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09-15-2024, 06:37 AM | #376 |
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Holy shit. Haven't seen anything like that in a while.
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09-15-2024, 06:39 AM | #377 |
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Think that gives them the constructors championship lead too.
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09-15-2024, 07:22 AM | #378 |
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That was a crazy race. Nice to see Colapinto and Bearman in the points. McLaren now has the lead in the constructors. Piastri is the real deal.
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09-15-2024, 07:56 AM | #379 |
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Leclerc duffed that win so badly.
You can't let Piastri get you from three car lengths back for the lead. He had to defend that pass better than he did. And had he done so, he wouldn't have been in the shit with Sainz and Perez. Leclerc has to be better than that if they're gonna win a Constructors. And they certainly won't win a Drivers that way. Just cannot let that move happen. |
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09-15-2024, 08:20 AM | #380 | |
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09-15-2024, 10:53 AM | #381 | |
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He keeps doing these dive-bombs that nobody even tries to defend. And after last week, I just don't understand how LeClerc didn't expect it. No question it was a great move from Piastri but Leclerc has to defend that. He has to expect it and with only one real option for Piastri after coming from that far back, he can't be surprised by it. Be better Charles. You're my boy but you messed that race up. |
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09-15-2024, 12:37 PM | #382 |
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So much more fun to watch than it was when the only suspense was whether Verstappen’s margin of victory would be o/u 10 seconds. Second half of the season has been great.
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09-22-2024, 10:48 AM | #383 |
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Nice race by Lando today, but the commentary was atrocious. They confused the Ferrari cars more than once, Kravitz said that Piastri was on 33-year-old tires, and Crofty praised Piastri for undercutting the Mercedes as we watched him pull out behind them. Somebody praised Franco for scoring a point from P11. And when one of the drivers said the car was a sauna, Kravitz [?] said "Actually, it's more of a steam room." The **** you think a sauna is?
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09-22-2024, 10:51 AM | #384 |
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Yeah they were pretty bad today. Race was fairly boring.
Now there's almost a month off until COTA. |
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09-22-2024, 11:09 AM | #385 |
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I spent the whole race just annoyed at how badly Ferrari duffed Q3.
Sainz crashing out trying to...start. LeClerc going off in the first turn and having his lap deleted. Hell, Ferrari having to wait for a single lap to begin with because they burned an unnecessary set of softs in Q1 (which they ALWAYS do for some strange reason). Guys - you need to beat 5 cars in Q1. You could probably do that in friggen reverse - could you please try to save a set of Softs so don't have to go out there with that much pressure on a single lap? It's at least the 2nd time you've blown that in Q3 this year. Ferrari should've had 2 cars in the top 5 today and at least one of 'em on the podium. They duffed an easy chance to pull closer to Red Bull in the Constructors. Additionally, I'm pretty sure we established that McLaren didn't do enough when they had an opening. Verstappen getting 2nd ahead of a hiatus says they've probably found enough form to hold Norris off just long enough to keep 1st in the Driver's. 1 DNF could change that but man, nobody breaks anymore. And nobody so much as bumps into each other either - 9 straight races without a safety car? The odds of a DNF from Max are pretty damn long. |
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Instead they played the tire game, left the gap around 6-7 seconds before they got undercut (which pulled it down to 4ish) and then LeClerc had a miserable out lap that put Piastri in position to try that pass. All of that came from them being too passive in the 1st segment. We know these tires are showing better deg rates than teams are expecting. And today Norris just said "Fine - I'm gonna drive the damn things hard and build my gap..." Teams should've been doing that the last 8-10 races since we really learned these Pirellis are durable as hell. |
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Oh to be in Marranello tonight listening to the Church Bells ringing
Hats off to STR. |
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