What? Again?
I’ll try not to belabor this too much because I have many other irons in the fire (well, I notice my absences and what can I say except they’re related to business, personal, and family issues I choose not to share with the entire Internet).
It’s a new track, a street track, and it’s horrible. Think Monaco with two long straights.
Oh, straights you say. Surely you can overtake there.
Pfft. You pass in the corners and they are twisty tunnels of blindness. When I get on the freaking highway it’s always blocked up with traffic because the dumbass drivers won’t even do the damn speed limit into an uphill drop away curve. There’s no reason for it, you could take it at 120 (and I have), they just get scared.
Not that F1 drivers ever do even though they’re pushing around machines that cost about a million per, just that it’s not really able to give you opportunities. Of course all the teams are running with zero downforce because of the straights.
And then there’s the green track, and I mean really green, like they laid it down just last month (and they did). I’m sure it’s a dream to drive in a passenger car but it’s not suited to racing because it’s not very grippy.
But in Formula One you soldier on despite difficulties and though many people have parked this weekend and the grid is suitably scrambled to prove it we will race. There will be a huge mix up in the first lap and whoever survives will have to choose a pit strategy based on tires which include Mediums, Softs, and SuperSofts (the tire of choice but many were flat spotted during qualifying).
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Vent Hole
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Your half hour of hype
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Everyone in the Top 10 is starting on used SuperSofts
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Assembly lap
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We race
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Hey! We made it through the first lap
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DRS enabled
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Start repeat
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Sainz pits
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Lap 5 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Ricciardo
Raikkonen
Perez
Massa
Massa
Bottas
Hamilton
Grosjean
Hulkenberg
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Ricciardo pits
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Magnussen Button pit
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Kvyat pits
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Kvyat parks
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Nasr pits
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Raikkonen pits
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Gutierrez pits
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Lap 10 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Perez
Hamilton
Bottas
Hulkenberg
Ricciard
Raikkonen
Wehrlein
Massa
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Palmer pits
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Hamilton pits
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Lap 17 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Perez
Bottas
Ricciardo
Raakkonen
Hulkkenberg
Massa
Perez
Hamilton
Verstappen
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Only Rosberg, Vettel, and Bottas have not pitted and still run on Super Softs
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Vettel pits
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Hulkenberg pits
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Verstappen pits for Mediums
Things are screwed up for Red Bull
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Lap 21 0f 51
Rosberg
Raikkonen
Vettel
Perez
Hamilton
Ricciardo
Massa
Bottas
Sainz
Alonso
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Ricciardo pits for Mediums
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Verstappen (18th) also on Mediums
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Red Bull has a wacky tire strategy going on
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Alonso and Nasr pit
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Button pits
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Lap 25 of 51
Rosberg
Raikkonen
Vettel
Perez
Hamilton
Massa
Bottas
Hulkenberg
Sainz
Ricciardo
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Grosjean pits
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Sainz pits again
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Lap 30 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Raikkonen
Perez
Hamilton
Bottas
Hulkenberg
Ricciardo
Massa
Verstappen
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Lap 32
Sainz parks, suspension. Same as Kvyat.
Toro Rosso is out.
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Lap 35 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Raikkonen
Perez
Hamilton
Bottas
Hulkenberg
Ricciardo
Massa
Verstappen
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Lap 40 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Raikkonen
Perez
Hamilton
Bottas
Hulkenberg
Ricciardo
Massa
Verstappen
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Werhlien parks
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Alonso pits
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Lap 45 of 51
Rosberg
Vettel
Raikkonen
Perez
Hamilton
Bottas
Hulkenberg
Ricciardo
Verstappen
Massa
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Alonso has parked
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Final
Rosberg
Vettel
Pere
Raikkonen
Hamilton
Bottas
Ricciardo
Verstappen
Hulkenberg
Masa
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Meh, lamenting over Hamilton from the commentators. He finished 5th from 10th and is still breathing down Rosberg’s neck which he wasn’t 4 races ago.
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Among the littles,Force India is putting on a show despite financing concerns and the fact that most of their owners are under indictment for corruption.
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What? You say Williams is a little too? I agree.