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Thread: 2021 Race 1 Bahrain
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29th March 2021, 03:49 #41
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Albon only advanced due to the fact the Bottas got a puncture and Perez blew up. Otherwise he would have lost positions during the race. That was after a season and a half in the car. Sergio rolled the dice in qually on the harder tires, and paid the price. But the pre race issues cost him the other positions.
Though he is a more experienced driver, thinking his first drive in a new seat should always eclipse Albon's better drives is just rather reaching IMHO. As compared to the race of Bottas today, Perez was more or less superhuman. Comparing apples to oranges will always skew things.
As for the track limits thing, I think that was Horners way of making sure it was on record that Merc (and others) were breaching the rules. Strange that there was no enforcement until well after he told Max to ignore the rules also. I personally think that when it's been spelled out that clear that they should set the example early in the race and issue warnings on the initial offenses.
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29th March 2021, 05:53 #42
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Well if you factor into the equation that he has only had four full days in the car going into qualifying, with new engineers he has never worked with before, then you would understand why everyone thinks you are being harsh on Perez. He could have had a better race from 11th if he did not have electrical problems that momentarily switched off the engine on the way back from the warmup lap and had to start from the pitlane.
From last to 5th is the sort of stuff we see from Hamilton, Alonso and Verstappen. He did good considering. He would definitely be better in Italy.Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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29th March 2021, 05:59 #43
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Well, Horner's complaints about track limits eventually cost Redbull the race. That Verstappen's overtake with 2 laps to go may have been overlooked by the stewards otherwise. And he may have gone on to win the race. As Hamilton with ragged tyres would not have been able to fight with him thereafter.
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29th March 2021, 09:27 #44
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As far as i understood they had a written notice from race control which said they had to respect track limits during qualifying. But when reading it closer, Mercedes concluded that it said nothing about the race itself.
So they gave their drivers orders to go outside the track since there was no warning not to yet.
Redbull only realised this halfway the race and told max and perez to do the same until they were told by race control not to.
Which, by itself, woke up the stewards. Who then told everyone to respect the track limits.
Basically a genius move from mercedes and/or a screw up from the stewards.
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29th March 2021, 11:13 #45
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29th March 2021, 15:00 #46
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Haas throttle connected to the steering linkage?
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29th March 2021, 15:09 #47
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Well no, going off was faster. Otherwise nobody would do it and there would have been no need for an extra stewards notice.
It's just that redbull either had not thorougly read the stewards communication or they had interpreted it different.
Redbull was suprised they were allowed to do it, since they thought it had been banned from the start.
And later on mercedes was suprised they were no longer allowed to do it, since the given stewards communication did not metion the race, they had been doing it all race and were not reprimanded by the stewards.
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29th March 2021, 15:30 #48
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Maze-spin lived up to his nickname.
" Lady - I'm in an awful dilemma.
Moe - Yeah, I never cared much for these foreign cars either."
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29th March 2021, 16:35 #49
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29th March 2021, 18:00 #50
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It was faster for Mercedes!
But this is the nonsense we’ve always been speaking about. Inconsistency in the rules. I can’t understand why the f**k it is so difficult for these clowns to make even one unambiguous rule. And if they do make a mistake then at least have the good grace to live by it but stop making it up as they go along.
I actually think it’ll take a incident of a team taking a penalty to the WMSC or even further because these clowns applied an unfair penalty to stop this happening. Otherwise we’re stuck with this nonsense.
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