no no they dont care about that, they might care about categorizing stuffs saying "Hamilton" belongs to drivers section, "Championship" belongs to general section and "dominating victory" belongs to Race thread. just joking
no no they dont care about that, they might care about categorizing stuffs saying "Hamilton" belongs to drivers section, "Championship" belongs to general section and "dominating victory" belongs to Race thread. just joking
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Ocon is Mercedes development driver.Manjhi wrote: ↑30 Aug 2017, 22:48I think Renault already looks satisfied with Hulk, they are looking for someone consistent, Jolyon is out of F1 in 2018 for sure. Checo might have a chance here but I hardly think Renault will sign, they'll rather go with someone young and with French connection.BloodLad91 wrote: ↑30 Aug 2017, 10:16Ocon is under contract for three years and comes with Mercedes backing, while Perez is out of contract for next year.
With team rebranding,new sponsors and consecutive fourth place finish means checo's sponsors are not that important.
He might leave to Renault or williams to replace massa.
Williams will definitely look for Checo's experience, Massa is too old for F1 now.
I think the sponsor money from mexico does have impact on SFI's car development, as after paying Checo around 6 million SFI does get 14 million remaining, plus bonus sponsors for Mexican GP.
I agree, Perez could have given ocon bit room and ocon should have back off little bit then make pass on kennel straight.Manoah2u wrote: ↑31 Aug 2017, 12:01Yes i've watched the full race, did you?
or is it just too much fun jumping in on the hype bashing train?
Ocon was frustrated about the pit and that Perez was in front of him, like the diva Ocon wants an entire track all to himself, not thinking about the bigger picture because Ocon only thinks about number one himself.
He then tried to squeeze between the wall and Perez, but there was no room for him to pass there, especially since Perez was in front and Ocon not with his wheels in front of his rear wheels, goes with his wheels over the white line fully seeing the wall closing in on him but deciding not to back off and have another go after eau rouge like any other sane driver would do.
matter of fact, his entire move makes no sense since you cannot overtake there like that.
even IF perez would have left him room (which is the only thing you could argue there), Ocon did not have enough speed to make it to the corner and overtake Perez there and would have had to yield anyway. It is a brainless move from nothing but blind rage.
If he stayed behind Perez through eau rouge, he would have had a slipstream giving him an advantage, AND DRS to overtake Perez and perez would have been a sitting duck especially with fresher tires for Ocon. Instead, by blindly going into a position he could not hold whilst Perez was definding his position > to which he has ALL the right, and not short of how Verstappen does (and is hailed for) that, Ocon insisted staying where he was instead of just for a milisecond lifting throttle which would have avoided contact, and ruining both their races and losing valuable points along the way.
I repeat that Ocon is blind as a bat in all his anger and rage which he can't seem to control because he has some beef with Perez after Canada and Baku. He doesn't calm down but feels like he has something to settle with Perez and loses all the temper and control and pushes himself and his car in situations that can only have a bad outcome.
He tried the corner, he didn't carry enough speed to pass Perez or get alongside enough that Perez couldn't defend anymore, he couldn't pass outside of Perez into eau rouge anyway, and instead of lifting and staying right on Perez' tail (like Vettel on Hamilton for example), then getting on the next straight having a massive advantage from the slipstream AND the DRS AND fresh tires he would have BLAZED past Perez who would have no answer to it, get first into the next corner, and blaze off into the sunset and score many points whilst having beaten his teammate, which is what he's so blinded to do anyway.
It is too stupid for words, yet Perez gets the blame? come on.
Ocon's speed and craft speak for themselves, he is blazingly fast but he is an even bigger hothead than Grosjean was but too arrogant to even concider anything else but his own game and then exegerates like perez tried to kill him? drama 'queen' much?
Well Lewis has also got ahead of the SC car many times, Vettel is known culprit of such mistakes. And don't forget Kevin himself shoot past at the final corner in SC lap. So that doesn't prove anything. Plus it was tweeted on lighter note.Manoah2u wrote: ↑31 Aug 2017, 14:20In addition, here another golden move from Ocon who had his head somewhere else but in the car during the race
https://twitter.com/OconEsteban/status/ ... 5635148800
fool is claiming Magnussen was testing him? during the SAFETY CAR PERIOD?
boy is really living on another planet.
inches away from smashing into another car during the SC period. just wow.
kudos for a well concidered, thoughtful and very true reply.iotar__ wrote: ↑31 Aug 2017, 18:44Perez put it best when he said there were no problems with Hulkenberg despite some close battles, new element is Ocon, his overtake through crash technique and radio posturing. Two incidents in Spa were connected, Ocon caused the first one, Perez backed off and crash was avoided, second one was a logical consequence, 'friendly' media attempts at turning Perez into a villain absurd and not reflected in any race penalties.
When the team used undercut and put Hulkenberg in front in Bahrain '14 Perez overtook him and got a podium instead of whining or crashing.
As for Ocon himself first thing in the media and on his mind should be his speed or rather lack thereof, ~10-1 (+ one accident). Admittedly the gap is often small but small constant gap means a lot.
he 100% should have gotten a 'overtaking during the safety car' penalty for that absolute disgraceful and idiotic move, as it also was very dangerous and potentially would have brought an absolute mayhem would he have hit magnussen (imagine the mess and aftermath) or that there could have been marshalls on the track and he could have plowed through them. he paid zero attention. incredibly inappropriate that he had the guts to act like he did. I'm happy he kept his mouth shut during the press interview as he really has zero credibility or authority on commenting on somebody else.