His sig also put a merc, so you cant blame him. 1 has flexing rear wing, 1 has flexing front wing. Case of pot vs kettle

Max is certainly no billionaire boy. He's from a family full of racing drivers.

To me, RBR is interesting because they tend to compensate lack of power with aero

Two tire failures in 1 race . Man dont you miss the old days of F1 where they have multiple competent tire providers like Bridgestone and Michelin

If it happened 1, you can sweep aside as corner case. IF it happened twice, on the same tire on 2 different cars, the safety of the tires are questionable, hence red flag and all cars change tires

Restart could go both ways la. Restart behind safety car would be pointless because 2 laps left

Restart on track, first corner would be chaos

Standing start la. Rolling start would benefit mercs more down the straight

Your hate for RBR is really over the top Clearly the merc was having brake problems with all the smokes

It's always easy to blame others for own mistakes

But this time even LH didnt blame anyone but himself

Just curious did you make any conspiracy theories when bottas crashed with russell at Imola, giving Hamilton a chance to claw his way back to 2nd?

Cold tires or not, the brakes are definitely smoking hot

Dont be crazy la. If what you said is true, it could cause a massive pileup. You cant predict so much where everyone will go and fall according to your plan. That would be deliberately causing a massive crash which is unthinkable.

Season still has long way to go.

Nope I just think you're over imagining things with your theories. Things just happen, move on. The last thing you would wanna do with a tightly cost-controlled modern F1 is sacrificing a chassis+driver so early into a season

Merc has always has a power advantage, but with slower part of this circuit, RBR cars can pull a gap big enough before the main straight. Else they would be sitting ducks on the straights

Whether RBR has the fastest car is very subjective. In french GP they have to run lower downforce else they would be eaten alive by Mercs in the straights.

Even with RBR's lower downforce, when MV was trying to overtake BOT the merc can still give a good fight down the straight despite running on older hard tires.

I think overall merc is still the faster/more balanced car. RBR won due to strategy. If they didnt pit MV for second time, I think Hamilton would have won it easily

Not entirely true. Ferrari had power advantage back then. What RBR is doing now is lowering their downforce to compensate lack of power.

Given long enough straight, the merc could still power pass RBR

Merc is better balanced I think. They have the right amount of power+downforce combo. You can see in paul ricard, the rbr requires alot of steering input due to lower downforce.

I think for austria GP, RBR need good pit strategy for the win. But merc will probably know how to respond better this time around

Wow if mclaren could outperform mercs consistently in coming races, toto/hamilton will be spending more time complaining to FIA to add 1 more team into their watch list

Not even halfway into the season. Still long way to go. I wouldnt count merc out just yet

Different driver likes different feel of the car. Just like DR liking the 2014 RBR more than SV. I'm pretty sure they didnt purposely screw SV up. Makes no sense to pay top dollar for a driver just to screw him over

Hopefully they can repair Spa before the GP. Else another cancellation

Silverstone will be interesting. If RBR really sacrificed downforce for speed, they're gonna suffer because there's alot of long sweeping high speed corners

The moment max got pit-manoeuvred out, I wasted no time and went straight to sleep. Already knew LH is handed a free win, although I dont know what penalty he will/will not get.

1) Ferrari wont stand a chance against the merc
2) BOT as the name implies, is a BOT running at 75% difficulty. It's a no-wonder LH wants him to stay

Woke up to see the news LH got a slap on the wrist with 10s penalty and goes on to win.

Good thing leclerc know LH gonna pull the same stunt and made sure to leave him loads of space, else victim No.2? Surprising to see comments that leclerc isnt defending hard enough given he has the ring-side seat to the first lap incident.

LH killed 2 birds with a stone by sending his main rival to the hospital and totally destroying his car