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Heh and Verstappen gets a penalty.

If the sprint is anything to judge by (it often isn’t), Ferrari and Mercedes may have lonely races tomorrow.

Quality from Gasly (especially) and Lawson. Haas had disappointing race pace, almost had me thinking it was last year with their tyre wear woes.
 
Current rumour that Horner will buy out Sainz's contract, then Colapinto stays at Williams for 2025. I've never heard a rumour before that makes so much sense.
 
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Current rumour that Horner will buy out Sainz's contract, then Colapinto stays at Williams for 2025. I've never heard a rumour before that makes so much sense.
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I mean considering how poor Checo has been the past few seasons, I could see Horner really pushing to get a capable enough number 2. They could also simply push Liam Lawson into that seat, but I don't think he wants to settle as a number 2.
 
Oh how I love wet weather stuff. Hope its nice and moist for the race too.

This is it Lando - you start from pole and Max starts from 17th. Got to capitalise today.

Good luck to all the guys needing rebuilds, especially AM and Williams rebuilding two cars!
 
Waiting to see about all this start stuff, really interested on how that shakes out. Fingers crossed that Ferrari can gain some more ground here, would love a WCC fight to finish the year.

But awesome race, Alpine was magical and Max is just obscene, 17 straight fastest laps or something to win by 19 seconds from 17th. All while every Mercedes engined car just had absolutely awful days, just such a crazy swing. Haas looked completely set in sixth and now are at risk of dropping to eighth. What a season
 
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Had to wait a day to post here to make sure the race wasn't a fever dream

Alpine is still hot garbage as a team and we should still laugh at them. HOWEVER, as a fan of both drivers it's incredible to see them get back into the spotlight again. They've been textbook examples of what can happen when you shove promising drivers in bad cars: people forget about them, and their careers undeservedly suffer for it. Now the whole paddock remembers they exist, and it's wonderful. Gasly especially needed it since he's not getting a seat upgrade next year.

Also shoutout to Ollie Bearman, he spun out 3 or 4 times but still managed to get within seconds of the points... in other words, he was fast enough to score points while spinning twice :totodiLUL: pretty impressive if you ask me. Haas has a great lineup coming next year.
 
StupidFlandrs48 said:
Had to wait a day to post here to make sure the race wasn't a fever dream

Alpine is still hot garbage as a team and we should still laugh at them. HOWEVER, as a fan of both drivers it's incredible to see them get back into the spotlight again. They've been textbook examples of what can happen when you shove promising drivers in bad cars: people forget about them, and their careers undeservedly suffer for it. Now the whole paddock remembers they exist, and it's wonderful. Gasly especially needed it since he's not getting a seat upgrade next year.

Also shoutout to Ollie Bearman, he spun out 3 or 4 times but still managed to get within seconds of the points... in other words, he was fast enough to score points while spinning twice :totodiLUL: pretty impressive if you ask me. Haas has a great lineup coming next year.
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You’re a fan of Ocon? Really?
 
farewell Bottas and Zhou

Bottas is a great driver on Saturday and deserved better tbh, not much one can do when their teammate is fairly-prime Lewis
Zhou was never really on anyone's radar but he turned in some solid performances

Overall, both were let down by the car this year, hope they find opportunities in other series
 
Finally got around to watching the the Qatar GP and wow, what a clusterfuck. Unsurprisingly good performance from pissed off Max, but man the midfield really stole the show. So happy for Zhou for him to not only score points but to come home in 8th, so if this is indeed the penultimate race of his F1 career I'm glad he got at least one more good performance in such a hopeless season. Gasly getting 5th from 11th place is incredible and its crazy to see Alpine get their shit together when it really counts. That being said it looks like this was Ocon's last race for Alpine so he can get a head-start on testing for Haas. His 5-year run with the Enstone team ends with him getting his race ended at turn 1, maybe that's poetic idk.

But yea wtf was this race, like the stewards got nostalgic for some penalties after going through that 10-race no safety car stretch earlier this year. Also Checo may have broke his clutch and has now been outscored by everyone except Bottas and the Williams duo in the last 4 races, nice. Forza Ferrari in Abu Dhabi.

btw who did williams make a pact with for that 7-8 finish in Baku? i don't think it was worth it
 
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Not doing anything about the mirror was pretty damn awful, and as predicted caused chaos. Gasly and Zhou of course the big winners, Gasly did amazing to hold off Sainz. I was quite surprised that Magnussen didn’t seem to trouble Zhou much but in retrospect he went onto the hards before anyone else iirc. Nico had a real bad day.

I feel sorry for Haas in general at the end of the day. They really have deserved 6th this year but look to be slightly robbed by Alpine.

Speaking of robbed, rip Lando, though that does make the Constructors more interesting.

Incidentally, LeClerc is very close to Lando for second in the champ now.
 
“Obviously, as soon as Esteban announced he was he was off to Haas, I think, obviously you always have the constant sanity check of, ‘what’s the right solution?’

Heh, I hadn’t even thought about this for the post Brazil races, but there has seemed to be a massive gap between the pace of the two since then.
 
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