I’ve only started this season too. And I also hate seeing Hamilton at the top EVERY race. Which is why this Austrian race was so good.
Verstappen placed in the top, fell back to seventh, then pulled ahead to win the race. It was incredible.
The Austrian GP was great, which was a wonderful change of pace from the terribly boring race in France.
I’m happy to see Honda find success after looking horrid for a few years, and Red Bull finally have the power to keep up with the front runners since their chassis has been consistently good for years now.
I love Lewis and Merc, but I’m happy to see some shake-ups in the pecking order. Would love McLaren to start knocking on the door of the front 3 along with Haas and Renault, and hopefully Williams can figure something out and start sniffing points positions.
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I remember the days when Vettel won every GP, and the rest of the grid were bystanders. It’s tough because I appreciate that the Mercedes team puts in the work/spends the money to podium every race but would love it if motorsports had the ‘any given Sunday’ dynamic of other sport.
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This is now a Rich Energy stan thread.
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Does anyone watch World Rally Championship?
Just me?
It’s fun. It’s just cars going uphill real fast kinda. And sometimes downhill. And somehow through quaint Norwegian villages. And sometimes in snow. I love it. I don’t follow it for like, who wins and loses, but I enjoy just following the cars along the route. I find the spotters droning on to be peak satisfactory audio in all of sport.
Today in practice Grosjean spun out before leaving the pit lane, completely breaking the front wing. Every race it feels like he is driving on borrowed time.
This feels like a Jagged Alliance spin off game.
Formula 1.99999 Grosjean’s Time is here!
So that was a pretty tense match up between Verstappen, Leclerc, and Vettel.
Good on Vettel for acknowledging he fucked up and apologizing post-race.
Hockenheim was incredible. Impossible to summarize but seeing Hamilton destroyed was so satisfying. His 50 second pit stop was hilarious too. Even if seeing Ferrari on the podium is not the most exciting thing, Vettel starting in 20th and ending in 2nd was very impressive. Lots of fun moments of tire strategizing.
Can you imagine if every race was like this!
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This race was definitely the worst one for my fantasy team. I have a habit of picking a non-finisher as my double points scorer. My only solace is that so many drivers didn’t finish that everyone else had a bad weekend as well.
I think Kvyat will get promoted back up to Red Bull for next year after this result.
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Me this entire race:
God, all of Hamilton’s crew scrambling around not knowing what was going on was hilarious.
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Apparently this was the race that Mercedes allowed Drive to Survive to film, probably because it being at home court with the celebrations and all. I absolutely cannot wait to see that.
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Yeah it’s going to be such a good episode. They clearly wanted this to almost be a big show off event for them and it going wrong in every single way possible was hilarious.
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This was the first race with Mercedes new CEO too, wasn’t it?
I don’t know, but he was the guy sitting next to Toto Wolff during the race, so that’s a lil extra flavour added to the stew.
I feel like I personally got F1 interesting again, in some weird arrogant way.
I started watching 4 or so races ago, and people have been talking about how crazy and good F1 has been these last few races.
So, you’re welcome. I’ll try to keep it interesting.
Here’s the highlight reel btw…
I took Velteri Bottas off my fantasy team for the first time since the second race just 20 minutes before qualifying. Of course he would get pole position and win. That’s just how my season has gone. Every change has backfired (except picking up Albon after his promotion, but that was a no-brainer that everyone should have done).
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What an incredible Formula 1 race! So many strong performances, and so much drama.
I feel really bad for Sainz (starting last place, ending up 4th!) if he gets the third spot on the podium post race, and didn’t get the chance to be up there and celebrate.
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