I think Max is driving this one one handed with a Big Gulp in the other hand! 😀🧋
Dirty move from Stroll.
Not a good start to next years team relationship!
Was just going to say Stroll is a ****ing liability. Can they have their licence revoked? Because he is a prime candidate.
Best wheelie I've seen for a while.
Amazing that Alonso can carry on after that.
He did have a bit of a shaky voice.
It was very restrained from Alonso on the radio - probably reigned his real emotions in because it was his new bosses son.
Aaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaa!!!
Come on Lewis!
Mediums for Max? Could be on the limit at the end.
I find it really difficult to like such a mardy bastard.
COTA always gives us a race!
Lewis is going to be 3rd
Great race so far!! Come on Lewis!
Another nightmare race for Danny Ric. ☹️
Why did they not fit the mediums on LH 44? Maybe deg issues but lower fuel towards the end might have kept Ver at bay. Super hero drive by alonso.. shame he didnt get any points due to Hass protest.. I guess they want payback for all those pitstops for dodgy wing issues
I think that they (Mercedes) were saying that the car was better on the Harder tyres.
Why did they not fit the mediums on LH 44? Maybe deg issues but lower fuel towards the end might have kept Ver at bay.
Probably cost more & they'd spent the money on sandwiches
I wondered that. I assumed they were worried about deg, given that in the first stint everyone was pitting after 12-15 laps, and they had 20 to go when they made the final stop. RB had nothing to lose so went medium.
Good race. Hamilton benefitting greatly fro0m penalties to other drivers, but still a good drive. Max showing why he's WC. 😎 I didn't think he'd be able to rescue it after the pit stop error, but Max is Max. Equalled the record for wins in a season, every chance he can surpass even that now. What a driver. As for the others; Vettel and Alonso showing why they were WCs. Alonso finishing 7th after that crash was nothing short of incredible. He's still one of the veery best in F1, shame he just hasn't had cars to match his talent for much of his career. And F1 will be poorer without Vettel. I used to feel sorry for Mark Webber; imagine your team mate being so much better than you, all the time. It will be interesting to see if George Russell will be content to be Hamilton's no 2, or whether he'll emerge as the faster driver. Definitely got talent. Shame for Sainz, but I don't think many people believed he would have won anyway, let's be honest. LeClerc must just be wishing this season is over, and he can crack on next year. Ferrari need to sort themselves out and support him properly, they've let him down so many times this year. Poor bloke.
Another nightmare race for Danny Ric.
It could have been worse, at least he finished ahead of Latifi.
Is Hamilton lining up a job as a marshall? If so, I think he failed his audition
I had to lol when Hamilton, having whinged about Max leaving the track, then got warned for exactly the same thing. 🤣 That was funny. 'But sir, he did something naughty!' No-one likes a grass... 🤫
I get the feeling you won't be asking Santa for a Lewis Hamilton cap this Crimbo! 🤣🤣
I had to lol when Hamilton, having whinged about Max leaving the track, then got warned for exactly the same thing. 🤣 That was funny. ‘But sir, he did something naughty!’ No-one likes a grass
When i heard that over the radio i guessed that Max was doing it to widen the gap, So i can understand why Hamilton complained, then I guess Hamilton decided to do the same following Max where he went off track to try and keep up with Max knowing that if Max got a penalty Hamilton should be ok as he would off been off track less times than Max
Track limits are a joke, some drivers went off 4 times and still didnt get penalized, personally i think it should be 2 warnings then on the 3rd time you recieve a 5 sec penalty
Lewis just knew his only chance of grabbing the win was if Max got a 5 second penalty - just playing the game.
Lol! Ok then. 🤣
When i heard that over the radio i guessed that Max was doing it to widen the gap, So i can understand why Hamilton complained, then I guess Hamilton decided to do the same following Max where he went off track to try and keep up with Max knowing that if Max got a penalty Hamilton should be ok as he would off been off track less times than Max
Take the blinkers off. They were all at it, repeatedly, throughout the race.
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I didn’t think he’d be able to rescue it after the pit stop error, but the RB18 is the RB18.
FTFY.
Kidding, but only a little.
I'd love to know what the secret sauce is in that car. Simultaneously excellent at switching the tyres on quickly and yet also having the least deg on the grid.
Max's mediums looked better at the end than Hamilton's hards, and Max had been lapping quicker and had run in the dirty air of and battled Chucky Lay-clare and Lewis.
It's a masterpiece.
I’d love to know what the secret sauce is
Adrian Newey...
(Plus, Red Bull had more money to spend than anyone else...😉)
Also how much of a prat did Max sound with his sarcastic "beautiful" remark after that wheel gun failure.
His pit crew been pretty much perfect all year, with the fastest stops on the grid.
He could have said "argh man what happened?" but nope, straight in with a sarcastic comment instead.
You think Hamilton would have been giving kind comments, Max was annoyed, same as his pit crew, team and everyone involved for Red Bull, honestly it's funny reading the stuff on here at times, Hamilton and McLaren being robbed, Max and Red Bull the supervillains 😂
Max and Red Bull the supervillains
Well they do have an arrogant teenager, an endlessly moaning sanctemoneous prick and a spice girl all in one team.
Well they do have an arrogant teenager, an endlessly moaning sanctemoneous prick and a spice girl all in one team.
+1
IMO MV has dramatically improved as a driver over the last 14 or so months (ie less likely to run someone off the road) BUT if RB get rid of Horner, I'd like them a hell of a lot more!
Well they do have an arrogant teenager, an endlessly moaning sanctemoneous prick and a spice girl all in one team.
Says the mature grown up...
Has he? Or is his car so much faster than the rest now that he doesn't feel the need to be so aggressive? It was around this time last year that he was brake testing Hamilton and forcing people off the circuit.
Max is a great driver no doubt. It's just a shame the cost cap overspend will forever be a shadow on these two championships for the rest of F1 history
argee
Full MemberYou think Hamilton would have been giving kind comments, Max was annoyed, same as his pit crew, team and everyone involved for Red Bull, honestly it’s funny reading the stuff on here at times, Hamilton and McLaren being robbed, Max and Red Bull the supervillains 😂
Yeah I think Hamilton would have said "guys what happened?!"
For me it was the same as when his DRS broke and he started shouting about it, stroppy teenager behaviour.
I really dislike what F1 and the fans are becoming - it's more and more tribal and if you like Max you hate Lewis, or vice versa. It wasn't like this before! Max has really excelled this year and matured, but he hasn't had much competition! We should be discussing how the FIA have screwed up Alonso's amazing recovery drive with ridiculous penalties!
Lewis is no saint on the team radio - he tends to rant about specific things like tyres & strategy rather than just venting his reaction, which is what Max tends to do. Bear in mind that we only tend to hear team radio broadcast when a driver has had some sort of incident or when they're moaning about something - I think there are some youtube channels that grab the whole race for each driver, but I've not got that much time
And +1 to bigdaddy - Max has driven the wheels off that RB this year, the whole team has just done a better job than the competition from Adrian Newey to the pit crew to the strategy to the caterers (though maybe they need to make some cuts there 😀 )
Anyhow, Aston Martin are close to an agreement for their procedural breach but I expect that'll be a williams style fine and won't provide any clues about how the FIA will handle RedBull.
