Motor Sport
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absolutely devastated for Leclerc. Max too. Psyched for Hadjar and the VCARBs. I cant believe the number of DNF's and penalties in that race, not to mention a disintegrating track. George though, man, this guy. I get the mis-served penalty and the frustration of that additional time, but backing up the pack at the hairpin on restart, wtf. Albeit, indirectly, he caused Sainz's DNF and Hulkenberg penalty. That was a head-scratcher for sure. He must have been ordered to block for Kimi against his will. This seems like it'd fall under "driving excessively slowly, erratically, or potentially dangerously" that pace would've put him way off his delta and it did result in multiple contacts, not to mention his intention was clear based on the gap to the car ahead was massively extended. Anywho, in the end i think he's making his own luck this season, and Kimi deserves every bit of success he's had, even if he has had a few lucky breaks.
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That was just a catastrophic race. Glad they got the restart at least but brutal viewing.
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@WhiskeySandwich to be fair…does anyone not laugh at Stroll?
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@goosehd I don't HAHAHA
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@goosehd said in Motor Sport:
@WhiskeySandwich to be fair…does anyone not laugh at Stroll?
I laughed out loud when in the post crash interview he was being told that the reason he came off was because the front left tyre had picked up crap from the disintegrating road surface, contributing to (causing) the crash, he argued that in fact it was because the car was so shitty. Stupid arsehole cant even recognise that he has a get out of jail free being thrown at him, because he is in "I'll auto blame the car mode"....
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Charles kind of did the same thing about the brakes over the debris his tire clearly picked up but I believe there is much more likely actually a brake problem in his case.
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Saw an analysis that Leclerc was hoping that the battery management system would kick in and slow down the car more than it did. His mistake was not realizing the battery was already fully charged coming off of the restart and that the recovery system would not kick in.
Just one person's thoughts though.
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@goosehd I think this is something thats been understated all season. I've seen several drivers from all different teams complain about things that would present as 'engine braking' that seems like it'd pretty clearly be the recovery systems transferring unpredictable forces to the contact patch. there have been countless 'errors' made as a result of the hybrid system doing non-intuitive things. I really think its by far the worst thing going on with F1 right now, is the emphasis on hybrid systems....
edit to add the launch sequence issues. with finding the perfect charge window on the formation lap or you botch the launch.
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@Tago-Mago ...I deserve that one.
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It might actually be possible that Hamilton is breaking the Kardashian curse! Second place with his girl in attendance. We might be witnessing history.
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@goosehd I'm pretty sure they just said it was a vague power unit issue. common thread this entire season across all PU manufacturers.
Update: Mekies said "we found out what it was, his power unit expired, we were going to replace that before the next race anyway."
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@WhiskeySandwich said in Motor Sport:
"we found out what it was, his power unit expired, we were going to replace that before the next race anyway."
This would be so much better if he had said "we found out what it was, his engine died".
A "power unit" has no place in a formula one car....
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@Giles haha. he all but did, yet they dance around the problem and say "we think we identified the problem". There it is: its your fucking blown engine.
I'm cool with turbos, but they need to ditch these hybrid systems and bring back higher cylinder counts that scream.
