Hamilton must seize his chance to take points lead

14 comments on “Hamilton must seize his chance to take points lead”

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   Enigma (@enigma)
   2nd September 2017, 22:25

   Probably the most exciting grid since Sepang 2010! I would love to see Stroll or Ocon take the lead into turn one.

   With both Red Bulls towards the back, it would make sense to split the strategies – pit Ricciardo on lap one, have Verstappen run very long.
   1. 

      Scottie (@scottie)
      3rd September 2017, 1:55

      That looks like exactly what they’re planning. Ricciardo looks to be on lower downforce given his split times, where as Max was quite high in the split rankings and notably slower in a straight line, indicating more downforce and will struggle to pass cars on track today.

      Will be a fascinating race to follow, along with the Ferrari’s coming through! Tifosi will be on full song!
      1. 

         Scottie (@scottie)
         3rd September 2017, 1:57

         wait… no. It might be the other way around. Max pitting first as he lacks speed, while Dan can pass on the straights a bit better, and so will stay out while making more progress amongst traffic.
         1. 

            Enigma (@enigma)
            3rd September 2017, 8:46

            @scottie Verstappen does start a few places ahead of Ricciardo, though.
      2. 

         hahostolze (@hahostolze)
         3rd September 2017, 11:27

         How do you figure? Verstappen was faster in the high speed sections, so he was running lower downforce if anything?
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   Julian (Mr. Sakura) (@xiasitlo)
   3rd September 2017, 0:21

   This seems fun. I’m only interested in how quick Bottas can create a gap between him and Vettel. The drag will mean that if Bottas does not manages to do it quick enough he will just be a sitting duck behind Ocon and Stroll, the kid that goes from hitting someone under the safety car driving 40 mph to starting front row in one week.

   Hopefully they’ll battle it out. That spectacular move from Vettel on Bottas in Spain is one of the best moves I’ve seen in years. This is Ricciardo’s chance to challenge Verstappen to a proper duel. He needs to deliver. Kind of a pity to probably see them on different strategies.
   I still think Vettel will at one point here lose his temper. He was quite behaved although quite wild in his starts in Spa.
   The moment one of the Mercedes or Ferrari’s will break down is also very near historically speaking, then again it would be nuts to see a GP3 champion leading a F3 champion in F1 at Monza… especially after a safety car.

   But I’m thinking Hamilton, Vettel, Ocon. No lap record. RBs 8th and 8th and Alonso to ”retire” before lap 20.
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   mystic one (@mysticus)
   3rd September 2017, 1:10

   Lap 15
   From Alonso: Embarrassing guys, GP2 engines are faster than Honda!

   Lap 25
   To Alonso: Gap to nearest car that is a lap ahead of you is 10 secs.
   From Alonso: I dont care, i dont wanna know!

   Lap 27:
   From Alonso: Engine problem, no power.
   To Alonso: Afirm, retire the car, box box box..
   1. 

      Esploratore
      3rd September 2017, 3:23

      Now that was a fun one, well done, and also very realistic!
4. 

   Lucy D
   3rd September 2017, 3:07

   Lewis will romp home and have enough time spare to write another epic poem
5. 

   Thomson (@fish123)
   3rd September 2017, 3:37

   If i were lewis hamilton id be pretty nervous for the race. Two overly eager teens started beside him.. theres gonna be a lap 1 incident with lewis and either stroll/ocon…

   On the other hand vettel has to make a couple of spots on the first lap to have a shot at a good result
   1. 

      Ben
      3rd September 2017, 9:34

      @fish123 I think Lewis would be more nervous had it been Verstappen starting next to him.
   2. 

      Patrickl (@patrickl)
      3rd September 2017, 10:40

      @fish123, I would imagine these eager “teens” have been told to bring the car home too and get the team some valuable points.

      Agree with Ben that he’s pobably happy it isn’t Verstappen. Verstappen doesn’t care about the team or points. He just goes flat out when the lights go off rather crashing than yielding if he can make up a spot.
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   Lotus49 (@lotus49)
   3rd September 2017, 10:08

   Who, or what, modified the live timing screens so that they only update if the car goes faster in the next section. The only driver to improve his Q2 time was Daniel Ricciardo so that was the ONLY time that updated. None of the other Q3 times actually appeared on the ‘live’ timing, therefore it is worthless and unfathomable after Q1. Is this something else that the money grabbing elite are doing to alienate non-millionaire fans. Grass roots fans are moving away. It would seem that there is someone even more greedy than BCE in charge of the sport now.
   1. 

      Patrickl (@patrickl)
      3rd September 2017, 10:51

      Ah was that what that was. It was indeed ridiculously useless.

      Also that poor app drains the battery like crazy. Even when it’s running in the background with a white screen (after it displayed a news post) my phones always heat up.

      The original free app we had before was much better than this pretentious buggy nonsense.

      Guess I’ll try some of the other F1 live apps again, but they also seem to have fallen for the “lets make it pretty” mantra.

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