Monaco GP 2015

rowdyrider12 said:If I remember correctly, they actually made the call right in the middle of the race, and then Ricciardo just clawed his way back into position...
I mean, if it had been a five-second penalty, they would've just tacked that onto the total time at the checkered flag since nobody was hitting the pits... so basically, they needed to make sure the gap between Räikkönen and Ricciardo stayed wider than five seconds...
On a track like that, there is absolutely no way anyone is going to convince me that Ricciardo just happened to breeze past Kvyat by sheer luck...
It’s exactly what I thought—that whole business with stopping Kimi just to make sure both Red Bull drivers walked away with more points.

silvergull10 said:I honestly have no clue who the hell was officiating on this track because these penalties are just straight-up ridiculous. Like, Alonso and Hulk were driving side-by-side for at least 250 meters and he gets flagged, yet Ricciardo walks away totally clean even though he cut in at the absolute last second and slammed right into Kimi Räikkönen. It makes zero sense to me, though personally I think both situations were pretty much nothing and don't even warrant an investigation. They’ll probably spend all their time worrying about wider tires or whatever, but then they turn around and hand out penalties for nonsense like this.

Jason Campbell70 said:Sixth race in, fifth podium finish.

My god, what a driver! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

neonfalcon16 said:So, did Mercedes basically sabotage their own driver and screw over the entire fanbase just to manufacture some fake drama, push the second driver harder, or was this just one massive tactical blunder? 😕

Brian Campbell36 said:When Ferrari shows up to Canada with that stronger engine, they’re going to absolutely tear through both Mercedes-Benz cars on that track. 🍿

Maurizio Arrivabene basically said, “We aren’t dropping our tokens at the Canada Grand Prix, but don't go asking me when we actually will—I'd rather not tip off the Germans over at Mercedes-Benz!”

neonpuma7 said:It’s pretty wild that nobody pointed out how the betting odds for Rosberg were sitting right around 3.5 to 4 🙂—especially considering how much everyone was talking about Hamilton's pit stop. It honestly feels like a scripted farce, if you ask me.

neonpuma7 said:Funny how nobody mentioned the odds on Rosberg were sitting at 3.5 to 4 🙂 , especially given how much they wanted Hamilton to pit. Real scripted farce right there.

cosmicridge5 said:Mercedes couldn't exactly stop Lewis from sabotaging himself. Or something like that. 😁

cosmicridge5 said:Hamilton was the one calling for the pit stop, and the team just buckled under the pressure instead of pushing back to make it work. That’s really all there is to it. No grand conspiracy here, unfortunately. 😁

cosmicridge5 said:Mercedes didn't stop Lewis from basically sabotaging himself. That's how I see it—kind of a mess 😁

Lewis was the one pushing for the pit stop, and the crew just buckled under the pressure instead of talking him down. That's really all there is to it. No grand conspiracy here, unfortunately 😁

Just thinking out loud here—what should the 2017 lineup actually look like before Red Bull Racing makes their move...

Gary Palmer8 said:Man, people really love to hate Lewis Hamilton. 🙂 Everyone’s out here trying to shift the blame onto some incompetent pit wall strategist who made the final call to bring him in.

Team boss Toto Wolff admitted they made a massive call error during the closing stages of the Monaco GP.

"Yeah, we absolutely ruined Lewis Hamilton's race. We just didn't read the gap to Nice correctly—total miscalculation. All we can really do now is apologize. I feel terrible for Lewis, and honestly, I feel for the crew who made such a bad call. We should have cruised to a perfect 1-2 finish today. We need to sit down, dig into what went wrong, and send Lewis Hamilton a formal apology," Toto Wolff said right after the race wrapped up.

neonfox65 said:I'm sitting here thinking about that mess at the Monaco GP and those controversial calls from Mercedes-Benz. If that hadn't happened, what would we even be talking about after the race? We've got Canada in two weeks.

stormybadger8 said:Oh yeah, they definitely did that just to give us something to talk about...🤣🤣🤣

neonfox65 said:Mercedes-Benz: We totally screwed Hamilton's race