I was half expecting Kimi to give 3rd to Vettel. Glad he didnt.

at least he try go for it but too bad this will just hurt his championship

baku is a shitty as racing venue..but always drama right to the end

leclerc in the points for himself and sauber, some luck with so many retirement still a damn good drive in that car

What a crazy race again this year in Baku!

Seb's kinda screw up again in Baku even though not as stupid like last year. Will Baku become Seb's undoing for the season?

Feel a bit sorry for Bottas actually, he deserved the win. Super lucky for Ham, he should not have won this.

Kimi, well he had thrown away his chance of winning by stuffing up quali. Just got lucky also that he got 2nd. Ocon is to blame though for closing the door on him. If not for that Kimi might still have a chance to win too.

Grosjean must be kicking himself, what a stupid mistake! Feel sorry for Haas for losing again another huge chunk of points, but this time due to driver's error.

Finally the RB boys, so what do you guys think?? IMHO it's Max was more to blame as he again weaved around under braking.

Ferrari cannot make that call coz Perez already gotten by Seb.

Current point standing:
1. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport 70 points

2. Sebastian Vettel GER Scuderia Ferrari 66 points

3. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Scuderia Ferrari 48 points

4. Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport 40 points

5. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Aston Martin Red Bull Racing 37 points

6. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren F1 Team 28 points

7. Nico Hulkenberg GER Renault Sport Formula One Team 22 points

8. Max Verstappen NED Aston Martin Red Bull Racing 18 points

9. Sergio Perez MEX Sahara Force India F1 Team 15 points

10. Carlos Sainz Jr. ESP Renault Sport Formula One Team 13 points

11. Pierre Gasly FRA Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda 12 points

12. Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas F1 Team 11 points

13. Charles Leclerc MON Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team 8 points

14. Stoffel Vandoorne BEL McLaren F1 Team 8 points

15. Lance Stroll CAN Williams Martini Racing 4 points

16. Marcus Ericsson SWE Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team 2 points

17. Esteban Ocon FRA Sahara Force India F1 Team 1 point

18. Brendon Hartley NZL Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda 1 point

19. Romain Grosjean FRA Haas F1 Team 0 points

20.Sergey Sirotkin RUS Williams Martini Racing 0 points

1 Ferrari 114
2 Mercedes 110
3 Red Bull Racing TAG Heuer 55
4 McLaren Renault 36
5 Renault 35
6 Force India Mercedes 16
7 Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda 13
8 Haas Ferrari 11
9 Sauber Ferrari 10
10 Williams Mercedes 4

Fk vettel blew it again

Just noticed majority of the race result is due to safety car. Just like in the 1st race, 3rd and now the 4th race.

So whoever can capitalise on safety car, higher chances of winning. Luck plays most part in it now.

I almost had my wish of someone other than Seb, Ham, or Dani to win the race, sigh...

Hahahaha forever is 3 horse race

Better than 2 horse from the same stable

But max really need to keep his ego in check... Its getting dangerous

Remembering the day we lost the greatest.

Nice video about the only time Senna tested the Indy Car using Emmerson's Penske race car

This year Ferrari's engine is powerful. They managed to trim down weight and also breaking 1000hp barrier.
Mercedes on other hand play safe and revert back to 2016 engine oil spec. No wonder no more horsepower advantage coz lesser oil burn, haha.
https://www.thisisf1.com/2018/04/20/mercede...owerful-engine/

So the oil burning party mode is true.

Both Ferrari and Mercedes oil consumption rate are near the permissible threshold, with Mercedes decided to roll-back while Ferrari continue using it.
Meanwhile, I'm wondering when will Petronas or Shell launch these "horsepower gain" engine oil to the market? imagine those VW, Audi and few other performance "oil burner" engine able to gain a few hp by switching to those oil. also maybe those very old car burning engine oil can upped their horsepower as well.

1 question. Why ferrari use soft tyre in their last run of q3 while mercedes using ultra soft? Ferrari shd know soft tyre is slower n lesser grip

Some said that the difference between the 2 tires in this track now is not much and can be actually almost identical with maybe the SS slightly faster but more peaky/narrower operating window. So maybe Ferrari is more suitable using the S instead of the SS. You can see Kimi in his first attempt in Q3 was using SS but then in the first corner already he slid a bit, ruining his whole lap. Not sure if Seb was also using the same SS in his first attempt which was also not good.

This is because Ferrari topped Q1 and Q2 with Soft so they believed their car was so great that using Soft able to get pole without problem. With Super Soft they will be miles ahead and everyone will be Red Eye crying Party Mode etc.

This post has been edited by voscar: May 13 2018, 12:17 AM