2019 French Grand Prix - Le Castellet, June 21-23

[matt_b]

No grand slam for 0.024s. Vettel with fresh softs. Lolz

Yay instead of fighting Max after he just said the tyres are f'd, they back out the fight, put on the soft tyres, claim fastest lap by an embarrassing margin to reduce the championship from 77 point to 76, bravo Ferrari bravo

[F1T]

Hamilton leads from start to finish in France

Despite some worries over tyre blistering, the French Grand Prix became straight forward affair for Lewis Hamilton and the entire Mercedes AMG F1 team. Once again, they finished 1-2, with Leclerc completing the podium for Ferrari.

[epo]

I guess Norris got driver of the day. Tiniest tiniest portion of consolation there at least.

If Sainz had shown more pace mid race Norris would have held on 7th

Nice bullshit, Sainz needed to save his tires and no point in pushing as there was nothing to gain. Besides that Norris never impress during a race. Now and then a nice qualy but for now that's it. I think Russell is a much better driver.
Sainz is also more from the B category drivers.

[LM10]

No grand slam for 0.024s. Vettel with fresh softs. Lolz

Yay instead of fighting Max after he just said the tyres are f'd, they back out the fight, put on the soft tyres, claim fastest lap by an embarrassing margin to reduce the championship from 77 point to 76, bravo Ferrari bravo

You must be joking, I assume. The gap was at about 4 seconds with less than 3 laps remaining. I would love you to explain me your version of how Vettel should have closed that gap and even overtaken Verstappen.

[izzy]

I guess Norris got driver of the day. Tiniest tiniest portion of consolation there at least.

If Sainz had shown more pace mid race Norris would have held on 7th

yes and it sounded like the team told Lando to speed up while Carlos was sitting there in front of him

anyway some promising signs for the future with Charles, Mac and Renault

[Scorpaguy]

I guess the Ferrari mill is pretty potent as it did keep the Alfa in front of a seemingly better handling Renault for a big part of the race...Hulk just did not have the steam on the straights even with the much improved mill. As per the regs, Kimi should get promoted to 7th, but who knows with these folks.

[AMG.Tzan]

I guess Norris got driver of the day. Tiniest tiniest portion of consolation there at least.

If Sainz had shown more pace mid race Norris would have held on 7th

yes and it sounded like the team told Lando to speed up while Carlos was sitting there in front of him

anyway some promising signs for the future with Charles, Mac and Renault

Yeah but 2 laps from the end Norris had 4.5 secs to Ric...next lap 0.5...where on earth did he lose that? VSC??

[ringo]

Based on the letter of the law ricciardo should get at least double 5s penalty. one for dangerous rejoin, one for overtake with 4 wheels off the track. There was loads of space on the outsite, but he wanted the inside at all costs.

Oh ok. I would like to hear from all the "racers" from the canada gp thread and see what they have to say about those stupid no fun rules.
In my opinion Riciardo should be penalized twice. For running off Norris and overtaking Kimi by going off track.

[matt_b]

No grand slam for 0.024s. Vettel with fresh softs. Lolz

Yay instead of fighting Max after he just said the tyres are f'd, they back out the fight, put on the soft tyres, claim fastest lap by an embarrassing margin to reduce the championship from 77 point to 76, bravo Ferrari bravo

You must be joking, I assume. The gap was at about 4 seconds with less than 3 laps remaining. I would love you to explain me your version of how Vettel should have closed that gap and even overtaken Verstappen.

Go look at Max's sectors from the moment he said his tyres are f'd, it would've been very close and exciting to see, but it is what it is, they did say plan f (f standing for fastest lap, how the sky pundits didn't know that was surprising)

[max_speed]

Bottas is such a substandard driver, always finishing 10+ seconds off the leader. even a blind man can get 2nd place in that Mercedes.he must be sacked.replace him with Lecrec.

[izzy]

If Sainz had shown more pace mid race Norris would have held on 7th

yes and it sounded like the team told Lando to speed up while Carlos was sitting there in front of him

anyway some promising signs for the future with Charles, Mac and Renault

Yeah but 2 laps from the end Norris had 4.5 secs to Ric...next lap 0.5...where on earth did he lose that? VSC??

Andreas said the VSC didn't help, but being lapped cost 3.5s didn't it and then the hydraulics failing and then the Ric divebomb, i have to watch again to see the exact order of everything!

[GPR-A]

So, Max is the new Alonso and Red Bull is the new Ferrari. He is doing what Alonso did for Ferrari from 2010-2013 and Red Bull is doing what Ferrari did in that period. Beating/Splitting faster cars and taking good chunk of points.

[dans79]

In my opinion Riciardo should be penalized twice. For running off Norris and overtaking Kimi by going off track.

I agree Ric needs two penalties!

[TAG]

The future of F1 is bright with young talent and I'm a fan of Leclerc, I'm a fan of Albon and I'm a fan of Norris. A lot of desperation from Ricciardo there at the end, I'd be expecting at least a five second penalty, sloppy to say the least. Besides Mercedes, well I should say Hamilton and his Mercedes, today belonged to McLaren.

[Fulcrum]

Prior to today, I'd never voluntarily stopped watching a race at half distance. Hoping for a slightly more interesting Austrian GP!