Saudi GP

Oh dear all of a sudden the greatest driver ever is not the greatest driver ever.

He is outstanding when they decide he is and they give him the fastest car.

Now they've decided its someone else's turn for the fastest car.

Hilarious.
 
Brian Marwood said:
Having a car that doesnā€™t seem good enough to challenge for the first time in a decade.
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Brian has a point here. Yes the Mercedes isn't competitive but Russell was 10 places above him in qualifying. Something seriously wrong with Hamilton today, not the Merc. The Merc was merely 2nd tier. Hamiltons qualiy was terrible. Maybe he's not coping well with not being at the bleeding edge?
 
SmallTown said:
Something seriously wrong with Hamilton today, not the Merc. The Merc was merely 2nd tier. Hamiltons qualiy was terrible.
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No, I don't see that, throughout practice he was faster than Russell. The car set up was clearly wrong, I think they thought that he might be able to drive through it into Q2 and he nearly did. When Sky analysed his qualy lap against Russell's he couldn't run through T1 and T2 properly and lost nearly half a second by the time he exited T2. Through his career he has been able to pull incredible laps out of his car but ultimately if the car is not set up correctly there is only so much any driver can do.
 
Muttley said:
No, I don't see that, throughout practice he was faster than Russell. The car set up was clearly wrong, I think they thought that he might be able to drive through it into Q2 and he nearly did. When Sky analysed his qualy lap against Russell's he couldn't run through T1 and T2 properly and lost nearly half a second by the time he exited T2. Through his career he has been able to pull incredible laps out of his car but ultimately if the car is not set up correctly there is only so much any driver can do.
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Fair enough I didnā€™t watch it I was just summising.

In other news: I remember zorro kicking off about team orders and how Merc treat Bottas. Iā€™m sure heā€™ll be upset that a team that went wild about one of their drivers almost doing a good qualifying lap last year could barely raise a smile when their other driver did an equally quick lap but managed to not crash into a wall. Itā€™s clear who they favour here. And itā€™ll be interesting to see how they treat Perez given he currently has the same amount of points as the human error champ
 
Also itā€™s interesting how quickly things change: for pretty much 10 years Mercedesā€™ HPP was the most powerful engine in f1. Yesterday Russell was the only man in the top 10 with a Merc engine šŸ˜” I imagine Schumacher and Tsunoda would have been quicker to had they not had issues
 
Muttley said:
No, I don't see that, throughout practice he was faster than Russell. The car set up was clearly wrong, I think they thought that he might be able to drive through it into Q2 and he nearly did. When Sky analysed his qualy lap against Russell's he couldn't run through T1 and T2 properly and lost nearly half a second by the time he exited T2. Through his career he has been able to pull incredible laps out of his car but ultimately if the car is not set up correctly there is only so much any driver can do.
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Toto confirmed as such last night saying they tried something on Hamilton's car and it didn't work. Russell had a different set up.
 
The new era of F1 was intended to shake up the ā€œnatural orderā€ and create much closer races and it looks to have certainly done that.

We saw multiple over takes in Bahrain even for the lead and not just in the pits either something we havenā€™t seen in a long time, and it continued throughout the grid.

Letā€™s hope Jeddah give us a similar close contest.
 
Jedi boro said:
The new era of F1 was intended to shake up the ā€œnatural orderā€ and create much closer races and it looks to have certainly done that.

We saw multiple over takes in Bahrain even for the lead and not just in the pits either something we havenā€™t seen in a long time, and it continued throughout the grid.

Letā€™s hope Jeddah give us a similar close contest.
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Yeah. I didnā€™t see the race but the move back to ground effect seem to be working. Haas with a spectacular keep forward and Mercedesā€™ with a spectacular leap back has certainly changed things. I think the new ā€œMax Verstappenā€ overtaking rule will help because it will promote clean and clever racing and not just dumb divebombs hoping the other guy will yield.
 
Here we go

Be interesting how checo does on pole and see how quick he can it off the line as bottas had the poles at Mercedesā€™ but he could never really get it off the line to do it justice.

Oooh alpha tauri stopped engine trouble.
 
Steer said:
This track is unsafe and not suitable for F1 or even F2. I hope that all drivers come away unscathed and that this track is never used again in its current format.
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This isnā€™t the official Saudi GP track itā€™s a stop Gap until this is built

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Saudi Arabia track aims to be ready for F1 in 2023

Saudi Arabiaā€™s new state-of-the-art race track in Qiddiya will be ready to host Formula 1 from 2023, circuit chiefs confirmed at an event on Friday.
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