F1 2019 season

Henrik Larsson

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I swear every other race it’s Binotto on the board radio talking about ‘Plan D’ or ‘Plan C’ when they’re only 15 laps into the race. Ferrari never fails to make me laugh, it’s always so chaotic and weird with them :lol:
 

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Dont agree that Leclerc should shut up, he'd clearly been told to give Vettel a tow and not try to defend from Lewis and that he'd be given the place back if Vettel got by. Vettel might not have needed it but Leclerc wasnt defending, you'd expect to see him move to the inside, break the tow.
 

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Dont agree that Leclerc should shut up, he'd clearly been told to give Vettel a tow and not try to defend from Lewis and that he'd be given the place back. Vettel might not have needed it but Leclerc wasnt defending, you'd expect to see him move to the inside, break the tow.
If he is going to expect a swap he at least needs to keep up and lose Hamilton. He can't expect Seb to slow down and put himself in Hamilton's DRS range.
 

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If he is going to expect a swap he at least needs to keep up and lose Hamilton. He can't expect Seb to slow down and put himself in Hamilton's DRS range.
When they first asked for the swap, I'm pretty certain he had a few seconds on Hamilton who was coasting, both Ferrari's had scampered away after the safety car. Vettel delayed, Mercedes told Hamilton to give everything to get within DRS range and the chance was lost.
 

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When they first asked for the swap, I'm pretty certain he had a few seconds on Hamilton who was coasting, both Ferrari's had scampered away after the safety car but Vettel delayed, Mercedes told Hamilton to give everything to get within DRS range and the chance was lost.
When he first asked about it he was already almost 2 seconds behind Vettel; if Vettel had slowed enough to engineer a swap Hamilton would have absolutely been right on Vettel as a result.
 

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So leclerc did what team told him to do and yet he is the one spoilt? To be fair, vettel has been faster on race pace so would be retarded to do the swap now.
 

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When he first asked about it he was already almost 2 seconds behind Vettel; if Vettel had slowed enough to engineer a swap Hamilton would have absolutely been right on Vettel as a result.
And what's the point?

He's still slower than Seb.

Just shut up and race, they can force the swop through the pit stop if Charles was keeping up.
 

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So leclerc did what team told him to do and yet he is the one spoilt? To be fair, vettel has been faster on race pace so would be retarded to do the swap now.
I dont buy this has been the strategy. Vettel just made the perfect start.
 

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So leclerc did what team told him to do and yet he is the one spoilt? To be fair, vettel has been faster on race pace so would be retarded to do the swap now.
Just fecking race, they can swop back through the pits if necessary.

Him whining on the radio is just unnecessary, especially after he said he wasn't doing it again after last week.
 

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When he first asked about it he was already almost 2 seconds behind Vettel; if Vettel had slowed enough to engineer a swap Hamilton would have absolutely been right on Vettel as a result.
Not necessarily, Hamilton was a few seconds behind Leclerc and wasn't pushing and drivers have slowed by that to let drivers through before.
 

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Just fecking race, they can swop back through the pits if necessary.

Him whining on the radio is just unnecessary, especially after he said he wasn't doing it again after last week.
I agree that they should swap in the pits but I can totally understand why would he be pissed if this was discussed beforehand.