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[brotkasten]

I'm expecting a fairly normal race. No huge surprises like last time.

 

[Tubie]

Kimiiiiiii

 

[Xando]

Nice Kimi

 

[Elvin Atombender]

Ricciardo has clearly inherited the Webber-starts.

 

[stryke]

Oh my god Ric what are you doing??!

 

[brotkasten]

Well done, Kimi. As expected from him.

And the Force India really look too much like McLaren.

 

[duckroll]

Ferraris are still pretty strong. The rest of the race will be interesting, especially when it comes to pit and tire strategy.

 

[Pryce]

Mercs vs. Ferrari. Let's go.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[Tubie]

Crashtor doing good work.

 

[Tubie]

Wait how is Red bull so far behind? Alonso is almost catching Ricciardo...

 

[Kahoona]

Not exactly sure wtf happened to Ricciardo off the start...how'd he lose 10 places?

 

[brotkasten]

Riccardo is giving the McLaren the illusion that they're much further up the grid.

 

[Zeknurn]

Hahaha Riccardo.

 

[Risgroo]

Ricciardo channelling the power of Webber.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[Tubie]

Kvyat, Danny is faster than you.

 

[hamchan]

Haha Kvyat what are you doing.

 

[brotkasten]

Wow, Riccardo got Vettel'd hard by Kyvat.

 

[Lemonte]

tough luck

 

[dakun]

Rosberg really only needs one lap where he's a tenth faster and he'll be in the drs zone. If that happens Hamilton will have a hard time to fight him

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[brotkasten]

Ruthless Verstappen.

 

[Ark]

Rosberg really only needs one lap where he's a tenth faster and he'll be in the drs zone. If that happens Hamilton will have a hard time to fight him

He's been in and out of DRS all race so far.

 

[Elvin Atombender]

Ruthless Verstappen.

He used to make a lot of those passes in F3 where he takes a chance and hopes that the other driver notices him. Sometimes it works and sometimes there is a collision.

 

[Pryce]

Vettel and Kimi right there. If they can stay like this and pit once less time, they have it.

 

[Aiii]

Poor Ericsson got so confused he forgot to press the gas pedal after that heh.

 

[brotkasten]

Vettel and Kimi right there. If they can stay like this and pit once less time, they have it.

That would be nice, but everyone is expected to do a 2 stop.

 

[brotkasten]

I hope it works for Ferrari.

Super fast stop from Ferrari, too. 2.3 seconds is not bad at all.

 

[Ark]

It seems pretty clear to me that Red Bull should have promoted Vergne instead of Kyvat.

 

[Zeknurn]

It seems pretty clear to me that Red Bull should have promoted Vergne instead of Kyvat.

Red Bull does what's best for the brand. Russia is a massive market.

 

[brotkasten]

And Hamilton going with the same strategy as Vettel and Nico gets the option tyre. Oh boy. And Vettel unable to jump Nico basically ruins everything for them.

 

[Tempy]

And there goes another Renault engine...

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[Aiii]

And there goes another Renault engine...

That's gonna be fun the coming weeks!

 

[RoKKeR]

Thanks Shunhi for keeping me more updated on race events than fucking NBCSN with it's constant commercials.

 

[brotkasten]

Both Red Bull are on their 3rd engine by the next race. Ouch. Maybe Ferrari has some more of these 2014 engines lying around?

 

[McNum]

That's a pretty good engine burnout. Well done Red Bull. Well, unless they didn't mean to, in that case they probably should look at that.

A little disappointing that Mercedes and Ferrari run the same pit-stop strategy. I kind of hoped for one of them to do something tricky. Like Raikonnen doing a one-stop or something crazy like that.

 

[Aiii]

Verstappen got another Sauber in sight. Oh joy.

 

[Mokubba]

Lol no one wants the engineers to speak to them recently

 

[ChubbleDucks]

Brundle "and there's a fireman who's never cleaned an f1 car"

Please mister fireman don't spray your extinguisher on my car it will ruin the paintwork. Fire damage is such a better look.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[hamchan]

If Lewis is driving slowly Rosberg then you should overtake him.

 

[Ark]

That's a pretty good engine burnout. Well done Red Bull. Well, unless they didn't mean to, in that case they probably should look at that.

A little disappointing that Mercedes and Ferrari run the same pit-stop strategy. I kind of hoped for one of them to do something tricky. Like Raikonnen doing a one-stop or something crazy like that.

It was inevitable that Mercedes would cover off the Ferraris, not all too surprised.

Interesting strategies coming from Rosberg and Hamilton.

 

[brotkasten]

I wonder who's going to take Verstappen in in the coming years. Surely there seems to be no future at Red Bull at this point.

 

[RoKKeR]

Mercedes drama is so tasty. Also Verstappen is looking great this race.

 

[freakzilla149]

Haha, destroy his tyres. Come on Vettel, speed up.

 

[spuckthew]

Maybe Rosberg should man up and mug Hamilton.

 

[Aiii]

I hope they go back to all those experts like Jacques Villeneuve ("Should I tell you the truth? I think Max is an insult. Does Red Bull realise it is putting a child in Formula 1?") with some of the footage of Verstappen in the first three races and ask them if they wish to revise their opinion on him.

 

[Pryce]

Wow. Vettel's not far behind.