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GoldenEraGuitars

Wow.

stickyfiddle

Great result for Checo, and absolute class for Seb - felt like the old days

Somehow feeling sorry for Lewis AND Max - I wasn't expecting that !!

skullfunkerry

There will be some big hangovers in the paddock tomorrow morning I reckon!  

thumpingrug

I had to go sit a dark room for a while.  

TimmyO

Holy fuck. Just watched the whole race on recording (my Mum was here on her first visit in an age) 

wow 

Cols

Hats off to Bottas for finishing ahead of Hamilton

Lewis is blaming his lockup on accidentally flicking a switch in the cockpit which “basically switches the brakes off”.  Why the fuck would you have a switch which does that?  What next, an ejector seat button right beside the gearshift paddle?

thumpingrug

Cols said:

Hats off to Bottas for finishing ahead of Hamilton

Lewis is blaming his lockup on accidentally flicking a switch in the cockpit which “basically switches the brakes off”.  Why the fuck would you have a switch which does that?  What next, an ejector seat button right beside the gearshift paddle?

Apparently it shifts the brake bias 100% to the fronts so that on warm up laps the brakes get very hot and that heat is transferred to the tyres to ensure they stay warm.  Its a clever idea, but stupid design if it can be knocked on accidentally.

skunkwerx

thumpingrug said:

Cols said:

Hats off to Bottas for finishing ahead of Hamilton

Lewis is blaming his lockup on accidentally flicking a switch in the cockpit which “basically switches the brakes off”.  Why the fuck would you have a switch which does that?  What next, an ejector seat button right beside the gearshift paddle?

Apparently it shifts the brake bias 100% to the fronts so that on warm up laps the brakes get very hot and that heat is transferred to the tyres to ensure they stay warm.  Its a clever idea, but stupid design if it can be knocked on accidentally.

Seems mad thats so easy when it takes about 5 minutes for them to get it into reverse mode lol.. 

Cols

skunkwerx said:

thumpingrug said:

Cols said:

Hats off to Bottas for finishing ahead of Hamilton

Lewis is blaming his lockup on accidentally flicking a switch in the cockpit which “basically switches the brakes off”.  Why the fuck would you have a switch which does that?  What next, an ejector seat button right beside the gearshift paddle?

Apparently it shifts the brake bias 100% to the fronts so that on warm up laps the brakes get very hot and that heat is transferred to the tyres to ensure they stay warm.  Its a clever idea, but stupid design if it can be knocked on accidentally.

Seems mad thats so easy when it takes about 5 minutes for them to get it into reverse mode lol.. 

Now, accidentally flicking it into reverse while screaming into the first corner would be interesting…

fretmeister

By the next race the telemetry back to the pits will show the brake balance switch as a safety issue.

chillidoggy

My wife has just said to me, “Do you think Pirelli will get told off?”

I sure as shit think there’ll be some serious discussions about their tyre performance.

TimmyO

In fast jet cockpits they call this a “switch pigs” - pilots with huge experience very rarely do a thing where their brain runs through a checklist and does one thing and their fingers do a different thing. When you ask them afterwards they swear/know/believe they did thing A but the black box says they can only have done thing B. 

It’s one of the reasons in nuclear reactor operations they do things like say aloud “I am about to turn knob A to position 6” - then if someone sees them reach for knob C they can point it out before something hot and smelly happens. 

Hard in an F1 cockpit thought 

YellowLedBetterMan

I for one loved the drama.

Pirelli do need to sort their shit out though. It's like nothing has changed since Silverstone.

welshboyo

Best Race of the season so far IMO (either that or it was just better than Monaco)

Nice to see Seb have a bit of luck and his banter with the lady from Sky when she spoke to him over the radio was quite funny.

Sergio drove really well all weekend and whilst his result was sort of spoilt with all the drama (2nd would have been great!!), I can't think of a more deserving win - and all in a car with hydraulic problems that was on the verge of being retired!!!

boogieman

I didn’t realise Perez had hydraulic issues, I did wonder why they were shouting at him to switch off the car as soon as he’d crossed the line. 

Great race, all be it for all the wrong reasons. Good to hear the other drivers getting angry about the tyre problems. Someone at Pirelli needs their arse booted, both those blow outs could’ve had tragic results. 

fretmeister

boogieman said:

I didn’t realise Perez had hydraulic issues, I did wonder why they were shouting at him to switch off the car as soon as he’d crossed the line. 

Great race, all be it for all the wrong reasons. Good to hear the other drivers getting angry about the tyre problems. Someone at Pirelli needs their arse booted, both those blow outs could’ve had tragic results. 

They are saying it was debris at the moment.

Wouldn't be the first time that a track has a sharp but on it somewhere. In which case it will the track owners fault.

Cols

Bottas’s Monaco pit stop shenanigans?  Partly his own fault for being 2cm off his marks, according to Toto.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-wolff-valtteri-bottas-wheel-nut/

Lewis accidentally setting his brake bias fully forward and going sailing off into the scenery at Baku?  No, Lewis didn’t make a mistake, according to Toto.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-wolff-lewis-hamilton-baku-restart/

#doublestandards

Fretwired

Excellent race - looks like Perez is getting to understand his car - he had great race pace. Bottas is going backwards and Mercedes scored no points. I wonder if Wolff will be forced into calling Russell?

Looks like Vestappen is getting to Hamilton - a rare mistake made under pressure.

Fretwired

Cols said:

Bottas’s Monaco pit stop shenanigans?  Partly his own fault for being 2cm off his marks, according to Toto.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-wolff-valtteri-bottas-wheel-nut/

Lewis accidentally setting his brake bias fully forward and going sailing off into the scenery at Baku?  No, Lewis didn’t make a mistake, according to Toto.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-wolff-lewis-hamilton-baku-restart/

#doublestandards

Toto obviously didn't listen to Lewis who admitted it was his fault - he apologised to the team for his cock-up.

stickyfiddle

Fretwired said:

Excellent race - looks like Perez is getting to understand his car - he had great race pace. Bottas is going backwards and Mercedes scored no points. I wonder if Wolff will be forced into calling Russell?

Looks like Vestappen is getting to Hamilton - a rare mistake made under pressure.

Not this season, but if they don't sign him for '22 I'll eat something inappropriate. 

Hamilton will bounce back - he usually makes no more than 2 mistakes in a season, and he's usually at his best when in a corner. There's only 4 points in it, Max didn't score at Baku, and Singapore is cancelled and likely replaced by another COTA race, which plays to Lewis's hands. 

My money is still on Lewis, but it's looking like being the first genuinely close fight since 2012