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@paeschi FP3 – Verstappen 0.5s faster than Hamilton.

Damn, that Mercedes is a rocketship.

FP3 – Verstappen 0.5s faster than Hamilton.

@stigf1l They’re just good. Really good. The rest much less so. Red Bull are clearly close, but reliability of the Honda powered cars already looks fragile.

Cheating? Lol

There’s so much wailing and gnashing of teeth, it’s hilarious.

In FP1 the top three were separated by less that 6/100s. In FP2, Gasly was less than 7/100s off Hamilton and Verstappen didn’t set a representative […]

Exactly. Emotion over thought and logic. Sad.

“Agreed with Liberty”.

Lol, keep taking the tablets!

Can I borrow your tin-foil hat when you’ve finished with it?

Enquiring minds would ask who are the real dummies?

You should be sick of the other teams for not being able to mount a serious challenge.

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth….

FP1 – Top three drivers were separated by 0.058 seconds.

FP2 – Gasly was just 0.068s behind Hamilton (both times set on the softs). Verstappen didn’t set a representative […]

@balou Dude, you’re living in a parallel universe where events don’t match the reality of life here on planet Earth. Have fun!

Not within F1 (and certainly not Verstappen nor Red Bull), but there were plenty of Verstappen fans who claimed, across multiple F1 sites, that the only reason he went wide was “because Hamilton forced him off”.

Yes, it’s funny how the only people that suggest Hamilton forced Verstappen off are the ones that either wanted to see Verstappen win or Hamilton lose.

The fact that neither Verstappen nor Red Bull said a word […]

You belief completely ignores the reality that Verstappen was already ahead before he went off-track simply because he carried a little too much speed into the corner, not because he “didn’t dare hold his line”.

Yeah, hence his sloppy performance in Bahrain.

Oof size = large!

Well, when you have to complete 23 races (plus possibly three sprint races) with just three PUs, reliability will be a key factor that could well decide where both championships end up. But when hasn’t r […]

@esploratore On what basis did Verstappen “deserve” to win more than Hamilton?

Asking for a friend.

@erikje Verstappen had all the room he needed but carried a tiny bit too much speed and couldn’t complete the move on track. He was correctly “penalised” for this. You will note, neither Red Bull nor Verst […]

Or, as we’ve seen many times before, the race leader maintains a fixed gap to the car behind. Verstappen saying he could have pulled out a five second lead in three laps doesn’t suggest he thought the Mercedes was quicker.