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Race 17 and now has just become the Max Show. He could wrap it all up in Singapore.
Question will be if Albon will race or not after having to be put on ventilator after his appendectomy.
Still some silly season to come ...now Hulkenburg is in the running for Haas?
Thru the two practice sessions - Ferrari holds the edge. RBR and Mercedes are close behind. Everybody else is far behind.
Heavy clouds are gathering over two garages in the paddock .
Much speculation about how heavy it will rain .
AM may only need inters but RB may need full wets .
One of the best qually sessions we've had in a while really. I love changing conditions in qually, because you just never know who will roll the dice and when. Freaking Yuki was at the top of the charts for a lap or so!
RB really dropped the ball with Max, but their pace it so strong it really shouldn't matter all that much. I really wouldn't be surprised at all seeing Max on the podium tomorrow. I think they just got greedy and lost track of the data, Max already had a pole lap in hand but they wanted to really put a stamp on it just in case and it went bad.
I really don't expect much challenge at all for the top 3, unless Sergio can put some pressure on Leclerc or Ferrari to screw it up at the front. Unless it's wet, I don't think Lewis will be able to challenge for the upper steps. If it's wet no telling which way it will go.
Maybe Red Bull really, really want Max to win the title in Japan instead. ;)
Anyone else remember a time when F1 was an all-weather sport?
Williams really need to fire Latifi like yesterday
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Smh Mercedes are so annoying. Freaking pit hamilton immediately!!!! Makes zero sense to let him go another lap and lose any small advantage/ salvage he could have got. So annoying
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Perez picks up 2 reprimands, 2 penalty points and 5 second penalty for not maintaining 10 car length to the safety car on restart.
It looks like he will get to keep the win.
Anyone know why, even with it being out outside, that the track didn't dry that fast?
Extremely high humidity, no sunlight would be my guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by N. Jones
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Originally Posted by gm99
Yeah, when there is 90% humidity, no wind, nothing dries quickly.
The track will dry when its temperature is higher than the dewpoint of the atmosphere above it. The bigger the temperatue difference the faster it will dry. Without the big infra-red heater in the sky there's nothing to heat the track, and as F1nKS says with 90% humidity and no wind as well as no sun, it's going to take along time to dry.
Overall a great race IMO. The expected safety car and VSC periods, but not nearly as messy as it easily could have been. I'd prefer that the track dried quicker, but it is what it is when you have a night race and such high humidity. Combined with a street circuit track, no room for error.
Checo did a great job from the start, and other than his SC screw ups ran a fantastic race on track. Once DRS was enabled and Leclerc got so close, I thought he might be done. But Checo stayed cool, stayed in front, and drove a clean race. His jump at the start gave him the chance to simply stay up front, and he took full advantage.
Though Sainz couldn't keep the pace of the cars up front, he also made his move on the start and made it stick. Though Lewis didn't just roll over he really never had much for Carlos, and just keeping his position was all he could do at that point.
Both Lewis and Max blowing it when there was no need to blow it, and showing how even the top drivers can crack at times. It's almost a shame Alonso's engine went when it did, as I'm sure the frustration was mounting with Max and we were robbed the chance to see if or when he tried to make the move stick. Great jobs by Norris, Danny Ric, Stroll, and Seb for taking advantage of the situation the best they could. I thought Seb was going to hold Max off, but in the end his fight still protected his team and at least Max only got by one of them.
It was interesting watching Seb, Lewis and Max.... 12 WDC's between them, fighting for 7th place! It's a shame Fred wasn't in the mix with them at that point.
I do think George should have pulled a penalty for causing the collision with Mick. He forced the issue and squeezed Mick when there was no valid reason, and caused the punctures. And his entitled attitude is already tiring. I hope he either humbles up or fails to rise to the top ranks much farther, as it's already annoying that he thinks people should yield to him. He needs to grow a pair and admit his screw ups.
I'm to the point I rarely try to watch races live, due to the fact that they seem to delay if someone sneezes on track. If we had decent wet weather tires the drying line might be wider, as they could go off line in full wets. But they seem to want to wait until it's dry enough for inters, and then people stick to the racing line more.
And as for F1TV coverage.... I can see Buxton easily being as annoying as Croft myself. I can't stand the guy. He tends to rattle on forever about the same issue or nothing at times, and I wish he would disappear from the sport entirely. I can't see any value he adds at all.
I rarely watch the races live anymore. Previously I used to watch all sessions and races, now I just dip in and out. The shame of all this is that Max is an amazing driver but for the sport to have the audacity to commit one of the biggest sporting scandals of all time live on TV in plain view and not bother to rectify it has killed my love of the sport. That coupled with aforementioned sneezing on track causing the race to be postponed - it's just gone too far now for me to enjoy it like I did previously.
We'll see what happens with RBR but imo if a team has exceeded the budget cap it should automatically disqualify them from the championship and also have a 3 month development freeze in their factory. That's my opinion regardless of which team, if any, has exceeded the budget cap.