2019 Russian Grand Prix race result

20 comments on “2019 Russian Grand Prix race result”

1. 

   Chaitanya
   29th September 2019, 13:51

   Toto was right about civil war.
2. 

   Panagiotis Papatheodorou (@panagiotism-papatheodorou)
   29th September 2019, 13:51

   I am not one to believe in karma but today I do. Ferrari screwed Vettel’s race and it backfired (maybe due to Lady Luck perhaps).

   Charles May have been better yesterday but today Vettel was faster. A solid 0.2s better every lap.
   1. 

      William Garrett
      29th September 2019, 15:24

      Now, from the team that brought us the 90 sec F1 pitstop (Tires? You guys want tires?), comes the idea that since he won qualifying with a missing engine, obviously there was no need to bother with a tune for the race.
   2. 

      maiagus
      29th September 2019, 17:22

      As any two similar car would be by the simple desing of Sochi track.
      1. 

         NS Biker (@rekibsn)
         29th September 2019, 18:33

         Agreed.
         Amazing that the track design promotes cars running two by two.
         It was the same last year it seems. It clearly negates the driver in the equation.
3. 

   DAllein (@)
   29th September 2019, 13:52

   Wow!

   Never thought that Russia GP can be that tense!

   And how different for participants it was!
   Lewis\Merc and Sebastian\Ferrari can write absolutely different books about it – “How to snatch 1-2 + FLAP from the jaws of certain Loss” and “How to single-handedly, even though unintentionally, destroy the race for your team”

   I thought even in the beginning of season, that Jet mode can’t be that easy on engine… of course I have no data to back this up, but maybe it played some role in Seb’s retirement today. Wonder what it might mean for the rest of the season.
4. 

   Patrick (@anunaki)
   29th September 2019, 13:52

   Boring race with Lewis getting a free win. Meh
   1. 

      dan
      29th September 2019, 13:54

      lol Lewis being so close meant ferrari pitted again if Lewis was Bottas Ferrari would have stayed out and been in the lead, Lewis earnt it.
      1. 

         Patrick (@anunaki)
         29th September 2019, 13:55

         Pitting under green vs pitting under VSC

         Nothing more and nothing less
         1. 

            Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
            29th September 2019, 14:13

            I agree. It’s what I’ve said before, they should reduce the pitlane speed limit during a VSC so as to equalise the effect of a pitstop. That would mean drivers can pit if they need to, e.g. to fix damage incurred in a collision, but doing so would cost them the same as when the cars are racing.
         2. 

            anon
            29th September 2019, 14:16

            @anunaki, well, the strategy from Mercedes was to run long so that they would have the potential to capitalise on that sort of situation, so Ferrari would have known that they needed to open up enough of a gap in the first stint to be able to cover off the possibility that Mercedes might have a chance to pit under a late safety car or VSC.

            If you look at the timing information, Leclerc was starting to drop back towards Hamilton quite quickly in the period just before his stop – if he hadn’t pitted then, he might well have been passed on track given he was losing around 0.5s a lap.

            Given that Leclerc was then pushing his car very hard in the laps after his pit stop as Ferrari orchestrated the swap between Vettel and Leclerc, and given Leclerc did run into trouble with his tyres towards the end of his first stint, he could have been vulnerable even if Mercedes had pitted under green flag conditions.

            Furthermore, by leaving Vettel out for that length of time, he was also starting to lose quite a bit of time to Hamilton as well – he lost at least a couple of seconds of the lead that he had built up until then – so, even without the VSC, Ferrari were compromising their strategy given Leclerc seems to have had to pit a bit earlier than hoped for and Vettel had to wait until Ferrari were reasonably sure Leclerc was ahead.

            In that sense, Ferrari made themselves much more vulnerable to Mercedes jumping them under a VSC, and even without it, the way that they had run their pit strategy meant they were costing themselves time to Mercedes. Strategically, I think this wasn’t a great race from Ferrari, and one where they were leaving themselves vulnerable even under normal green flag conditions.
            1. 

               David BR (@david-br)
               29th September 2019, 14:31

               +1 starting on medium was always going to give Mercedes the chance to make use of a safety car at the right time, precisely as it turned out. The smart bit was not contesting a Ferrari 1-2 by the first corner, that was always likely, so just accept it strategically and push them into having to race each other and Mercedes in the future (i.e. having to match Mercedes’ pace on the softs at the end of the race).
5. 

   dan
   29th September 2019, 13:55

   What an Apex predator such natural talent the king wohoooo. :)
6. 

   Mark Saunders (@mcs1)
   29th September 2019, 13:55

   Mercedes tried a different strategy and it paid off. Lewis keeping up with the Ferraris on a slower tyre was just superb for the first half of the race. Bottas did a great job to hold off Leclerc.
   Sainz, Norris and Albon drove great races as well.
7. 

   Cristiano Ferreira
   29th September 2019, 13:58

   He should use #lucky instead of #blessed

   And do not forget pay his respects to Wingman too

   What a joke.
   1. 

      x303 (@x303)
      29th September 2019, 14:10

      You mean like Vettel did in Singapore?
8. 

   Digby
   29th September 2019, 14:01

   Another gifted, lucky win for Ham, and once again with servile teammate as a buffer. 2021 can’t come soon enough!
   1. 

      regs (@regs)
      29th September 2019, 14:11

      I don’t think 2021 will change anything. Until we have mandatory pit stop, serve fuel, gearbox and engine limitations, nothing will change.
9. 

   hamiledon
   29th September 2019, 14:36

   A lucky win thanks to VSC.
   1. 

      NS Biker (@rekibsn)
      29th September 2019, 18:40

      Not much mention of Albon … Pit lane start to 5th at the end. Great result.
      That should address some of the discussion of whether he deserved a shot at the Rad Bull car.

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