Jesus Christ, some of you can only see the race through so many layers of hatred it's blinding you when we get a fantastic, Hungary 2006/Canada 2011 style batshit one.
It's becoming as Toxic as the booing after the race from the crowd and seemingly driving away the few rational posters left here.
Hatred blinding people to seeing stupid racing accidents as deliberate takedowns and genuine tired/fatigue conditions in the post race ceremonies as faking it for attention is pitiful. As in they should actually be pitied because they cannot see how much their hatred is hurting their enjoyment of the sport.
Ask yourself this question: are you enjoying it any more? Or just tuning in out of habit and you have a low key addiction to being pissed off every weekend?
(The whole "I am so pessimistic I expect any good thing happening to immediately end ie a driver I hate is definitely going to gain places by other drivers taking each other out because that's obv the worst thing possible to happen so WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN" comments are almost as bad as the hate. So based and boring, can we quit this please?)
That was brilliant to watch, so many twists and turns, we should be fanboys celebrating a great race full of action and a surprise winner
Not everything was perfect, I too would like to have seen some actual wet running (even though with the start crash it seems Lewis would've lapped the field by about lap 5 with the start he got and the rest of the top 5 being removed from his mirrors) but I doubt it would've given us much better a race.
On the C4 broadcast they said mercedes couldn't pit because, as the first pitter, by the time they got in the box the entire field would be coming by when they wanted to exit the box and they'd be pretty much screwed either way. Taking the start was their only hope that they would get away cleanly and everyone else would fall over each other chasing them down
Didn't happen, but George went up to 2nd at that point mainly because of the benefit of the final pit berth so it was always going to be a bad time for Merc
Obviously the Alonso/Lewis battle will be talked about for a long time and rightly so, it'll probably be one of the highlights of the season tbh
LOADS for the "Racing Etiquette: Corner Exit thread to digest (or not, because it's all fair game when it happens TO Lewis
) but I didn't have a problem with it. Except the part running up to turn 4 where Fernando came right over on lewis alongside him and caused contact between them, that was a bit over the line. Almost certainly a genuine accident (see, it's much more likely something is just a mistake than a deliberate move
) but just a bit too much hardness thereAlso, by Bullshit Spa 08 rules, Max was off track in T2 around the outside of Mick and then overtook him at the next corner T3 kink before the straight. That was worth a 10 second Penalty in 2008, nothing today,...
Lewis' move around the outside of T4 on Tsonda isn't being talked about enough tbh. That was a brilliant pass, no DRS and kept it between the white lines, which is hard to do
The DSQ seems fairly black and white, you either have enough fuel in or you don't.
Maldanado got a race win because that very thing happened to Lewis after Qualifying. It happens
Can't help thinking if literally anyone else was in that Aston, they would've brought home the win, but we know how reserved Seb is racing people. Oh well, maybe he'll do something wholesome after the race again and people will continue fawning over him *shrug*
Watching them on C4 however delayed is certainly an improvement over Sky's OTT tabloid bullshit.
And you didn't even have Martin Brundle today? yeeesh.
TBF we didn't have David Coulthard on C4 either but Billy Monger and our new favourite sprinter Allan McNish made for a great team with the C4 commentator.
TL;DR, great race. Not sure if it can even be counted as a wet race as we only got about 4 corners of wet running
But even Rain being near a race track makes the spirit of the racing as if it was deluging.
