Posts by Jason Campbell70

Has anyone actually tried defending the inside line when entering Turn 1?

Ricciardo is done.

crimsonhawk23 said:After the German one, that was my favorite anthem, but today's performance was an absolute top-tier version 👍

I was being incredibly sarcastic. 😁

Didn't Tibi explain to us naive folks yesterday that the best tactic isn't just putting Vettel on pole to let him bolt at the start?🤷

What a brilliant performance of the American anthem. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

mellowtiger83 said:Careful how you talk. Otherwise, Toby might show up to explain how Ray is actually faster than Rosberg, Bottas, Alonso, and Button—claiming Mark Webber is better than all of them combined!
Watch what you say. Maybe he's already drafting some defense for that four-way fraud.🎉

Toby claiming Webber is a master driver?

What would that badger even say... "Are you out of your mind???"

mellowtiger83 said:But then you have guys like Sebastian Vettel, who somehow manages to be fast every now and then despite being a disinterested 39-year-old.

The only thing more pathetic than "the history of Vettel's high-caliber teammates" is "Kimi Räikkönen's recent drives and results."

stormytiger4 said:If he wasn't on that team, everyone would just claim he only won because of that dominant Mercedes car and wouldn't have done it otherwise. You and Mario Andretti would be the first to say it.

If a grandmother were a man, she'd join the army.
Pure nonsense. 🙏🙏🙏

stormytiger4 said:Or Nico Rosberg.

Sure, a complete nobody with over 20 career wins. 🤷

mellowtiger83 said:I'm trying to picture what Sebastian Vettel would do if he were behind the wheel of, say, a Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen car!

Or Daniel Ricciardo. 🤷

In both fast Q3 laps, those geniuses are clearly having their number one driver pull weight for the number two guy.
It’s the classic setup where the lead driver is fighting for the championship, while the second driver has zero reason to care about points other than helping his teammate clinch the title.
At Indianapolis.

Well, I guess I've seen everything now.
GG WP.

Max will take pole tomorrow. Mece and Ferkani are going straight into the wall.

Where do I sign?

darkmarlin16 - it isn't a driver issue.

Frank Collins85 said:I'm hoping he stays as the last Ferrari world champion. 🙂

Agreed. 👍

darkmarlin16 As specified by:

Did he just sfušati that lap? 🤣

He’s been a total failure his entire career.

swifttiger75 said:Not that it actually changes anything.

Who's to say what anyone's thinking?

As for this Tibia business, don't get worked up.
Just swap "Kimi Räikkönen" with "Mark Webber" and you'll get the exact same nonsense we heard about 6 or 7 seasons ago.

swifttiger75 said:Tija wants to make a point here. It feels like some people haven't grasped this for two years running, and that is...

Kimi is the number two driver at Ferrari! He’s perfectly fine with it. Sebastian Vettel is fine with it too. Everyone at Ferrari is totally cool with it. Most fans are, too.

Look, the WDC is the holy grail. Everything revolves around that. Given how dominant Mercedes-AMG is, this is the only logical approach—though it’s always been the Italian philosophy.

And then we see it constantly being brought up here... claims of Kimi being sabotaged.
It isn't happening.

Kimi was the last guy to win the FER WDC!
He's an old veteran who still has plenty of life in him, but he knows exactly where he stands.

He knows his place so well, he's completely at peace with it. This isn't sabotage.

mellowtiger83 said:Mercedes clearly has the speed, but it isn't just the engine. Ferrari clocked higher top speeds across all three sectors at the US Grand Prix 2018. It’s the Mercedes chassis that’s truly impressive!

Mercedes is fast because of both the engine and the aero package.
They’re playing it similar to how Red Bull does during a dominant era—sacrificing some straight-line speed to crank up the downforce.



Traffic can be an issue, sure. But as we saw with Red Bull, cornering speed and downforce matter way more than raw top speed on the straights.

BTW—has anyone noticed the new broadcast graphics and the extra data they're feeding us?
Plus, we finally have a decent official YouTube channel for deep dives, interviews, and press conferences.
The Americans really know how to run a show. 👍

mellowtiger83 said:Unless the geniuses at Ferrari actually thought they could undercut Lewis Hamilton by 3 seconds using the hardest tires available that weekend?? And then there's Mercedes, being just as foolish by trying to cover that idiot move from the Ferrari pit wall.

It wasn't about undercutting Lewis. The whole point of that tactic was simply to get their slower first driver ahead of the faster second driver. It's pretty straightforward, especially after hearing that team radio.

Mercedes stepped in to cover the move and maintain control of the race.
That part went fine; once the pit stops were done, Lewis pulled away by a comfortable margin again within a few laps.

The only thing they couldn't control was the wheel nut issues on the Haas cars.

Kyle Lopez2 said:What could Lewis Hamilton have actually done during the VSC?
Maybe he could have squeezed out an extra 5 seconds—which would've been enough—but then he might have just picked up a speeding penalty under the VSC.

He had about 2-3 seconds to pull ahead of Vettel at the first corner without any issues. Even with a 2-second gap, he would've been fine.

But his pit wall gave him the wrong delta, and that’s why they messed up. They even admitted it after the race.

Kyle Lopez2 said:It was the VSC that screwed Lewis Hamilton, not Vettel. It's similar to what happened last year in Barcelona when the VSC screwed Vettel. Same situation, same main players.☕

See above.

Kyle Lopez2 said:Kimi Raikkonen is the one to blame here. You get one pit stop window over about 20 laps, and suddenly he's dropped 3.5 seconds behind Lewis Hamilton. What kind of undercut are you supposed to pull off from 3.5 seconds back? That's ridiculous.

The VSC arrived later, so Kimi Raikkonen isn't the one at fault or the loser there.
One single driver found himself in the right place at the right time, seized the opportunity, and took the position.
It’s not the first or last time a (V)SC reshuffles the order.

But what happened before that? That's the questionable part.
It's a wild race... and after starting from a better spot on the grid and running a great first stint, the pit wall tells Kimi Raikkonen "not to hurry." 😁
On top of that, they tell him his teammate hasn't pitted yet and is pushing the limit on his starting set of tires.

Lucky for Ferrari, that VSC saved them from a total disaster; otherwise, they'd be the laughingstock of the paddock all over again.
What a bunch of clowns. It's just not true. 🙏

The Best F1 driver said:It’s really not the same thing...
Haas's drivers retired because of a mechanical failure—basically a pit crew blunder. Max just messed up during a standard wheel-to-wheel battle due to his own lack of skill...
How that relates to a car retiring because someone forgot to tighten a wheel? Only you would think that makes sense.🤦

It's exactly the same thing. In a normal race, they’d just be staring at each other's exhaust pipes, which is exactly what those faster cars ahead were doing the whole time.

You're the one who started this nonsense by trying to count every single little detail in an overtake.

We all know why, just like we know why you didn't include Alonso's "overtake" on Carlos Sainz Jr. using that same logic.🙂

Roger Wright94 said:So, what now?
Was he supposed to pit again, and then just wait for Vettel to show up?

Yeah, that’s exactly my point.

😵

Lewis Hamilton lost his position and the win because they told him there was no need to rush.
Supposedly a software glitch, according to Toto Wolff.

Why on earth would Ferrari's pit wall tell Raikkonen not to hurry?