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skullfunkerry

5-place penalty for Vettel:

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.vettel-to-start-bahrain-gp-from-last-after-being-hit-with-grid-penalty-for.2nCxmT9a7qlPoexezly0Vk.html

Fiver says that he'll over-drive and spin on lap 1...

dazzajl

skullfunkerry said:

5-place penalty for Vettel:

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.vettel-to-start-bahrain-gp-from-last-after-being-hit-with-grid-penalty-for.2nCxmT9a7qlPoexezly0Vk.html

Fiver says that he'll over-drive and spin on lap 1...

And lap 7 and 23 and........  

Cols

“Oh no, a 5 place grid penalty!  What a disaster, all of my hard work during qualifying has been undone!”

Pointless Penalties, brought to you today by Mika Salo and his crazy chums.

prowla

Sky haven't done their £10 offer; might watch the highlights this evening.

stickyfiddle

Sooo.. last-minute predictions?

VerHamBot is fairly safe at a guess. I reckon Alonso to move forward and end up 6th by lap 3, then stay there. Mazepin to crash into Vettel, Tsunoda to move forward, Perez to end up top 6. 

not_the_dj

Marzipan to cause a safety car at some point. 

not_the_dj

not_the_dj said:

Marzipan to cause a safety car at some point. 

3 corners in. 

stickyfiddle

On a human level I hope he's ok, but I must admit I fucking laughed really loudly... 

Brio

Oh I’m enjoying this race.

stickyfiddle

Great race so far. Lap 20 with the three of them!! 

It's early days but maybe we should just keep these cars another year...???

fretmeister

Mercs and Aston colours too close.

stickyfiddle

Yeah, I do think the AM colour is a little dark under the spotlights. They said they spent ages testing colours but half a shade lighter would pop much more - the Alpine looks awesome in comparison. Maybe it works better in bright sunshine

thumpingrug

Those last few laps were a bit tense.  

not_the_dj

More of that please this season

markr76

Get in!

stickyfiddle

Epic! Never put Lewis in a corner! More please!!

I actually really feel for Max. In previous years he’d have ignored the instruction and disappeared into the distance. 

But man do they need to sort out the track limits rules and really enforce them all the time.

sweepy

That was a proper race, this Season looks as though it’s going to be fun and great work from Tsunoda to get points on his debut 

prowla

Normality is resumed...

Brio

Im dancing thr page room with my pants on my head! Epic.

goldtop

Did race control tell RB to tell MV to give the place back to LH?

Bit ironic if the reason race control were being so rigid is because of the earlier complaint by RB about LH and the track limits.