Motor Sport
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I get upset when Stroll outperforms Alonso. Now there is a “team nerfing a driver’s car to benefit the other driver” conspiracy theory that I find more plausible than the McLaren one.
It’ll be interesting to see Newey’s first AM car next season.
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I never thought Lando had the minerals (to quote Webber) to win a championship. but tip of the cap for his recent consistency.
Another sad outing for Lewis.
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You can’t convince me otherwise, but Max is seriously going to fuck with him…he lives for this stuff and the pressure on Lando is going to be intense.
Should be a great race.
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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100% @goosehd
It's fun seeing Max as an "under dog"
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@goosehd there will be drama on lap one, that is for sure.
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@Giles said in Motor Sport:
Get in there Lando.......
Really proud of the kid. He has been consistently performing when it matters. Really challenging qualy to put down a lap like that.
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Unfuckingbelievable
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McLaren making a Ferrari level gaffe at exactly the wrong time. Truly just blows my mind. Why take that risk at this moment? Lando has now had a P2 and a P1 start where he got zero points through no fault of his own. It’s remarkable he is still leading WDC.
I think he wins it still but under unneeded additional pressure, and Oscar I think drops to P3 in the final standings.
McLaren is really good at finding new ways to tank their drivers.
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…anybody have the feeling that Lando is going to receive random all hour food deliveries, phone calls, loud music playing next door, etc. for the next week.
…and Max just checking in to see how his buddy is doing to make sure he’s ok…explaining how he knows how stressful it can be on top…
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Pirelli would make better tires if F1 allowed them to.
But no matter how good your tire, giant sharp rocks as “gravel” present a challenge.
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I was not blaming Pirelli, I was implying that the FIA, and more specifically MBS are arseholes :-). I know my logic can be questioned, but I like to think in black and white
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@Giles but you’re spot on. I was replying to @Tago-Mago ; Pirelli is more than capable of making tires that could go much longer than theirs are going (say, a 40-lap Medium for example) but FIA (and presumably MBS) won’t allow it. They said as much when Pirelli took over in 2011: they had eliminated in-race refueling, and wanted tire replacement to drive pit stops. Since it is a team sport, to make sure that the strategy and pit stop aspects of the sport were tested, gracefully degrading tires was what Pirelli were expected to deliver.
I get that, but getting tires that degrade in the right way per track and conditions to spice races up is not an easy task. I think part of Pireli’s responsibility as the supplier of tires is to take the heat for FIA’s decisions about tire compounds and degradation when they don’t work out.
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This stint cap is the dumbest rule yet
