F1 2021 Round 14: Monza

You have to ask yourself tho, if your so often ahead of your teammate that you need to be asked to move aside with such regularity… might you be as fast a driver on race day???

Remember what Daniel is playing for tomorrow.

You could ask, but the answer would be pretty apparent. Bottas is a decent driver and occasionally is as fast or even faster than Hamilton. He gets no hop in these threads but he's a good, decent driver and this has probably been his least competitive season against Hamilton. Yet he qualified in first while playing the diligent no.2 and ploughing the air for Hamilton. That's a great performance.

Who knows, maybe Perez will some day reach out of mediocrity and get ahead of Max every once in a while too. As it stands he qualifies so poorly that he's never likely to get ahead of Max in a race on merit.

Bottas and perez are held to totally different standards. Bottas has failed to be a genuine challenge to Hamilton as an equal driver. Perez is miles off Max but gets credit because he was a decent no.2 for the first part of the season. He's on a poor run of form in the last few races though. If you had the choice of Bottas or Perez I'd pick Bottas all day long, he's just a faster driver.

I think Verstappen will be too far ahead by the time Hamilton gets passed the two Mclarens

66/1 for the top 3 to finish as they line up on the grid. Insane value. I know the McLarens were on softs yesterday but Hamilton didn’t lay a glove on them, and I can’t see him risk a DNF by sending it up the inside into a chicane.

I wouldn’t be betting on anything until they all get passed the first corner because that could be a mess, because all it takes is one driver to mess up their breaking into the corner and there could be distance boards being smashed and people taking the escape route. It’s why Lewis being in fourth isn’t great.

Hamilton and Norris to collide on the first corner.

The two Ferrari's right behind Lewis could be a problem for him if he doesn't get a clean start. I expect a first corner incident of some sort.

Lewis stuck in his DRS zone, on harder tyres. Under normal circumstances I'd day that means he's faster even though he failed to overtake. On the same tyre he'd have had a better chance of overtaking too. And with strategy, I'd expect him to finish ahead of both mclarens. If Hamilton got ahead of norris, I doubt he would have been able to fight back in the same way.

The mclarens are fast alright. They qualified best of the rest and miles ahead of Perez.

Whos on for a drinking game, one shot for every LH moan.

I will be in hospital by lap 10.😁

Mention it and move on I could live with, interviewing drivers ahead of a grand prix and asking them about someone winning at tennis is dumb

Shoot a double if he says his tyres are dead within 10 laps!

Isn’t usian bolt still the fastest man on earth given that he still holds the 100M world record.

She's a F1 fan apparently, so maybe it has something to do with that.

This, Hamilton coming out with the he has no hope and max will have it easy comments already.

Both Mclaren drivers have nothing to lose so will they will go for it into the first corner.

They could easily take Max out or even each other and gift Hamilton a few places.

I'm hoping Hamilton has another bad start and loses another few places otherwise i wouldn't rule him out of winning the race by passing the Mclarens in the pits and Max with drs.