As nothing else has been posted, I figured I’d open this up to discussion.
A brilliant race, I thought. Lots of fantastic battles. An intelligent strategy from Ferrari. Not too chaotic or arbitrary. Albon fighting on 40-lap old tires for a huge P7.
How’d everyone else enjoy it?
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I know Max doesn’t need the help but my god Perez does not deserve that Red Bull put Norris in it or something.
Put Albon back in that car, now that he has the experience. He’s proving how good he is at Williams.
+1 for putting Norris in as a fan. However if I was Red Bull management I’d keep giving him one year contracts until be becomes a liability. They’ve got constructors nailed on and a clear driver hierarchy. It’s ideal for them.
Yeah they need what Bottas was to Hamilton, up there but never making a serious challenge for number 1 like Rosberg did. Then again Max is so dominant that maybe fixing what’s not broken isn’t an issue.
Yo why is this thread still here?!
Why not?
Such a great effort for Albon… easy DotD, and huge for Williams in the lower WCC battle. Hope it’s a sign that the Williams upgrades are decent & we may see more of it.
Russell cracked under the pressure of trying to stay on the back of Alonso… absolutely insane that the car almost finished the race after that hit… I was surprised it finished the lap! F1 cars are made of strong stuff these days.
Max mega as ever… ominous that Newey appears to be fully invested in F1 again after a few years where he seemed to drift away.
Favorite moment was Alonso’s pit telling him Hamilton was just 1.9s behind. “Okay, leave it to me.” And then suddenly it was a 6 second gap.
Good strategy from Ferrari? The end times are nigh
The strategy was scary! Maybe with Meckies off to a new team someone else is getting a say
I think they used all the bad choices with sainz… although I can’t blame them, a race here with no SC was really an oddity.
I’ve pinned this to the top, thanks for starting the post.
Enjoyed the race which for me was interrupted by a biblical downpour causing my roof to leak. 😬
DotD for Albon. Kept it clean under huge pressure.
But what did Lando do though?
My understanding is that he slowed down on the race track leading up to pit entry so that McLaren could double-stack him after Piastri. It’s against the rules to deliberately go slow and impede like that.
@WatTyler makes sense, but its sad that it wasn’t covered in the broadcast
They did discuss it on the international (Sky) broadcast.
@WatTyler was unfortunately listening to the Dutch one
Ted whinged about the nondescript nature of the penalty so much that someone from the FIA got in touch to tell them what it was for.
I love that Albon and Williams 100% played to their cars strengths, and nobody seemed to have an answer for it!
We need to add Alex to the ‘tyre whisperer’ club. It’s one thing to stay ahead of that DRS train, it’s another do so when his tyres were so old. I’m so happy to have Albon in the sport. It’s a shame Williams aren’t in a place yet to have a good second driver, who could also pull shit like this.
I can’t understand how Perez just couldn’t compete with Ferrari’s pace at all. Not his best circuit.
Not his best season.
not the best driver.
Decent race. Ferrari finally pulled off 5Head strategy, great recovery run by them.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to see the race. I noticed that Valtteri scored a point though, so that was nice.
Valtteri almost had 9th, but Stroll passed him at the finish line for 9th. Find a replay it was an amazing finish
What the heck happened with Checo? He should have had a podium, but just got lost in a DRS train I guess?
It seems like he’s just lost confidence or something… he’s not in the all time greats category but he should be able to push a little harder
