Will not watch tonight, hopefully MV crown world champion when I wake up, haha

Just watched race highlight, wow so spicy race, I kudos MV for bringing A-game and maniac behavior to the race track. After Vettel's deliberately steer to Hamilton in Baku GP and swapping No. 1 sign in Canadian GP, I think this is the most dramatic one.

MV can get No.1 easily with starting from 3rd or 4th position, just pointing the car straight straight and his opponents would be swept to outside.

Just hoping the fight would be without major injury, actually modern f1's safety helps a lot, especially the Halo.

Bottas most probably will be giving way as if he's on GP2 engine mode as well.

It's final race for 2021 season, so which car is the best car?
Red Bull: MV 1-2 1-2, superb reliable and durable Honda engine, fast on corners only a few km/h behind the spicy Mercedes car.

Mercedes: Trailing the best Red Bull during 1st half of the season, slow on 1 or 2 races such as Monaco and Baku (yes without MV's tyre failure I think LH best is 3rd position), team's brave effort by switching to Spicy engine strategy on latter races to take the fight to Red Bull, Bottas suffered more engine changes due to unknown strategical reason or reliability problem, controversial rear wing.

This post has been edited by voscar: Dec 10 2021, 02:11 PM

Yeah this year really tight, even in year 2018 in my opinion I would say Ferrari the best car (bar a few races from Singapore and Japan where their upgrade proves going backward), while Mercedes best teamwork and the wingman, lol.

Huhuhu, it's repeat of Abu Dhabi 2020? MV to lead over 15 sec in the race? Lol so much for the Mercedes "pancut awal" until Red Bull showing the Joker card starting Q2, no the tow effect only gives 0.08sec advantage the commentator said.

RB planned and well prepared to run on softs, they did long runs on Friday with good consistently good pace.
To be honest when RB decided trim down the rear wing, I think it's game over for Hamilton, this season I can't remember there are 2-3 races when RB trimmed down the rear wing, during race Hamilton can't keep up even with DRS enabled on the straights, he can only stay closing but can't overtake.

Oh Bottas reverted to older engine with lesser power due to reliability concern, what explains why his qualifying pace so slow, wow!

Imagine the engine development freeze and Mercedes stuck with reliability woes while now the Honda engine is matured, bulletproof, how the fortune swapped, lol.

No need to argue, it was Bottas whom said that.
https://www.racefans.net/2021/12/11/switch-...-in-qualifying/

And the speed trap, just less than 6 kph difference among teams, Mercedes at the lower bottom, due to higher drag from bigger rear wing?
https://www.racefans.net/2021/12/11/jeddah-...-title-decider/

Well as seen many times this season, Hamilton can't make overtake attempt during times Red Bull running smaller rear wings, see Hamilton stuck behind Perez 70% of time in Baku, the supposed Mercedes domination track.

You will be optimistic to have Mercedes on highest of podium + Bottas at 3rd, lol

This post has been edited by voscar: Dec 12 2021, 01:23 PM

Well, everyone is so excited and having the f1 teams and drivers execution plan, which is good. I just sincerely hope tonight race was intense and good race, not a repeat of leading till the end borefest to close the season, haha.

Well there's another final run from MV without tow which is a little faster, but his team call him to abandon the lap, no point showing the mega pace to opponent

Hehehe

Macam will be boring race, no more action at front it seems

MV's dive bomb unsuccessful, run off area damn smooth and wide for LH.

Jos Verstappen no eye see already

Bottas struggling with old engine degraded power? So damn slow

The unknown factors would be tyre or engine

Perez the best wingman