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[norinrad]

This is fun to watch. Poor Seb

 

[Rolfgang]

You far ahead or looking at the wrong couple of drivers?

Yeah I'm dumb haha. Gotta remember they put those numbers on the fins for a reason

 

[Juicy Bob]

Coming in late - why does Vettel have a 20 place penalty- switched engines?

He didn't set a time in Q1 because of a problem.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Coming in late - why does Vettel have a 20 place penalty- switched engines?

Since he was in the back anyways they swapped everything they wanted to.

 

[nny]

Please don't break RBR. Please do not break.

Danny will make it fine to the end, don't worry.

 

[nekkid]

My guess is that Mercedes are going to have the pace advantage on the softs.

 

[PjotrStroganov]

RIC needs to get in front.

 

[StopMakingSense]

VET still behind ALO

 

[Theorry]

Finally Hamilton vs Verstappen.

 

[Aiii]

What a shame Red Bull couldn't have this pace at the start of the season. What a WDC it would have been. Next season should be fun.

 

[mrklaw]

Yep

Does that give him fresh ones for the rest of the season?

 

[Upinsmoke]

VET still behind ALO

Alonso has the Drs from Magnusson and is on the ss

 

[Zeknurn]

You were saying?

I'm happy to occasionally be wrong.

 

[Qronicle]

That McLaren seems to have pretty good traction when exiting corners.

 

[Ty4on]

VET still behind ALO

Can't beat that Honda

 

[Jezbollah]

Does that give him fresh ones for the rest of the season?

He'll have a 5th engine (all components) for the rest of the season yes.

 

[Shaneus]

Just tuned in and wtf, VER first?!?

 

[GrimmGrinn]

Can't beat that Honda

It'll be hilarious when Honda suddenly becomes competitive after split with McLaren

Oh who am I kidding

 

[JDB]

This is definitely the perfect moment for Max's car to shit itself. First place, birthday weekend, poor Merc pace, Ricciardo close to a podium. It's bound to happen.

 

[PjotrStroganov]

What a shame Red Bull couldn't have this pace at the start of the season. What a WDC it would have been. Next season should be fun.

See HAM power to 1st after the pit stops.

 

[chadskin]

I wouldn't mind some rain now.

 

[Aiii]

How is Ricciardo stuck behind Bottas. You guys did not give that fin enough credit.

 

[Tempy]

Close!

 

[nny]

Is...is that...racing? Wow

 

[Juicy Bob]

That was peng

 

[Zeknurn]

Wow, that was some great driving by Ricciardo and Bottas.

 

[Jezbollah]

Great racing by Bottas and Danny Ric

 

[Orbis]

Nice one Danny!

 

[Danielsan]

Fantastic stuff. Actual racing.

 

[Yagami_Sama]

That was intense.Great maneuver by both.

 

[Upinsmoke]

Safety car would be good

 

[JDB]

Good shit Ric!

 

[nny]

Lol, Alonso tempted to ram into that Ferari

 

[StopMakingSense]

Man RBR has great pace today.

 

[Shaneus]

Go Danny!! What's happening with the Mercs? Slow?

 

[Chuck]

GODLIKE

 

[M52B28]

Good stuff.

Go Danny!! What's happening with the Mercs? Slow?

Their set up is just not for this track. Mercedes is going to try and out strategize.

 

[Ennosuke]

I love this track. In F1 games this was alwwys one of my favorite tracks. A shame we won't be back next year.

 

[Nyx]

Entertaining race so far!

 

[nekkid]

Bottas could have afforded to be a bit more aggressive, there.

 

[Jezbollah]

Go Danny!! What's happening with the Mercs? Slow?

It seems like they're getting derates because of energy store limitations.

 

[Razgreez]

Go Danny!! What's happening with the Mercs? Slow?

Been struggling on the green track with high air temps all weekend long. Only been fast on the soft tyre

 

[Orbis]

Entertaining race so far!

One of the good tracks. Naturally that means we're losing it.

 

[nny]

Nice gap for Max.

 

[mrklaw]

He'll have a 5th engine (all components) for the rest of the season yes.

Thanks.

They should ban that or carry penalties to the next race if they can’t be applied because you’re already at the back of the grid. (Same when Hamilton did it). Just provides the richer teams with an unfair advantage to get around the engine rule limits


From an 'interesting race' point, RBR pushing Hamilton down and doing Raikkonen's job would be very helpful for who should be able to get up to maybe 5-6th for decent points. Vettel getting into p9 already is important to not have him dropping back from the leaders too much stuck behind slow cars

 

[Ty4on]

It'll be hilarious when Honda suddenly becomes competitive after split with McLaren

Oh who am I kidding

Maybe it'll have been McLaren that was the problem all this time :|

 

[JDB]

Man I wish RBR had been close to Mercedes' (and Ferraris) pace all season. :/

 

[Yagami_Sama]

Mercedes are quite slow today. Ricciardo was 1 second faster than Hamilton.

 

[Aiii]

Mercedes are quite slow today. Ricciardo was 1 second faster than Hamilton.

I wasn’t counting on it, but the race sims indicated as much on Friday.

 

[Ennosuke]

Would be amazing if Seb could catch Hamilton.