In the round-up: Pierre Gasly says Lewis Hamilton’s error-free season is why he deserves to be world champion.
What they say
When asked by RaceFans, Gasly said Hamilton’s consistent points-scoring is a reminder of how championships are won:
In the end Lewis deserves the championship. He’s been really strong especially in the second part of the year. No mistakes and in the end I think that’s what paid off.
If you want to win you need to score points more or less every race. Seen a couple of times when they didn’t have the pace like today they finished fourth, fifth, third… might not be ideal, you always want to win but 15 points plus 12, plus 10… in the end it makes a difference. I think we saw that when you score zero points in one race weekend it’s really difficult to recover them in the next couple of races. Obviously that’s the main thing.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
Congratulations @LewisHamilton on winning your 5th world championship! To celebrate, I conducted the concert debut of my @F1 theme in London with the @Philharmonia Orchestra! #Formula1 #LewisHamilton pic.twitter.com/C3RPZUNybM
— Brian Tyler (@BrianTylerMusic) October 29, 2018
Congrats @LewisHamilton on a class drive all year long. Top job.
— Carlos Sainz (@Carlossainz55) October 29, 2018
Are photographers allowed to stand here, @IntercontGTC @WeatherTechRcwy? #IntGTC #Cal8H pic.twitter.com/dmQr7N6NqR
— Vincent Bruins (@VincentJBruins) October 28, 2018
10 sec penalty for leaving the track, two laps before the same thing happen and no penalty for the other car. Seriously put walls everywhere, enough of those track limits and no consistency @EuropeanLMS
— Jean-Eric Vergne (@JeanEricVergne) October 28, 2018
A surprise for @LewisHamilton in his championship-winning press conference as his second questions comes from Fernando Alonso (not to be confused with @alo_oficial…) #F1 #MexicanGP #MexicoGP pic.twitter.com/i9KKbNUuw3
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) October 29, 2018
Mexican Grand Prix, 1970: 200,000 spectators were crammed in front of the guard-rails, sat at the trackside and ran across the track itself.
Illustrated here by Stommelen's car, stopped after fuel system failure during the race.
Photo: Bernard Cahier pic.twitter.com/zM7GvtOErv— Paul-Henri Cahier (@F1Photo) October 27, 2018
Same same but different. @alo_oficial #MexicoGP 🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/CZprpcMsr3
— McLaren (@McLarenF1) October 28, 2018
— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) October 29, 2018
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
"When we got out onto the ultrasoft tyre though, it just didn’t work at all. I mean, if we want great racing, we need tyres. That just wasn’t possible today with these tyres."
"Today was a big shame. We were leading the midfield comfortably and in contention for some good points and then, without warning, the car shut down."
Kimi comments on the race (Ferrari)
"Congratulations to Lewis; he has done the best job of any of us this year and he deserved to win."
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Comment of the day
Romain Grosjean’s complaint that racing at high altitude doesn’t make sense was a point of view few sympathised with:
Strangely enough, I would suspect Red Bull fans would argue there needs to be another grand prix at a race track at high altitude.
This isn’t a case where the high altitude suddenly appeared from nowhere, the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez has always been at high altitude and will always be at high altitude.
Part of many sports is to present a range challenges to the competitors to see who has the best all round ability. If some F1 teams make special allowances in the design of their car for the Mexican Grand Prix, and especially if they can do it without undue expense or compromising their performance at every other venue, then I’d say that was a wise decision.
Of course, it may be making allowances for Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is costly and would compromise the car’s performance at every other venue, in which case those teams that fall into this category will arrive in Mexico knowing it will be a long weekend with little to show for it.
Stephen Crowsen (@Drycrust)
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Phylyp (@phylyp)
29th October 2018, 2:33
Go to bed, Keith!
While I’ve criticized Gasly on occasion for some of his comments, in today’s quote he makes a good point, one that’s been echoed by other drivers, media and fans. Instead of Vettel’s high risk/reward “go big or go home” overtaking attempts, Hamilton was comfortable eking out the best points when a win wasn’t possible. Over the course of a 21-race season, that ensured that the flow of points didn’t stop.
Re. the tweet, I am surprised and appalled that photographer wasn’t asked to leave and an investigation launched (was he allowed onto a dangerous part of the track, or did he make his own way there). With all the aero bits on cars, a car running wide or understeering looks like it can easily take a limb off, or worse.
OOliver
29th October 2018, 6:13
I disagree. They both had a similar championship. They both found themselves behind other cars and worked their way to the front. They both suffered from poorly timed safety cars. They both had their team mess up the race strategy.
The only difference being Hamilton judged his overtakes properly. Didn’t make any rash overtake decision. He respected other drivers on the race track.
Hamilton wasn’t just cruising carefully to a championship.
hobo (@hobo)
29th October 2018, 14:36
@OOliver – That’s not what @phylyp said though. He/she said that “Hamilton was comfortable eking out the best points when a win wasn’t possible.” That is, instead of pushing beyond the limits of the car / track / tyres and causing a spin, a crash, or further loss of places like Vettel did more than once this season, Hamilton was more calm in collecting less than first if first was not available to him.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
29th October 2018, 15:13
Thank you for explaining my point more clearly @hobo , that’s exactly what I meant :-)
Johnny Five
29th October 2018, 13:07
Do we know that the photo wasn’t taken from a drone?
Phylyp (@phylyp)
29th October 2018, 14:39
The tweet refers to the photographer circled in the top-right of the photo, not the vantage point of the photo itself.
Johnny Five
30th October 2018, 12:41
How to look like a plonker:
1) don’t look at stuff properly
2) make assumptions about it
Guilty on both counts :)
@HoHum (@hohum)
29th October 2018, 4:49
Poor Haas, with Americans growing up toasting marshmallows around the campfire you’d think they of all people would be able to get the most out of these pirellis.
BlackJackFan
29th October 2018, 5:10
Will anything ever be the fault of Haas…? I’m tired of these three people whining before and after every race…
ColdFly (@)
29th October 2018, 7:23
@keithcollantine, I’d rather see these team race links in your Monday race reviews than in the round-up.
Jere (@jerejj)
29th October 2018, 10:39
I agree with Gasly. Interesting COTD as well. I can see its point. That photographer’s proximity to the track, though.
Todfod (@todfod)
29th October 2018, 11:06
@jerejj
I think everyone has to. I thought the statement was made by Captain Obvious
Zim
29th October 2018, 11:58
He’s busy doing travel ads.
Jere (@jerejj)
29th October 2018, 15:25
@todfod Yes, indeed, LOL.
Zim
29th October 2018, 11:56
AH MAN!! What a buzz it must’ve been to conduct a whole orchestra playing the F1 theme. I get goosebumps when it comes on TV – can’t even imagine what that was like.