why? they'll just lock the door and go out to have few drinks regardless of the outcome, then start looking for the key around Tuesday afternoonArtur Craft wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:21Rocketship Mercedes now, suddenly, 0.4s behind Max, out of the blue ?
Hamilton blatantly let Max get pole because he fears this:
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Regardless of that, if I found out tomorrow, when checking the results, that this was a "clean" race, I will be surprised:!:
I fell sorry for the mods(at least the nice ones) because tomorrow is gonna be a very busy day, in all likelyhood
Exactly. LH just wants a decent start, if he's side-by-side with Norris, it's P2 for him, so all good.El Scorchio wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:35Yeah I think Norris will do what Ocon did in SA and just not get involved- unless one of them has a dreadful start. He doesn’t want to be THAT GUY.
Perez just needs to not go too hot into t1 up Hamilton’s backside.
I think Lando "not getting involved" has a very high chance of putting Perez into 3rd spot, and that can then make things quite exciting for Lewis, at least till the softs drop offBill_Kar wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:37Exactly. LH just wants a decent start, if he's side-by-side with Norris, it's P2 for him, so all good.El Scorchio wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:35Yeah I think Norris will do what Ocon did in SA and just not get involved- unless one of them has a dreadful start. He doesn’t want to be THAT GUY.
Perez just needs to not go too hot into t1 up Hamilton’s backside.
Otherwise how they will push their narrativewest52keep64 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:38Where is this "Mercedes rocket" stuff coming from? They were only a tenth or so ahead in practice, and it's just practice. When it counted Red Bull was quicker, and they were quicker in the race sims on Friday. If either car is a rocket, right now it's the Red Bull.
I actually think they are fairly equal.
I think also the vibe around the RB team this weekend throughout practice and qualifying has been quite telling. They have not been talking about how much of a challenge it will be to be ahead of Hamilton like they have in previous races. They have just been saying that Merc have had pace and turned up the enginewest52keep64 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:38Where is this "Mercedes rocket" stuff coming from? They were only a tenth or so ahead in practice, and it's just practice. When it counted Red Bull was quicker, and they were quicker in the race sims on Friday. If either car is a rocket, right now it's the Red Bull.
I actually think they are fairly equal.
Could be, sure. But there are a lot of factors; I mean Sainz could sneak up Perez as well. We can't possibly know of course.jz11 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:40I think Lando "not getting involved" has a very high chance of putting Perez into 3rd spot, and that can then make things quite exciting for Lewis, at least till the softs drop offBill_Kar wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:37Exactly. LH just wants a decent start, if he's side-by-side with Norris, it's P2 for him, so all good.El Scorchio wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:35Yeah I think Norris will do what Ocon did in SA and just not get involved- unless one of them has a dreadful start. He doesn’t want to be THAT GUY.
Perez just needs to not go too hot into t1 up Hamilton’s backside.
I doubt it was intentional.Artur Craft wrote: ↑11 Dec 2021, 16:21Rocketship Mercedes now, suddenly, 0.4s behind Max, out of the blue ?
Hamilton blatantly let Max get pole because he fears this: