. I know the tears will flow at Liberty if they can't have a yank on the grid but he shouldn't be there.
Lap 8 and that'll do for me. I'm off to water the plants.
He isnt as mad as Pasta but he will do
Add Perez to that list. Probably needs black flagging for that assault on Magnussen.
Perez
Perez is due a race ban. He been writing mans off for weeks
He’s genuinely a disgrace. Comes across as a right moaning dickhead as well.
Mclaren
There was some quality racing in that grand prix. Sadly it was all for 6th and below.
Just seen the highlights, Perez is an absolute mong.
The Merc stuff early on was great.
The decline of Perez in the last year or so has been quite impressive.
They really don't seem to give a fuck about whoever sits in that seat, Perez kept it despite being no better than the others because they'd run through all their juniors. Most of the time the team themselves shits on their own driver, it can't all be to appease the Verstappen family ego.
About halfway through the race and it's not exactly thrilling, nice to see the real Alonso finally showing up though.
Perez only becomes an issue if he either crashed the car to the point of causing cost issues, or they are in an actual fight for the constructors.
Or if he damages the brand. I'm hankering for a can of Rich Energy after watching his display earlier.
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