FIA couldn't give a different penalty to VER, they gave 10 seconds to Toro Rosso for same kind of crash. If they gave a different penalty it would have been incorrect in my opinion.LM10 wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 10:22Ferrari and Mercedes should have pitted Kimi and Hamilton for Softs during SC. Vettel and Bottas had passed pit entry already, but their teammates still had the chance to go into the pits. Poor decision by both and surely this cost them points.
Verstappen has done it again. If there still are people telling that everything he's doing is perfectly normal I will be surprised. Destroying a driver's race and just getting a penalty of 10 seconds will not motivate him to change his behaviour at all. He finished in 5. place and Vettel at the end was struggling to even stay ahead of Sainz because his tyres and also his floor were damaged.
Verstappen got more points by playing bumper car. Something is wrong here.
Brilliant drive by Ricciardo, though.
Chene_Mostert wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 10:06They lost the win with that strategy - but redbull won with luck. If the safety car was called 15 seconds earlier, Vettel and Bottas could have pitted. 15 seconds later, redbull would have gone past the pit entry.
Ferrari lost on strategy.
Redbull won with luck.
Simple.
- No, nothing to do with engines. Tyres but mostly random results based on luck. RB hate those and so do I. SC and they all got stuck on between strategies one-stopper.
But.. but... last week we all agreed that forcing someone off track at the exit of a corner is an absolute crime, for with a lifelong ban from F1 is the only fitting punishment.
Lewis had used softs, he would have he dropped like a brick in last few laps, Kimi had fresh softs available and could have finished 2nd.LM10 wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 10:22Ferrari and Mercedes should have pitted Kimi and Hamilton for Softs during SC. Vettel and Bottas had passed pit entry already, but their teammates still had the chance to go into the pits. Poor decision by both and surely this cost them points.
Verstappen has done it again. If there still are people telling that everything he's doing is perfectly normal I will be surprised. Destroying a driver's race and just getting a penalty of 10 seconds will not motivate him to change his behaviour at all. He finished in 5. place and Vettel at the end was struggling to even stay ahead of Sainz because his tyres and also his floor were damaged.
Verstappen got more points by playing bumper car. Something is wrong here.
Brilliant drive by Ricciardo, though.
I have to agree with you here, They think on their feet and try and finish a race in the quickest time, always aggressive.
The timing of deploying safety car is very interesting. It is like they waited for bottas and vettel to pass the pit entry and then deploy safety car to mix things up but it is probably coincidence.
Had Kimi been pitted at the right time, he would not have come home third. So he should not complain, nor should we. Had Vettel been pitted in the right moment he would have been where Bottas ended... So it was suboptimal in any scenario with the SC today.max_speed wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 10:22what matters at the end of day is standing on the board ?.Using Kimi as a Guinea pig does show high standards ferrari as a racing team have.i like racing and overtakes. i guess even racing gods are fed up of boring processions.
Without the second crash... RB gets lucky during SC... Otherwise it would be fight BOT vs VET and then probably RIC vs HAM...
Knowing that F1 is a lot about Show nowadays I wouldn't put my entire Money on it being total coincidence. Knowing that stupidity usually trumps malice it probably was coincidence, though.