Stevo985 Posted April 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 10, 2022 6 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said: Lewis unlucky with the safety car, but why tell his crew that they put him in a difficult position? Wasn't their fault. Yeah that was very poor form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 10, 2022 Entertaining race for Australia which is usually a parade. New regulations look like they definitely help. Nice result. Le Clerc looking like the favourite. Great to see Merc and McLaren looking more competitive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Not super exciting but with my 'anyone but Max' head on for this season, it's another great race. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 3 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Yeah that was very poor form I’m an armchair F1 fan, so whilst I watch the races, I’m not invested enough to follow career’s or be able to form a qualified opinion of the drivers personalities, nor do I really understand teams strategy. So I always want Lewis to win because he’s a Brit, and I’ve never understood the criticism he gets from British people. But I think instance’s like the one you allude to today probably paints a different picture. The team absolutely couldn’t foresee a safety car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 1 hour ago, av1 said: I’m an armchair F1 fan, so whilst I watch the races, I’m not invested enough to follow career’s or be able to form a qualified opinion of the drivers personalities, nor do I really understand teams strategy. So I always want Lewis to win because he’s a Brit, and I’ve never understood the criticism he gets from British people. But I think instance’s like the one you allude to today probably paints a different picture. The team absolutely couldn’t foresee a safety car Lewis does this kind of thing a lot unfortunately. He goes on about winning/losing as a team but he bloody loves to publicly criticise them over and over again. They make big calls, some times it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
og1874 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, Genie said: Lewis does this kind of thing a lot unfortunately. He goes on about winning/losing as a team but he bloody loves to publicly criticise them over and over again. They make big calls, some times it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. He does, also very publicly, aplogise when it’s on him though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
og1874 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 6 hours ago, Farlz said: That Ferrari with Leclerc is crazy good. Be interesting to see if they can keep it up, or keep up with the inevitable improvements that’ll come from red bull in terms of reliability, but they’re building a hell of a cushion at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Sharl eclair is driving brilliantly, I'd love him to win the title this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 A crap race that needed Sainz and Max involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 11, 2022 Moderator Share Posted April 11, 2022 If Leclerc keeps up the advantage for a couple of races, then whilst the Red Bulls will improve and might become quicker than him, the Mercedes will also improve and become a nuisance to the Red Bulls - Leclerc just needs to try and build an advantage now and then watch the points get distributed all over the place later in the year, making his advantage harder to pull back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted April 11, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 11, 2022 I’d be happy with LeClerc as champion, he’s a class act on and off the track. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straggler Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 16 hours ago, av1 said: I’m an armchair F1 fan, so whilst I watch the races, I’m not invested enough to follow career’s or be able to form a qualified opinion of the drivers personalities, nor do I really understand teams strategy. So I always want Lewis to win because he’s a Brit, and I’ve never understood the criticism he gets from British people. But I think instance’s like the one you allude to today probably paints a different picture. The team absolutely couldn’t foresee a safety car To be fair to Lewis he did fairly quickly explain that he was not complaining about the safety car. He was complaining about being told by the team to back off and run in clean air because his engine was overheating effectively ending his push to catch and pass Russell. This was the impact of a number of strategic choices for the race including how turned up the engine was and how hard he was told to push earlier. All that said it is still an unnecessary poor little me wining moment, but makes more sense than the completely illogical complaint about the safety car. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, Straggler said: To be fair to Lewis he did fairly quickly explain that he was not complaining about the safety car. He was complaining about being told by the team to back off and run in clean air because his engine was overheating effectively ending his push to catch and pass Russell. This was the impact of a number of strategic choices for the race including how turned up the engine was and how hard he was told to push earlier. All that said it is still an unnecessary poor little me wining moment, but makes more sense than the completely illogical complaint about the safety car. Easy to just make assumptions though. buzzing for Leclerc, buzzing about Verstoppin’ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted April 11, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 11, 2022 Yeah, he did explain it away to be fair. It never made a huge amount of sense that he'd blame the team for the safety car. Although I still don't think he should have publicly criticised his team like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 This depressed me a little bit when I saw it this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Mercedes have really messed up with these new cars. It's terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 1 minute ago, DCJonah said: Mercedes have really messed up with these new cars. It's terrible. When they went to a design so drastically different to everyone else it was gonna go one of 2 ways. Sadly for them, they got it wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 It's fantastic imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Hopefully that's a nice double Q2 exit for them, good job Carlos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 19 minutes ago, Farlz said: It's fantastic imo. On one hand yes, in an ideal world they’d have a similar pace to Red Bull and Ferrari to make it really interesting but what we have is the next best thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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