No they do not because he is still favorite to win from P4.
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Lewis Hamilton has taken his 100th victory in today's Russian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen ended up in second place, taking full advantage of the last-minute rain that turned everything around. Carlos Sainz completes the podium in third place.
No imo, with Max at the back you want to avoid the Lewis vs Max battles as much as possible. The win is still very much in play. The pole sitter at Sochi is usually a sitting duck at the start so there is a very good chance positions will shuffle on lap 1, although I have little faith with the Ferrari taking the Mclaren even with a tow, such is the difference in their straight line speeds. A good strategy and good driving should still yield a win imo, but knowing them they probably won't win it. I still would not opt to start at the back though.
It's because a great deal of people are proclaiming him as GOAT while conveniently ignoring Mercedes hasn't competition which have caused at least some of his titles.Starkblood80 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 16:45It’s seems a great deal of people are enjoying gloating at Hamilton this season when he makes an error while conveniently ignoring Mercedes mistakes which have caused at least some of his issues.Hammerfist wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 16:34Merc and Hamilton just cannot seem to get anything right. Besides Lewis hitting the pit wall and costing the team a front row lockout probably, Mercedes left it way too late to switch to the slick tire. When Russell made the call they should have went after that as it was obvious everyone was going to be on slicks, and the more warmup laps you did the better off you would be. This team is just underperforming massively and it goes from their main driver down to their inept pitwall. They don't deserve to win this championship imo.
4th place is also tricky when everybody is gunning for the 2nd corner. If it's wet, Verstappen and Leclerc probably got the best track position to start withHammerfist wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 17:00No imo, with Max at the back you want to avoid the Lewis vs Max battles as much as possible. The win is still very much in play. The pole sitter at Sochi is usually a sitting duck at the start so there is a very good chance positions will shuffle on lap 1, although I have little faith with the Ferrari taking the Mclaren even with a tow, such is the difference in their straight line speeds. A good strategy and good driving should still yield a win imo, but knowing them they probably won't win it. I still would not opt to start at the back though.
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Hamiltons best option all round may be just 'stay out of the way'. If any of the cars in front of him win, it does not matter, its the gap to Max that the rest of the season is all about.
Except I can think of several drivers that has applied to…renault rs26 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 17:04It's because a great deal of people are proclaiming him as GOAT while conveniently ignoring Mercedes hasn't competition which have caused at least some of his titles.Starkblood80 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 16:45It’s seems a great deal of people are enjoying gloating at Hamilton this season when he makes an error while conveniently ignoring Mercedes mistakes which have caused at least some of his issues.Hammerfist wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 16:34Merc and Hamilton just cannot seem to get anything right. Besides Lewis hitting the pit wall and costing the team a front row lockout probably, Mercedes left it way too late to switch to the slick tire. When Russell made the call they should have went after that as it was obvious everyone was going to be on slicks, and the more warmup laps you did the better off you would be. This team is just underperforming massively and it goes from their main driver down to their inept pitwall. They don't deserve to win this championship imo.
It’s going to be a Monday decision IMO. We’ll know then if it would have been a wise decision. If you get caught up in some tussle at the start, if you end the race 3rd and Max fights back up to 5th then you take the penalty at another race where max wins and you end 5th… maybe starting at the back with Max now, you can out strategize RB and still end ahead. Then every race moving forward is on a level playing field.ArcticWolfie wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 17:064th place is also tricky when everybody is gunning for the 2nd corner. If it's wet, Verstappen and Leclerc probably got the best track position to start withHammerfist wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 17:00No imo, with Max at the back you want to avoid the Lewis vs Max battles as much as possible. The win is still very much in play. The pole sitter at Sochi is usually a sitting duck at the start so there is a very good chance positions will shuffle on lap 1, although I have little faith with the Ferrari taking the Mclaren even with a tow, such is the difference in their straight line speeds. A good strategy and good driving should still yield a win imo, but knowing them they probably won't win it. I still would not opt to start at the back though.
To compound things even further, they both had to yield to faster cars on their slick outlap which inhibited their warmup even more.RZS10 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 17:37Yea he did a lap which was really slow (1:47.125) ... the issue was that both Merc drivers stayed out to do another lap on inters which they aborted (on that lap/their inlap they were mixed in with those who had already switched and were doing their outlaps on softs) - both then had to set a lap on their first flying lap on softs which just weren't in their operating window.
Holy god dude. Calling Ham a hero when he’s the by-product of a German engine manufacturer who dominated an era while at the same time the guy supports groups like Crowdstrike (check his visor), is an insult to GB and in fact all F1 racing fans worldwide.Artur Craft wrote: ↑25 Sep 2021, 15:42I very much doubt he will be anything but extremely friendly. They are both British F1 heroes of the moment, so their relationship will be very respectfull