Formula 1 2018 - Round 17 – Japan

Faugheen

It was a poor strategy call, but I think Di Resta is spot on when he says they had the best conditions before the rain came down. Vettel can have no excuses.

Also, I think Mercedes sold Ferrari a wonderful dummy because Hamilton and Bottas initially had inters on but then they changed after the Ferrari’s were waiting at the end of the pit lane.

pjohnson

Lot on twitter making the same joke after Leclerc was annoyed by Sauber making a bad call. Wonder how he feels seeing Ferrari's decision making :pac:

AMKC

Joeface wrote: »

Is Max 3rd. He is a contender tomorrow, he knows from Russia that the Mercedes cannot follow him.a good start from him ...i know I'm reaching but trying to talk my self in to getting up to watch

Your not the only one. Be delighted if Max can get ahead of both of them. Even if Lewis does eventually win at least some of the race would be exciting.

Inviere

Faugheen wrote: »

It was a poor strategy call, but I think Di Resta is spot on when he says they had the best conditions before the rain came down. Vettel can have no excuses.

Also, I think Mercedes sold Ferrari a wonderful dummy because Hamilton and Bottas initially had inters on but then they changed after the Ferrari’s were waiting at the end of the pit lane.

Yeah he was saying Ferrari had a 90+ second advantage over Merc (as in Ferrari got out 90 seconds ahead of Merc), but Vettel spinning means he binned what should/could have been a front row lap

Joeface

"Fernando Alonso said he did not leave one millimetre anywhere on "one of the best laps in my life" at Suzuka to secure 18th in Formula 1 qualifying in Japan"

Ah now Fernando ...just stop

pjohnson

Vettel's up to 8th!

Ocon gets 3 place penalty so vacates 8th to move to 11th. Vettel moves to 8, Perez to 9th and Leclerc up to 10th.

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pjohnson wrote: »

Vettel's up to 8th!

Ocon gets 3 place penalty so vacates 8th to move to 11th. Vettel moves to 8, Perez to 9th and Leclerc up to 10th.

So effectively 7th with Kimi factored in. I expect Seb will carve through the slower cars in front quite quickly. Mercedes still don’t have much room for error tomorrow.

vectra

Make you wonder.

ayux4rj6zql2ph

Joeface wrote: »

"Fernando Alonso said he did not leave one millimetre anywhere on "one of the best laps in my life" at Suzuka to secure 18th in Formula 1 qualifying in Japan"

Ah now Fernando ...just stop

Is this 2001 or 2018?

Last time I checked he’s driving a McLaren, not a Minardi.

Jordan 199

Anyone up?

Cool_CM

Absolutely!

Harika

Yes

EPAndlee

I do like these early starts

Cool_CM

Nice start Seb!

EPAndlee

Classic Max

Harika

Classic magnussen

Cool_CM

2 close calls and loads of debris already!

SC out

Charlie-Bravo

Come on Seb. Safety car restart, take the him out of the race.

Cool_CM

Wait until they tell Max...

pjohnson

Just missed 7 minutes. Saw the Mag and Ver incidents.

H3llR4iser

And again, Verstappen proves the theory magnificently - not long after it looks like he's finally matured, he does something worthy of a child on Forza Motorsport.

About time they did something about the waving around on the straights, again what Magnussen did is a videogame move. Younger drivers don't have any sense in these regards, it's a matter of time until there's a major shunt.

Harika

Ffs now the restart is delayed so magnussen can overtake to be overtaken in some laps again.

skipper_G

KMag needs a penalty as well, he's always weaving around like that.

Max basically saying Kimi should have stopped to let him back on the track. He's a super talented driver but a bit of a twat

pjohnson

Go home Seb.

Harika

I don't think vettel wants to be champion

EPAndlee

You can always rely on max for the drama

Cool_CM

Nooooooo!

You could fücking see it coming into turn 1, FFS Seb...

EPAndlee

Delighted to see Vettel in 18th

skipper_G

Vettel only has himself to blame

Jordan 199

I hope Danny will visit the podium.

AMKC

Well whatever slim chance Vettel had of winning the WDC is gone now anyway. It was a stupid move by Vettel. Meanwhile the two Mercs are gone driving of into the sunset way ahead of everyone else.

EPAndlee

Nice NSX parked near the pit entry

Harika

With the amount of 5 second time penalties handed out you might think Oprah is a Stewart today

Cool_CM

There's a potential safety car in this midfield scrap

ayux4rj6zql2ph

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Anyone up?

Just woke up, checked race standings, gone back to bed.

pjohnson

Leclerc and Hulk gone

Harika

Ferrari swapping Kimi and crash kid? For the wdc

Harika

Harika wrote: »

Ferrari swapping Kimi and crash kid? For the wdc

No, so they gave up

Ghost Train

Strange they didn't swap position

Cool_CM

Kimi would have had to parked up for a bit for Seb to have gotten anywhere near him. Winnow indeed...

Harika

Yeah but they knew ten laps earlier at least

AMKC

So who is your driver of the day? For me its Danial Ricciardo.

Harika

https://mobile.twitter.com/MiniGPD/status/1048821705827913728/photo/1

High tech brooms lol

AMKC

So did Max take his 5 second penalty or is that applied after the race? Could Ricciardo have been 3rd on the podium? Am a few minutes behind watching the race.

Cool_CM

Harika wrote: »

Yeah but they knew ten laps earlier at least

If Ferrari have shown us anything this weekend, it's that they can't plan a few minutes ahead - never mind a few laps :pac:

It would have made for some interesting team radio exchanges with Kimi!

Ghost Train

AMKC wrote: »

So did Max take his 5 second penalty or is that applied after the race? Could Ricciardo have been 3rd on the podium? Am a few minutes behind watching the race.

Took it during the pitstop

Ghost Train

AMKC wrote: »

So who is your driver of the day? For me its Danial Ricciardo.

I'm not sure really, nobody standing out too much, from where he started I think Ricciardo probably did have as good a race as anybody

Pity about the result for the championship but Hamilton had comfortable enough race

Good to see toto showing off his glasses to channel4

Joeface

Interesting enough race to watch, not at the front but plenty going on.

I think Vettel made the right decision to try get max when he did just a poor execution of the over take. He knew the Red Bulls are horrible o follow. Every team knows that at this stage. Didn't work out but he had to try.

Still made for lots of overtaking. He came from outside the points twice in one race and finished higher than he started.

Well done to Lewis it's his title.

Rossi IRL

I see Vettel has blamed Verstappen for the crash.

Jees just take some responsibility for once

vectra

Rossi IRL wrote: »

I see Vettel has blamed Verstappen for the crash.

Jees just take some responsibility for once

Not defending anyone in this. But!

A few weeks ago ( I think Singapore ?)
Where Max made a half attempt to overtake Hamilton while going through the back markers.

Max's words after were
" I think I could have passed Lewis, but that would have been unfair"

Why would it be unfair Max??

Then yesterday
Max's words.

" Is there still a battle?"
Come on Max, Get a life and change that arrogant attitude.

Then today.
Max is nowhere near competing in the title fight and what did he do?

Push Kimi off the track and had the cheek to blame Kimi for it :pac::pac:
Then he cut Vettel off and put him to the back of the grid.
I remember watching races when drivers had and showed respect for the title fighters and would absolutely not get in their way.
What is wrong with this dope?

When does Bottas contract run out and who will replace him??
Hmm, I wonder have Merc been in talk with Max about a future with them.

What other reason would he have for showing total disrespect for Ferrari.

As I said,
I am not defending anyone, but anyone with a half a brain would have let Vettel through today.