Max in his own universe again…
However a fun race to watch, some exciting moments!
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Very interesting sprint race. Battles everywhere you look.
VER comfortably ahead after an early scare, PER scraping through into 2nd.
RUS and HUL making good strategy calls salvaged their races for them.
LEC a touch unlucky in the pits messed up his attack. Getting tangled up with OCO didn’t help. SAI looked rock solid but unimaginative, just held on for dear life and drove to a podium.
STR really should have given ALO that place, every point counts if anyone is going to have even an outside chance of attacking VER for the championship.
OCO being his usual bullheaded self made him 7th, RUS raced him to the line and was 9 thousandths of a second behind.
Very entertaining. 8/10.
Would argue that STR needs his points too. ALO has no hope of beating VER this year.
if anyone is going to have even an outside chance of attacking VER for the championship.
Verstappen is casually pulling a pit stop gap on people during a sprint. I don’t think anybody has an outside chance for the championship
Who knows? A pack of lemurs might kidnap him before the end of the season. Got to keep fighting eh?
The McLaren update looks good for quali so far but maybe not as strong in the race, have to see in a dry race first I suppose. Can’t wait to see if the supposed big Mercedes upgrades in Silverstone are any good!
Actually a very enjoyable sprint! I still prefer regular race weekends, but the last minute pitstops were an exciting mixup. George seems pretty good with his strategy, too bad he couldn’t find an extra tenth at the end. Oh and poor Lando losing so many positions in one corner lap 1. I hope he gets a podium this year.
We just need to do the rain dance on the Sprint weekends and it will be good. 😉😇😉😇😉😇
Lol truth
Finally a sprint race to enjoy, even with half a lap as a challenge for VER. All in all I still not like the sprint weekend. If it wasn’t for the wet track this race would have been boring.
So happy for HUL to get points and a good race. Race could have been even 2 laps longer.
The sprint format helped here. For a full length race, it would be a no brainer to put for slicks, but instead we had a gamble to stay in inters and hold on vs lose track position but gain a lot of pace. Very exciting.
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I wasn’t up to speed with the new format, so didn’t realise the sprint no longer affects quali. That lack of jeopardy sounds like it made for better racing while still meaning quali matters. Sounds good.
Still think they should do qualifying on friday, normal race on saturday and sprint race with reversed starting grid on sunday on weekends with sprints.
This is why Bernie wasn’t completely mad when he suggested sprinklers.
First sprint race I enjoyed watching, but that’s just the wet to dry condition that makes everything interesting. The Stroll - Alonso fight was interesting to see though, I’m curious to see how the future plays out in Aston Martin now.
I really don’t understand why Perez ruined the good thing he’s got at Red Bull for a sprint race of all things though. Racing eachother is fine, but trying to push your golden goose teammate of the track on a straight is so dumb. Especially if you’re already under scrutiny for not being able to get into Q3 in a car that people are vocally complaining about being too strong. (And thus all those people are implying that Perez is washed)
Dammit… I tried to wake up for it but didn’t end up happening.
How was the race? Does it bode well for the main race?
The sprint race was fantastic ngl.
If you ignore that Max won by 21 seconds or something like that lmao.Ahh crap. You guys not making me feel better about missing out lol
As a cricket guy I feel like the sprints compared to the full race is the same as T20 compared to tests. And I really dislike T20. But the sprints are so good! This seemed like the perfect track for it too and the wet only helped the excitement.
