F1 2021 – spoilers here

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Yes, he reminds me of Damon Hill, who was very fast but never seemed quite at the same level of the very top guys when it came to wheel-to-wheel racing. He was fast enough that he would easily have won multiple championships if things had gone slightly differently, but his final season at Jordan was just embarrassing.

Agree, and Bottas IMO

If Hamilton gets punted to the back it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him on the podium. If it were Bottas I’d expect him to end up 8th.

I bet Redbull are pretty happy to have Perez in the second car and not Albon after yesterday’s race! Had that happened to Albon at the start I don’t think he would have even made it into the top 10.

Looking at the delta from last year to this year, the Redbull is about 0.5s a lap slower, whereas everyone else is about 1.5-2.3seconds slower. Given how much more planted the Red Bull appears, I think Albon might’ve actually done alright. They recon a 1.5 second over speed is what’s required to pass.

Albon’s had a few decent recovery drives in his time; his issue was more about constantly being so far back from Max that he couldn’t be used strategically and couldn’t keep that car in the top four where it belonged.

Perez is one the absolute masters of recovery drives, though. Just a shame that tyre strategy, yellow flags and a power cut meant that was what he had to do again this time.

Perez & Ocon have had a prang in FP1.

Mazepin spun at the start of the session the put it in the wall at the end

http://mazesp.in/

he’s finding the limits 😀

I hope Netflix are with the Haas team this weekend.

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he’s finding the limits 😀

of Gunther’s patience i imagine

I hope Netflix are with the Haas team this weekend.

I’m pretty sure they could pick any weekend. Monaco’s going to be particularly unforgiving 😀

obviously the car is a pig, but that’s **** embarassing 😁

If only Mazepin can be persuaded not to allow his off-track shenanigans screw up everyone else’s weekends…

*checks notes* Schumacher has only spun once so far in the same car, during Bahrain’s race and managed to keep it going to the finish.

What happened with Perez and Ocon?

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.ocon-and-perez-called-before-stewards-over-fp1-clash-that-triggered-red.50SPIrFpqjCDs7HozF5lC.html

But following a hearing with the drivers immediately after the session, the stewards announced neither would face any further action – with the fact that technical issues throughout FP1 meant communications between drivers and their teams was limited a mitigating factor.

In their ruling the stewards said: “Ocon slowed before Turn 5 in order to let Perez by, as well as moving entirely to the inside of the turn. Perez was on a fast lap. The two cars reached the apex at the same time, and just barely touched wheels.

“In the end, both drivers agreed in the hearing that it was an unfortunate miscommunication of timing between them, not helped by the fact that both drivers had limited or no communications with their teams at the time. Both drivers agreed that neither was at fault.”

have merc unleashed the Kraken ?

? YELLOW FLAGS: VSC deployed ?@Max33Verstappen has stopped on track after losing drive #ImolaGP ?? #F1 pic.twitter.com/DGWp9CvQfZ

— Formula 1 (@F1) April 16, 2021

the spin doctor is out on track…

that looks a bit more than a software issue (Verstappen) ….

Leclercs binned it!

the mercs look well planted.

Really hope it’s just a temporary glitch for Max. Really want to see him taking the fight to Lewis as I don’t think anyone else can.
How’s finger boy doing?
Oh no too well again. 😆

drive shaft for verstappen.

drive shaft for verstappen.

Good, should be a simple fix.

How’s finger boy doing?
Oh no too well again. 😆

I’m starting to feel quite sad for him now! 🙂

have merc unleashed the Kraken ?

Yeah, was just wondering the same thing.

Aston are sort of threatening legal action if they don’t get the rules changed 😀

hero to zero
https://twitter.com/F1/status/1383049893212778496

Aston are sort of threatening legal action if they don’t get the rules changed 😀

Trying not to laugh.
Failing.

Aston will have to get their crack designers tracers on the job. Surely with their expertise they can find a way out of this! 🤣🤣

that’s one smashed alpha….

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 24×7!

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