Could have been worse, his engine could have blown up while comfortably leading tomorrow's race by over 20 seconds. Roll with the punches, if you don't you'll drive yourself crazy.
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Max Verstappen has dominated the Malaysian Grand Prix to win the second race of his career. Second place finisher Lewis Hamilton led for 5 laps before seeing the Dutchman pass by. Daniel Ricciardo finished third to complete the party for Red Bull Racing.
Could have been worse, his engine could have blown up while comfortably leading tomorrow's race by over 20 seconds. Roll with the punches, if you don't you'll drive yourself crazy.
was a boost leak. they just couldn't find it in time.foxmulder_ms wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 16:10Season is alive and kicking unless one is a hamilton hater.
Great job by Merc, Good turn out to cover over a second gap from practice 2.
Raikkonen was so close..
Ferrari did a great job. I was sure MErc will be dominant here but they are dead equal.
Not surprisingly Vettel got the turbo problem for the season. Now they can install a new turbo/engine and collect the place penalties and look for the next race. I still think he can reach top 5.
That's the only thing i can see as well. I mean if you look at his lap, he had some over steer in turn two and a lock up on the final turn. Otherwise, it doesn't look like the car was horribly imbalanced.
I can go with that!
Only difference being that Ferrari are the most successful team in the history of formula 1 - so if Real Madrid would be a more accurate analogy.NathanOlder wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 14:01No one would write a top team indeed. But when the top team (Arsenal) are 2.0 down half way through the 2nd half against Barcelona, the fat lady is on her way to center stage.Shakeman wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 13:36But we've seen countless times that starting from the back and executing a great race strategy can yield a top 5 position, it would only take an inopportune safety car to really put the cat amongst the pigeons again.
I simply do not buy into the notion that the championship is over, not by a long way. HAM and Merc are not immune to car failures or prangs, it might be 2-0 halfway through the second half but no one would write a top football team off completely until the full time whistle has blown.
Huge credit for HAM's pole must go to the engineers who dug deep into the data to get a setup Lewis could work with.
But Ferrari have won nothing for a decade ?? Real Madrid most certainly havef1316 wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 20:01Only difference being that Ferrari are the most successful team in the history of formula 1 - so if Real Madrid would be a more accurate analogy.NathanOlder wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 14:01No one would write a top team indeed. But when the top team (Arsenal) are 2.0 down half way through the 2nd half against Barcelona, the fat lady is on her way to center stage.Shakeman wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 13:36
But we've seen countless times that starting from the back and executing a great race strategy can yield a top 5 position, it would only take an inopportune safety car to really put the cat amongst the pigeons again.
I simply do not buy into the notion that the championship is over, not by a long way. HAM and Merc are not immune to car failures or prangs, it might be 2-0 halfway through the second half but no one would write a top football team off completely until the full time whistle has blown.
Huge credit for HAM's pole must go to the engineers who dug deep into the data to get a setup Lewis could work with.
They're still batting .500(2009,2014-2016 maybe 2017), so not bad all things considered.ChrisDanger wrote: ↑30 Sep 2017, 20:10Clearly Brawn GP are the most successful team ever, having won 100% of every world championship they entered.
And look where he is in the points... to finish first (in points), first you must finish.
