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[thenexus6]

Vettel pit overtake was highlight of the race for me!

 

[brotkasten]

Vettel pit overtake was highlight of the race for me!

Driver of the day!

 

[DrM]

Lewis for Motorsport.com

"This track is quite good, you can overtake, but the car was pretty damaged – I don't know what, probably some aero components. I think the suspension was damaged as well because the car was flexing like crazy.

"It was like a four-poster bed today."

 

[Joni]

Stoffel would have put the McLaren in the points. #bringstoffback

I hope McLaren doesn't get points the coming weeks so they have to handle more questions about him.

 

[DrM]

Russia is next with crazy long run into the the second corner

I would bet on SC or two

 

[Zeknurn]

Sky tabloid sure is milking this Vettel Kvyat thing.

 

[darkinstinct]

I am wondering how would race evolve without early safety car

And I still think that Mercedes is having quite some advantage, but they are hiding it well

They really don't. Keeping the distance at 25 seconds for a safety pit stop is hiding it, a 35 second lead is showing off. And without the safety car Rosberg would have had a 60 second lead over second place.

 

[DrM]

Sky tabloid sure is milking this Vettel Kvyat thing.

All they need is Ted running to Kvyat and tell him that Seb is right, because he is four time WC and he drives a Ferrari

Followed by Di Resta deathly stare into the camera

 

[brotkasten]

Sky tabloid sure is milking this Vettel Kvyat thing.

I wish Ted's Notebook wasn't always at the end of the broadcast. It's all I really want to watch. Also, what's with the lack of Arrivabene interviews?

 

[Business]

If KYV would have been able to hold into that inside line it wouldn't matter how tight or how agressive it would have been with VET. Seeing how he had to go wide to the 'third lane' afterwards though makes me think VET has a point and that gap wasn't a gap.

 

[DrM]

Also, what's with the lack of Arrivabene interviews?

Big Boss is on the race today

 

[PdotMichael]

If KYV would have been able to hold into that inside line it wouldn't matter how tight or how agressive it would have been with VET. Seeing how he had to go wide to the 'third lane' afterwards though makes me think VET has a point and that gap wasn't a gap.

It wasn't totally fair game but not something that gets a penalty even in modern F1.

 

[Business]

It wasn't totally fair game but not something that gets a penalty even in modern F1.

Sure I never said Kvyat needed to be punished. I was mostly replying to all the Vettel is a crybaby posts in here. There's no reason for a penalty for such an incident and specially at the start when everyone is looking for their space, but Kvyat had a big part on the Ferraris collision and that's the point.

 

[Frankfurter]

Is there a GIF available for the Vet/Rai/Kvy incident?

 

[brotkasten]

Is there a GIF available for the Vet/Rai/Kvy incident?

Not a gif, sorry.

https://streamable.com/p0di

and from his on-board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMUlageCKc

 

[Frankfurter]

Not a gif, sorry.

https://streamable.com/p0di

Thanks, that's just fine, too. Definitely seems like Kvyat can't hold that lane and would have crashed into Vet, if Vet would have stayed on his lane.

 

[theignoramus]

Sky tabloid sure is milking this Vettel Kvyat thing.

That was awesome. Vettel let him have it like a proper old school driver. I want less buddy buddy relations in F1 and more salt.

 

[PdotMichael]

Makes me wonder how modern media and twitter users would handle all the Senna antics back in his old day.

 

[thenexus6]

I feel like Honda would've been closer / just in the top ten if they picked better tires.

 

[DrM]

Makes me wonder how modern media and twitter users would handle all the Senna antics back in his old day.

Database error

 

[Zaru]

Just looked at the numbers, this is the worst start (first 3 races) to a season Hamilton's had since 2010.

 

[Aiii]

Verstappen 2 - 1 Sainz
Verstappen 9 points - 2 points Sainz

Also pretty passive aggressive, and sad, you feel the need to call him Wonderboy...

See, itsgreen, this is why we wait until the race is over to laugh at these posts.

 

[Norwegian Rudo]

They were awful today. Well, whole weekend, from 'OMG Ferrari is the #1 car' wankery from Friday, I do not know what they blabbered yesterday (I was at work). to grand finale today.

Best part was when Croft went on for like a third of a lap about Vettel trying to overtake Kvyat when what was actually happening was Raikkonen trying to overtake one of the Toro Rossos. Seriously, this year the TR and the Red Bulls aren't even that similar.

 

[Zaru]

Best part was when Croft went on for like a third of a lap about Vettel trying to overtake Kvyat when what was actually happening was Raikkonen trying to overtake one of the Toro Rossos. Seriously, this year the TR and the Red Bulls aren't even that similar.

To be fair, the tv direction was partly at fault here, showing the "battle for 2nd" overlays for the wrong drivers for like half a minute or more.

 

[PdotMichael]

 

[Staab]

I think Vettel was mostly right, he should've braked a bit though, Kvyat would've gone straight past and he could've then take the inside line.

 

[ElTorro]

That shot makes Vettel's anger more understandable. Kvyat seemed indeed to have a different angle than anyone else in that corner due to his high entry speed. He would have basically crashed into Vettel had Vettel not evaded him. Still, qualifies as a first lap racing accident.

 

[kharma45]

I saw it just as a racing incident, I don't blame anyone.

 

[DrM]

Even Arrivabene said that is not fair to point fingers on drivers, on who caused it, because it was a racing incident.

 

[Cheeseman Battitude]

Can't understand why Mercedes and Hamilton didn't hang at the back until things calmed down. The cars he passed in turn 1 would've been easy passes on the straight on lap 1 or lap 2.

 

[brotkasten]

Ferrari made the longest stint on the Soft and Supersoft tyres today.

 

[Psychotext]

Can't understand why Mercedes and Hamilton didn't hang at the back until things calmed down. The cars he passed in turn 1 would've been easy passes on the straight on lap 1 or lap 2.

He's a racer!

...just not a particularly smart one. 8 seconds or not, starting from the pits was always the thing to do. You can make up that time in a single lap, and then work through the opposition methodically. Hamilton's problem is that when he gets out of position he needs to pass NOW NOW NOW. (See Hungary 2015 for another good example)

 

[Zaru]

Ferrari made the longest stint on the Soft and Supersoft tyres today.

I thought going soft for the last stint would bite them in the ass at the end, but it clearly worked out

 

[DrM]

I thought going soft for the last stint would bite them in the ass at the end, but it clearly worked out

As analysis shows, it would be much wiser to use softs for the last stint - track temp dropped and quite some teams had issues with maintaining the temperature of medium compound.

 

[Marlenus]

Can't understand why Mercedes and Hamilton didn't hang at the back until things calmed down. The cars he passed in turn 1 would've been easy passes on the straight on lap 1 or lap 2.

He did hang back, he was super cautious going into T1 and still got collected because of Kimis unsafe return to the track which forced Nasr to take avoiding action.

 

[DrM]

Lewis had damaged floor, turning vanes and broken splitter, combined with front suspension damage

 

[DieH@rd]

Lewis had so much time to make his overtaking moves.... but no, he had to enter into the fray immediately in turn 1. Bad choice, especially since he has such better car than the drivers around him.

 

[drizzle]

FOM copyright, nvm.

 

[FStop7]

Cannot believe how empty the stands were.

 

[Ark]

Cannot believe how empty the stands were.

I noticed that too. A lot of the general admission areas were completely barren. What a surprise.

 

[DrM]

Russia could be quite packed spectator wise with 1st of May slot. Beginning of summer season at Black sea + extended weekend due to national holiday

Ferrari powered cars suffered quite severe power cuts on the straights. I really wonder if they will be able to get rid of this with next version of their engine - as we know them, they will fix it, but screw up something else in the process.

 

[Zaru]

Cannot believe how empty the stands were.

The Austrian commentators were talking about how the stands are, like everything on that track, supersized and thus would be hard to fill no matter what.

 

[DieH@rd]

Russia could be quite packed spectator wise with 1st of May slot. Beginning of summer season at Black sea + extended weekend due to national holiday

Yeah, that is a great date for F1 race in Europe.

 

[f0rk]

Cannot believe how empty the stands were.

Same attendance as Silverstone, they just have double the capacity.

 

[Aiii]

This is just the best thing ever.

 

[Lemonte]

Kvjat slav squatting like a pro.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Same attendance as Silverstone, they just have double the capacity.

Just fill it them with humanoid androids.

 

[Spades]

That was awesome. Vettel let him have it like a proper old school driver. I want less buddy buddy relations in F1 and more salt.

Yeah, I'm not a Seb fan but I appreciated that he had the guts to tell him to his face, rather than just slag him off in the media.

For what it's worth, I think if a reasonable gap is there at the start, you go for it. Same with Bottas and Hamilton in Bahrain.

 

[ramparter]

Hamilton's problem is that when he gets out of position he needs to pass NOW NOW NOW. (See Hungary 2015 for another good example)

Yes this exactly. Really reminded me of that race.

 

[Aiii]