Is it K-Mag being better than anyone ever gave him credit for or is it the car?

Alternatively, would Mazepin been able to get a similar result???

This is shaping up to be a good season. During post race interview with Ocon, Lando, K-Mag they all spoke about how much easier it is to follow and be along side another car.

I give Hammy about 2 more races with crap outcomes before he starts blaming the team.

Gotta love this guy...

Gunther Steiner: “Last year for 2 points I would have ****ed the whole paddock”

What a fun season so far... I know it' s circular argument but if you think how far back Max was from Leclerc before the safety car (that gave Leclerc the lead so yes, circular), Ferrari might have "theoretically" won that race on pure pace - just. So it's really close between redbull and Ferrari - track and setup dependent, exciting !

Max is such a whiny little b in the race - "ooh Charles crossed the line, ooh his light is off, ooh that gap is unfair" etc - Leclerc has way more class...

And it's fun to see Hamilton work a bit for a living, and Russell do well, like Kmag, Albon, and the funniest to me was on the after race interviews on F1Tv Lando $h%tti#g all over his McLaren in the post race chat - damn the boy is unhappy... I wish Alfa had the reliability because I'd like nothing more than Valteri beating Lewis (or passing him, even better) with an alfa a few times before Mercedes catches up.

on #1 - IMO the top 16 drivers are all podium level drivers (Kmag got one with Mclaren, Grosjean was too) - it's the car. It's simply not crap anymore. Kmag was never bad but was surprises me is how he buries Schumacher Jr despite zero prep for the season and by his admission a weak neck.

#2 - Mazepin was waaaay behind Schumi last year, and schumi is far from K-mag. Draw your logical conclusions ;-) Bet he's pissed though. The car comes good, Russia goes bad.

#3 - I'm with you and I'd love to see the bloom off the rose. Sir Lewis has been such a sanctimonious prick in victory with the best car and best team for so long, and "still he rises" blah blah... adversity will probably show a different side. It already started "can't wait to go home"... Norris too seemed like such a fun kid and he was brutal and borderline a$$holish about McLaren in interviews yesterday. Those guys are all killers. I wouldn't mind seeing more of that and less political correctness. You don't get there by being nice...

Talking about nice, I really grew to like Latifi, for a pay driver he really seemed like a nice dude, articulated, can drive (kinda of a nicer Stroll), but it's looking bad for him to lose to Albon and bin the car twice.

^ And then there is the problem of George Russell wiping the track with Hamster. It's racism, obviously.

It's pretty hard for the 'ham to exasperate on how this is the hardest he's ever worked in a car when his first year teammate qualifies and finishes much, much better.

Paul I read that quote this morning on a F1 website and burst out laughing . I bet Gunther is a lot of fun when having a few beers . I bet he has great stories.

Yeah, that stuff reminds me of Toto and Hammy. Always finding the slightest discrepancy and telling the teacher. "Rules are Rules". Next thing you know, Seb will get a 5 second penalty for having Covid

Not a big Hammy fan but when you think he had class of the field for years and now he is shaking to bits at full tilt then trying to hit braking points/turn in that must be difficult. It’s hard just to watch the in car cam!

I think it’s apparent that Mazepin is not on the same level.

I think in this case there was a difference in setup, they went one way with Russell and far in another with Hamilton. I can't imagine a world where he's off Russell by a second in an equal car.

Max sounds like such a little kid. Like my eight-year-old and his friends.

Hamilton said he had requested a setup change and that his problems with the car were his fault.

Mercedes has underperformed at the start of the season in the past and the 2000 engineers they have working on it figured it out.

How in the world can they make that track work? Are they going to build multiple bridges or tunnels to get the people staying in the hotels in and out? Tens of thousands of people staying at the hotels that have never heard of F1 will still want to get in an out of there. I don't understand something.

I have no idea, other than shutting down the strip. I think they already have pedestrian bridges over the main street. I think it's going to be a bigger attraction than Monaco within 10 years. Probably more like 5.

As the saying goes: Money talks BS walks.

Fans on social media are not impressed. One announcement post to the F1 Instagram page had something like 15k comments. The most you ever see is 4 or 5k. There are the odd 'this is great' comments but the majority are unhappy. Unhappy about 3 USA races, about another street circuit that people believe will be garbage.

Also a bunch of comments about the great historic tracks like Spa, Hockenheim, and Nurburgring. The fear is that Vegas will knock off Spa and/or keep the grand old tracks from getting back on the schedule. (Edit: remember when Liberty Media said F1 would be getting back to its roots at European tracks???)

There was also concern about being able to get tickets and how much they would cost. I believe the opinion is the US races cost big bucks and they get bought out most riki tik. (sort of like a Super Bowl, whatever that is)

I was thinking this morning after I saw the news. I remember when you could name all the tracks and knew which race was next just by the month. Back when San Marino had a GP as well as Portugal.

I don't think this is a good thing. COTA is a good track and the race is usually entertaining. My fear is that w Miami and Vegas, little old country red neck Texas will be on the chopping block because the millionaires don't want to go there as much as South Beach and Vegas.

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hope it will be better than the Ceasar's Palace parking lot

What was wrong with that?

It's going to increase Vegas attractions and desirable real estate to have more of a loop than a "drive". It'll basically help them to clear out the junkyards and downtown.

The word is that the city spent more $$ attracting F1 than they did the NFL Raiders. It's easy to see why. Millions of more new fans and more advertising dollars will flow into F1, the manufacture stakeholders and sponsors, and likely the other US venues will also see increased ticket sales, contrary to conventional wisdom. I'm trying to get my friends in Vegas to get tickets lined up when they drop.