F1: 2019 thread

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by astrochex

What I did love about the podium was the joy from the Mercedes person who accepted the constructors trophy. You could tell she appreciated the moment.

Good for her , wish there were more ladies working in F1

Didn't see the race or what caused Vettel's penalty but thought it sucked the fastest driver/car didn't win today

I've been a steward (poacher turned gamekeeper and then back to poacher ) at few world championship F1 inshore powerboat events, at that level it's not any an easy game at all as someone always hates you

[Scott Douglas]

Back in the 'old days', Ham would have finished second and thanked Seb for leaving him enough room to brake safely and continue on.

[yellowperil]

Autosport news says Ferrari intends to appeal penalty. This is a chance for them
to do the right thing.

[cairns]

Autosport news says Ferrari intends to appeal penalty. This is a chance for them
to do the right thing.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1560122065.jpg

I think they have about as much chance as McLaren did back in 2008 when the penalty and win went against Hamilton. That was a BS penalty too.

[chapo]

Lame!totally lame. F1 is doing its damnedest to make sure nothing happens on track. Glad I watched indycar the night before, not the greatest race at Texas but way more exiting than this

[450knotOffice]

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

Back in the 'old days', Ham would have finished second and thanked Seb for leaving him enough room to brake safely and continue on.

Yep. That sentence sums it up perfectly.

[chapo]

Love Sebs quote “ this is not the sport I fell in love with”. 100 percent agree.

[svandamme]

Vettel screwed up, went off
He should be happy that he did not end up in the Armco with a DNF on the score board.

Instead he's moping and crying bout the 5 sec and 1 lost place.

Either way, he screwed up while in the lead.
He lost the lead, nobody else did that

[chapo]

Yes he lost the lead. Hamilton couldn’t pass him in the next x amount of laps.? Stupid penalty . More importantly is the amount of fans losing interest

[svandamme]

Sure Hamilton could pass, all it takes is one screw up from the guy in front of him.
Vettel chokes when he's up front, not the first time, won't be the last time.

To finish first, first you have to finish.
In this case he nearly didn't even finish.

[chapo]

F1 used to be about men driving their machines to the limit, and the great ones beyond the limit. Doesn’t happen anymore. Too much monitoring and worrying, too many decisions made by engineers and directors. There are no more heroic drives through the pack or in the rain. The drivers would like to see this changed. The drivers in days gone by were truly heroic in the efforts, not now .

[svandamme]

Oh I agree, and i really don't watch anymore, No V10's or V12's, sjit sound.
the drivers barely have any character in them.
Kimi can be funny, Crashhappens is thick as a plank ,Hambone well he's ok, but most of them are like human computers that plug into their car..
They rarely give an interesting interview..
And then you got a crybaby like Vettel that throws a tantrum each time something doesn't go his way.. boring really. And the cars look ugly as well...

[450knotOffice]

Ridiculous position to take considering that Ham DIDN’T pass him for the lead, Stijn. Seb saved it and stayed ahead. He stayed ahead and finished FIRST, but didn’t win. He didn’t win because the idiot stewards stole it from him. I don’t think they intentionally meant to. Worse, I think they were simply incompetent. The FIA and F1 should be ashamed.
IMSA/WEC is so much better. It’s RACING.

[svandamme]

he saved it at the expense of Ham who had to brake for a car returning to the track after going off

Either way, it was Vettel's mistake and he should be happy he did not crash and DNF alltogether.

[450knotOffice]

Apparently you’ve never heard of real RACING, Stijn. In any other series This would have been a pure racing incident, nothing more.

But, hey, it’s F1, so...

[svandamme]

Still does not change the fact that Vettel while doing real racing, screwed up...

[450knotOffice]

But he stayed ahead...

Wait. No. The STEWARDS took that away.

(As an aside, every race sees many screwups by all of the drivers. No driver drives a perfect race.)

[yellowperil]

Too bad Hamilton hadn't squeezed through, looked like he had the room, then all this fuss wouldn't have mattered.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by yellowperil

Too bad Hamilton hadn't squeezed through, looked like he had the room, then all this fuss wouldn't have mattered.

Vettel clearly gave extra steering input to close the gap


Put it on slow mo...

https://youtu.be/gqhX-ZzPhzo?t=3

[astrochex]

At first I thought the penalty was excessive, but then I saw additional information. Vettel was in the wrong, he looked in his mirrors, then went right towards Hamilton, https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/reason-vettel-punished-canada/4461461/.

Sux that Vettel had to crack under pressure. I think Hamilton had more pace than Vettel and if he had gone by, it would have been game over for Ferrari.