Well, with Max unable to keep the car on track, they had to find someone else to use as an excuse to mess with Lewis. It's a steward's job these days to do such things.
Well, with Max unable to keep the car on track, they had to find someone else to use as an excuse to mess with Lewis. It's a steward's job these days to do such things.
Wouldn't be the Merc thread without the tinfoil coming out. But nah, Lando just drove the best lap and it shouldn't have been deleted in the first place because the lap in question was 100% within track limits.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 10:53Well, with Max unable to keep the car on track, they had to find someone else to use as an excuse to mess with Lewis. It's a steward's job these days to do such things.
One thing that has worked for Mercedes this year is that they usually have more pace towards the ends of races on lower fuel loads. The sprint is probably an ideal format for their car.
Yeah i just saw HAMs post interview; pretty much said the same thing.
He still has it, that’s for sure; he’s gonna fit right in at Ferrari - they’ll make a good duo over there
Looks like Mercedes did only race runs in FP1 because there were no quali laps at the end. I still think it's going to be a repeat of Interlagos last year because the car is slow.
Wouldn't be the Merc thread without certain regulars being negative about the team and / or a certain driver.Cs98 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 11:02Wouldn't be the Merc thread without the tinfoil coming out. But nah, Lando just drove the best lap and it shouldn't have been deleted in the first place because the lap in question was 100% within track limits.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 10:53Well, with Max unable to keep the car on track, they had to find someone else to use as an excuse to mess with Lewis. It's a steward's job these days to do such things.
Agree, it must be consistently applied with no subjective interpretation. After all we don’t know for absolute certain that it has no advantage do we? (Yes I know the likelihood is that it didn’t confer an advantage but that’s not the point.)Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 12:57Wouldn't be the Merc thread without certain regulars being negative about the team and / or a certain driver.Cs98 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 11:02Wouldn't be the Merc thread without the tinfoil coming out. But nah, Lando just drove the best lap and it shouldn't have been deleted in the first place because the lap in question was 100% within track limits.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 10:53
Well, with Max unable to keep the car on track, they had to find someone else to use as an excuse to mess with Lewis. It's a steward's job these days to do such things.
Lando's lap was deserving of pole, no doubt a great lap. But it's the usual freeplaying of the written rules by the FIA's stewards yet again. Either you delete the lap time or you don't. As soon as mitigation is allowed - and I accept the argument for Lando here because he obviously didn't benefit from going off on the last corner - then we're back to contentious stuff getting in the way of the sport. Great for media and forums to fill screen inches, not so great an advert for the sport.
So you're still asserting it's a conspiracy to "mess" with Lewis?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 12:57Wouldn't be the Merc thread without certain regulars being negative about the team and / or a certain driver.Cs98 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 11:02Wouldn't be the Merc thread without the tinfoil coming out. But nah, Lando just drove the best lap and it shouldn't have been deleted in the first place because the lap in question was 100% within track limits.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 10:53
Well, with Max unable to keep the car on track, they had to find someone else to use as an excuse to mess with Lewis. It's a steward's job these days to do such things.
Lando's lap was deserving of pole, no doubt a great lap. But it's the usual freeplaying of the written rules by the FIA's stewards yet again. Either you delete the lap time or you don't. As soon as mitigation is allowed - and I accept the argument for Lando here because he obviously didn't benefit from going off on the last corner - then we're back to contentious stuff getting in the way of the sport. Great for media and forums to fill screen inches, not so great an advert for the sport.
No conspiracy asserted. That laughing emoji shows that it's a joke. A joke.Cs98 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 13:24So you're still asserting it's a conspiracy to "mess" with Lewis?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024, 12:57Wouldn't be the Merc thread without certain regulars being negative about the team and / or a certain driver.
Lando's lap was deserving of pole, no doubt a great lap. But it's the usual freeplaying of the written rules by the FIA's stewards yet again. Either you delete the lap time or you don't. As soon as mitigation is allowed - and I accept the argument for Lando here because he obviously didn't benefit from going off on the last corner - then we're back to contentious stuff getting in the way of the sport. Great for media and forums to fill screen inches, not so great an advert for the sport.
And please point to the written rule which states that lap should've been deleted, we're all dying to read this.