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.

Thank **** for that.

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

TheDoctor

As we all say

Paul Richard always delivers great races

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.

Dampsquid

Why didn't Bottas go for fastest lap?

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.

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

murphyebass

Get in there Lewise.... or not.



Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahaha

Thank god Max came good. Great race.

Faugheen

I feel like that 'payback' remark from Horner is going to come back and bite him in the arse at some stage.

Itssoeasy

PsychoPete wrote: »

Bottas will be absolutely fuming after this race

Deleted User wrote: »

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

As if bottas was in any doubt that Mercedes don’t care about him this is more proof. They left him on tyres that were shot and look what happened. Bottas has ever right to be royally pissed off.

Faugheen

murphyebass wrote: »

Get in there Lewise.... or not.



Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahaha

Thank god Max came good. Great race.

This is just really, really sad.

namloc1980

Dampsquid wrote: »

Why didn't Bottas go for fastest lap?

Bonkers. He was 50 seconds ahead of Norris. They screwed Bottas again with strategy.

afatbollix

Dampsquid wrote: »

Why didn't Bottas go for fastest lap?

Perez would have also pitted and gone for the fastest lap. No point really.

BikeRacer

Another great drive and a podium for 'average' Perez :pac:

Burkie1203

Average from checo lol

murphyebass

Faugheen wrote: »

This is just really, really sad.

Why. It’s fantastic to see Max beat him. Particularly brilliant that it was so late on. An interesting race for the first time in a while.

Rossi IRL

namloc1980 wrote: »

Bonkers. He was 50 seconds ahead of Norris. They screwed Bottas again with strategy.

They screwed both drivers with a lack of strategy today.

After the first stop, Hamilton said to make sure he was first to pit next time. Red bull then caught them out again and pitted first.

klose

What a race! Bottas being used as a sacrificial lamb to attempt to hold up verstappen despite telling engineers 20+ laps ago his tyres won't last, I doubt he will even want to stay there next year now.

Some result for mclaren in the constructors and a nightmare day for ferrari who both finish out of the points.

Props to stroll, 19th to 10th, boat astons notching points.

TheDoctor

Two races in the next 14 days

Lovely stuff

TheDoctor

Red Bull look a very united team.

Lots of love for both drivers there.

Irishjg

Congrats to max and red bull. What a championship season this year is. Fantastic

Gaoth Laidir

Shït's just got real now for the season. Well done Max. Poor again by Merc. They apologised to Lewis after the race. I hope they did likewise to Bottas.

Looking forward to Zandvoort and the Oranje Army.

Charlie-Bravo

This track is only boring if there's one team well ahead of the rest. No borefest when things are so tight. Something to watch this year which is great.

2011

Hamilton was quite humble in the interview. Fair play.

Inquitus

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Shït's just got real now for the season. Well done Max. Poor again by Merc. They apologised to Lewis after the race. I hope they did likewise to Bottas.

Looking forward to Zandvoort and the Oranje Army.

Aye Merc threw that one away completely, they should apologise to Hamilton and Bottas.

Faugheen

murphyebass wrote: »

Why. It’s fantastic to see Max beat him. Particularly brilliant that it was so late on. An interesting race for the first time in a while.

That's not why it's sad, in fact I agree with everything you just said

It's the fact that after all of that, the first thing you do is laugh at Hamilton. That's sad.

murphyebass

2011 wrote: »

Hamilton was quite humble in the interview. Fair play.

First time for everything.

He was beaten by the better man today.