[Official] Italian Grand Prix 2019: Grand Prix Weekend Thread

[Greem]

Here we go...

[Greem]

Roll of the dice for Verstappen there, be interesting to see if he makes it to the very end on the one set of tyres.

[bjohnsonsmith]

That was a clean start but it looked like Verstappen got into trouble at the back of the field.

[Greem]

Ironic applause for the TV director, cutting to replays and then ending the interesting one early. Plus ce change.

[Akrapovic]

Bottas, Vettel and Max made an absolute arse of the start.

[Greem]

Stroll: Vettel came back on like an idiot!
Gasly: Stroll came back on like an idiot!

I was almost having kittens there, that was way way way too close.

[hoffman66]

Story of modern F1, Vettel spins, what's the first thing the tv director does, goes to a crowd shot.

This modern era of directors is really rather awful, they literally have no idea what they are doing, such a shame, and probably a cause of people starting to turn off at times. It certainly makes me do so at times.

[Akrapovic]

Vettel and Stroll just had a competition on who the biggest moron is.

Vettel takes it on a tie breaker. Good job.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Vettel spins and damages his front wing. He nearly hit Stroll going back onto the track.

[Peter Mallett]

He did hit Stroll.

[Greem]

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see both drivers get given a time, drive through or a stop/go penalty.

[Greem]

Heh, as I hit post they give him a 10s stop/go. Good.

[Akrapovic]

Stop Go isn't harsh enough given the potential of that incident. And I'd give Stroll an identical penalty.

Ferrari Plan B. Usually a Ferrari plan B is make a mess of a strategy and give the race away.

[Peter Mallett]

Stroll got a drive thru.

[Peter Mallett]

Some terrible driving here. Grossman, Vettel, Stroll

[Greem]

No contact between Stroll & Gasly though, so the lesser penalty applies.

[Peter Mallett]

Grosjean

[Akrapovic]

"I have this problem again where I lost power"

That's just the Honda power output, Max.

Ticket closed. Working as intended.

[Greem]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

"I have this problem again where I lost power"

That's just the Honda power output, Max.

Ticket closed. Working as intended.

And amidst all the shenanigans, Albon gets a 5s penalty for passing while off the track. No idea why he didn't just give it back.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Greem

No contact between Stroll & Gasly though, so the lesser penalty applies.

I feel like the crime was the same, and the only difference was Gasly managed to avoid it. I'd have given them identical penalties.

[Richard C]

Regardless of the size, glad both received penalties. Particularly Vettel. Odds on Vettel retiring from F1 at the end of the season? Mistake after mistake and now being surpassed by Leclerc?

Albon should have given the position back. I think he was having some red mist moments after going off earlier.

Richard

[Peter Mallett]

Ham and Lec going at it. Good stuff. Think Ham was a bit optimistic there.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Awesome stuff but will Leclerc get a penalty?

[Peter Mallett]

Ooh, yellow card for Lec

[broadrun96]

F1 is an absolute ****ing JOKE after that black and white flag. That deserves a warning but Vettel re-entering the track ACROSS another driver doesn't deserve exclusion? That's just a joke, turned it off since obviously Hamilton should be allowed to win according to the stewards this week.