Max in his own universe again…

However a fun race to watch, some exciting moments!

  • hrpanjwani@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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

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        1 year ago

        Who knows? A pack of lemurs might kidnap him before the end of the season. Got to keep fighting eh?

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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.