Formula 1 - F1 - Current Season Discussion

[HRoi]

Can’t hate on the feel-good story for Charlie, though. The race itself, we could have just hit the “sim” button on

 

[edinatlanta]

Sky team was trying to drum up some fake excitement talking about how the front 4 might want to pit for new tires. Like Ferrari is ever going to pit from the lead again in Monaco after what happened a few years ago.

Even i was surprised by that.

 

[mhip]

 

[sugarbutch]

Perez v Kmag: Racing incident, very similar to Ricciardo in Japan. Perez changed “lanes” on a restart without knowing there was no car there. Hulk pretty unlucky.

Ocon v Gasly: Racing incident, but one Gasly could/should have prevented. Ocon was all the way up the inside, and Gasly tried to ride around the outside. That is a low-percentage choice at Monaco. Bruno Famin’s anger is just confirmation that Ocon wasn’t going to get a contract extension at Alpine anyway.

 

[Duke Santos]

If McLaren couldn't win it, I'm happy to see LeClerc take it.

That being said, they have to do something about the track. It's just ridiculous at this point. You had the 2 through 4 cars within a second of each other for large parts of the race, yet not a single overtake. Can you imagine what this race would have been like if there were even two or three overtake areas? It could have been an all time epic F1 race. Instead, it was just another Monte Carlo Parade.

 

[Texasmade]

It was so dumb how the Sky team was trying to drum up some excitement about how cars 1-4 could potentially pit because of worn out tires. No one is pitting to give up track position. Daniel Ricciardo proved this a few years ago when he won with a busted MGU and no one could overtake him.

Only overtake was done by Bottas and the announcing team was like "Can it be!? An actual on track overtake!"

 

[mhip]

It was so dumb how the Sky team was trying to drum up some excitement about how cars 1-4 could potentially pit because of worn out tires. No one is pitting to give up track position. Daniel Ricciardo proved this a few years ago when he won with a busted MGU and no one could overtake him.

Only overtake was done by Bottas and the announcing team was like "Can it be!? An actual on track overtake!"

Didn't Ocon ever so briefly overtake??

 

[Texasmade]

Didn't Ocon ever so briefly overtake??

Doesn't count unless it's completed.

 

[mhip]

 

[HRoi]

Fred knew that was coming.

And if LEC didn’t do it first, Fred would be the one pushing him in

 

[HRoi]

Also, whether Ocon was at fault or not, he’s been driving like an ass his whole career, so he gets no sympathy from me

 

[zissou]

And here I was thinking that was an exciting race… for Monaco. Mostly, I’m excited that there is some real competition for the championships.

 

[bdavro23]

If McLaren couldn't win it, I'm happy to see LeClerc take it.

That being said, they have to do something about the track. It's just ridiculous at this point. You had the 2 through 4 cars within a second of each other for large parts of the race, yet not a single overtake. Can you imagine what this race would have been like if there were even two or three overtake areas? It could have been an all time epic F1 race. Instead, it was just another Monte Carlo Parade.

Monaco might be where its evidenced the most, but the problem is the cars being so huge these days. I think they should make them 30% smaller in the next formula if they really want to see racing and stop half of the tracks being a procession. Lets go back to the 2005 ish sized cars and see some driving!

 

[Schwazer]

It was so dumb how the Sky team was trying to drum up some excitement about how cars 1-4 could potentially pit because of worn out tires. No one is pitting to give up track position. Daniel Ricciardo proved this a few years ago when he won with a busted MGU and no one could overtake him.

Only overtake was done by Bottas and the announcing team was like "Can it be!? An actual on track overtake!"

Norris had half a chance to pit when he had about 20 secs on Russell to "try" something but even with fresher tyres, he wasn't going to past Sainz.

Bottas overtake on Sargeant... amazing...

 

[Schwazer]

Also, whether Ocon was at fault or not, he’s been driving like an ass his whole career, so he gets no sympathy from me

Ocon's fault.

As Brundle said you don't do that to your team mate at Portier especially on the first lap.