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2018 Formula 1 Season Thread
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You can’t draw anything from Max in the P sessions (or many others with all the sandbagging these days.) I predict an incident in Q2 simply due to being unable to understand why a good 3rd or 4th place finish is a good result at this race. This was mentioned earlier in another post. He can’t identify when he is going over the edge. Again, learning when to push, and when not to push. Or more traditional for Max, pushing when told to maintain pace.
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Spain 2016 comes very much to mind.
Yet, he never repeated that error.
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6 races, 3 winners, 2 wins a piece...
hmmp. Not a Max fan by any stretch these days but if he were to win this weekend we'd have ourselves an interesting season for sure.
hmmp. Not a Max fan by any stretch these days but if he were to win this weekend we'd have ourselves an interesting season for sure.
I hope he takes out Lewie....Max had dam well better use his head in turn 1. The FIA had better watch him.
I think that both Williams' and Torro Rosso drivers are horrible and should be out of F1 next season if not sooner.
Grosjean too...
If he clears turn one without a RBR in his side pod, yes.
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Lewis will be a P3 at best. I’m far more interested in the “small quality issue” with the AMG Powerplant upgrade. I’ll assume it is some parts supplier out of spec caught too late for Canada. It seems unfathmnable to me for it to be an assembly issue with AMG. But if a first is going to effect AMG this would be the year for it.
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I hope he takes out Lewie....
I think that both Williams' and Torro Rosso drivers are horrible and should be out of F1 next season if not sooner.
Grosjean too...
Na, you don’t want someone to “take out” someone. That’s NASCAR
I think Roman is the most likely without a ride next year. The Williams issues are not driver initiated. It’s actually quite sad for me to watch Williams self destruct. There is soooo much history.
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If he clears turn one without a RBR in his side pod, yes.
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Lewis will be a P3 at best. I’m far more interested in the “small quality issue” with the AMG Powerplant upgrade. I’ll assume it is some parts supplier out of spec caught too late for Canada. It seems unfathmnable to me for it to be an assembly issue with AMG. But if a first is going to effect AMG this would be the year for it.
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Na, you don’t want someone to “take out” someone. That’s NASCAR
I think Roman is the most likely without a ride next year. The Williams issues are not driver initiated. It’s actually quite sad for me to watch Williams self destruct. There is soooo much history.
If he bumped Lewie off the track I'd be fine with that.
The winning post.
Congrats to Ferrari. 50th for Seb, and first since 2004. Huge day. Nice response from Maranello to all the FIA hanky, panky. Total domination. Yea, yea, boring race. Yada, yada, yada. Nothing of value comes easy.
Secondary well done to Max. Very well driven, well paced, mature drive. He was even chatty with Seb after the weigh in. If he can race like today for the remainder of the season I may reconsider my opinion next year. Time will tell.
Pretty sure that you can say that about all the races. No passing. BUT you got to see something rare....Max didn't crash out.
Not usually that bad.
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Let's hope so. Three weeks on the spin is going to be interesting.
IMHO, It was the worst one I've seen in a while.
What happened to Alonso's car? I missed that part.
Engine lost power. He got it back to the pits and retired.
Poor Alonso. He forces McLaren to dump Honda and it's all going horribly wrong. Meanwhile Gasly starts 19th and finishes 11th while Alonso DNF's and Vandoorne loses a spot to finish 16th. By this time next year, Toro Rosso could be a top midfield team while McLaren will need to fire Brown and all their drivers. Full culture change! Or am I being too drastic?
The exhaust broke so the temps under the cowling rose to the point the engine was in danger of failing so he had to throttle down and retire to save the PU.
He will be with Andretti Racing in Indy Car next year. My money is he wins the 500 for the Triple Crown.
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Indeed. This was the issue between Honda and McLaren in previous seasons. Not designing the chassis for adequate cooling of the power plant. All other teams design around the power plant. Yet McLaren can't get the temps under control again with Renault.
Won't be around much longer. Very unfortunate. At least they don't simply fire someone every week like Williams to try and solve the issues.
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Watching some of the Le Mans 24hr, and realising the hybrid group C cars are actually faster then the F1 cars! They weigh as much as a nat, have advanced aerodynamics, and 1000 HP 4 wheel drive drive trains!! And they have to last for a solid 24hrs of racing!
You’ve gotta admit, that’s some serious engineering and probably on half the budget of F1 teams!
Toyota are going to build a limited run if their race car for the road, cost will probably be silly, apparently they are bringing back the rule that they have to sell so many road going versions to qualify to compete, ah the old rule they ditched which bought us the Maserati MC12, Mercedes C12 was it? And more recently the Ford GT although that’s not in the mental Hybrid class... one of the best rules in racing.
I’ll look forward to seeing the winners as is tradition at Goodwood FOS this year, they don’t wash them even, so you see these beasts bugs n all haha
You’ve gotta admit, that’s some serious engineering and probably on half the budget of F1 teams!
Toyota are going to build a limited run if their race car for the road, cost will probably be silly, apparently they are bringing back the rule that they have to sell so many road going versions to qualify to compete, ah the old rule they ditched which bought us the Maserati MC12, Mercedes C12 was it? And more recently the Ford GT although that’s not in the mental Hybrid class... one of the best rules in racing.
I’ll look forward to seeing the winners as is tradition at Goodwood FOS this year, they don’t wash them even, so you see these beasts bugs n all haha
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