F1 2024 - Round 17 - Azerbaijan - Baku

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Game over

Perez and Sainz smash

RoryMac

Max looks like he's having a Perez like loss of confidence,.

What did Sainz do???

klose

Omg

ShamoBuc

Outstanding couple of laps by Piastri.

niallm77

Wow

Itssoeasy

disaster.

PsychoPete

Jesus!

Jordan 199

WTF!

ShamoBuc

Sainz - oh dear !!!

Andrew76

Wtf Max pitted!!

RoryMac

Sainz just turned into him

ctrl-alt-delete

Schoolboy stuff, looked like both moved. Both had been on the dirty track and in dirty air it might have got them.

recyclops

Max going for that fastest lap will be raging. Some great racing today.

This is it

Why the fúck did sainz try it on LeClerc, so stupid

Andrew76

Sainz looked left and moved over.

rameire

Points for Bearman and Colapinto.

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617916#Comment_122617916

Didn't lose anything, gambled that there still might be time for a fastest last lap.

PsychoPete

They both kind of turned into eachother

mr_edge_to_you

The race didn't deserve that ending

ShamoBuc

Sainz 'What happened' - you went right into Perez, that's what happened.

recyclops

Prob the best thing for max for this race and rest of season is that piastri is nearly on par with norris at at the mo and will keep taking point away

Itssoeasy

no idea what sainz was up to there.

shanec1928

sainz getting ready for bumping cars in the Williams

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617926#Comment_122617926

Just noticed that thank God. 😂 Although he still lost 3 points to Lando. Well done Piastri, very mature drive that. Great defending against the Ferrari. How did Leclerc lose that 6 second lead he had before the pit stop?

Longing

McLaren needs to back Oscor. He is dominating Lando in the second half of the season

RoryMac

Such a mature drive from Piastri, had LeClerc challenging him lap after lap but showed great composure

flazio

50/50 I call it, just a twitch clipped the cars together and bang.

strawdog

Is there a bigger points differential for Lando against Max after the crash?

niallm77

7th and 8th for williams

This is it

Amazing race from Piastri, really deserved that. Big move to get out in front and amazing drive to stay in front. Decent from LeClerc, still think he should've had Piastri covered at turn 1 but sure...

Delighted for Bearman and Colipinto

mr_edge_to_you

How much does the Saniz/Perez incident hurt Ferrari? If any.

McFly85

Delighted for Piastri, really unbelievable drive to maintain that focus for 20 odd laps!

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617945#Comment_122617945

An excellent result for them.

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617944#Comment_122617944

I don't think so, would have been a 3 point difference if they'd have finished as it was prior to it. (2 for position + 1 for fastest lap)

errlloyd

Technically no, but I think practically yes.

Norris fucked up, he should have waited a lap to overtake Max, becuase there was 23 seconds back to Alonso. So when Norris overtook Max, he was gonna pit and take fastest lap from Norris.

Norris got 3 more points than Max. Two for position and one for fastest lap. Without the crash it might have only been 1!!

PsychoPete

Norris needs a couple wins as I think Verstappen has just about enough of a cushion

Itssoeasy

Did sainz lock up ? On the overhead shot his car turned left.

flazio

Franco Colapinto has more F1 points than Logan Sargent over his whole F1 career

niallm77

Williams could catch Haas and VCARB

Mitch Connor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617965#Comment_122617965

Can you decide to hold back like that in reality? I feel like you have to take the chance to overtake when it's there, in case a mistake puts you out of range next lap.

Lip Out

I've watched the replay a good few times and don't see how anyone came blame Sainz. Perez turned (albeit slightly) into him.

Mitch Connor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617968#Comment_122617968

The on board showed no change in steering direction I think. I thought he went left after getting rubbed by perez.

I dint think he should have tried to overtake le clerc tbh.

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617977#Comment_122617977

Perez might have turned into sainz but sainz turned noticeably towards Perez.

ctrl-alt-delete

They were both heading towards each other before the tyres touched and made it look like Sainz made a hard left.

Mitch Connor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617982#Comment_122617982

His steering looked consistent to me, before the car violently got turned which I assume was the accident and not input.

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617977#Comment_122617977

From the onboard Sainz looked left and turned ever so slightly. They were very close anyway so wouldn’t have taken much. Maybe Perez did the same, haven’t seen an onboard from his car.
A bloody shame regardless for Perez, he had a rare great weekend, and also lost Red Bull a load of points against McLaren.

Andrew76

Shite defending from Leclerc, left the door wide open.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617968#Comment_122617968

No Perez front wheel caught his left rear causing him to spin left.

Thought Perez was far too cautious with Leclerc, was way ahead but braked too early letting Leclerc back through, should have forced Leclerc to back out of it.

Sainz tried to squeeze Perez and both paid the price. Great drive from Piastri.

Lip Out

Watch the helicopter shot at around 1.25. Perez is the one who moved into Sainz.

https://x.com/SkySportsF1/status/1835296947638272041?t=Cl_QXrTWYCP7VacKx0sW0Q&s=19

thefa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617954#Comment_122617954

Guess it costs Sainz 15 or 12 directly and gave Norris an extra 4 so quite costly.

There’s a performance gap to McClaren on average I think so they might struggle to win the constructors but have a really good chance to overtake Red Bull soon.