Motor Sport
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i'm wondering if anyone else that follows F1 has anything to say about the FIA decision in Canada last night..
i will make it clear that i'm a ferrari and vettel supporter but i'm being very objective. i believe that the FIA totally stuffed up their decision in awarding vettel the time penalty. it should've been just a racing incident and nothing more.
i'll agree that vettel lost the car under pressure and went onto the grass and tried his very best to collect the car back. he had absolutely tried his very best to return the car as safe as possible given he had no traction having returned from the grass. another factor being that, montreal is a street circuit, meant he had nowhere to go down turns 3 and 4. even hamilton could not overtake him on the inside or outside because of the wall.
had this race been on another track, hamilton could've easily gone past him using the runoff areas like most proper race circuits would have. it's hard to see toto wolff saying that the people shouldn't pressure the FIA so that they will be consistent in their decision making when hamilton has gotten off with nothing on multiple occasions over the past few years. notably the one in silverstone last year and the identical incident in monte carlo..
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^interesting differing opinion when most of the panel of experts on sky sports etc made up of ex racing drivers seem to think it should not have been a penalty or it was too harsh of a penalty. i think most armchair experts are blaming it on vettel vs hamilton where it's not the case. both of them drove a great race. it's down to the steward's decision that spoils racing for F1 like you said. interestingly enough, i feel that a lot of the stewards decision have been geared to favour mercedes more than anyone else..
the incident in canada
a similar incident between hamilton and riccardo a few years ago (one amongst many others)
hamilton didn't get penalised for this. and let's not forget the 'in in in in in' incident in silverstone last year..
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Today I showed up at Aprilia’s PR event in Barcelona in preparation for Sunday’s motogp race.
Brad Smith (UK) and Alex Espargaro (Spain) were signing autographs and standing in for pics,
as well as Andrea Iannone (Italy).
I showed up with my new IHSH 226 pimped with a GAH button.
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Nice motojobobo. That's the place to be this weekend!
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I hope Andrea didn’t get any of his makeup on your clothes, @motojobobo
I’ve met Bradley in the past. Lovely bloke.
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Amazing from Hamilton…...
given that last 2 laps of the race, he is one fucking lucky bastard i tell ya.
had verstappen not pitted and gone for softs to get fastest lap, hamilton would've lost it.
also that mercedes car is bloody unreal at the moment to be at least 1-2seconds ahead of the pack. but the skeptic in me thinks if they're so far ahead, something must be fishy in that garage..
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the ferrari cars this year is abysmal and shocking. leclerc was fortunate to be where he is. onto the next silverstone and it'll be interesting to see how the tires hold up this coming weekend..
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I dont think the Ferarri is that bad this year, they have a driver with no experience who couldn't tell you what a good car is meant to feel like and another driver who doesn't really care what it feels like. The Mercs have just got ALOT better and so have all the other teams, McLaren/Racing Point/Renault. A deserved win by Lewis, even though I cant stand the guy.
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@Chesson although as soon as the FIA stopped Ferrari doing 'whatever they were doing illegally' last season, their car become mid-table pretty much straight away and havent improved this season, while everyone else has. So maybe their car was a dog and the speed/engine issue covered how bad the car was?
Agree, a deserved win from Lewis, looking forward to next weeks now!
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@Steve The Ferrari's dont have stright line speed issue now though, Seb has been complaining that the car is unbalanced and unstable in the corners. At silverstone they had the second fastest top speed in the traps, so the engine is still strong. Aero is all wrong. It's all above Alonso back in the McLaren next season now though!
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Yep, Lewis does not need to barge people off the track to win….
he's had his fair share of barging.. just ask albon and rosberg..
