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Bugger. I like his racing.
he can have some fun making his way through the field (again)
mediums in q2 might be risky looking at these times
I hope Netflix are with the Haas team this weekend.
If they have any sense, they’ll have a team glued to them 24x7!
Poor Tsunoda, the only upside to this is that we're going to see some epic overtakes as he comes through the field tomorrow.
Interesting Q1 team mate battles - Norris 3rd having used two sets of soft tyres in Q3, Ricciardo thirteenth having used three sets. There's a whopping half a second between Schumacher and Mazepin. It's worth noting that in terms of testing experience Mazepin has covered more than 4,000km, almost double the distance of Mick Schumacher...
just go faster on the mediums!
My favourite Mazepin stat so far...
Romain Grosjean spent more time on fire in Bahrain than Mazepin has racing an F1 car.
Sainz doing a vettel
Q2 and just 0.002 seconds separate Norris and Perez. The Aston Martin of 2021 isn't the car that the 2020 Racing Point was. I would imagine that the Aston Martin garage is probably not a happy and harmonious place right now, if the lack of rake really is the issue that AM are claiming then that feature is baked in for the remainder of the season.
Seven minutes of Q3 remaining and my betting is Hamilton, Verstappen, Perez, Norris, Bottas, Leclerc, Gasly, Ricciardo, Stroll, Ocon... (prepares to be completely wrong).
LOL we need to slow down the cars..... only a couple of tenths or so off last novembers time
scrub that.... it was a 13.6 last year
Mr Pole @ 99
Argh, Norris' time was deleted but would've been good enough for third. Nice to see that my prediction was completely wrong.
is it going to be a reverse of the 1st race with the 2 redbulls mugging the single merc ?
and will we see team orders from redbull ?
With Perez starting on softs I wouldn't be surprised if he does Hamilton at the start, back him up giving verstappen chance to harry Hamilton into wearing his tyres out early on.
Who's Harry Hamilton? 🤔
Kudos to the team.... had the track to himself!
https://twitter.com/PierreGASLY/status/1383471319006683142
slight twist in the ribs for his team mate 😉
Track is dry, wet, wetter, wet, dry 👍
^^ Amateur! 🙂
This is either going to be amazing or just fun for the first few laps.
Hoping for wet/dry/wet etc 😁
all those teens behind grandad ready to mug him!
lairy
Watching via the F1 website's live feed...Mazepin and Latifi have had contact, the latter is in the wall. Not a good start by Alpine by the looks of things, with Ocon third from last. Did he pit during the safety car?
Stroll and Norris had contact, Norris's bargeboard took the brunt of it.
Looks as though Mazepin was the innocent victim of Latifi losing control. Mick appears to have lost his front wing at the pit exit.
school boy error from Schumacher
Perez ?????
Perez appears to be losing time to the Ferrari in front of him, he's complaining about steering problems. Five seconds behind him is Ricciardo, who seems to be closing the gap.
Perez now under investigation for passing Ricciardo under a yellow flag!
Fascinating - Hamilton slower but speeding up as it dry's out, but Verstappen driving imperiously.
Yet Russell stuck behind.... Bottas - that's interesting! McLaren looking very handy.
FWIW Bottas is one of only two drivers on wet tyres, the other being Mazepin.
[edit] Ignore, Bottas is indeed on inters.
Perez now under investigation for passing Ricciardo under a yellow flag!
overtaking 2 cars under the safety car. slam dunk
Oof, team orders at McLaren - Ricciardo asked to let Norris through.
Sainz also having a lairy afternoon, Bottas gaining on Stroll...
awwww Daniel will not like that!
oi junior teams get the slicks on
Meanwhile, despite having lost his front wing and being unable to pit because the pit lane was closed due to his own wing debris, Mick is two places ahead of Mazepin - the latter's wet tyre gamble didn't work out.
The rest of the field now have to preserve their inters until the track dries and they can make a switch to slicks again. Perez has still yet to stop for his ten second penalty.
oi junior teams get the slicks on
Vettel and Mick now on slicks! Game on.
"No more rain expected" according to Kimi's pit crew.
why don't merc get Bottas on slicks ?
is a new steering wheel is working on the car ?
oops
Bugger
Bottas now lapped. It has to be said that both Ferraris look pretty handy today.
Hamilton off! He's back in seventh!
Leclerc second and Norris third!
Oh joy, another safety car...*sigh*
Looks as though Bottas and Russell came together, the latter is going to be mad as hell for missing out on the first Williams points since god knows when.
race stopped