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How long until a driver decides to ride on these robots?

I would suggest Latifi but I guess 2 rich kids in the same place can't work out

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They're just clutching at straws to create a false sense of entertainment and uncertainty, so that their viewers will happily keep paying £40 a month to watch Mercedes lap everybody else.

Change my mind: FIA ruling Ferrari's engine as illegal has been the worst decision since the start of the V6T era. They should have just swept it under the rug, as most likely Mercedes is pulling similar borderline tricks anyway.

Send Sir Killalot to hand out the trophies or nothing....

Still, 4/10 race.

1 point for Perez around the outside of T6

1 Point for Max outside surprise re-pass of bottas

2 points for the final lap drama-rama

Still needed some action from lap 10-60 but we'll take what we get.

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I blame Ferrari for being responsible to bring SC too early and thus disallowing a potential for further cautions

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I'm surprised he didn't include anything about missing the "best fans" at the circuit. I set my alarm but fell back asleep after lap 1. Looks like I didn't miss a whole lot, another Mercedes 1-2 snoozefest.

Top 3 was dull, even though Bottas needed the whole race to get past Verstappen, who fought really hard to concede the position. But there was always some battle happening inside the top-10. Nothing remarkable anyway.

The crashes between the Ferraris and the last-lap mayhem are what we can take from this race.

Presumably protesting the Pink Mercedes' Pink Mercedesness

EDIT: Uhuh

Stewards have deemed it admissible. Parts of the Racing Point and Mercedes cars will be sealed.

To clarify, this is the 2019 Mercedes - specifically the brake ducts

I still think it won't go anywhere, mainly because it would potentially implicate Mercedes - unless the FIA are keen to level the playing field...

Worth remembering that it was Racing Point who successfully protested against Renault's brakes last year

Probably be a fine and Racing Point told to make their own.

That IS a 2019 Mercedes, no doubt. It has the same problems with tyres sometimes,and same speed and advantages.
And it should be illegal.

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This is something I can't work out. In the past, Red Bull have been able to produce two decent cars. Webber picked up a lot of wins in the Vettel era. Ricciardo did very well against Vettel and Max. It's only the last couple of seasons that one of their drivers has been massively off the pace. Either the team is so focused on Max and the second car isn't as competitive, or Max is just incredibly fast.

I have to admit that I didn't like Max when he first came into F1. More recently, I think he genuinely has developed into one of the fastest drivers on the grid, and Albon or Gasly wouldn't be able to keep up whether they had the same car or not. (I could be wrong; the second car may just suck).

I was listening to the Beyond the Grid episode with Heikki Kovalainen this week and he basically dismissed any idea that there was favouritism towards Lewis in McLaren in 2008-09. I get the impression this might be a fairly frequent occurrence - if you've got a super-fast driver like Lewis and Max, they're just plain faster, and then that erodes the confidence of the second driver so it ends up just spiralling. You see it with Bottas too, who is by all accounts a very quick driver but just lacks the confidence and consistency to reach a high level in every race like Lewis. I don't think he or Albon are receiving substantially worse treatment in the garage - I think it's more that Lewis and Max are just incredibly talented. For what it's worth, I was a bit disappointed with Albon's pace but at the same time, it's easy to forget that Gasly was all over the place in most of his races for Red Bull last year - 4th is a solid result by comparison

It's funny but through learning all of this and with Lewis' successes in his career continuing to mount up, my opinion of Rosberg has gone much higher. It just underlines what an incredible job he did in being so consistent while driving in the same team as one of the best drivers ever. He must have had incredible resilience to keep coming back race after race and somehow still be somewhere close to or even above Lewis' level. It just shows how massively underrated he is

What a can of worms the FIA have opened with letting that Stroll move stand. Yes, the second last lap but he clearly took the other driver off the track (by going off the track himself) and disadvantaged him dropping him behind another car, not just Stroll. How on Earth have they justified that and let that one go?

Did the Renault protest come before or after that non judgement? And yes, the protest clearly was in spite after Japan last year. After all Renault's system last year was deemed perfectly legal under one regulation and illegal under another at the same time, even though they had been running it for close to two years.

But this protest is dead on arrival. If it is a copy then Racing Point will have to either be excluded from constructor points ala McLaren 2007 (drivers can still keep theirs) or told to build a new car. None of those is going to happen. Shit, they sealed up the agreement and investigation with a clearly illegal Ferrari.

Also as stated above if it is a copy that would implicate Mercedes and hahahha you think they are going to be draconian on them?

Will racing point pull out the Ferrari Malaysian GP 1999 card and take measurements from a different reference point and say see.....its different!!!!

Well, the claimed they just studied pictures of the Mercedes very closely and made the designs from that. Any idiot knows thats utter bullshit as pictures wont show the fine details needed to make the design work.

And if it was that easy, RBR and Ferrari already copied it by now.

The interesting part is, will only Racing Point be found in breach of the rules or also Mercedes for providing the designs?

1/10 race, that 1 is because it was a a unique grand prix name

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Let's just hope for a second covid wave so that this season can be cancelled already.

Thank god I didn't stay home to watch this.

Another reason as to why Ferrari is screwed. Their #1 driver is completely demotivated and just wants the season to be over with so he can get a fresh start and Leclerc has to carry the workload.

But hey, their ineptness gonna provide entertainment for us.

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