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johnireland
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But you saw Mattia chastising LeClerc for questioning the pit calls and Mattia's running of the race. And that is why Mattia defended Sainz's win, to cover his own butt. He has never been a strong leader and he isn't one now. Look at how he has squandered Ferrari's lead at the beginning of the season. The engineers gave the team a car that could win. Mattia immediately sat back and let Red Bull, and now Mercedes, catch up. Now Red Bull, who works 24/7 on winning, and Mercedes (who do the same) are going to see Ferrari fighting to hang onto third in the constructor's championship...and will be lucky to get fourth in the WDC.
 
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johnireland johnireland
But you saw Mattia chastising LeClerc for questioning the pit calls and Mattia's running of the race. And that is why Mattia defended Sainz's win, to cover his own butt. He has never been a strong leader and he isn't one now. Look at how he has squandered Ferrari's lead at the beginning of the season. The engineers gave the team a car that could win. Mattia immediately sat back and let Red Bull, and now Mercedes, catch up. Now Red Bull, who works 24/7 on winning, and Mercedes (who do the same) are going to see Ferrari fighting to hang onto third in the constructor's championship...and will be lucky to get fourth in the WDC.
hmmmm....
when you join all the dots, you arrive at what you wrote.........

aren't the big-wigs @ Ferrari seeing this? if yes, then, Mattia's days as Scuderia Ferrari Principal should be numbered....
 
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Vercingetorix Vercingetorix
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That will make it easier for Leclerc to pounce on Max. Sainz's job is to keep the Mercedes boys at bay while Charles stretches out his lead.
 
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johnireland johnireland
That will make it easier for Leclerc to pounce on Max. Sainz's job is to keep the Mercedes boys at bay while Charles stretches out his lead.
Actually, Sainz's job is to win races until he's told otherwise. It's not his fault Ferrari are fυcking up Leclerc's chances at every opportunity. You are deluded if you think Leclerc is going to "pounce"on Max.
 
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Would like Charles to get the lead at the start and hold it through the race. Sainz can struggle on his own from now on. He held up Charles forever last week and cost Charles the win. Sainz only thought of himself and not the team.

It wasn’t Sainz’s fault that Ferrari didn’t pit Leclerc during the safety car. Ferrari utilized a rule-of-thumb strategy to maintain track position vs pitting Leclerc for tires. Hind sight is always 20:20 and it was immediately a very bad decision. The delta between Leclerc and Hamilton was 6 seconds. Had Ferrari decided to take a gamble and pitted Leclerc, he would’ve come out behind Hamilton and Sainz on fresh softs and overtaken both them on the restart.

As for asking Sainz to open a 10-car gap at the restart, that was Ferrari’s attempt to cover their poor pit decision. Even if Sainz held them back, they would’ve swallowed up Leclerc and risked a win.

Blame Ferrari’s poor strategy team. Sainz was in his own right to protect the opportunity he lucked into.
 
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Vercingetorix Vercingetorix
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Thanks for the update. 👍

The news I read was that only his Q3 times were deleted. Didn’t know his Q2 (lap 17) time was deleted as well.
 
dsio
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I think the Dutchies might need to tone down the smoke a bit, wouldn’t even want to be in the stands with that much flare smoke going off

So how are Ferrari going to bottle it this time?
 
dsio
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Ferrari is really on fire right now ☕
 
MRC
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dsio dsio
Ferrari is really on fire right now ☕
But unable to back off.

Cracking race, action all through the field.
 
texasmade
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Glad to see race stewards consistently enforcing track limits.
 
vbrad26
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Am I the only one happy about seeing both HAAS cars finish in the points? lol
 
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texasmade texasmade
Glad to see race stewards consistently enforcing track limits.
It would be nice to just have consistent stewarding.
 
bombaywalla
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dsio dsio
I think the Dutchies might need to tone down the smoke a bit, wouldn’t even want to be in the stands with that much flare smoke going off

So how are Ferrari going to bottle it this time?
i was listening to podcasts after the race & heard that many fans esp those Dutch-ies were behaving very, very badly. one fan was caught urinating publically, others were cheering when other teams crashed, fans of other teams were jeered, still others were threatened for supporting their resp teams & there was an excessive use of alcohol.
it seems it's become really bad this year.
there was some chatter the podcast authors caught about fans just not going to attend an races live any more....

and, yes, Seb got fined $25000 for ranting towards a Steward & leaving the room without permission.
he asked about consistent stewarding & Austrian Stewards told him it's not us, it's them --- since the Stewards are changed each race. there are 2 Race Directors & 2 sets of other Stewards. When there was a mistake at Silverstone, those stewards are on break for the Austrian GP.
So, Seb threw up his hands figuratively & said something like i'm tired of all your excuses & just left.
the fine stated that Seb was not doing a good job as being a good F1 role model....believe it or not........
 
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bombaywalla bombaywalla
i was listening to podcasts after the race & heard that many fans esp those Dutch-ies were behaving very, very badly.
As Nigel Powers once said, "There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch".
 
tnt9
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It was great to se Mick, all weekend, Q/sprint/race. Greate pace. That first points last time made it much easier now.. and it is so great see him in fight on track. Hope he will be better and better.
 
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