In the short term yes. In the mid-term I think they'll be loving these points and the huge gift they've been given as they inevitably catch up.
I wouldn't say it's as inevitable as it was last season. Last season they were already the fastest car in Portugal and Spain. Their engine was comfortably the best engine. McLaren and Aston Martin were competitive, Russell was sneaking into some top 10 shootouts in qualy in the Williams.
E10 is piss water and I don't trust any engine that runs well on that.
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Mazepin must be absolutely raging knowing Haas used him to help finance a great car while he had to drive the worst car on the grid in the meantime, and then they just binned him when the great car was ready
I wouldnt base it on followers, base it on how popular he is with the other drivers. Max gets on well with all his ex team mates, is close mates with Lando, gets on well with the likes of Seb and Alonso, while Hamilton by comparison looks a total Billy nae mates because of how aloof he is.
If you don't like the driver I like you're pathetic.
Yeah great race from Ferrari, impressive car they've built themselves with good drivers to boot.
So the Dutch fans never stoop low enough to boo Lewis Hamilton then.
Not always the case… just because it’s standard doesn’t mean it isn’t being pushed to its limit, being run out of spec or packaged in a way that compromises it.
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This is a very weird take. Not seen anyone else really say anything other than decent race. There was lots of action all over, racing exists beyond p1 and p2.
Verstappen would have finished 2nd and was battling for the lead in the last few laps. What more do you expect? He didn't build the fuel pump or whatever it is that crapped out on the Red Bull cars.
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so now he’s not even manufacturing the parts for his own cars like all the other drivers? i’ve only caught snippets so far and i know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea but hamilton has been saying things like “we’ve got a lot of work to do back at the factory to get us to where we want to be” highlighting how he builds all his own parts and blames his own shoddy workmanship for his current plight. i now hear verstappen isn’t even building his car and just pootles around the track allowing people to overtake him willy nilly whilst his team mate does doughnuts in the middle of the race for the lols.
It's funny you say this. As a kid, I followed F1 in the 80's, but when I moved to the States followed NASCAR (from the early 90's on). Getting back into F1, I was stunned at how much customization is in those cars (design, engine parts and everything). It's amazing how much manufacturing goes into it (vs NASCAR where they buy almost everything from the manufacturers).
Yea couldn’t agree more. You don’t have to love everyone and it’s fun with a little back and forth but the level in here is so incredibly childish at times.
What's wrong with that? With all luck equalised the title battle would have been over before Brazil.
Lewis was winning the gp and would have finished first if massi hadn't made up rules on the last lap.... what more do you expect... he didn't misinterprate the rules or go full on cheating whichever it was that made him do what horner told him
Would have been two top 10’s if not for Ocon on lap 1.
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I can't wait to see Steiner on next years DTS. I always felt so sorry for him having to deal with Grosjean/Magnussen fighting each other, then fighting for sponsorships, then having the whole Mazepin situation. You could tell he'd been told by his team to defend Mazepin when he came out and said the colours weren't for Russia, and Mazepin wasn't an oligarch. His weekly phone calls with Gene about how bad they all looked and then boom first race his team are 3rd in the constructors. If they keep up their strong form all season and finish in the midfield with the money they'll get next year, I feel really happy about that.
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