Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread
As always, rain causes chaos. The safety cars really scrambled things up too. Rosberg had built some gap between him and everyone else before that first one came out.
I try not to agree with Hamilton on much of anything, but I join him in laughing at the team orders not to hold up Nico. Then I laugh at Nico for crying that he didn't let him go by. "Don't hold him up" is a lot different than "slow the hell down for no reason and let him pass you." Nico never got close enough to pass, Hamilton was not holding him up, because he couldn't get close enough. But it was dumb to ever really relay that message when Nico was that far back anyway. Whatever controversy there is from this, which should be none, is Mercedes own fault.
Congrats to Ricciardo for sure. Without many long straights, this is a good Red Bull track, and they had superior strategy as well.
Also, congrats to Alonso. I don't think they made enough of the fact that he went 31 laps on the soft tires. That was a hell of a job to keep 2nd when his tires had surely been gone for several laps before he got caught up in the 3-man battle.
Sauber had 2 points spots going there for a while. But they can't seem to do anything right. The two Force India drivers ran into eachother. Raikkonen seemed like he got going in the right direction despite that enormous gaffe they made in qualifying. I went back and watched the replay to see what was up with that. He finished his fast lap with a touch over 9 1/2 minutes to go, so you figure by the time he finishes his in lap and they back him into the garage, there are damn near 8 minutes to, at least 7-7 1/2. And they never put him on the soft tires. That couldn't have been botched much worse.
Mercedes do seem to have some reliability issues popping up though particularly in the brake department. They'll run away with the constructors still, but Hamilton caught on fire, supposedly from a fuel leak. They've both had brake issues before, and Rosberg had some issues early in the race that cost him some time. It fixed itself, but there are issues for them for sure.
I hope this moronic double points race at the end of the year doesn't change the driver's title outcome.
As always, rain causes chaos. The safety cars really scrambled things up too. Rosberg had built some gap between him and everyone else before that first one came out.
I try not to agree with Hamilton on much of anything, but I join him in laughing at the team orders not to hold up Nico. Then I laugh at Nico for crying that he didn't let him go by. "Don't hold him up" is a lot different than "slow the hell down for no reason and let him pass you." Nico never got close enough to pass, Hamilton was not holding him up, because he couldn't get close enough. But it was dumb to ever really relay that message when Nico was that far back anyway. Whatever controversy there is from this, which should be none, is Mercedes own fault.
Congrats to Ricciardo for sure. Without many long straights, this is a good Red Bull track, and they had superior strategy as well.
Also, congrats to Alonso. I don't think they made enough of the fact that he went 31 laps on the soft tires. That was a hell of a job to keep 2nd when his tires had surely been gone for several laps before he got caught up in the 3-man battle.
Sauber had 2 points spots going there for a while. But they can't seem to do anything right. The two Force India drivers ran into eachother. Raikkonen seemed like he got going in the right direction despite that enormous gaffe they made in qualifying. I went back and watched the replay to see what was up with that. He finished his fast lap with a touch over 9 1/2 minutes to go, so you figure by the time he finishes his in lap and they back him into the garage, there are damn near 8 minutes to, at least 7-7 1/2. And they never put him on the soft tires. That couldn't have been botched much worse.
Mercedes do seem to have some reliability issues popping up though particularly in the brake department. They'll run away with the constructors still, but Hamilton caught on fire, supposedly from a fuel leak. They've both had brake issues before, and Rosberg had some issues early in the race that cost him some time. It fixed itself, but there are issues for them for sure.
I hope this moronic double points race at the end of the year doesn't change the driver's title outcome.
This is going to get red flagged soon. Going to be ridiculous if they do two laps and then stop, which would mean everyone would get half points.
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