2021 Formula One Season: Championship Decider Abu Dhabi - Verstappen Wins in a Controversial Race! 🏆 🍾

[drd23]

Horrible race for Ferrari - both cars ended up out of the points

 

[Acinath]

Max played that beautifully

 

[royboy2]

Can't complain with 5th & 6th

 

[lionbear]

Dan is on the improve every race, hard work starting to show

 

[juice t]

McLaren land 5th and 6th while Ferrari have both cars out of the points

Huge result

 

[Quokka]

Congrats to RBR and Verstappen another big weekend for them and 2021 looking very good

 

[ptrg]

That is the perfect example of why we need severe tyre degredation when going beyond "the limits"- gotta have multiple strategies at least considered for this sport to be half decent.

If the hards just get them through 40+ laps with no worries, this race would have been insanely different (ie boring as batshit).

But with degredation being so large that the planned "tyre managemen for all" went out the window, instead we got an epic finish due to different strategies both being very close in balance

 

[happy_eagle]

Dan is on the improve every race, hard work starting to show

Now heading for 2 races in Austria where Norris was on the podium last year.
Should be solid

 

[Magma]

it's slightly amusing and sad that a 7 time world champ seemingly cant dictate strategy changes. i get that the team has much more info, but surely sometimes you have to just say yeah, maybe the driver is right.

 

[FR0GGY]

Checco paying off already

 

[Mister B]

McLaren now 16pts ahead of Ferrari in the constructors after being behind at the start of the day. They will be very pleased.

 

[happy_eagle]

Looks like RBR have found their ideal number 2 driver in Perez.

 

[Quokka]

He’d be at least 5 places lower I reckon if he 2 stopped

No doubt and this isn't meant as any sort of conspiracy theory against Norrish who has had Daniel's measure so far, but purely as a hindsight call what looked like an undercut at the time just ended up putting Ricciardo on older tires for too long against too many when it ended up being a one stop race.


* But a good race and a good result for McClaren

 

[Magma]

its funny, i think hamilton having a rival from an opposing team again will oddly relax him and make him more human again like when he was younger.

 

[drd23]

Why does Mercedes have a tartan hat? Its not like they (or Hamilton) are Scottish

 

[Forward Press]

Checco paying off already

Yep, think this has been slightly glossed over. He was in the dangerous position of being able to spoiler a Mercedes switch to two stoppers. It meant that Hamilton when he was behind simply couldn't gamble with the undercut because he'd also have to pass another Red Bull on track.

I'm one of those that never doubted the Perez switch to be Red Bull's second gunner.

 

[Magma]

what the utter * is that trophy

 

[royboy2]

Reckon we'll see a gracious Hamilton in defeat?

Yep

 

[drd23]

what the utter fu** is that trophy

Are you saying you don't associate the South of France with angry gorillas?

 

[juice t]

Those trumpets sound a bit out of tune

 

[Magma]

Are you saying you don't associate the South of France with angry gorillas?

i thought they had them on leashes in the south

 

[lionbear]

That’s the best I have seen Lewis speak after not winning a race, acknowledged Max

 

[MaxHunt]

That is the perfect example of why we need severe tyre degredation when going beyond "the limits"- gotta have multiple strategies at least considered for this sport to be half decent.

If the hards just get them through 40+ laps with no worries, this race would have been insanely different (ie boring as batshit).

But with degredation being so large that the planned "tyre managemen for all" went out the window, instead we got an epic finish due to different strategies both being very close in balance

How far back did Norris end up from Max? 60 secs? The gap from the top two teams to the next is still to great. Races are only really interesting when there is rain or a number of safety cars. If it's a clean race, like today, only 4 drivers have any chance of getting on the podium.

 

[Admiral Byng]

too busy watching the race to post.

But that was a good one. With 5 laps to go you didn't know who was going to win - best scenario for any race IMHO.

As far as our Dan Ricciardo goes, his side of the garage playing the short game with the undercut on Gasley (which worked). Norris side of the garage playing the long game of doing the second stint on fresher tyres (worked even better). Dan got very racy and put on some good overtake moves, shows he is getting the feel of the car at last.

 

[Skull Face]

They didn't even watch the dan battle then
Raikonen didn't pass him, he defended.
These guys are useless

Better then the F3 Guys, they called Novalak Doohan and visa versa in both the 2nd and 3rd races this weekend on MULTIPLE occasions.