Posts by wiredfalcon2

It’s basically impossible to make a move on this track. If F1 wants to stay relevant, they’re gonna have to rebuild the whole damn sport from the ground up.

It’s actually insane how much luck Lewis Hamilton gets whenever an SC pops up.

Well, they went ahead and screwed over Leclerc. 🙄

Renault, what kind of pitstop was that for Hulkenberg? 🤮

Daniel Ricciardo’s car is a total wreck, he’s got zero chance at this race. It’s just gonna be another day of McLaren pulling away from Renault in the standings.

Man, what a move by Grosjean to overtake there 🙏

Bottas is nowhere to be found :/

ruggedcyclist56 said:You're about as interesting as a fly on a wall. Total loser.

When you run out of actual points, you just resort to ad hominem attacks. How predictable. People aren't even decent trolls anymore; this is just bottom-of-the-barrel trash.

ruggedcyclist56 said:Auuu, Charles Leclerc is gonna be pissed 🤣 Sebastian Vettel absolutely nailed that!

Typical Ricciardo, just bulldozing through people on the track. I bet wiredfalcon2 will be all over this, writing some long-winded tribute about what a "magical" race he put on.

Antonio Giovinazzi messed up, not Ricci, so why are you talking nonsense again? Still waiting to hear which seven people you were talking about in Singapore, you troll.

mellowtiger83 said:It’s not about whether they went multi-lap or single-lap, doesn't matter if it was one or two, I was talking about things like a 9:0 series or whatever.

Anyway, regarding what was said about having different setups—that's exactly what I was getting at. That's where the gap comes from. My gut tells me Sebastian Vettel was probably running a more conservative race setup compared to Charles Leclerc.

And honestly? I bet he would've been P1 right after the start just by sitting in the slipstream of those two cars ahead, especially since his car is a rocket on the straights.

And you think there isn't anyone behind Vettel to give him a slipstream?

wiredseal7 said:Same old story, just a qualifying deficit. But they already announced it’s the Spec-4 engine, and they’ve run those before. They probably have to save the good stuff for the big race at Suzuka where the new fuel arrives, or maybe they just went back to the old maps today.

Since Max Verstappen was basically doomed to start six places back—actually, make that nine—anyway, the setup and race pace matter way more than qualifying. Still, being down 0.6 isn't nothing. If he manages to clear those three Renault-powered cars at the start, he might actually end up breathing down the necks of those Mercedes-Benz cars on 😁 mediums. Or, you know, he'll just pull his trademark terrible start and smash into someone at Turn 1 because he always struggles when he’s on the outside of the corner.

Tactically, this one should be interesting. And don't forget about the TR/Red Bull cars sitting at the back of the pack, slicing through the slower teams just for a little bit of early-race fun.

I don't see how Honda has anything on Renault. Honestly, if Red Bull Racing had been running Renaults all season and dealing with this much reliability crap and all these penalties for changing engines, they’d be crying bloody murder.

It’s gonna be interesting to see just how far Alexander Albon and Daniil Kvyat can actually push things, basically acting as the last two guys left on the grid.

Over at Monza, they were actually telling both the Renault and McLaren drivers over the radio to quit wasting time trying to overtake each other. We'll see if anyone actually steps up to give Max some real trouble, assuming my math isn't totally off and he's starting ninth.

Charles Leclerc 🙏 is driving like a man possessed. Tomorrow’s race is gonna be absolute chaos, though I wouldn't count out Sebastian Vettel just yet. Hamilton is basically giving a masterclass on why he’s one of the GOATs, while Bottas looks completely lost at his "home" Indy Motor Speedway—tough break for him, because honestly, he just can't touch Hamilton during this part of the season. McLaren is looking sharp, too. Nico Hulkenberg has been faster than Ricciardo all weekend; clearly, Daniel hasn't found the right setup yet. As for Max... I don't know. It felt like he had another gear left in him, but then again...

McLaren is looking surprisingly fast today

No rain in sight 🤮

Max Verstappen, Albon and Gasly are getting slapped with five-place grid penalties at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since they’re dropping in a fresh ICE. Kvyat is in a different boat though—his engine component timing is totally off, and Honda decided to just swap out everything in his car, so yeah, he’s starting from the back. Honda power ☕

Tibi, I honestly don't get why you even bother watching this sport if you're convinced the whole thing is rigged.

Jason Campbell70 said:BTW, if you want to talk about race pace based on anything other than actual lap times over the whole distance, just leave me out of it.

Why would anyone even bother using irrelevant data for this debate? Lewis Hamilton driving behind Leclerc doesn't tell you a single thing about how fast he’d actually be in clean air, which is the only thing that matters when we're talking about race pace. Seriously, you're wrong again.🤷

Jason Campbell70 said:During lap 61 of the Singapore GP, Leclerc was:
- faster than Lewis Hamilton in 36 of them
- faster than Valtteri Bottas in 35 of them

During lap 61 of the Singapore GP, Vettel was:
- faster than Lewis Hamilton in 35 of them
- faster than Valtteri Bottas in 38 of them

Just some more proof of that superior Mercedes race pace.

But hold on, we already walked you through this and you're still looping back to the same thing. Why?