Car broke. He didn't take the green flag.

motor problem car would not start or run with any power :eek:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/media/li...pg.666085/full

Merc nail biting. lol

What a boring race for about 48 laps. OK, maybe 47, because the first lap is always exciting. But what a finish! I don't recall ever seeing something like that, other than with Lightning McQueen.

official team statement by copy-point about hulk's car

a bolt broke off and jammed the clutch so the motor would NOT turn to start

Well that's embarrassing.

I watched every lap of a three hour Imsa race and time flew by. I watched about ten laps total of F1 and forwarded through the rest

All the years Mercedes ran that same car it never happened. Hulkemberg luck all the way.

Accurate.

F1: first 3 laps, last 3 laps.
Laundry and vacuuming in the middle.

It was cleaning the fishtanks for me.

I skipped it. Until there is real suspense, no reason to watch. And then there is LH. I don't care to watch him.

I suggest Lewis moves to Portland and leaves his seat to Kimi.

I don’t understand the LH disrespect from some of the off topic crowd here. Whatever you think of his personality or off track life, there should be no doubt of his talent and competitive spirit. He’s gonna beat all of Schumacher’s records this season. GOAT. IMO.

Very few is anyone would argue Hamilton is not a great driver. It is just annoying that many of the other equally great drivers don't get a chance against the Mercedes domination with such a superior car. His car is just so much better than everyone else except Botas, and he always get the bad luck. Lewis just won a race and did an entire lap on three tires!

His car has finished in the points in the last 65+ races except for one DNF. Yea, some of that is him, but mostly he has a car that can be turned up to 11 or 12 compared to the other cars. His luck seems to be astonishing. And he likely will beat all the records held by just everyone.

+1... It's not Lewis, it's the predictability. We lived through 7 years of utter Schumi domination, 4 of Vettel domination (that was no as bad because Weber was entertaining as a number 2) and now 6+ years of Hamilton or mercedes ? The problem is I can already make a guess as to who wins next week ;-) (watch - now something funky will happen). Even when Mercedes gets it wrong, it's always on Bottas... Lewis has all the luck Hulkenberg never will. Would be a fascinating season without Mercedes. The only question mark for me is WTH happened to the pink cars leading most FP sessions, and a real bummer for the hulk. Also for Russell who strikes me as a the real deal and in stuck in a Williams.

To make this season more of a yawn, the banning of Ferrari's clever fuel flow "cheats" from last year means HAAS, Alfa and Ferrari are *nowhere* this year, so it's a race between Lewis, Valterri and Max...Every w/e. The rest can eat the crumbs. Yawn.

I missed the race, but check out the podcast "Beyond the Grid". Just discovered it a few weeks ago, but they had 45 minute interview with Russell last week. It looks like he has an exciting future.

Geez Pirelli, time to re-look at your tire tech. Poor showing

He is very, very talented. But he's also a dooosh.
Someone a long time ago screwed up and told him that what he has to say is important for all to hear.
If he'd just shut the heck up and drive and leave the preaching about global warming and vegitarianism and politics out of it, I'd be his biggest fan.
We'll maybe not his BIGGEST fan, I'm sure others are more fond of his prissy hair-primping and facial hair fashion faux-pas more than I am.
But he can drive.

He can drive the BEST car very well.

Agreed. He has talent. I just wish he had the talkativeness of Kimi.