Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
1. Daniel Ricciardo's luck - Seriously, did he break a box of mirrors or something?
2. Valtteri Bottas - Finished a lap down on merit. His only notable moment was copying Hamilton's lock up into turn 1. He's lucky he's got that seat locked in for 2019, because this performance level simply isn't cutting the mustard right now.
Honourable mention to Haas, probably their worst performance since 2016.
2. Valtteri Bottas - Finished a lap down on merit. His only notable moment was copying Hamilton's lock up into turn 1. He's lucky he's got that seat locked in for 2019, because this performance level simply isn't cutting the mustard right now.
Honourable mention to Haas, probably their worst performance since 2016.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
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East Londoner wrote:2. Valtteri Bottas - Finished a lap down on merit. His only notable moment was copying Hamilton's lock up into turn 1. He's lucky he's got that seat locked in for 2019, because this performance level simply isn't cutting the mustard right now.
To be fair to him even Lewis was seconds away from being lapped too.
My nomination goes to The gap down to Formula 1.5, even Hulk was two damn laps down.
Haas deserve a mention too, even with their improved form this season, Mexico remains their major bogie track.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
#1 The hammer with the word "Luck" stenciled onto it that gets tossed into the boxes transporting Ricciardo's parts.
#2 Multiple VSCs for ruining what would have been a really tense tire management race.
#2 Multiple VSCs for ruining what would have been a really tense tire management race.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
I nominate RTL - any time any action significant to the race result happened, I was having adverts for Alpecin Koffein-Shampoo or a Skoda Kodiaq shouted in my face in German. Or at least that would have been the case if I hadn't had the sound down and the Five Live commentary on instead.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
There's only 3 choices for me
Ricky's car: Shades of Mark Webber in 2013 this. Coincidence? Given how far Renault are behind the ultimate pace it makes me wonder if we'll ever see Ricciardo on the podium again
Valterri Bottas: Was he even in this race. Only saw him when he went off the road. He'll be lucky to come 4th in the championship at this rate and even luckier if he's still in a Mercedes beyond the end of 2019
The 2 tier formula: 6th place finished 2 and a half laps adrift in a race with 3 VSC's. Sorry but that is utterly depressing. No wonder MotoGP and IndyCar are in higher acclaim thanks to their unpredictability
Ricky's car: Shades of Mark Webber in 2013 this. Coincidence? Given how far Renault are behind the ultimate pace it makes me wonder if we'll ever see Ricciardo on the podium again
Valterri Bottas: Was he even in this race. Only saw him when he went off the road. He'll be lucky to come 4th in the championship at this rate and even luckier if he's still in a Mercedes beyond the end of 2019
The 2 tier formula: 6th place finished 2 and a half laps adrift in a race with 3 VSC's. Sorry but that is utterly depressing. No wonder MotoGP and IndyCar are in higher acclaim thanks to their unpredictability
Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
Daniel Ricciardo's car.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
1. Ricciardo’s luck
2. Alonso’s luck
2. Alonso’s luck
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
1) Haas: Well behind the curve this weekend.
2) Ricciardo's luck: Would have been a very worthy podium, spoilt by poor reliability.
2) Ricciardo's luck: Would have been a very worthy podium, spoilt by poor reliability.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
Got a few here
Pirelli: Yes, it made the race a bit more interesting, but from a performance view, they were shocking.
Ricciardo's luck: What does he have to do?
Haas: Were nowhere
DHM: Formula1.com, for the 3rd time in 4 races they displayed the wrong start time when I clicked the "Convert to my local time" button
Pirelli: Yes, it made the race a bit more interesting, but from a performance view, they were shocking.
Ricciardo's luck: What does he have to do?
Haas: Were nowhere
DHM: Formula1.com, for the 3rd time in 4 races they displayed the wrong start time when I clicked the "Convert to my local time" button
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
1. Danny Ric: If his season was summed up in a song, that's most definitely "I Should Be So Lucky"
2. Fernando Alonso: A miserable end to his F1 career
2. Fernando Alonso: A miserable end to his F1 career
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
dinizintheoven wrote:I nominate RTL - any time any action significant to the race result happened, I was having adverts for Alpecin Koffein-Shampoo or a Skoda Kodiaq shouted in my face in German. Or at least that would have been the case if I hadn't had the sound down and the Five Live commentary on instead.
THIS! Thankfully I had F1TV too.. but there's a massive delay on the stream
Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
I nominate Haas for being terrible – that they finished in the last two places (behind both Williams!) tells us all we need to know...
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I'm also going for the gap between the top 3 teams and the rest - it's so big it's silly now.
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RAK wrote:1) Haas: Well behind the curve this weekend.
2) Ricciardo's luck: Would have been a very worthy podium, spoilt by poor reliability.
Not only that, Haas were being very petty about it as well - you also had Grosjean complaining that "It doesn’t make much sense to have a circuit at that altitude", and the team were frequently complaining in a way that came across as pretty childish.
As for Ricciardo, even the man who normally seems to be one of the happiest figures in the field is finally reaching breaking point with his misfortunes, getting to the point where he flippantly joked that he'd rather let Gasly drive the car than have to put up with yet another retirement.
What is especially galling for him is the fact that it turned out to be exactly the same failure as he had in Monza - a clutch bearing failure - and, considering that he seems to have spent pretty much the entire race driving along with a slipping clutch, he was doing a pretty decent job to have still been that quick despite those problems.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
razta wrote:dinizintheoven wrote:I nominate RTL - any time any action significant to the race result happened, I was having adverts for Alpecin Koffein-Shampoo or a Skoda Kodiaq shouted in my face in German. Or at least that would have been the case if I hadn't had the sound down and the Five Live commentary on instead.
THIS! Thankfully I had F1TV too.. but there's a massive delay on the stream
I second this as well. It's F1TV for me next year, no matter what.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
1. Drivers moving away from Renault engined teams next year: Alonso, Sainz and Ricciardo must be somewhat fed up, particularly the latter two.
2. Ocon: Pointless, and had a hunger for destroying front wings for some reason.
2. Ocon: Pointless, and had a hunger for destroying front wings for some reason.
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
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Re: Your Reject of the Race - Mexico
Another interesting thing wins Reject of the Race this season, and in Mexico it was Formula 1.5. Even being fair, the gap between those top teams and the rest was utterly ridiculous! Hulkenberg in 6th was almost three laps down by the end of the race, and well over a lap behind even the guy in front of him. And that was after Bottas himself had a torrid race. This haas been a largely complained about aspect of the 2018 season, and Mexico highlighted it maybe higher than anywhere else. Therefore it rightly deserves an award this year, and so the gap itself wins Reject of the Race.
Felipe Nasr - the least forgettable F1 driver!Murray Walker at the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix wrote:The other [Stewart] driver, who nobody's been paying attention to, because he's disappointing, is Jan Magnussen.