Formula 1 - 2018 Season

It translates to just lower power all over, but it is especially in Q3 where it is evident. Except now Ferrari have some secret sauce which Mercedes doesn't have and nobody understands what or how they do it. The FIA says they are happy that Ferrari isn't breaching any regulations. The Ferrari development has been described as cramming 2 years of incremental improvements into one update to the power unit.

 

Force India has gone into administration but will complete the weekend in Hungary.

IMO, this is Vijay Mallya's fault for demanding too much money for the team. It would be a disgrace if this team disappeared from the sport.

https://www.motorsportweek.com/joesaward/id/00280
https://www.motorsportweek.com/joesaward/id/00281
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/44990884
http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...-into-administration-but-will-race-in-hungary

 

He probably hasn't been paid. Kimi wasn't paid at Lotus and was probably close to sue.

 

He crossed in to the pit entry deliberately to gain an advantage. The only reason he was in the pit lane was to gain an advantage in his lap time, knowing that he never intended to enter the pits. The only reason he was on that piece of track was because he thought it would improve his speed on the straight. He gained time over his rivals by doing so, hence the penalty. Kimi was also in violation of an event-specific addition to the rules because of just how high speeds were at that circuit. Charlie Whiting himself has said that while the two incidents seem similar, they are different.

Hamilton entered the pits with every intention of pitting. There was a confused pit message, he panicked and left the pit lane. He did so safely, under safety car conditions. He gained no position relative to competitors. He gained no meaningful time vs staying out on track.

If you can't tell the difference between what I'm saying and that scenario, then perhaps you should try a different sport. I'm not suggesting that Hamilton didn't gain an advantage because he didn't intend to be there. You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that I'm "for" a specific driver. I'm not. Replace Hamilton with any other driver and I'd be making the same points. The only difference is that you wouldn't have started the criticism in the first place. The reason that, over most of a decade, we *keep* having discussions about Hamilton is because *you* think literally every thing he does should result in him being disqualified.

 

Save the skin on your fingers cjo, not worth it.

Will be interesting to see him square away Hamilton being much faster than Bottas in the same car, and Kimi in a better one during qualifying.

 

Well I doubt more power was helping Ferrari much today.

 

This quali makes for quite an interesting race tomorrow, at least on paper!
Few cars out of position, but hard to overtake, safety car almost guaranteed and washed track before the race!

 

The FIA should introduce a special Fin rule so they get an empty track and don't have to deal with what the rest of the grid has to deal with as well.

 

Pot. Kettle.

Anyway great driving by Bottas. Crazy. But it must be the fault of others for trying to race, right?

 

More the fault of Mercedes having Bottas cover Kimi and then leave him on a 1 stop strategy, doing 50 laps on those tires.

 

Did you see Danny Ric? He's the man!

 

Superb from Lewis, showing how it's done in both the wet and the dry.

Certainly a shame for Bottas, but he was always going to have to cover Ferrari's #2 driver.

 

Yep. Toto confirmed Bottas is nothing more than a second driver by calling him a wingman.

 

Clarified as in "I need to cover my ass because while Bottas is most definitely the second driver, it doesn't work very well for PR".

But you keep telling yourself otherwise, the facts speak for itself.

Oh and where are your rants about Bottas crashing into into others? You are always very quick to judge other drivers.