Lewis Hamilton emerged victorious in the 34th Hungarian Grand Prix, winning a thrilling battle with Max Verstappen in a race where strategy decided the final outcome. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel completed the Hungaroring podium.
The time lapse video says otherwise!
He only pulled away from Hulk, stroll, Kyvat... the 3 laps he was ahead of bottas was when Max was on fresh tyre to Bottas 20 lap old tyres...again due to strategy and thanks to the gap pulled away from Hulk! https://youtu.be/dsi5jcVD3pY
Well, if the HULK was so slow, what stopped both Mercs from overtaking him?
It is difficult to follow while raining! And overtake on a part drying track with dry racing line and wet insides ... took them ages to clear all the slow cars
I wonder if Hamilton could have made it on his set of hards which he put on 6 laps later than Max, who pitted with 3 laps to go - Merc claimed that the only way of winning the race was doing the additional stop
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I wonder if Hamilton could have made it on his set of hards which he put on 6 laps later than Max, who pitted with 6 laps to go - Merc claimed that the only way of winning the race was doing the additional stop
Doing it this way they had the 'extras' of a nailed on fastest lap point if they had not passed Max.
When arguing with a fool, be sure the other person is not doing the same thing.
I'll be going through this topic later on and there will be action taken. If the bickering and manbag slapping continues after this post, you'll get even harsher penalties. You have been warned. It ends HERE.
I'm locking his topic for 30 minutes. Gives you a chance to calm down and to read this message.
EDIT: really looking forward to going through 10+ pages of utter horsesh*t from you f*ckers. Also looking forward to all the boneheads PM'ing how unfair the warning is and how Verstappen/Hamilton biased we are. All on a Sunday. Class act, gents!
EDIT2: back open. Yes, I'm f*cking late with it. Blame yourself for all the work and time that went into it. All the above is still in session. If even anybody's pinky is going into a direction of an insult, accusation of bias or personal comment, you will have to sit out the next race in the banned section of this forums, like the little naughty child you are.
Same old story for years now. Can't you put some limits for number of posts per day in a race thread and do away with the bravado the mods have to show?
Some of us like to post but don’t act like children though.
This place is just hilarious to me. I was here yesterday defending Hamilton because one qualifying where he didn't deliver doesn't make him poor and suddenly today he has become a driving god?
What has appeared the case to me is-
Verstappen drove a mega lap yesterday. Hamilton drove that Mercedes on the limit today and a mega race. Fair to say, his last stint was an extended qualifying sim.
It's not rocket science to figure out that Mercedes is the class of the field and was unquestionably the faster car today. If Hamilton's car had not gotten away from him after FP3, he would have been on pole. Thankfully and hopefully, Lewis has more average Saturday's because that way there's at least a race to watch on Sunday.
"Sebastian there's very, you're a member of a very select few.. Stewart, Lauda, Piquet, Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Fangio.. VETTEL!"
Barely. Indeed. But If they did not explode he would have made it, Ferrari was nowhere. Perhaps RBR should have preempted the second pit. I am sure they will be analyzing the race in detail. Should they be able to fight with Lewis in future races they also need to be there strategy wise. Today Lewis was still too good but Hopefully in future battles.
Several users here (including me who criticised them very often in the last years) have given kudos to Pirelli after Silverstone and even before that.
Yes the tyres were perfect today weren't they, durable enough for racing but different enough with the grades and not so durable that strategy and the driving couldn't make the difference.
On another note I know Charles is pretty but it was ridiculous how that move on Valtteri wasn't even investigated
Anyways are merc and Lewis turning into brawn and Schumacher kinda partnership? The stratergy and driving surely have some parallels
Different.
Lewis went to a Mercedes team that was already well build and fully ready to start dominating when he arrived after the work done by Brawn, Schumacher, Rosberg and their tech hires. He basically skipped the 1996-1999 years (2010-2013 in Mercedes case) and walked almost straight into a 2002 style Ferrari which kept on being a 2002/2004 style Ferrari for not 2 years but 6 years straight and counting. That is the whole reason there are also doubts about hoe his stats compare to Senna, Schumacher, Prost etc.
But lets not discuss that again in the race threat (I only respond because you bring it up).
No I didn't bring that up at all!! For crying out loud!!
All I said was the strategy and driving are showing some parallels ... just stop trolling mate!
This was actually a very interesting race as everybody was wondering (since RBR and Honda stepped up at Austria) how Merc and RBR race pace compared. As Bottas was overtaken in lap 1 we now finally got to see that. Real close, very fast and Merc still a bit faster. I even think that if RBR would have still been quicker Merc (in Lewis hands) could have matched that.
Several users here (including me who criticised them very often in the last years) have given kudos to Pirelli after Silverstone and even before that.
Yes the tyres were perfect today weren't they, durable enough for racing but different enough with the grades and not so durable that strategy and the driving couldn't make the difference.
On another note I know Charles is pretty but it was ridiculous how that move on Valtteri wasn't even investigated
You would almost think that he has some connections with the FIA getting away with everything, like the Presidents son as a manager
For those that are worried I am not saying this with a big wink, I have added a smiley.
True GOATs don’t need the help of superior material to win.
Several users here (including me who criticised them very often in the last years) have given kudos to Pirelli after Silverstone and even before that.
Yes the tyres were perfect today weren't they, durable enough for racing but different enough with the grades and not so durable that strategy and the driving couldn't make the difference.
On another note I know Charles is pretty but it was ridiculous how that move on Valtteri wasn't even investigated
He was investigated, and there was a message that no further action
Also nice to see Max and Lewis enjoyed the race. Look at the post-race interview by DiResta when he was interviewimg Vettel. You could see Max and Lewis giving a big bro hug to each other
What I would give for some people on this forums to do just the same. It'd be paradise in hell.
Bro-hug, people.
Think I skip the hugging part , but I agree, with racing like this who even cares who won.
Perhaps in 20 years you will see these races back in some documentary, and you will be bragging to some youngsters that you have seen it live.
, but I agree, with racing like this who even cares who won.