F1 2021 Round 7 : French GP (Paul Ricard)

Itssoeasy

PsychoPete wrote: »

Bottas will be absolutely fuming after this race

He’s been fuming during the race.

Itssoeasy

Alright max now is the time.

Hamilton lost half a second at the chicane and no-one noticed. Another hfew tenths in the next few corners, cliff might have been reached.

ctrl-alt-delete

No doubt he is going to get one shot at it, will it happen though.

titan18

Faugheen wrote: »

Max has found some more pace now. Just under 3s the gap now.

If Hamilton pulls this off it will be incredible.

Is it? I think Red Bull messed this up more than this incredible from Hamilton. Nearly all the cars are out on the hards and still getting decent performance from them. Red Bull thought they were falling off more than they did

Verstappen gets within a second at the worst possible spot.

ctrl-alt-delete

Get in there Max!

namloc1980

Come on!!

Itssoeasy

Max gets ahead. Don’t do what he did at the start of the race max.

namloc1980

Yes my son

skipper_G

Lovely decisive move

PsychoPete

Fantastic stuff

Rossi IRL

Mercedes lost themselves this race with their lack of pit stop calls

2011

titan18 wrote: »

Is it? I think Red Bull messed this up more than this incredible from Hamilton. Nearly all the cars are out on the hards and still getting decent performance from them. Red Bull thought they were falling off more than they did

Yes but it’s now looking better for max.
He is a phenomenal driver, if anyone can do it Max can.

Faugheen

Well in, Max.

TheDoctor

As we all say

Paul Richard always delivers great races

Thank **** for that.

Coverage poor again though, 8 tenths behind and they stop showing the gap through the few corners before the DRS zone.

Damo 2k9

Only started watching F1 half way through last season, read about the French GP being boring.. what a race!! Come on Max.

titan18

titan18 wrote: »

Is it? I think Red Bull messed this up more than this incredible from Hamilton. Nearly all the cars are out on the hards and still getting decent performance from them. Red Bull thought they were falling off more than they did

Sweet, I was wrong (ish). Still think waiting 2/3 more laps would have been ideal though.

What's Mercedes' reason for not pitting Bottas once he was overtaken? "**** him!"? Jesus.

2011

Yesssss!
What a drive! In a class of his own! Fantastic!!!

TheDoctor

Great race for McLaren too. 5th and 6th

Burkie1203

What happened between checo and bottas

McFly85

Brilliant from the entire Red Bull team. What an absorbing race!

namloc1980

Horrendous race from Ferrari. No points.

afatbollix

Was there even a yellow flag throughout the whole race?

Great race, Ussually a borefest and that was great.

Ya can say what you want about Pirelli but these tires are so much better than a tyre war.

Dampsquid

Why didn't Bottas go for fastest lap?

ctrl-alt-delete

That was a great race for Redbull. Their strategy was spot on - when they pulled the trigger for that second stop for Max it forced the Mercs to stay out given the power of the undercut.

Massive momentum now.

1st and 3rd versus second for the constructors, plus the fastest lap for Max.

TheDoctor

Burkie1203 wrote: »

What happened between checo and bottas

Did Perez run wide completing the pass?

Maybe why Bottas didn’t put in case he gets a time penalty

antodeco

Red Bull not only have the car and driver this year, they have the right strategists. Can only assume Mercedes for arrogant for this season me are now being caught out