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Allez Les Bleus!

Very happy for Williams too 👍
 
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And Bottas takes out both Red Bulls on the first corner!
Congratulations to OCO on his first F1 win. It is always nice to see a first time winner.

HAM to BOT: You can be my wingman anytime! ::facepalm1::
 
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Curious and my brain is a bit foggy, but wasn’t the last GP won by a Frenchman, in a French car, Olivier Panis in a Ligier at Monaco?
 
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That was an exciting race. The rain always spices things up.
 
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Oh no! Sebastian referred to stewards because there was too little fuel left in the car to take the mandatory 1.0 litre sample after the race.

Edit: DSQ 🙁


Colin Chapman was the master of not putting in enough fuel, costing Jim Clark and Mario Andretti of wins when their pace was so high the fuel ran out before the last lap.
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This is pretty clear cut and on the AM engineers for not telling Vettel to conserve.
 
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This is pretty clear cut and on the AM engineers for not telling Vettel to conserve.
Or for not putting enough in before the start, and with three laps (2 + 1) behind the pace car with low consumption! Vettel wanted the win and was trying hard to get it. I feel very sorry for him.
 
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Or for not putting enough in before the start, and with three laps (2 + 1) behind the pace car with low consumption! Vettel wanted the win and was trying hard to get it. I feel very sorry for him.
Yeah, VET must be gutted after that impressive drive. On the bright side, HAM just increased his lead by another two points.
 
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Curious and my brain is a bit foggy, but wasn’t the last GP won by a Frenchman, in a French car, Olivier Panis in a Ligier at Monaco?
Panis was the last Frenchman to win a GP until Gasly won last year.
 
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Loved watching ALO hold off HAM for those handful of laps. Too bad he locked them up. Although I’m sure he would have “given up” that spot eventually.
 
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Loved watching ALO hold off HAM for those handful of laps. Too bad he locked them up. Although I’m sure he would have “given up” that spot eventually.
I think what really screwed Lewis was on the first attempt at the end of the pit exit. Lewis was about to attempt a move but Kimi exited and took up the space. It would've been 3 into 2 and a wipeout of all 3 cars so Lewis backed off. After that Lewis had to wait another few laps to try again and then it took him like 4 or 5 more laps to finally get it done.
 
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Or for not putting enough in before the start, and with three laps (2 + 1) behind the pace car with low consumption! Vettel wanted the win and was trying hard to get it. I feel very sorry for him.
I still think towards the end of the race the engineers should've radio'd Vettel and told him to conserve fuel. Don't they usually have a bunch of computers to simulate projected fuel consumption and someone should've raised the alarm bell with a few laps remaining.
 
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Congrats to Williams for getting on the board and double scoring some decent points!

It was great to see such an epic battle with Alonso, though Hamilton complaining that “at that speed it’s dangerous man” had me 😕. He repeatedly says he wants competition and when he fairly gets it, he complains. Also, he was just involved in a dangerous maneuver, at even greater speeds, the race prior… 😕
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Loved watching ALO hold off HAM for those handful of laps. Too bad he locked them up. Although I’m sure he would have “given up” that spot eventually.
That was such incredible old school Alonso driving, watching the two Alpines doing a lap in formation at the end was great too, well deserved to them.

As for Bottas… I hope he enjoys his DTM seat next year. He must be the only man in Finland incapable of driving in slippery conditions.
 
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Solo re start was Lolz…

Bottas made a mistake it was not premeditated… Strolls was way way worse.

yeah Alonso still is the best pure racer out there.

congrats Ocon, been along time coming.

poor Vettle… that’s the second time he has been disqualified from a race for not having enough fuel at the end of the race for the fuel test.