Leclerc quickest as Bottas and Verstappen crash

22 comments on “Leclerc quickest as Bottas and Verstappen crash”

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   Chaitanya
   28th June 2019, 15:49

   Lap times are slower than last year.
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      Matthijs (@matthijs)
      28th June 2019, 16:03

      That’s because the drivers had to abort their qualifying runs because of Verstappen’s and Bottas’s crashes. It’s written in the article.
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      Jere (@jerejj)
      28th June 2019, 16:19

      @Chaitanya So is the fastest FP1 time, but don’t worry, they are presumably going to beat the outright track record on this circuit as well come qualifying.
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   Mashiat (@mashiat)
   28th June 2019, 15:53

   To be honest, if Kubica was some random driver from F2 instead of someone who is loved by the F1 community and has a comeback story, he would be bashed and ridiculed at every opportunity for being a “hopeless pay driver”. These performances are worse than what Palmer was churning out, quite frankly. I keep waiting for him to finally get on the pace, but at this point, I just think that maybe he isn’t really ready for F1 anymore after his injuries. Keeping Sirotkin may have been the smarter choice in hindsight (not that the end results would admittedly be any different).
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      Matthijs (@matthijs)
      28th June 2019, 16:04

      I cannot believe Kubica is 1,3 seconds slower than his teammate just because of driving skill or injuries alone.
      1. 

         Martin
         28th June 2019, 16:07

         Well he is
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         Mashiat (@mashiat)
         28th June 2019, 18:37

         @matthijs Even if his car is not the same as Russell’s, would that really explain the gap between them? I don’t see this excuse being used to defend Gasly or Stroll, or Palmer before them? Some people are simply not good enough for their seats.
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            Matthijs (@matthijs)
            2nd July 2019, 8:29

            @mashiat I don’t think Gasly is this much slower than Verstappen just because of driving skill.
      3. 

         Gulp
         28th June 2019, 21:19

         He’s not.
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         Renee (@renee)
         28th June 2019, 22:23

         Come on, we often hear how fit an F1 driver must be and how physichally demanding controlling one of these machines is. And Kubica pretty much only has the use of his left hand. He can’t even lift his right hand. If you think THAT isn’t going to put a driver at a significan’t dissadvantage, you should get your sanity checked.
         Even Michael Schumacher couldn’t get back to top level after being away from F1 for a few seasons. What makes you think a significantly less talented driver like Kubica would return to his old level of performance after basically losing an arm and being away for F1 for SO LONG? It was naive of anyone to think he could cut it. Just putting an even more dissapointin end to his career.
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      Luke S (@joeypropane)
      28th June 2019, 16:08

      The funny things is, his gaps are often similar to those between Perez and Stroll… Is it more of an insult for Kubica to be as bad as Stroll? Or for Stroll to be as bad as a very obviously handicapped Kubica??
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         zimkazimka (@zimkazimka)
         28th June 2019, 17:40

         It just shows that neither of them should be in F1. And while there’s absolutely no way Stroll will leave due to daddy’s investment, Kubica actually can do that. In my opinion he should accept the harsh reality and step down. Maybe stay on as an ambassador, advisor or simulator driver.
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            anon
            28th June 2019, 18:49

            @zimkazimka, right now, Kubica’s performance does feel a bit like the old adage “be careful what you wish for, you might just get it”. A lot of Kubica’s old fans had been hoping to see him back in the sport and they have now gotten their wish, but in the process they are now having to watch all of their dreams of glory disintegrate when faced with the harsh reality that Kubica is now finding himself in.

            Maybe, in some ways, they would have been better off dreaming of what might have been, rather than now being in the situation of finding out what that actually means. I had always felt from the start that Kubica’s return was likely to disappoint, simply because there were so many with unrealistically high expectations to begin with – I imagine that, if you asked many of his fans what they wanted, they would answer “not this”.
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         Mashiat (@mashiat)
         28th June 2019, 18:36

         @joeypropane Given how much grief Stroll gets (justifiably so in my opinion), Kubica should arguably be given more, as a rookie like Russell is nowhere near the competition that a driver like Perez in his 9th season of F1 will be.
   3. 

      Flyingbasil
      28th June 2019, 19:09

      Maybe we see now why Sirotkin’s sponsors pulled him out if Williams, there is something really wrong with that team.
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   Panagiotis Papatheodorou (@panagiotism-papatheodorou)
   28th June 2019, 15:57

   This is the most exciting FP2 of the last decade or something.
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      Kamto
      28th June 2019, 16:51

      more action packed than most races this year… Maybe even all the races combined!
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   rsp123 (@rsp123)
   28th June 2019, 16:47

   Kubica is at risk of not making the 107% rule – right now that’s about 67.6 seconds. He’s nearly 2 seconds outside that.
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      Martin
      28th June 2019, 17:39

      For starters the 107% time for FP2 is 69.64 seconds which Kubica is inside of. Even if it was 67.6 Kubica time is less than second outside of it, not nearly 2
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   George
   28th June 2019, 16:47

   The gap between Russell and kubica, is nearly as large as the gap between 1st and 18th….. wow
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   TK (@oeuribe)
   28th June 2019, 19:52

   Verstappen lost the back end of his car at turn 15

   Does the Red Bull Ring even have 15 corners? Or am I missing something?
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      MrBoerns (@mrboerns)
      28th June 2019, 21:15

      @oeuribe maybe ‘Turn 15’ is just a Name like ‘Piratella’ or ‘Mirabeau’

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