Spanish Embassy (San Francisco-California) May 22, 2011

Don't hold your breath on any upsets... Button is still holding his own 🙏

fadedwalker18 said:Heading into the race, I’m really hoping to see Lewis leapfrog at least one of those Red Bulls and send them both spinning off into the gravel.

If my first prediction falls flat, then maybe someone like Daniel Ricciardo—or even Jenson Button—will pull an upset and overtake Alonso. 😁

But if that doesn't happen either... 😁 then I'm looking at Pastor making some serious chaos during the opening lap, likely thinning out the top ten right from the jump. 😁

And honestly, I might just end up stuck in the dirt myself.

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So you're basically betting on a top ten driver hitting the gravel. 👍
But you didn't say what happens if even that plan fails. 😕

Massa finally called it quits before he could embarrass himself any further.
Heidfeld 8🙏

Keith Rodriguez27 said:Looks like the Ferrari fans have finally shut their mouths 😬 (except for Edward Howard2 😁).

Still here.🤷

fadedwalker18 said:Heading into the race, I’m really hoping to see Lewis leapfrog at least one of those Red Bulls and send them both spinning off into the gravel.

If my first prediction falls flat, then maybe someone like Daniel Ricciardo—or even Jenson Button—will pull an upset and overtake Alonso. 😁

But if that doesn't happen either... 😁 then I'm looking at Pastor making some serious chaos during the opening lap, likely thinning out the top ten right from the jump. 😁

And honestly, I might just end up stuck in the dirt myself.

☕

Oh, and what if ten of them drop out in the first 200 meters? Seriously! They haven't even retired that many cars total all season, let alone in a single race. It would be great to break up this boring starting procedure where everyone drives like they're best friends protecting each other.

Keith Rodriguez27 said:Looks like the Ferrari fans have finally shut their mouths 😬 (except for Edward Howard2 😁).

Probably because Max isn't a Ferrari fan, haha 😬.

Bradley Nelson2 said:I don't get why everyone is making such a huge deal out of Ferrari. We all saw this coming the second Schumacher left. They had a decent run of glory for a while, but now they're just sliding right back to where they belong—the exact spot Schumacher pulled them out of in the first place. ☕

Ferrari is basically like a phoenix, except instead of rising, they just kind of smolder in the ashes until they finally stumble upon an actual elite driver or some engineers who actually know what they're doing; at this point, even if they did manage to stay in first place all the time, it wouldn't even be interesting anymore. ☕

Can you believe it? That lightning-fast Ferrari actually got lapped! 🙏 😂

Raymond Ortiz89 said:Ferrari is basically like a phoenix, except instead of rising, they just kind of smolder in the ashes until they finally stumble upon an actual elite driver or some engineers who actually know what they're doing; at this point, even if they did manage to stay in first place all the time, it wouldn't even be interesting anymore. ☕

They’ve got Alonso, right? Honestly, he’s easily the best driver on the starting grid right now. But man, Ferrari is really missing a top-tier engineer. Instead, they’re stuck with these guys who just don't get it. You look at a team like Lotus—they’re actually making progress race after race! Meanwhile, these guys over in Italy? They’re full throttle going in the wrong direction. It's like they're driving straight into a thick fog and can't find their way back to clarity. What are they even doing?

shadowtinker29 said:Can you believe it? That lightning-fast Ferrari actually got lapped! 🙏 😂

It's all tactics.👍
If you had NASA tacticians driving a space shuttle, they’d have found some way to screw him over so he wouldn't even touch the podium.☕

Is it just me, or did the whole forum just crash???

Raymond Ortiz89 said:Ferrari is basically like a phoenix, except instead of rising, they just kind of smolder in the ashes until they finally stumble upon an actual elite driver or some engineers who actually know what they're doing; at this point, even if they did manage to stay in first place all the time, it wouldn't even be interesting anymore. ☕

Consider this my official vote of confidence.

Honestly, where does it even say that you can only subscribe to Ferrari if you're sitting at the top of the leaderboard? It feels like they're trying to gatekeep the whole thing!

There’s honestly nothing quite like watching someone struggle through a tough spot, kind of like seeing a rookie quarterback try to navigate a blitz for the first time—it’s just one of those things that’s strangely satisfying to witness.

Ferrari's crew are absolute geniuses...
Alonso was the first one in and out for his pit stop, totally nailed it.
Still, he’ll probably end up in fifth, likely a lap or more down by the finish line.
Nobody actually passed him on the track except for Bottas, but let's be real—Bottas was on softs while Alonso was struggling on hards.
Eight commercial breaks during a single race is just ridiculous 🤦

Button 🙏 🙏 🙏

Props to Alonso for making that happen 🙏

Red Bull and McLaren are basically running laps around everyone else 🤦

way to go Vettel—killer fight those last few laps too—and if you listen to the announcers on ESPN, he was doing it without any functional hybrid boost.

Heidfeld put in a massive shift as well 👍

Could you please provide the full driver standings 🙂?

shadowtinker29 said:Can you believe it? That lightning-fast Ferrari actually got lapped! 🙏 😂

Well, there it is... exactly what we all saw coming. Just about twenty laps left on the clock and it finally went down, just like they said it would. ☕

Edward Howard2 said:Only seven drivers are on the same lap right now, and we’ve still got 20 laps left to go... by the end of this thing, it's probably just gonna be McLaren and Red Bull running lap traffic 🤦

shadowtinker29 said:Can you believe it? That lightning-fast Ferrari actually got lapped! 🙏 😂

😲😲😲😲😲

Nancy Scott5 said:So you're basically betting on a top ten driver hitting the gravel. 👍
But you didn't say what happens if even that plan fails. 😕

😁 In that case, we still have plenty of other candidates—anyone else I haven't mentioned who might find themselves sliding into the dirt during that tight opening turn.

swiftjackal3 said:Oh, and what if ten of them drop out in the first 200 meters? Seriously! They haven't even retired that many cars total all season, let alone in a single race. It would be great to break up this boring starting procedure where everyone drives like they're best friends protecting each other.

Nothing much happens in those first 200 yards, but that sharp corner combined with those "sleeping policemen" sitting right by the first turn? That’s a recipe for some cars taking flight and landing squarely in the gravel. 😁

It feels like Pastor would nail that line perfectly... he’s definitely the frontrunner here.

Based on probability theory and pure stochastics, after a long stretch of relatively clean races, there’s always that one race where things finally go sideways... 😁

Arthur Hill2 said:Could you please provide the full driver standings 🙂?

Check this out: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/formul...2011/race.html

analogowl122 said:Ferrari's crew are absolute geniuses...
Alonso was the first one in and out for his pit stop, totally nailed it.
Still, he’ll probably end up in fifth, likely a lap or more down by the finish line.
Nobody actually passed him on the track except for Bottas, but let's be real—Bottas was on softs while Alonso was struggling on hards.
Eight commercial breaks during a single race is just ridiculous 🤦

Talk about terrible timing with all those commercials.👎☕