2018 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, April 6-8

[digitalrurouni]

I was watching the race last night. Mercedes was stupid. I hate the style of winning with the slowest possible manner. Bottas should have piled the pressure on Vettel and force him to burn up his tires and therefore HAVE to make a pit stop. If both Lewis and Bottas turned up their performance and chased Vettel down and made Vettel fight for it he would have had to pit no?

[foxmulder_ms]

I was watching the race last night. Mercedes was stupid. I hate the style of winning with the slowest possible manner. Bottas should have piled the pressure on Vettel and force him to burn up his tires and therefore HAVE to make a pit stop. If both Lewis and Bottas turned up their performance and chased Vettel down and made Vettel fight for it he would have had to pit no?

With hindsight, I would have Bottas to go with 2 stops.

[komninosm]

Here's a 360° camara view of the Hamilton Verstappen clash from Max's car.

https://youtu.be/RbuuR1N8McY

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actually seeing it again , VES went in with way too much speed barely missing alonso if HAM did back out earlier he could have undercut VES at the next corner.

Yes, it's pretty obvious VES broke way too late and barely missed Alonso while sliding onto HAM and pushing him off track. Probably not a deliberate move and just hotheaded and idiotic, but entirely his fault and definitely punishable if he had caused damage to HAM and not retired himself.
https://streamable.com/ealu5
It's very easy to see it in this video. VES was on the inside and he didn't even hit the apex. Look at where Alonso hits the curb and he's not even having a compromised inside line to start with.

[Big Tea]

I know many people are getting fed up with the Mclaren-Renault V STR-Honda thing, but it did add something to last weeks qualli. It put a spotlight on there being battles all through the grid, not just those fighting for the front rows. It was Haas in week one and again this week. I like it.

[George-Jung]

Here's a 360° camara view of the Hamilton Verstappen clash from Max's car.

https://youtu.be/RbuuR1N8McY

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actually seeing it again , VES went in with way too much speed barely missing alonso if HAM did back out earlier he could have undercut VES at the next corner.

Yes, it's pretty obvious VES broke way too late and barely missed Alonso while sliding onto HAM and pushing him off track. Probably not a deliberate move and just hotheaded and idiotic, but entirely his fault and definitely punishable if he had caused damage to HAM and not retired himself.
https://streamable.com/ealu5
It's very easy to see it in this video. VES was on the inside and he didn't even hit the apex. Look at where Alonso hits the curb and he's not even having a compromised inside line to start with.

It’s VER.

[George-Jung]

I think the Ferrari system is automated based on the gun use. I don't think they have a man pressing the go button anymore.

Even that, he doesn't remove the tyre, so the gun spun only to one side (unscrew) not back as the old tyre was still in place...

Perhaps that was the error for not getting the wheel off in the first place..?
The gun spinning the wrong way? (Screw) and so it gave the ‘all good’ signal?

Just heard in Ted’s notebook- that I was right and that this actually happend during the pitstop.

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/ ... g-notebook

@ approx. 3:30