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Drivers
Points
Lewis Hamilton 70 Sebastian Vettel 66 Kimi Raikkonen 48 Valtteri Bottas 40 Daniel Ricciardo 37 Fernando Alonso 28 Nico Hulkenberg 22 Max Verstappen 18 Sergio Perez 15 Carlos Sainz 13 Pierre Gasly 12 Kevin Magnussen 11 Charles Leclerc 8 Stoffel Vandoorne 8 Lance Stroll 4 Marcus Ericsson 2 Esteban Ocon 1 Brendon Hartley 1 Romain Grosjean 0 Sergey Sirotkin 0
Constructors
Points
Ferrari 114 Mercedes 110 RBR 55 Mclaren 36 Renault 35 Force India 16 Toro Rosso 13 Haas 11 Sauber 10 Williams 4
I still can't believe Vettel isn't leading the WDC
Well, as long as Verstappen is around to punt him off the track...
BMWs are fun in the snow too...
1st) Max Verstappen
2nd) Pierre Gasly
3rd) Fernando Alonso
You mean closing the door at the very last minute on somebody that's making a move on you during braking and making their front wing lose probably 50%+ of its downforce doesn't make you responsible when they lock up then hit you? So if you're fine with 3+ defensive moves, how many is too many? 4? 5? 6? 29?
Mclaren testing out a new nose. It's got three nostrils.
Make multiple moves, especially in the braking zone, and it's your fault when a collision occurs IMO. There's a clear rule on how many moves you can make, and Max made too many, especially with how late it was. RIC was making a late move, but he was totally in his right to do it.
RIC was going to pass Max up the inside, and Max knew it, so he was going to do whatever it took to make it not happen. He's done stupid moves before in similar situations, so while RIC put himself in a risky situation with a known hot head driver, it's still not his fault when Max breaks defending rules and causes a sequences of events that was always going to end in a crash.
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Why would it be ok for any driver to continue to block passing manoeuvres all race long? His teammate got alongside many times, it was a question of when, not if Ricciardo was going to get past the slower teammate. Actually Ricciardo DID PASS HIM once already and just flew off into the horizon, leaving Max for dead. That's what their speed difference was like. When Ricciardo was ahead, Max had no hope of passing Ricciardo, he couldn't even keep up. Due to how the pit stops turned out, Ricciardo ended up behind Max AGAIN!! Why would it be ok for Verstappen to keep slamming into his teammate, blocking him wildly, etc. just to keep the faster car behind? How is that racing?
That's my question: how is it racing to block a clearly faster car's passing manoeuvres time and time again for 20 laps? Is it testament of the car's performance, driver skill? No. It's cheating. It's not racing. It's just one guy not wanting to accept defeat.
Sure, sometimes it's physically impossible to pass due to how the cars behave, how close they are in performance, and how the track is, and therefore they might spend a whole race without a chance to pass. But clearly that wasn't the situation in Baku.
Last edited by MagneZium; 05-11-2018 at 05:32 PM.
BMWs are fun in the snow too...
Kubica quicker in FP1 than Stroll or Sirotkin in FP1 and FP2.
Williams really dropped the ball IMO by choosing Sirotkin over Kubica.
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Well done MERC, deserved 1-2. LOL @ Ferrari, the thug should've been on podium. Max still running into other cars, they should issue points. Romain deserves another ban.
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