F1 2021 Round 3 : Portuguese Grand Prix

eviltimeban · 02-05-2021 4:39pm

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Mazepin ain't going anywhere. However, Steiner should have a chat with him about his on track behaviour today.

Drive To Survive next year is gonna be interesting!

murphyebass · 02-05-2021 4:40pm

Can’t all be classics but god that was a snore fest.

Moving swiftly along.

Get rid of DRS. It’s a shambles.

Jordan 199 · 02-05-2021 4:40pm

Very good result for the Alpine drivers today

Zookey123 · 02-05-2021 4:41pm

Another great win for Lewis. Expected more from Sergio and George today.

Charlie-Bravo · 02-05-2021 4:41pm

Hamilton thinks the team still have more work to do? I just don't him sometimes.

Itssoeasy · 02-05-2021 4:41pm

Max doesn’t get the fastest lap due to track limits.

titan18 · 02-05-2021 4:42pm

eviltimeban wrote: »

What would be the politics involved with replacing Mazepin mid-season? Does Gene Haas have the power to make that decision?

Has the power but not the money I'd guess.

Zookey123 · 02-05-2021 4:43pm

Charlie-Bravo wrote: »

Hamilton thinks the team still have more work to do? I just don't him sometimes.

Thats just a world champion mentality. He wants the team to continue to improve to ensure their dominance.

Cool_CM · 02-05-2021 4:44pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Max doesn’t get the fastest lap due to track limits.

He was well off the track, to be fair.

oceanman · 02-05-2021 4:44pm

jesus thats two hours of my life i wont get back!

Jordan 199 · 02-05-2021 4:46pm

Only one solution to sort out the track limits. Have tar pits on both sides of the track with Stampy's to rescue the drivers.

Indestructable · 02-05-2021 4:46pm

I sincerely hope this race was just a blip and not a return to the Merc dominance. They look like they've sorted a few gremlins and back to their best. Never looked troubled today really.

recyclebin · 02-05-2021 4:50pm

Very boring race. Can't see anyone bar the Mercedes and Red Bulls in the top 4 without rain or car issues for remainder of season.

DRS needs to be severely restricted too.

klose · 02-05-2021 4:51pm

That was fairly lacklustre unfortunately, Spain next wouldn't exactly get the blood pumping either.

02-05-2021 5:01pm

Have they announced driver of the day? Twitter seems to say they haven’t.

artanevilla · 02-05-2021 5:07pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Have they announced driver of the day? Twitter seems to say they haven’t.

Maybe everyone voted Mazepin like me.

MevinLegend · 02-05-2021 5:22pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Have they announced driver of the day? Twitter seems to say they haven’t.

Everyone online was spreading the word of voting Mazepin driver of the day prior to the race. Obviously Mazepin won the vote and F1 don’t want a mockery made of the driver of the day so didn’t decide to publish who won.

Burkie1203 · 02-05-2021 5:30pm

MevinLegend wrote: »

Everyone online was spreading the word of voting Mazepin driver of the day prior to the race. Obviously Mazepin won the vote and F1 don’t want a mockery made of the driver of the day so didn’t decide to publish who won.

Perez got it

MevinLegend · 02-05-2021 5:45pm

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Perez got it

Sure he did

MevinLegend · 02-05-2021 5:47pm

Mazepin getting a 5 second time penalty

Burkie1203 · 02-05-2021 5:52pm

MevinLegend wrote: »

Sure he did

https://twitter.com/oncediariomx/status/1388898676261670916?s=19

quokula · 02-05-2021 6:09pm

Indestructable wrote: »

I sincerely hope this race was just a blip and not a return to the Merc dominance. They look like they've sorted a few gremlins and back to their best. Never looked troubled today really.

They’ve consistently had the fastest car in race conditions in the dry at all three circuits this year, the only blips have been Max Verstappen’s pace on a wet track and his strong qualifying lap in the first race. Red Bull looks nowhere near the Merc in the hands of Perez.

MevinLegend · 02-05-2021 6:19pm

Burkie1203 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/oncediariomx/status/1388898676261670916?s=19

Wasn’t questioning whether it was announced that he has won or not. Was referring to the fact that Perez certainly didn’t win the vote.

Harika · 02-05-2021 6:42pm

Good race, bottas found napping twice, great duels in the midfield.
And FIA need's to get their fingers out of their noses, that tracklimit and delete times is the most annoying thing ever.
Max was just giving a snarky response that he fought track limits were not observed during the race.
Anyway Portimao is a great track and I hope it stays.

cj maxx · 02-05-2021 9:07pm

Did Ricardo say fùcking in his pre race interview? On Ch 4 ?

Joeseph Balls · 02-05-2021 9:38pm

MevinLegend wrote: »

Everyone online was spreading the word of voting Mazepin driver of the day prior to the race. Obviously Mazepin won the vote and F1 don’t want a mockery made of the driver of the day so didn’t decide to publish who won.

Exactly.
It happened before with the hulk iirc. A campaign was started on Trollmula 1 facebook page. He was voted driver of the day but it was never announced and in the end Hamilton got it.

AMKC · 02-05-2021 10:18pm

Well that was a boring race. Glad I did not waste 2 hours watching it live. Good to see the Alpine cars doing good and I would give driver of the day to Estaban Ocon.
Very poor from Kimi. Time to retire Kimi.
As for Bottas well it has been said before but he just does not have the killer instinct that is needed to go full on and win as much as he can and be damed with everyone else. He just lacks it.
Here is hoping for a better race next weekend but it is Spain so I am not going to get my Hope's up too high.

tigerboon · 02-05-2021 10:59pm

2 good passes by Hamilton. That's about all that happened today. Sometimes you're glad F1 is on Sky and can watch at 30x speed if you record

Frank Bullitt · 03-05-2021 5:06am

Stinker of a race really, nice track to drive on your own I am sure, awful for racing on. Wouldn't miss it at all.

Spain will probably be more of the same. I do not want to lose faith in this season so early. Having said that, this track was total garbage for grip, which RB seem to have been expecting. Spain is usually dire but I would like an RB win to keep the season interesting, far too many years now that seasons are over before long.

At least we only have a week to wait as well.

Frank Bullitt · 03-05-2021 6:13am

This one meant a lot to Lewis Hamilton.

Any victory feels good, but even as the Mercedes driver closes on 100 Grand Prix victories - the one in Portugal on Sunday was his 97th - some are more special than others. And this was undoubtedly one of the special ones.

I really wonder what planet BBCs Andrew Benson lives on when he writes this tripe.

F1 2021 Round 3 : Portuguese Grand Prix

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