2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku, June 04 - 06

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Marty_Y
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Hamilton had the fastest time of the weekend in q1, it's just frustrating Mercedes can't consistently get the tyres to perform.

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dans79
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Marty_Y wrote:
05 Jun 2021, 14:54
Hamilton had the fastest time of the weekend in q1, it's just frustrating Mercedes can't consistently get the tyres to perform.
It seems almost like they're doing some kind of halfway two lap warm up.
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Top 6 less than .2 away?! It's almost like they're driving the same car!!!
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Two run old tyres and a mistake in S3 yet 0.009 off P1 for Hamilton.

Q3 is going to be a lot of fun as I don’t think Max has done a totally clean lap yet.

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Mogster wrote:
05 Jun 2021, 14:46
El Scorchio wrote:
05 Jun 2021, 14:42
Sounds like Norris was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t there. Choice of either speeding in the pit Lane or ignoring the red flag to pit. I hope they don’t penalise him.

But if they do, it absolutely annoys me that they do it after the session. It completely screws over the person in 16th who may have had an opportunity to get further up the grid in Q2.
He attempted to pit but didn’t, then he increased speed for no reason. I can see there’s a defence for not pitting as he was going quite fast, but the speed increase after is harder to defend.
The speed increase is not in his favour, for sure! But I hope they go easy on him. It was a lot to process all in a few seconds and there was no harm done, really.

(However the rules are the rules, so....)

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Tsunoda SAN!!!!!
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Restomaniac
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Do you know what this does? It has RedBull doubting everything now.
I don’t think anyone (Mercedes aside) thought we would be seeing this.

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El Scorchio
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Marty_Y wrote:
05 Jun 2021, 14:54
Hamilton had the fastest time of the weekend in q1, it's just frustrating Mercedes can't consistently get the tyres to perform.
Absolutely. It seems still fundamentally a fast car but just an absolute nightmare to set up for qualifying.

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Restomaniac wrote:
05 Jun 2021, 14:58
Do you know what this does? It has RedBull doubting everything now.
I don’t think anyone (Mercedes aside) thought we would be seeing this.
It is very surprising. Looks like Hamilton threw all his eggs into the ‘let’s just try and be as fast as possible down the straight and lose as little as possible everywhere else.’

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Mogster
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Ricciardo off. Red flag.

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F1NAC
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Ricciardo went full rookie this season.

Good news for Ferrari, merc and Rb did more laps on those tyres than them
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Saishū kōnā

Restomaniac
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F1NAC wrote:
05 Jun 2021, 15:00
Ricciardo went full rookie this season.

Good news for Ferrari, merc and Rb did more laps on those tyres than them
Perez hasn’t.

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It kind of seems like pirelli's compound choices have really hurt pretty much everybody.
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