F1 2021 Round 11: Hungaroring

That's a massive advantage. They can control the pace and probably be the only ones in the top 10 to do a 1 stop race from mediumto hard tyres. I doubt the red bulls will go from soft to hard and get through the race.

Could be a big win for Mercedes tomorrow

And Mercedes keep winning the little battles at the moment. Holding up Max in quali was naughty but Mercedes ultimately got what they wanted out of it.

Absolutely. Not technically against the rules because the rules were written with the assumption there would be a basic level of decency and sportsmanship, but Lewis and Merc have been emboldened by what they got away with in Silverstone and just keep sinking to new lows.

He wasn't going to let anyone ahead of him though. Yeah Redbull made a mistake and sacrificed track position. It is part of the game, but I think it ruins it.

I don't wanna see it going down the road of setting the fastest lap in your first run of the final session and then get out first and just stay there ruining the runners behind.

We should have had 4 or 5 cars out there lighting up the track on their final run - I think Hamilton would still have got the P1 but what happened there cannot really have pleased many fans. We had a parade/circus for the final run.

It certainly seems to be a massive advantage.

It will be still interesting right at the start if we believe that the soft tyres get off the mark better.

Will we see the redbulls take their time coming around to line up tomorrow?

Hamilton being a d!ck again, true to form

Can't see shít, mate. Image uploads are being crunched to fúck.

Hamilton Haters out in full force despite Hamilton doing nothing wrong!

He didn’t break any rules. The rules were written with an assumption of sportsmanship that every other driver for the last 70 years has managed.

Ironically the only parallel to this in decades of F1 also involved Hamilton, on the receiving end that time of his teammate Alonso who was retaliating against Ron Dennis’ preferential treatment of Hamilton after Alonso complied with the FIA’s investigation into the team’s industrial espionage to steal Ferrari’s blueprints that season.

You must be new to F1 as your lack of knowledge is pretty glaring. If you knew anything, you'd know 'the only parallel' is straight out of the Schumacher playbook except Lewis wasn't stupid enough to just deliberately stop on the track like he did in Monaco 06 trying to ruin the laps of everyone behind. This was just Redbulls tactical stupidity, but it's easier for the clueless to blame Lewis i suppose.

I assume if you think that’s the closest parallel then you think Hamilton should receive a penalty similar to what Schumacher received then? Or are you just being hypocritical and you’re completely aware crashing out is an entirely different scenario?

To be clear, the closest (only) parallel was Hungary 2007 when Alonso held Hamilton up in the pit lane just like Hamilton held Verstappen up today. That was basically retaliation for a whole list of issues around Hamilton’s behaviour earlier in the session, Ron Dennis, Spygate etc that aren’t worth going into right now

But ultimately Alonso was given a five place grid penalty because, although he didn’t block Lewis on a flying lap, his actions ultimately cost Hamilton a fair opportunity to do a flying lap, which is exactly what Hamilton intentionally did to Verstappen today.

There’s no question of a penalty this time around, Red Bull obviously have no appetite for another dispute after the bad publicity they got for querying Merc’s actions at the last race.

But lets not pretend Hamilton’s behaviour was anything other than utterly unsportsmanlike as he just continues to disgrace himself. He will be booed every time the sport travels to a neutral circuit like Hungary, I suspect he’ll only ever be cheered again at Silverstone and possibly places like Australia who’s fan base are subject to the same gaslighting from British TV coverage that we are here.

Doubt his legacy will be impacted by internet trolls.

So nico is on commenting duties tomorrow. Quite happy with that. Was quite impressive today.

What kind of shiteology is this?

People don't have to cheer him if they don't like him, it is up to the fans to show their like or dislike for a driver or a team. He must be reading off the PR card from Merc with saying that.

As for tomorrow, race pace RB and Merc are very close, I wonder what strategies there will be with the opposing choices.