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Formula 1 2017 Season |OT| Japanese Horror Story - Sundays on Sky
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Ferrari is obviously clocking down his engine to gift seb the victory
How is the 4K? Football on BT Sport was pretty nice when I had that last year. It was also at 50fps, is that the case on Sky F1 in 4K?
DasPenguin
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Vettel would've slowed down a bit because of the cars that were one lap behind. It's not like Kimi was driving in slow motion. Few fast laps (even a bit slower ones) would've done it. Vettel is driving faster right now but it was a tactical decision as well.
Bottas was barely able to keep Verstappen behind by pitting one lap later. Vettel would be first no matter what. His pace right now proves that
Daffy Duck
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The most exciting thing to happen during this race was half my biscuit falling in my tea.
Solaire of Astora
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There was no "swap". Pitting first is considered advantageous, hence why the leading driver of the two is almost always given it. The only way the second place driver is getting past is if they have the pace on older tyres when given clean air, which is exactly what happened.
cookie-monster
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perez passed strlol
Literally no 'tactics' to it.
Kimi was slow, then hit traffic.
Seb was fast, had a completely clear track.
And now he's disappearing into the distance, whereas he happily followed Kimi for the opening 40 laps.
Hamilton passed someone at the start of the race.
Paradise Brunch
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It's like Brazil 2007 except it happens way earlier.
Dutch Gronk
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German Jesus getting all the gifts by driving like a mad man.
KillerMan91
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Yeah. I mean Seb is also probably a bit faster but Kimi probably also gave up as he knows how it's impossible to pass on this track. Going to take that safe second position for Ferrari and take no risks.
Peter Ian Staker
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Nobody cares.
Crofty really is starting to be annoying. He just can't let it go.
Kimi would be in a different position if he hadn't been underperforming the entire season. Why is it that Vettel's slow teammates are always being fetishised as martyrs.
Kimi would be in a different position if he hadn't been underperforming the entire season. Why is it that Vettel's slow teammates are always being fetishised as martyrs.
Generally it's always the one in the lead out of the two drivers in the samr team that pits first. Was always the case with Rosberg and Hamilton. It was not team orders.
Wouldn't put it past Max to try an overtake regardless of how unlikely it'll be that it succeeds.
cookie-monster
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only overtakes that ppl care about count
brotkasten
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If Kimi lets RIC somehow through, I'm absolutely done with him.
I just switched to C4. I can't hear his shit anymore.
I just switched to C4. I can't hear his shit anymore.
Goldrusher
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"possible raised manhole cover"
lol wtf
lol wtf
Well now..
Impossible to pass on track though
Peter Ian Staker
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That would be the case if the good strategy was the undercut which it was during the previous few seasons.
This is the season of the overcut ever since the first race.
Remember the projectile manhole cover from last year?
aspiegamer
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In the past we've had safety cars and red flags for busted manhole covers. So... whatever.
Mhmm. Vettel is faster, but had they pitted on consecutive laps Kimi almost assuredly stays in front and can defend to the end. Ferrari perhaps didn't outright hand Vettel the win, but they did Kimi zero favors. Like they shrugged and knew they'd have a 1-2 regardless and stopped caring. I'd argue that some of this is tyre allocation. No one brought more than 1 set of SSofts, so no one ran them on Thursday to test pace to outright know that old Ultras would still be faster.
Can we blame a Ferrari conspiracy for this somehow?
Didn't Perez overtake Stroll? They switched places outside of a pit stop I'm pretty sure. TV didn't show anything though.
Mohonky
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Not really, Kimi did 1:15:500 on supersoft the lap Vettel went in, after that his pace changed.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
I'm personally not going to count that. Much like I imagine Perez won't.
Ignoring the start of the race was implied.
brotkasten
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It's just Kimi's payback. Rightfully so!
cookie-monster
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any pass that doesn't fit the narrative doesn't count
Dutch Gronk
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Ferrari want Ricciardo at Ferrari next year and want to boost his confidence.
nature boy
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Is it just me or there's very little on-boards during the race?
His mind is already on his yacht.
Vettel did a 1:15:2 the lap before.
Looks like the track problem in turn 1 is where they worked yesterday evening?
Yeah, i don't get it either,since this is the one race where it would provide some excitement
brotkasten
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Why push and keep up, when you can't overtake anyway? As long as he doesn't let RIC pass, it doesn't matter. He's also going to have less wear on his PU, which is going to be critical as well.
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