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Safe to say my gambles didn't work 
McLaren going full Ferrari was not on my bingo card.
Norris not blameless, missing the marks on his pitstop cost him 2 seconds, pitting on the wrong lap completely ended it and then the weird soft strategy call.
Piastri non-stack decision was even worse than all that, just stupid. Saved ~1.5 seconds by not pitting but cost themselves ~20 seconds by having the extra lap, no idea who was doing the calcs but that's an absurd miscalc.
Hamilton did a great job managing the tires at the end to finish comfortably ahead. Max was storming home though.
Then you have Perez, I'll never understand why F1 teams throw the baby out with the bathwater like Red Bull did (Ferrari did it also and last week). Perez is a solid second faster than the cars up to ~6th, if he races a normal race on a track that's very easy to overtake on then he finishes top 10. Instead they go the hard gamble at the start into the way too early inter, into staying on the inter when it's 20 seconds a lap slower into coming off the inter too early, was crazy bad strategy. It's weird, they basically go "well he can't win so may as well come 20th trying lunatic things". Every team does it and I'll never understand it. Will always baffle me.
Russell unlucky, bad mistakes by him to give up 1st, into the double stack victim into the DNF outside his control.
Such a weird race where McLaren so much better first stint, Mercedes so much better on 2nd stint/strategy and the Red Bull so much faster at the end.
Great race as well, they really need to find a way to have rain every week, just makes things so much more interesting.
McLaren going full Ferrari was not on my bingo card.
Norris not blameless, missing the marks on his pitstop cost him 2 seconds, pitting on the wrong lap completely ended it and then the weird soft strategy call.
Piastri non-stack decision was even worse than all that, just stupid. Saved ~1.5 seconds by not pitting but cost themselves ~20 seconds by having the extra lap, no idea who was doing the calcs but that's an absurd miscalc.
Hamilton did a great job managing the tires at the end to finish comfortably ahead. Max was storming home though.
Then you have Perez, I'll never understand why F1 teams throw the baby out with the bathwater like Red Bull did (Ferrari did it also and last week). Perez is a solid second faster than the cars up to ~6th, if he races a normal race on a track that's very easy to overtake on then he finishes top 10. Instead they go the hard gamble at the start into the way too early inter, into staying on the inter when it's 20 seconds a lap slower into coming off the inter too early, was crazy bad strategy. It's weird, they basically go "well he can't win so may as well come 20th trying lunatic things". Every team does it and I'll never understand it. Will always baffle me.
Russell unlucky, bad mistakes by him to give up 1st, into the double stack victim into the DNF outside his control.
Such a weird race where McLaren so much better first stint, Mercedes so much better on 2nd stint/strategy and the Red Bull so much faster at the end.
Great race as well, they really need to find a way to have rain every week, just makes things so much more interesting.
Safe to say my gambles didn't work
McLaren going full Ferrari was not on my bingo card.
Norris not blameless, missing the marks on his pitstop cost him 2 seconds, pitting on the wrong lap completely ended it and then the weird soft strategy call.
Piastri non-stack decision was even worse than all that, just stupid. Saved ~1.5 seconds by not pitting but cost themselves ~20 seconds by having the extra lap, no idea who was doing the calcs but that's an absurd miscalc.
Hamilton did a great job managing the tires at the end to finish comfortably ahead. Max was storming home though.
Then you have Perez, I'll never understand why F1 teams throw the baby out with the bathwater like Red Bull did (Ferrari did it also and last week). Perez is a solid second faster than the cars up to ~6th, if he races a normal race on a track that's very easy to overtake on then he finishes top 10. Instead they go the hard gamble at the start into the way too early inter, into staying on the inter when it's 20 seconds a lap slower into coming off the inter too early, was crazy bad strategy. It's weird, they basically go "well he can't win so may as well come 20th trying lunatic things". Every team does it and I'll never understand it. Will always baffle me.
Russell unlucky, bad mistakes by him to give up 1st, into the double stack victim into the DNF outside his control.
Such a weird race where McLaren so much better first stint, Mercedes so much better on 2nd stint/strategy and the Red Bull so much faster at the end.
Great race as well, they really need to find a way to have rain every week, just makes things so much more interesting.
McLaren going full Ferrari was not on my bingo card.
Norris not blameless, missing the marks on his pitstop cost him 2 seconds, pitting on the wrong lap completely ended it and then the weird soft strategy call.
Piastri non-stack decision was even worse than all that, just stupid. Saved ~1.5 seconds by not pitting but cost themselves ~20 seconds by having the extra lap, no idea who was doing the calcs but that's an absurd miscalc.
Hamilton did a great job managing the tires at the end to finish comfortably ahead. Max was storming home though.
Then you have Perez, I'll never understand why F1 teams throw the baby out with the bathwater like Red Bull did (Ferrari did it also and last week). Perez is a solid second faster than the cars up to ~6th, if he races a normal race on a track that's very easy to overtake on then he finishes top 10. Instead they go the hard gamble at the start into the way too early inter, into staying on the inter when it's 20 seconds a lap slower into coming off the inter too early, was crazy bad strategy. It's weird, they basically go "well he can't win so may as well come 20th trying lunatic things". Every team does it and I'll never understand it. Will always baffle me.
Russell unlucky, bad mistakes by him to give up 1st, into the double stack victim into the DNF outside his control.
Such a weird race where McLaren so much better first stint, Mercedes so much better on 2nd stint/strategy and the Red Bull so much faster at the end.
Great race as well, they really need to find a way to have rain every week, just makes things so much more interesting.
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Drivers: Hulkenberg -26, Magnussen -15, Stroll 3, Hamilton 8, Tsunoda 14, Albon 14, Ricciardo 19, Sargeant 20, Bottas 22, Sainz 23, Piastri 24, Zhou 27, Gasly 30, Ocon 34, Russell 39, Alonso 40, Perez 65, Leclerc 159, Norris 162, Verstappen 173
Teams: Haas -25, Williams 7, RB 19, Aston Martin 28, Kick Sauber 38, Mercedes 43, Alpine 51, Ferrari 105, Mclaren 120, Red Bull 145
Teams: Haas -25, Williams 7, RB 19, Aston Martin 28, Kick Sauber 38, Mercedes 43, Alpine 51, Ferrari 105, Mclaren 120, Red Bull 145
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Think Lando did what any driver eyeing off a championship would do in that situation. Probably knew he had to do it from the first radio call but just made sure everyone in the team knew what a sacrifice it was from his perspective.
Very happy for Oscar though! Fully deserved from the moment he snuck in at turn 1
Very happy for Oscar though! Fully deserved from the moment he snuck in at turn 1
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