F1 thread - 2019 Season

moon said:
On BBC they show Hamilton demoted to 6th place not 7th.
Not sure if that's wrong or if someone else got a penalty
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Sky Sports app saying he's down to 7th.
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That was as of 7 or 8 minutes ago. Hopefully it'll become clearer as the evening goes on.
 
Jacob Smith said:
Great race today - gutted for Albon but delighted for Max
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Yeah, Max was untouchable from Q3 onwards.

Albon did brilliantly, again. Obviously gutted but that won't do him any harm to show that he isn't to be trifled with. I really like him. Not your usual racing driver.

As for Ferrari!? Vettel is a knob behind the wheel and loses it time after time when racing wheel to wheel. Out of the car he seems a decent bloke, but how many times...???
 
Shame for Sainz that it will be one of the the few podiums he'll get at most and he can't celebrate it as he should, wasn't a hard decision to penalise Lewis and they should have suspended the podium till they confirmed, give the stewards an extra 5/10 minutes, confirm it and get Carlos up there with the champagne he deserves. Had a moment taken away from him.
 
Just watched an interview with Hamilton. Does anyone else support, adore and respect a sportsman for what they do but think they are a total bellend as a person?

I've tried to like him but he his simply unlikeable, just come across as an arrogant little shit.

Anyway, looking forward to some good racing today. Verstappen splitting Mercedes and Ferrari should be make for some eventful racing.
 
Can see Vettel getting a good start on the softs and skittling someone ahead. Probably Leclerc!

Also looks like Leclerc is going to be disqualified for having too much fuel, but only after the race, which is weird. If it's over, it's over.
 
The absolute proof that Hamilton is up there with the three or four greatest drivers of all time (I really don't care about his personality, to be honest). He had no need whatsoever to get pole and then win the final race of the season. But he does it. Just to prove a point. The man is a serial winner.
 
Leclerc was at risk of losing third place because governing body the FIA discovered before the race that the amount of fuel Ferrari said was in his car was different from the amount that was when it was checked. But after a post-race investigation, Ferrari were fined €50,000 for what had been a 4.88kg discrepancy and the result stood.

that is not a punishment for any F1 team and they should have been disqualify from the race never mind letting them keep 3rd place shocking and money does talk in other sports
 
Ballet-on-ice said:
Just watched an interview with Hamilton. Does anyone else support, adore and respect a sportsman for what they do but think they are a total bellend as a person?

I've tried to like him but he his simply unlikeable, just come across as an arrogant little shit.

Anyway, looking forward to some good racing today. Verstappen splitting Mercedes and Ferrari should be make for some eventful racing.
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There's something about him, I just can't warm to him. There is a touch of arrogance about him. Then again, didn't a lot of the F1 greats have that about them? Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Vettel, Rosberg. But hey; the guy's a genius behind the wheel. 6 F1 world titles tells a tale. And I'm pretty certain that Lewis doesn't give a flying fuck about my opinion of him. Why would he.
 
jimharri said:
There's something about him, I just can't warm to him. There is a touch of arrogance about him. Then again, didn't a lot of the F1 greats have that about them? Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Vettel, Rosberg. But hey; the guy's a genius behind the wheel. 6 F1 world titles tells a tale. And I'm pretty certain that Lewis doesn't give a flying fuck about my opinion of him. Why would he.
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He is weirdly unlikeable - even his accent seems fake and exaggerated.

I’ve enjoyed this season, been good to see the young Brits all doing well with Albon being promoted to Red Bull and Norris had a solid rookie season.

Looking forward to seeing Max and Charles take on Lewis next year, hopefully Ferrari will get their act together because they’ve made some very bizarre tactical calls this year that have left Charles & Seb with no chance of getting the results they’ve often earned.
 
Nick Faldo, Andy Murray, and Lewis are lumped together as awkward and spiky individuals but the one thing they have in common is they are driven winners who have no fucks for how they were perceived just how many things they could win. Fair fucks I say that’s what make winners.
 
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jimharri said:
There's something about him, I just can't warm to him. There is a touch of arrogance about him. Then again, didn't a lot of the F1 greats have that about them? Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Vettel, Rosberg. But hey; the guy's a genius behind the wheel. 6 F1 world titles tells a tale. And I'm pretty certain that Lewis doesn't give a flying fuck about my opinion of him. Why would he.
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His media personality is of a really nice, but incredibly boring guy. He's incredibly respectful of others and is very humble. But it's manufactured in a way that he never gets too bad press (he's not alone) but it comes off as robotic. That puts it in what's known as uncanny valley, where you're made uncomfortable by just how slightly off he seems.

Get him alone away from the cameras and he's a different more personable guy I'm sure.


I won't call him a dickhead or the like though, because while I think his personality is put on I reckon it's just a case of him being a maturer guy who's genuinely trying to be a role model, particularly to other drivers. So he's boringly professional.

Now Anthony Joshua, there's a guy who's fake in disappointing way.
 
jimharri said:
There's something about him, I just can't warm to him. There is a touch of arrogance about him. Then again, didn't a lot of the F1 greats have that about them? Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Vettel, Rosberg. But hey; the guy's a genius behind the wheel. 6 F1 world titles tells a tale. And I'm pretty certain that Lewis doesn't give a flying fuck about my opinion of him. Why would he.
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Because he's a caring sensitive guy. He'd be hurting.
 
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