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It's all part and parcel of F1 these days. Hamilton wears his heart on his sleeve when he's in the cockpit, particularly when he's under the cosh. But he still delivers. I'd rather hear him saying what he says than not at all, whether he's looking for drama or otherwise. I don't understand why views about him are so dramatic, perhaps we're the ones in search of drama......
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IIRC Lewis said something like "I was never going to pit. It was either win or crash" but something may have been lost or added in translation (quite literally, this time) |
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28 May 2019, 21:42 (Ref:3906611) | #178 | |
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Speaking of track changes, is there any liability in regards to Monaco being a faux grade 1 circuit?
Driver/Marshall/spectator gets seriously/fatally hurt at a track where saftey standards are knowingly breached - sounds like a lawyers picnic |
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28 May 2019, 22:25 (Ref:3906619) | #179 | |
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https://f1bytes.com/monaco-gp-form-guide/
"When it comes to the race for podium positions overtaking is extremely rare. In the past 12 years there have only been four overtakes for position in the top three. Of these four only one was a legitimate overtake: 2016 Hamilton over Rosberg for 2nd – team order 2014 Raikkonen over Vettel for 3rd – gearbox issue for Seb 2008 Hamilton over Raikkonen for 3rd – pitlane penalty 2006 Raikkonen over Webber for 2nd – A LEGITMATE overtake as Webber ran wide" One legitimate overtake for the podium in 12 years (13 including this years)! One!! So spare us the instant gratification nonsense. 13 years is not an instant. As said it should be hard, extremely hard, but not practically impossible. P.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Portier |
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28 May 2019, 23:01 (Ref:3906621) | #181 | ||
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Leclerc's overtakes sunday were brilliant but a Lewis, Max or Seb wouldn't have given him the opportunity. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed sunday race. It's just that people were hoping for something that wasn't going to happen. Though it indeed has is charm I suppose. I would've enjoyed each of the following scenario's more though: - Hamilton after several wheel to wheel battle's with Verstappen takes the checkered flag! Or: - Verstappen wins the Monaco Grand Prix after heroic defence from Hamilton! Or: - Vettel takes the win after Hamilton and Verstappen clashed for the lead! Stuff like that is just too unlikely at Monaco while many of the ingredients for it are actually there. |
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Another nice one would have been if 1 of Vettel or Verstappen continued without stopping under the safety car.
Would he then have been able to drive away and open up a gap vs. Hamilton big enough to make his own stop later? Or would he have forced Hamilton to use up his tires and make a second stop? |
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Was there a reason why Verstappen got 5 secs rather than the drive through that was discussed as the 'normal' penalty? |
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But even considering the above it might have still been possible. However they probably didn't expect Mercedes to give Hamilton the mediums and to be so much slower as a result over the remaining 67 laps. |
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I think the 5s penalty might have been to keep the race interesting and they might have considered the fact that Bottas had slowed down so much so he would be screwed by the double stop. Verstappen clearly didn't leave Bottas enough room and squeezed him into the wall (more the teams fault). So yeah 5s was pretty lenient. |
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They note that the location of the Mercedes pit box is within the Red Bull guide board area, which contributes to the increased likelihood of an 'unsafe release'. This mitigates some of the team element to the incident. The penalty is classified as an unsafe release, but they state that it is intended as a penalty to Verstappen, because he could have avoided contact - hence the reason he also received 2 points on his licence. |
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29 May 2019, 07:26 (Ref:3906673) | #189 | ||
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But in terms of safety, what Bottas did afterwards wasn't great was it? The incident has happened, but Bottas stays alongside. Once Max has made contact, shouldn't Bottas have backed off, so the cars could be single fire and therefore safer? The unsafe release had happened, the penalty was coming, so staying double file didn't achive anything. |
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Bottas was already in the fast lane, and his front wing was beyond Verstappen's rear axle, so should be entitled to hold his ground. He also had a Ferrari close behind him, so braking or lifting off may have caused a rear-end collision. |
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29 May 2019, 07:58 (Ref:3906681) | #191 | |
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I worded badly. I don't mean Bottas caused the incident, or that it was his responsibility to avoid it - that is 100% down to RBR and Max.
But afterwards, they both continued side by side. If F1 doesn't want a pair of cars traveling down the pit lane, surely both are responsible after the initial issue. Max is released unsafely and is alongside at the Renault garage. Contact is made at approxmiately the McLaren garage. But they remain side by side for the entire length of the pit lane. If this is "unsafe", then once the crime has been committed (by RBR), then the victim really should allow the car in front to move into single file. He will lose that spot on the exit of the pit lane anyway, and the car will be penalised. I'm wording this badly, but basically - if it's dangerous to be side by side, then there's no reason for Bottas to stay alongside Verstappen after RBR already caused the problem. |
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I'm not sure why any of that pit stop is penalty-worthy, no matter the explanation. If Verstappen had waited even a second before being released, he not only loses out to bottas but also would either be released unsafely into Vettel or lose the spot to him as well. On a track where passing is near impossible, action like that in the pits needs to be allowed with a little more leeway. Otherwise, where your pit stall is located has as much to do with where you finish as does speed of pit stop. But good for Mercedes to know they can back up the field to stack their stops, and have that cause penalties to their rivals. Lord knows they need another break....
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Cars can continue side by side in a pit lane, and would not be penalised for it. Cars can use either lane, the restrictions are on which lane can be used for working on a car. If the inner lane is clear, a driver can progress along it without penalty. The time when 'unsafe' comes into it is when a driver moves from the inner lane to the fast lane. In this instance, Verstappen caused a collision when he moved from the inner lane to the fast lane. |
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I think these days 5 seconds is the standard penalty rather than a drive thru. Monaco has always had a tight pitlane, I'm not sure how much you can do to improve the situation
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If you're chasing safety, cars should NOT be racing in pit lane - so many team members/marshalls/media, it's utter chaos at times.
I'd argue it's more dangerous than refueling was. Unfortunately (as mentioned above), modern F1 somewhat relies on "racing" in the pit lane, on track overtakes being quite difficult. |
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The other thing I don't understand is how Bottas was allowed to back the remainder of the field up by so much. When Hamilton entered pit lane Bottas was nowhere to be seen. |
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Exactly, there's no way you should allow side by side in the Monaco pitlane. Maybe if pitstops weren't so necessary it wouldn't be a problem in the first place
What Bottas did was no different from what others have done, he was cleverly allowing space while Hamilton did his stop |
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Well guys. "Special Monaco equipment" rules. "Special Monaco pit driving" rules. No overtaking.
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From a racing point of view, I don't think we really needed to be persuaded. But Monaco is (and I guess always will be) Monaco....
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