2018 British Grand Prix, Silverstone, July 6-8

[GrandAxe]

I have to say, I’m disappointed in Toto. He’s usually a good sport, but clearly when times get tough he gets cruel.

Kimi would never crash on purpose. I think we all know that. It was undoubtably unfortunate - and he took responsibility (and the penalty). But wow... both toto and Lewis implying it’s some evil conspiracy against them. Just leaves a really bad taste in your mouth

You have to wonder when lightning strikes twice. It is only natural, I'm not saying Kimi did it on purpose, rather that neither you nor I can tell, especially given the statistics.

In any event, Lewis got himself into that unfortunate position and is right to beat himself about it. He would have been untouchable with a good start. In the end, it was an epic recovery from him, simply surreal.

[Big Tea]

This was not 'bumper cars and randomness' This was (probably) the best drivers in the world today showing off their cars and skills.

Running into each other like this doesn't make them look that great.

Are you a driver's fan or a F! fan?
If you are a driver fan thats fine, we need driver fans, but you kook for something different to what I do.

IMO, F1 is going the same way as NASCAR did back in the 90's, dumbing down for the lowest brow members of society. And that's the exact reason why I stopped watching it.

OK, you are entitled to your view, but I enjoyed it.

[Gothrek]

By starting bad and crashing they did a better job?

I see you are all surprised that a Ferrari won.

Superb drive Vettel!

A programmed drive anyway. Yes, he did his job, bur Kimi and Lewis did a better job

[Poleman]

Me too. We're having a discussion about tire strategy here, but we're drowned out by fan-yells.

I also believe that time penalties should be served in an indepent manner from their mandatory pitstops...The guy that gets torpedoed ends up last some 30+ seconds off the lead and possibly with damage and the guy thats at fault gets 5 or 10 seconds added to their already planned stop which still leads to a net gain in position...In such incidents a drive through i believe or a stop go is much more appropriate,but thats just my opinion. (I also said that a few posts back but my post got lost in this Red/Silver war)

[giantfan10]

That was a really a great race, Kimi did an error and was punished. Lewis did a wonderful comeback and scored even more than I expected, overall I think that Mercedes was the best car today with Mediums.

I didn't like Hamilton's words on podium, I can understand adrenaline but it was a bit... poor. I don't think RAI did it on purpose, he also blocked front right.


Anyway Genè said on Italian SKY that they were expecting to have some problems with front tyres, because FER cars use a little more front tyres, while MER rear ones.

The fact remains that Vettel was in first after turn 3 lap one and was in the cat bird seat.
I dont know where some of you get the idea that Hamilton was going to win the race if he wasnt spun on the first lap... had Kimi not locked up Hamilton would have been at best third after the first few laps.
There was no epic recovery drive by Hamilton.....He passed all the backmarkers with ease and then a safety car made him relevant again...great luck? YES epic recovery? nope.
its funny ..when Ferrari is out front then Mercedes who is chasing is faster....Mercedes is out front and Ferrari is chasing...aaagh its just Mercedes managing the pace... ironic isnt it?

[max_speed]

very happy with ferrari win. finally mercedes & lewis are nervous. enormous resources , head start in engine formula and they were cruising for past years. toto faking that how fierce competition is and mercedes pushing boundaries to win.finally his wish is granted true an real competition is finally here. Bottas and Raikonen are both average.they should be replace by ricciardo and Alonso then you have perfect ingredients for an awesome formula.i know it gonna hurt british Fans but Ferrari were really fast today and sharp at strategy end as well.

[RZS10]

Where? Hamilton just drove past the FIRST possibility?

re-read it slowly ... last attempt Vettel just drove past on the inside, Bottas did not even try to defend at all - against Hamilton he tried to cover the inside but was slightly too late ... i seriously don't understand why he didn't try to cover the inside against Vettel, even just try to delay the inevitable and just let him hang on the outside or do a Ferrari and straight up just crash into him ...

[F1NAC]

Verstappen had a gearbox issue btw.

ACcording to this

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he first got BBW failure and then got stuck in 1st gear

[dans79]

I also believe that time penalties should be served in an indepent manner from their mandatory pitstops...The guy that gets torpedoed ends up last some 30+ seconds off the lead and possibly with damage and the guy thats at fault gets 5 or 10 seconds added to their already planned stop which still leads to a net gain in position...In such incidents a drive through i believe or a stop go is much more appropriate,but thats just my opinion. (I also said that a few posts back but my post got lost in this Red/Silver war)

I said the same thing in the France thread, and last year and the year before that. Sadly society doesn't want that, they want to be entertained "Gladiator" style. The sporting aspect of F1 seems almost gone, its been replaced by the whims of the mob.

[z.topoln]

Where? Hamilton just drove past the FIRST possibility?

re-read it slowly ... last attempt Vettel just drove past on the inside, Bottas did not even try to defend at all - against Hamilton he tried to cover the inside but was slightly too late ... i seriously don't understand why he didn't try to cover the inside against Vettel, even just try to delay the inevitable and just let him hang on the outside or do a Ferrari and straight up just crash into him ...

You dont understand why bottas didnt crash into vettel?

Is it whole pf1 forum madness here or what??

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[komninosm]

Where? Hamilton just drove past the FIRST possibility?

re-read it slowly ... last attempt Vettel just drove past on the inside, Bottas did not even try to defend at all - against Hamilton he tried to cover the inside but was slightly too late ... i seriously don't understand why he didn't try to cover the inside against Vettel, even just try to delay the inevitable and just let him hang on the outside or do a Ferrari and straight up just crash into him ...

Yeah, for Bottas the best strategy would be to defend hard on Vettel and maybe tap him on the wheels a bit, that always works :p
j/k

[Schuttelberg]

I hear Hamilton, Wolff and Allison accusing Ferrari of intentionally running into Hamilton via Raikkonen.

[Poleman]

Contrast from Vettel and Arrivabene...Vettel : tyres were the issue,neck was fine...Arrivabene : tyres were fine,Seb had a really bad neck

[JonoNic]

If they (Hamilton, Toto and James) retract their statements later this week then it's easy to see that Mercedes are changing media tactics. It's no longer a close title race but a dirty tactics one.

[Chene_Mostert]

Wow, and Lewis said cars wont be able to follow within 4sec. but in reality so much overtaking, the most exiting British GP in 5 years!
Good drive from Lewis, he was on fire up to the pitstops, unfortunate that the team had to do the switcheroo on Botas.
RB starting to loose ground to the front 2.
Crappy post race behavior by Lewis, he should show more respect to the thousands that came out to support him today.
Poor comments from a team principle by TOTO, MB board will give him a working over I'm sure.