2024 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race grid

13 comments on “2024 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race grid”

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   Inspector Eisenhorn
   1st November 2024, 19:20

   Oh, Yuki… I’d say “Oh, Sergio..” but it’s absolutely no surprise.

   Hulk really blew it too. Lewis’ struggles continue. Williams had a very “special” SQ2 run plan.

   Newey can’t get to AM fast enough. They’re running their floor from Japan and are clearly lost. With FA a half second ahead of Stroll despite running in heavy traffic, it’s clear that the car’s pace is just awful. And it’s a car with even worse pace on race fuel.

   I don’t get why many drivers don’t abandon a lap when they still have time after a huge error early in the lap. It smacks of incompetence from team and driver.
   1. 

      BasCB (@bascb)
      1st November 2024, 19:24

      To be fair to Perez, here the bigger mistake was from the Red Bull team sending him out too late to even start that second lap
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         Inspector Einsenhorn
         1st November 2024, 19:44

         True, but I think Max’s first lap was fast enough to get through. And Checo’s got his new chassis.
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         wsrgo (@wsrgo)
         1st November 2024, 19:56

         @bascb the guy above posted the same comment on another website (The Race) and there too, it was another Dutch person who pointed out that it wasn’t Perez’s fault.

         Just thought I’d share, it’s a funny coincidence :D
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   Jere (@jerejj)
   1st November 2024, 19:25

   I wish Pierre Hamelin gave the honest answer as Checo indeed was the RBR driver in question.
   Zero surprise in Checo’s elimination, although Hamilton’s a bit more, & Lawson just keeps out-performing Tsunoda.
   I didn’t quite see a Piastri pole, though.
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      Doh
      1st November 2024, 19:50

      Mercedes irk me a lot with this experimenting as toto mentioned that they are doing ATM. Without it they would be doing better and would possibly make the championship better too.
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         pcxmac (@pcxmac)
         1st November 2024, 20:17

         that’s a code word for screwing over HAM. Typically points of ‘authority’ utilize ‘code words’ in order to justify things that most people would consider irredeemable. But they use ‘code words’ in order to ‘stay off’ the masses, to placate and control, to temperament. Toto is no different. He expects people to believe what he is saying, but what he is really doing is trying not to get caught in a law suite, by saying they are favoring one driver over another. Which was clearly an issue last year, or the year before (memory escapes atm) when Toto and the brass were very adamant and protesting the fact that both drivers had equal opportunity/cars.

         HAM’s engineer will not stand up for him, and thats why he won’t overcome the issues, and hes left trying to engineer his own car, while Toto directs the lion share of support trying to make Russell look good, so Toto doesn’t look like a fool.
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            pcxmac (@pcxmac)
            1st November 2024, 20:20

            And yes, its more important that Toto looks good, and that the ‘mission succeeds’ even if it means sinking Mercedes for years on end, in order to push certain narratives and keep the process of ‘king-making’ in his favor. Because if guys like Horner stay in and can twist reality to his beckon, Toto will continue to look like a donkey, with his foot in his mouth, which is preferable imo, because at least RBR fight to win. Merc fight to maintain the status quo, and keep F1 valuated appropriately.
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      Esploratore (@esploratore1)
      2nd November 2024, 0:24

      Yes, it’s over for tsunoda, there’s realistically nothing he can do now to convince red bull to promote him, the jury is still out on lawson, he has to be consistently into the points imo.

      Perez no surprise: “I have a contract, I will finish out the season”, the commentators say “sergio perez is out in q1 in mexico, sergio perez comes home in last place!”, and today again “absolute disaster for sergio perez!”, are they even surprised any more?
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   Edvaldo
   1st November 2024, 19:38

   Given how McLaren already pushed Red Bull a bit at this track last year, Norris can easily score maximum points for the weekend if nothing strange happens.
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   MichaelN
   1st November 2024, 19:57

   Good result by Albon, seems fair to note.

   Bearman solid again, good for him.

   Good to see Piastri seemingly back on form, Norris needs him to be up there.
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      Esploratore (@esploratore1)
      2nd November 2024, 0:30

      Silly decision making though by berman: he ruined his q3 lap early on, was 8 tenths behind, and instead of saving tyres and going again he continued pushing in a hopeless lap and ofc couldn’t go again after.
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      Esploratore (@esploratore1)
      2nd November 2024, 0:30

      bearman*

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