I opted to watch the 2nd to last F1 race of the season rather than the Giants game live. Thrilling race with Hamilton and Verstappen battling it out. If you have a chance to catch a rerun on ESPN+ I highly recommend it.
The final race of the season is next Sunday in Abu Dhabi. Hamilton and Verstappen are tied in points and it may be a good show. With F1 you have to watch qualifying the day before as it makes a huge impact on the final outcome.
Sets up nicely for next week. I hope the championship battle is not determined by a collision between the leaders, but given the circumstances, and yesterday’s escalation of intensity, I think there is a good chance that we could see a replay of Senna/Proust.
Quite the race and now tied in points but Max with the tiebreaker.
Abu Dhabi should be great.
I hope next week's race is clean. But my guess is Hamilton is not going to back off next week on a Verstappen late braking dive into a corner. Verstappen is an amazing driver with balls of steel. But he races like he is playing a video game sometimes.
They need to stop allowing teams to work on cars during red flags. They are occuring much more regularly it seems and it takes away much of the remaining strategy in a race. I say that as Hamilton fan who has been aided by that in the past.
It was an eventful race but I honestly wasn't a very big fan of that track. Difficult to overtake. Quite frankly seemed incredibly dangerous. All the stoppages and virtual safety cars really bogged it down.
I hope next week's race is clean. But my guess is Hamilton is not going to back off next week on a Verstappen late braking dive into a corner. Verstappen is an amazing driver with balls of steel. But he races like he is playing a video game sometimes.
They need to stop allowing teams to work on cars during red flags. They are occuring much more regularly it seems and it takes away much of the remaining strategy in a race. I say that as Hamilton fan who has been aided by that in the past.
I was surprised they stayed on Hamilton. Usually they're pretty good at showing midfield battles when the leader is 8s ahead
It was an eventful race but I honestly wasn't a very big fan of that track. Difficult to overtake. Quite frankly seemed incredibly dangerous. All the stoppages and virtual safety cars really bogged it down.
Mazepin is terrible. Mazepin had no place to go...but maybe should of hit the brakes a bit sooner. The track layout is fine. The high speed blind corners seem really dangerous.
"Defining what is and isn’t acceptable racing by way of words is an impossible task and should never have been attempted. It was a response to some of the more outrageous moves introduced to the sport in a very high profile way by Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, unsportsmanlike at best and downright dangerous at worst. As soon as you define in words what isn’t allowed you automatically create a space in the margins for anything which isn’t covered by that wording to be ok."
I was a fan, and always conducted myself in the spirit of "leave just over a car width and beat the guy to/into the next corner". Want a lesson on how it can be done with these cars? See if there are any clips of Alonso defending his position against Hamilton in Spain. Master class in car placement.
Never been a fan of Max, his Father, Helmut Marko or Gabby Spice aka Christian Horner. Take him down, LH.
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Stop. RB has as much race pace as Mercedes. The lap Verstappen was putting in during Q3 was insane. If he keeps it off the wall he is on pole and probably wins the race. Verstappen is the quickest driver out there...but he is not the smartest.
One of Max's problems is that he passes "as soon as he gets there" as some describe it. He's too impatient to wait for a mistake, and that's part of racecraft. Arrogance and entitlement are big hurdles for some.