2018 Formula 1 Season

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Haven't seen HAM after race comments yet, am guessing it's not positive.
He basically said he sucked the whole weekend.
 
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A pretty good day for me in Fantasy GP - my predictions sucked but my team did okay. Moved up a few places!
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Ah well. Ebbs and flows of F1.
Yep. This has actually turned out to be a pretty good season through the first 3 races without any driver clearly breaking away. Only 1 boring race with a huge strategy miscalculation by Mercedes and 2 pretty exciting races.
 
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Well that certainly picked up towards the end . Loved Alonso sticking it to Vettel....

Alonso really has zero respect for Vettel and does things like list half the grid except Seb when he's asked who the most talented drivers are, even mentioned Hulk and Ocon before Seb. Afterwards apparently Seb was like that guy really needs to get over it he's been out to get me for 5 years. I'm still an Alonso fan so I enjoyed it 😀
 
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Max again shows he has no idea what he is doing, great to see Ricciardo on the top step!
 
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Remember what I said about aggressive vs reckless last weekend?

Yup... Ricardo is aggressive... Max not so much.

Max keeps saying he locked the rears... umm no you didn’t you tried to crash through a locked door...

I watched through the post race interviews. Hamilton was not whining at all he blamed himself.
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Thought it was a great race today , one of the best , I'm a Hammy fan and he basically said he was behind on pace all weekend , having said that he races best when he's under pressure , Ric drove an amazing race , "Just lick the stamp and and send it " Lol couldn't have said it better myself , sets things up for the rest of the season with Bottas looking stronger than ever and Vettall sulking again .
 
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I am both a huge fan of Ricciardo and Max, and Max totally ruined his race with the overtake on Seb, but(!!) I think that Ricciardo's move on Bottas was also wrongly timed, he had quite some laps, and he was way quicker, he came from far away and only just made the pass, if Bottas closed the door because he didn't expect the move anymore, which he could have because it was very late and the gap was quite small, Daniel's race would have ended in tears too.
 
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Interesting race but all down to pits again. Red Bull were fortunate to get the pit as soon as the safety car came out. Clinical by Daniel. Superb driving. Glad to see Red Bull having glimpses of brilliance and performance again.
Hamilton looks like a number 2 driver this season!
 
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I am both a huge fan of Ricciardo and Max, and Max totally ruined his race with the overtake on Seb, but(!!) I think that Ricciardo's move on Bottas was also wrongly timed, he had quite some laps, and he was way quicker, he came from far away and only just made the pass, if Bottas closed the door because he didn't expect the move anymore, which he could have because it was very late and the gap was quite small, Daniel's race would have ended in tears too.
From someone with a lot of track time those where drastically different passes. I saw Max’s going wrong 2 seconds before the impact and saw potential for it going pear shaped before that. Ricardo’s was aggressive but not wrong.
 
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From someone with a lot of track time those where drastically different passes. I saw Max’s going wrong 2 seconds before the impact and saw potential for it going pear shaped before that. Ricardo’s was aggressive but not wrong.
I never said they were similar, just didn’t seem like the right timing for it, he was a lot quicker and had quite some laps, if Bottas was more aggressive it could have ended badly.

Ofcourse Max’ move was way worse, he doesn’t apologize much, so when he does it must be bad 😉
 
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I'm super glad Danny Ric. won. He truly deserved it.
I want to like Max, but his ambition keeps getting the best of him.
And being a Vettel fan, I was super disappointed. However Ferrari's strategy was not great either.
But it happens, racing is racing.
 
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I love when the safety cars make things interesting. From a fan perspective, I like it better than the VSC for sure.
 
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I watched through the post race interviews. Hamilton was not whining at all he blamed himself.

I wasn't so much talking about the post race interviews, as his team radio comments.
This week it was the "Am I correct in seeing all cars behind me on new tires right now?".
It's not so much about the content of that sentence, mostly about the way he talks to his team, like a spoiled little brat.
 
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I wasn't so much talking about the post race interviews, as his team radio comments.
This week it was the "Am I correct in seeing all cars behind me on new tires right now?".
It's not so much about the content of that sentence, mostly about the way he talks to his team, like a spoiled little brat.
I’m not a Hamilton fan but he was way worse a few years ago. He blamed the team whined on the radio for things that where his fault. Bitched about issues that the car obviously didn’t have. He’s paid a lot of money to at least one sports therapist and done a 180 from how he used to be. His whole outlook has changed and he accepts responsibility now. He didn’t used to.

I think it was a fair question as to why he did not put for tires. Bottas made sense to keep out, Hamilton was in a track position to get new tires and not loose a spot.
 
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I wasn't so much talking about the post race interviews, as his team radio comments.
This week it was the "Am I correct in seeing all cars behind me on new tires right now?".
It's not so much about the content of that sentence, mostly about the way he talks to his team, like a spoiled little brat.
I'd be pissed too if I were in Hamilton's spot since Max was in front of him and pitted. The fresh tires made all the difference (outside of Max dive bombing everyone). Bottas and Vettel couldn't pit because it was too late for them so I could see why Mercedes and Ferrari didn't pit them. After the Australia strategy error, this is twice now where Mercedes wasn't exactly on their A game when it comes to strategy.
 
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Quite enjoying the race so far. Really really want LeClerc to bring it home.
 
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Wasn't aware the new owners of F1 had introduced a 'Wacky Races' phase after lap 40