F1 2024: Dutch GP - Zandvoort (Aug 25)

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Q1 is for Checo ...

The Mexican resurrection (hopefully)!

Kitkats and tequilas doing their thang
Now it's dry track and softs on the cars for the next 15 minutes, waiting on the Lion...

[M5Rick]

Damn those Larens as MAX in a Merc sandwich, any more from Checo ?

[GuidoK]

wow, Hammy out in Q2.... whereas RUS get's 3rd time
That was a really bad lap, as most drivers improved at that same time (even mediocre ones like STR). The trackconditions were favourable.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

Yeah, whatever.
Max is medicore and now that his car isn't 1 minute a lap quicker he's been losing races with equal machinery. Lando is a step below Carlos and he's still putting so much heat on Max, that he's reverted to Crashstappen.

Love seeing the meltdowns as Ham grabbed two wins in a car thats easily 3-4 fastest. If Max was in the Mercedes this year he would be worse than Russell and probably never even sniff the podium.

Q2 : Your dude LEW is knocked out !

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Killed by Death

And I complain about Checo keeping his job. No wonder there are no Americans in F1.

Sarge
Scott Speed
Kyle Larson trash talking Max

Geez

[M5Rick]

Top 10 shootout and MAX decided to stay in! Checo up to 5th , MAX 8th ...LEW and SAI are dropped.

[GuidoK]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Top 10 shootout and MAX decided to stay in!

Yes that was a big gamble. But he saved a set of reds with this.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

His 2 car is a wreck, no way would that be repaired in time and a question mark even for tomorrow if stewards would even allow it to race made up of dozens of new parts guessed in race trim.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Damn those Larens as MAX in a Merc sandwich, any more from Checo ?

The McLarens are bullets ! Everywhere....

[GuidoK]

That was a killer lap from NOR!

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

The McLarens are bullets ! Everywhere....

Doesn't stop MAX splitting the Larens as PIA slipped, the Lion is waiting as NOR will be sweating in race trim. Shame Checo behind RUS but still up there to help out.

[AmuroRay]

But Max's car is so slow!

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

But Max's car is so slow!

Add the MAX Factor to beat the other McLaren, both the Mercs and Ferrari

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Doesn't stop MAX splitting the Larens as PIA slipped, the Lion is waiting as NOR will be sweating in race trim. Shame Checo behind RUS but still up there to help out.

Q3

1- NOR (pole)!
2- MAX
3- PIA
4- RUS
5- CHECO
6- LEC
7- ALO
8- ALB
9- STR
10- GAS

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

But Max's car is so slow!

But LEW can still win this race !

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

The McLarens are bullets ! Everywhere....

We'll see if they're bullets in race mode, we know the 20 can get more pace as the fuel tank gets low gas nearing the end of the race and Lando can get tired then...

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

I'm going to stop you there. Let's both just be honest with what happened and leave the bias out. Ham won because Rus and Mercedes attempted to cheat him out of the win. Ham was quicker in qualifying AND the race. He wasn't able to do a 1 stop strategy because the team denied his request to do so and then granted it to Rus. Justice prevailed.

Well mate , today you nailed it completely !

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

We'll see if they're bullets in race mode, we know the 20 can get more pace as the fuel tank gets low gas nearing the end of the race and Lando can get tired then...

Well , that's what McLaren has shown in the last 4-5 races .

They are super fast in FP , QF and race ...

But as we know : The McLaren pit and race strategy can really s@ck...

Today Lando was 0.35 sec. faster than MAX .
And that's sea of time on a short track like Zandvoort .

BTW : Today I expected to see more from the Benz boys ...

[AmuroRay]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Add the MAX Factor to beat the other McLaren, both the Mercs and Ferrari

Is the Max factor also why Perez is in the top 5 as well?

[3798j]

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[CMW33]

Devastating lap by Lando today. Should be a great race tomorrow. Seems like practice running was limited to due rain and I guess, fire, so I have no idea where people stack up on race simulations?? I'll pick Max to win to make the hometown fans happy.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

Is the Max factor also why Perez is in the top 5 as well?

It's the improvement that Horner was waiting from Checo, don't forget that all teams sandbag once in a while even when they say they are unlikely to improve, fans are basically led up the garden path with what is really going on.