[Team] Mercedes: Will they ever dominate again?

[Skam85]

Originally Posted by Tourer

George "did a Bradbury" (to use an Australian expression). The expression stems from Australian speed skater, Stephen Bradbury winning gold at the Salt Lake Olympics when the the rest of the field crashed in front of him - you can check out video of it here.

Or in the words of another famous Australian (Jack Brabham) - "to finish first, first you need to finish".

Yep, very lucky win for Mercedes but George was 3rd on pace and deserved to pick it up.

What could have been for Oscar though, 20mm over in qualy likely cost him his first win.

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by Skam85

What could have been for Oscar though, 20mm over in qualy likely cost him his first win.

Agree - but that's the way it goes. He'll get his first GP win soon enough I reckon.

[PanozDP01]

Originally Posted by Tourer

George "did a Bradbury" (to use an Australian expression). The expression stems from Australian speed skater, Stephen Bradbury winning gold at the Salt Lake Olympics when the the rest of the field crashed in front of him - you can check out video of it here.

Or in the words of another famous Australian (Jack Brabham) - "to finish first, first you need to finish".

Yep, very lucky win for Mercedes but George was 3rd on pace and deserved to pick it up.

George had to beat a Red Bull(Perez) and a McLaren(Piastri) -both faster cars than his- to get this race win. He also had to beat both Ferrari's and his teammate.

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by PanozDP01

George had to beat a Red Bull(Perez) and a McLaren(Piastri) -both faster cars than his- to get this race win. He also had to beat both Ferrari's and his teammate.

Hence me saying he was 3rd on pace. Ferrari not as quick as MB here, one McLaren ran wide in Qual so had to come from further back, we all know Perez is struggling & George consistently has the legs on his team mate. Short version, George is doing a good job.

[Skam85]

Originally Posted by Tourer

Agree - but that's the way it goes. He'll get his first GP win soon enough I reckon.

I believe it will be this coming weekend

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Skam85

I believe it will be this coming weekend

Will Mr Verstappen’s job be under threat if he loses a second weekend in a row?

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Skam85

What could have been for Oscar though, 20mm over in qualy likely cost him his first win.

Not necessarily. A slight lift to ensure he stayed within the track limits may have cost him. I'm not sure what the time of his deleted lap was but a slight lift could easily have lost him a tenth of a second which would have made him only 5th or 6th on the grid rather than 7th.

[Guthrie]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Will Mr Verstappen’s job be under threat if he loses a second weekend in a row?

That's not gonna happen. He will win the race by a fair margin.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Guthrie

That's not gonna happen. He will win the race by a fair margin.

Looking at McLaren's form, that's not a given.