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Lewis Hamilton has won the Bahrain Grand Prix after a very close battle with Max Verstappen in the closing stages of the race. Verstappen finished furiously in second after having to give up first place for exceeding track limits. Bottas completed the podium for Mercedes.
Yes, this is pretty much it.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021, 11:37So they reserve the ERS deployment for the long start finish straight and thus can take 8th on that one, but the other two are effectively not long enough/don't pay back as much to be worth compromising the start finish straight deployment? We sometimes forget that even with these cars, compromises have to be made to maximise the overall result.Juzh wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021, 10:36Reason is simple. Mercedes set their car as an absolute brick in terms of drag for bahrain last year. As as result of this and due to ers deployment strategy the car simply doesn't have the power to require 8th gear. He's not even close to hitting any kind of rev limiter in 7th gear. 12.200 rpm on second straight, 12.000 rpm on back straight. Rev limiters are usually set somewhere in 13.000-13.500 rpm range.Sevach wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021, 10:14
I don't have an answer why he does that(he also lets the car run on the limiter in the second straight), just find it funny that everyone was pointing out at him sticking to 7 as evidence of sandbagging in the testing thread and what do you know... he does the same thing when he goes for real.
On merit, or due to chaos /retirements like last year?
thinking of situation where if something is about to happen to one in leading trio (VER, BOT, HAM), Leclerc could snatch it in front of Perez. So something between of two... A bit of retirements, bit of on merit against 2nd RB
jumpingfish wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 13:14Those who watch Sky Sports, has the video broadcast already started?
Probably the only way they can show the cars properly, since a lot of the grid are different shades of Blue.El Scorchio wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 13:33Not sure about the new graphics showing the team logos. Some look decent (Ferrari, Alpha Tauri) but McLaren and Mercedes look horrible, like someone has just smudged orange or cyan ink across the logo
I think you're right, but it's a shame a few are so ugly. I really do like those Ferrari ones thoughSchippke wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 13:38Probably the only way they can show the cars properly, since a lot of the grid are different shades of Blue.El Scorchio wrote: ↑26 Mar 2021, 13:33Not sure about the new graphics showing the team logos. Some look decent (Ferrari, Alpha Tauri) but McLaren and Mercedes look horrible, like someone has just smudged orange or cyan ink across the logo
