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Rate the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race out of 10
- 10 (3%)
- 9 (3%)
- 8 (13%)
- 7 (20%)
- 6 (11%)
- 5 (19%)
- 4 (8%)
- 3 (9%)
- 2 (2%)
- 1 (13%)
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Ray West (@raynaud2211)
2nd November 2024, 14:38
It was a nice sprint race. Lot of tension at the front. Didn’t understand the late virtual safety. Would guessed it could be earlier. Robbed a little bit the fight between Piastri and Verstappen.
Moi
2nd November 2024, 14:40
So nice of race control to wait for McLaren to do the swap before deploying VSC…
Harrison Werner (@asharpegret)
2nd November 2024, 14:41
I definitely had the same thought
asz
2nd November 2024, 14:43
They saw how dim-witted the McLaren pitwall is (“we will wait until the last lap with the swap”) and decided to help them out.
Mayrton
2nd November 2024, 18:16
It’s both hilarious and worrying!
Mayrton
2nd November 2024, 18:17
They are not even trying to hide it anymore. ’21 vibes all over.
Adam (@rocketpanda)
2nd November 2024, 14:42
I don’t think Piastri should have let Norris through.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:24
Me neither, in the sense it’s unnecessary to give the win to a driver who deserved it less for a measly point which won’t make a difference in the end.
The actual race is completely different, as 7 points can matter in this stage.
Jere (@jerejj)
2nd November 2024, 14:43
An average Sprint this time around despite the excitement on top positions.
Grapmg
2nd November 2024, 14:43
It was een Champion worthy drive.
Ben
2nd November 2024, 14:46
All felt a bit artificial. The stewards perfectly letting McLaren swap the cars before the VSC.
Clearly they didn’t learn from 21 and are desperate to drag this out til the final race.
I really feel for Piastri. Lando didn’t have the pace to win today and if Piastri sticks it on pole again tomorrow that could be a genuine F1 win they take from him.
Today he lost a race win and fantastic memory for the sake of a single point, which won’t make any difference.
We’ve seen Verstappen has the pace to win tomorrow. His grid penalty will make that tricky, but he’ll easily make the podium as Mercedes and Sainz are nowhere.
Too little too late again from Lando. I’d like to see a championship battle, but Lando hasn’t shown he deserves it yet.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:26
Agree, at last someone else pointing out how useless 1 point is in the current points system.
Suspicious timing indeed with the VSC, but they’re always slow with such decisions, despite it being the obvious outcome in nowadays’ f1 where stranded cars aren’t allowed.
Illusive (@illusive)
2nd November 2024, 14:50
FIA at it again. The FIA seriously needs to be investigated by an outside party. This organization can no longer be trusted to officiate motor racing.
Canderous (@yoshif8tures)
2nd November 2024, 14:51
Noris sounds so entitled, seems he can’t beat his teammate on track without team orders.
I also recall the media outcry when Ferrari used team orders or Red Bull, but when it comes to British McLaren’s and Lando they rant and rave about how McLaren must use team orders.
Yes (@come-on-kubica)
2nd November 2024, 14:53
All this outcry on team orders when verstappen and Hamilton have benefitted from them in recent years and don’t even try and look in the 90s and 00s. You’d all be going mental. It’s a team sport get over it. Piastri got a win in Hungary he probably didn’t deserve either.
Illusive (@illusive)
2nd November 2024, 14:55
You must be joking about Hungary. It was entirely McLarens doing with the pitstops.
David (@nvherman)
2nd November 2024, 15:10
@come-on-kubica
This
Grapmg
2nd November 2024, 15:21
I dont recall Verstappen has ever benefitted from team orders. But yes they are part of the game so nothing new there. It felt a bit of payback from Hungary where Lando waited to give that place back.
MichaelN
2nd November 2024, 16:42
Pérez has ruined many a race of himself to help Verstappen’s game plan. Granted, not so much this year. There’s more to team orders than swapping places.
And that’s without all the bucket loads of penalties Hartley and Gasly had to stomach whilst they were out there testing Honda engines under the (false) pretense of being an independent team.
Davethechicken
2nd November 2024, 17:26
@Grapmg, funniest comment of the day!!
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:29
There’s definitely times where perez let verstappen by, I remember a race in baku I think in 2022 for example, but the thing is, verstappen was gaining on perez at a rate of 1 second per lap, so there was no need for team orders.
Ludewig
2nd November 2024, 19:11
There is a big difference between ordering the slower driver to let the faster one by (or the driver on a different strategy), versus taking away the win from the faster driver.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:31
There’s definitely been a race in turkey yet, was raining, must’ve been 2020, I know verstappen had good enough pace to win, but ended up making a mistake overtaking perez (who wasn’t at red bull yet) and ended up further behind, while hamilton won and eventually verstappen’s team mate at the time was ordered to let him by for probably a 5th or 6th place, must’ve been albon since he was at red bull later in the 2020 season.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:27
Piastri deserved the win in hungary, he was ahead until mclaren gave norris the undercut, otherwise no way to pass.
Tristan
2nd November 2024, 15:02
There hasn’t been a media outcry against team orders since Alonso and Massa when it was against the rules.
Don’t make stuff up.
It’s been well established that team orders are an expected part of F1…
Roy Beedrill
2nd November 2024, 18:25
I thought you’re not that young that you don’t remember an outcry so big against Ferrari using such tactics in MSC era, the FIA had to establish that rule in the first place? (And when McLaren did the same with Hakkinen and Coulthard in 1998, everyone seemed fine with it.)
David BR (@david-br)
2nd November 2024, 14:55
Dull race and kind of predictable.
I’d kind of preferred Piastri not to have given the place. It would have taught Norris (and McLaren) that he has to fight his team mate too. Note how Piastri shut off the first corner immediately at the race start, his intent was to stay ahead until the final lap. I felt that Norris had to try to pass him, risking a collision if need be, the same as Verstappen eventually did against Leclerc.
Norris needs and should be qualifying first later today and winning the race from pole. Nothing else is really good enough at this stage.
Nerrticus (@nerrticus)
2nd November 2024, 15:16
Then how do you explain Hungary? By your logic, Piastri should have had to learn “he has to fight his teammate too” to earn his first victory. Instead, the team guilted Norris into giving up the win, costing him 7 points he would love to have right now…
Anyone who is not new to F1 shouldn’t be shocked or offended by team orders at this point. We know that’s how the game is played, and we’d call the team stupid if they didn’t do it when titles are on the line. Doesn’t mean we have to like it, but it’s part of the game.
David BR (@david-br)
2nd November 2024, 15:41
@nerrticus Hungary was different because the order that the team pitted put Piastri behind Norris and it was kind of ‘pre-agreed’ that Norris would return the place. Not saying they should have given that order as, at the time, I felt that Norris needed the points. Obviously he does now but in the interim Norris has lost a lot of chances to make more points, partly his own doing, partly McLaren’s (and Piastri’s too). I guess it was seeing the way Piastri blocked at the start and hearing Norris’s frustration when he was just 0.5 behind Piastri but didn’t want to risk trying to pass. My question is: why not? Norris needs to assert himself on track. Passing Piastri and telling McLaren, OK, if you’re not going to tell him to let me pass then I’ll sort it out myself, seems like the attitude he needs.
Nerrticus (@nerrticus)
2nd November 2024, 16:20
That’s fair, and I agree that Norris needs to be more aggressive and effective when racing Max and Oscar head to head. The overarching issue is with the team itself. They’re the ones that keep making these awkward choices, with both Lando and Oscar stuck having to deal with them.
David BR (@david-br)
2nd November 2024, 16:48
@nerrticus I agree, it just seemed poorly planned or communicated. Norris gave the impression that he was going to be let past after a few laps, Piastri though seemed determined to stay ahead until the last lap, as the team kind of confirmed. So why was Lando complaining so much? OK so they can’t know how the race will pan out, but a few basic contingency plans would be enough and the race was actually entirely uneventful for the top 4. Anyhow, the much bigger question is there tactics tomorrow.
notagrumpyfan
2nd November 2024, 14:55
I enjoyed this one from start to finish, and a lot better than another practice session.
Another enjoyable part is to see the upset fans coming here to give it a 1 score ;)
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:43
Yes, if we remove the outliers, which I would say are the 1, 2, 9, 10, we have:
8 (13%)
7 (20%)
6 (7%)
5 (18%)
4 (11%)
3 (11%)
40% voting it sufficient or better, 40% voting it insufficient and 20% of outliers.
I’m guessing it doesn’t come up with a good average rating anyway, only a passing grade.
Nicholas Port
2nd November 2024, 14:59
Terrible, first and foremost because it is a sprint race, but made much worse by the race director. SC or VSC decisions need to be based solely in regard to the safety of the drivers and marshals but increasingly it appears many other factors play into the decisions. I thought the entire point of the VSC was a tool that could be employed immediately to control dangerous situations on track. If the VSC can wait to be employed then it probably doesn’t need to be employed at all.
Gusm.ai
2nd November 2024, 15:01
I am not a Verstappen fan, maybe I like Norris more, but I would see as more impressive that VER win the WDC this year – without the fastest car – than Norris getting the championship, when he cant even beat his teammate.
If I had to bet today, Piastri will get a title before Norris.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
2nd November 2024, 17:45
There’s no doubt so far verstappen deserves the title more than norris this year.
BLS (@brightlampshade)
2nd November 2024, 15:02
Pretty drab, even by sprint standard. Seen worse though, so there’s that!
lynn-m
2nd November 2024, 18:34
it was s gimmick sprint race so it was a 1 by default as these awful gimmick races shouldn’t exist.
dutchtreat (@dutchtreat)
2nd November 2024, 19:34
I like to give a 0 Piastri was brilliant had to give up a win
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
3rd November 2024, 4:33
No doubt some solid drives, but for me it rather lacked in the entertainment department.
Still better than a free practice though.