Haha, it won't happened now. His 2 penalty points were removed [as it was rather unjustice].

In the first place the 5+5 sec penalty was quite ridiculous as he performed those breaches "BEFORE THE RACE" !! And he was under team's instruction to do so, he even asked the team whether that was ok before he did it. So, if any penalty, it should be served by the team not the driver. Because this happened BEFORE THE RACE.

Anyhow, judging by how dominance Lewis is, he definitely can afford to rest on one Sunday and go to the beach and still leading the championship by a big margin.

For LEC incident with Stroll, usually FIA more lenient on 1st lap as too many cars squeeze each other easily on tight corner. To penalise LEC could be a bit too harsh, and FIA always have special feeling about Ferrari

For LH case, actually the 10s penalty did not make the race more interesting among the top 3 yesterday, still minding their own race only. And yes, it did help give VB a bit more confidence that he desperately needed.

Max was actually being tested against Daniel Ric previously. While Max exhibited better qualifying result, at race RIC had better EQ. Max was a bit too edgy...

Woohoo Lewis 7times WDC !!

Hope Merc give George Russell a chance to drive the Black Silver arrow, and hope he can give Max V and wingman a fight

Let's see if he is going to shine in a better car this weekend. By right he should.

Good penalty given to CL, safer for the front runners on race start

That is no excuse for VB actually. His old hard tires are actually newer with less laps than that of Perez, why couldn't he perform while a driver in Pink Mercedes can ?

Wah, MV led the most boring race of the season. Should have turned off my Tv earlier.

Damn

Lewis is still the best driver on grid. MV gotta wait till Sir LH retires 😂

Lewis had been on the limit at turn 4 because FIA / F1 did not specifically imposed track limit BEFORE the race. Which means no action will be taken if driver does it. This means it's complete legal. But of course later FIA found out that was a bit too blatant and imposed the track limit mid-way during the race. Fair and square

But that is completely different from OVERTAKING outside the track, which at all time prohibited.

Well, I do agree that dominant race is no fun to watch.

But I must say although Merc and LH won on this one, it was a good race to watch. Especially I saw so many MV fans butt hurt complaining this complaining that, haha.

A lost is a lost, ultimately RBR can be happy that their car is now proven the fastest on track. And their 2nd driver is a competitive one. I hope in next few races Perez can give some face palm on MV by driving faster than him

And by the time Lewis retires this year after his 8th title, Merc can sign up MV over. Another face palm on RBR

The Jap boy then join RBR and win some title. We need Asian WDC

This post has been edited by 4WD_er: Mar 29 2021, 10:46 AM

No excuse for Vers as he is already given the fastest car among all, he just couldn't hook up a good lap without mistake. He only has himself to blame, not everything around him.

Good job for Lewis, he was having the 3rd fastest car but still on pole.

Yup, a costly mistake for Lewis that almost sent him DNF. And yes he was really lucky with the red flag which brought him back to 2nd, and still leading the championship.

Well done Max, credit when credit is due. Good start from that redbull.

And great drive my Norris.

VET did quite well in Q1 to be honest.

Mercedes is fast with the starting med tire. I guess RB got no chance this week.

On the exact contrary, I hope McLaren got good grip with their soft tire (?) And tao pao MV at launch. 😄

VB took too many laps to warm his hard tyres. Now only closing the gap to MV, I think the wingman stands a chance to tao pao Max.

On post race interview SLH has told Jenson that the team ensure they have 2 sets of new medium tyres for the race. Which mean they already have 2 stops in their mind and it is only the execution part on when and what to do if he lose the lead or not losing the lead on turn 1.

What is pretty clear for this Spanish GP is that the Redbull seems to be well matched or even slightly faster on the soft tyres. But on the medium (preferred race tyre), the Merc AMG has upper hand. That is why Sir Lewis can catch up with some gap after 1st pits and keep his car behind for many laps only to find that the passing is very difficult because Redbull is fast on 3rd sector => gap enlarge before the long straight at start-finish line.

So, if Merc AMG is faster on medium or the race tyres, then RB has little chance to win unless they pull out a good pit strategy. And Merc is better with strategy so no chance for Max.

VB's race pace is curiously slower and his race was a bit compromised by SLH race. For that I think he purposely ignore the team's order to let SLH pass for a short moment and made life difficult for that particular pass. And in the process delayed SLH by at least 0.5-1.0 sec.

All in all, Merc deserved the win. RB has to play second fiddle this time

Wow, so RBR indeed has bendy rear wing. After this is clamped down they are likely to lose some straight lines speed.