Kyvat was in it for the points. Funny to see riccardo reversing into him

Ferrari needs both Mercs to collide into each other! Was hoping a little bit that it would happen during the start today but alas nothing.

Bottas a good guy wont play bumper cars haha

The racing is so terrible how do anyone keep interested. Its multi tier its predictable its just a very boring show. Motogp is exciting, different machinery i know but thats what racing is about not 20 cars go round a track following each other to the end. More like a clown show now lol

Ferrari and their stupid strategy again. They already know soft - medium is the best, still want to start on medium.

Vettel seems lost hope/fed up/demotivated... Maybe that's the reason for it.

Where are all the Ferrari horsepower advantage? Isn't it suppose to be extra 40hp more than others? Vettel can't even follow Hamilton closely on the Baku power advantage track!

Tyres problem. They (vettel mostly) can't switch it on properly.

This post has been edited by sphiroth: Apr 29 2019, 10:29 AM

Forget the top 3, Kimi took points again for Alfa Romeo starting dead last and from the pits.

Only the midfield teams are interesting... the top 6 are just meh.

I guess Ferrari too dependent on the safety car...

This post has been edited by HMMaster: Apr 29 2019, 12:56 PM

I tell you, Mercs is the master in sandbagging! 😂Ferrari is like a bad poker player, showing their hands too often too early while Mercs keeps playing them until on quali and race day beat them silly!

Actually yesterday Leclerc is fast and won the best driver of the day. If he qualified inside top 3, the trophy would be his.
I found this year Vettel is not so comfortable with his car(compare last year), while Leclerc on another hand seems have more consistent fast race pace.

Forget to point this out...

Hamilton could've been in DRS range in final lap but he made a rare mistake (going too wide) in penultimate lap. Think Bottas is a bit lucky yesterday but still well deserved.

I don't think CL deserves the DoD. I think VB deserves it more as he managed to fend off LH. I think if not for the quali mistake CL would be able to challenge closer than SV but not sure if he can really win it unless he really got front row grid. Nobody will ever know.

I also don't buy that Ferrari is as fast as has been hyped up all this time. Even if they might be faster but by just a small margin which can easily get overturned by Mercs with better driving and strategy. I actually think Mercs is still very much on par if not the better package overall than Ferrari.

Agreed. I think there is a straight line advantage (and quite possibly a very slight one at that) for the Ferraris but that's about it. Mercs definitely seem to a handy upper hand in downforce. If Ferrari does not find improvements before Barcelona, they're probably gonna be trounced

Seems you are correct. Even fuel also they put just enough.

https://www.crash.net/f1/news/918747/1/vett...l-last-lap-baku

They're trounced already now! Mercs has scored perfect points aside from missing a few fastest lap points. Ferrari only has 2 podiums to show for. This time last year they're neck and neck and yet Ferrari got trounced in the 2nd half.

By the 2nd half, RB will overtake Ferrari

Not with Gasly performing like he is now. But Max has a real chance to finish 3rd.

Because leclerc got no choice but to start on medium after crash in qualy

In anyway there are no good strategy, the soft is a complete garbage

He will get replaced soon imo

The decision to send them out on medium in Q2 is weird though.

Mercedes seems to follow text book strategy and it worked. RB usually took a gamble and it worked. Ferrari... Whatever they did... Don't seem to worked

I know it's unlikely but I wish they get Alonso to replace him.