[Official] Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018 - Grand Prix Weekend Thread - Round 4 of 21

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Koenigsegg

Undeserved win for Hamilton.

Hardly his fault..... He was in a good place to take advantage. Gutted for VB though!

[Paulaweybridge]

Hats 🧢 off to Lewis for not going too mad when he got out of the car.

[Paulaweybridge]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Hardly his fault..... He was in a good place to take advantage. Gutted for VB though!

Very true Mike

[Razzzor]

Hammy the most disappointed race victor of all time. What the frig has he done with his hair?

[ASCII Man]

Bonehead move from Vettel, to be honest.

[Paulaweybridge]

Originally Posted by Razzzor

Hammy the most disappointed race victor of all time. What the frig has he done with his hair?

Looks like his helmet has given him a perm😨

[Paulaweybridge]

Good for Kimi 👍 and Sergio 🇲🇽

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Razzzor

Hammy the most disappointed race victor of all time. What the frig has he done with his hair?

Nah, that award goes to Jason Plato. After the 2 Hondas took each other out, Plato won and promptly spat the dummy in a way that Vettel and Lewis could only dream of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiu6lwc0ziw

[F1Guy]

To quote one overrated driver speaking of one over ambitious driver...
"I don't think I need to say anything here."

[Skam85]

Imagine if the Ferraris were in the Mercs position late race and Kimi got the puncture?

We’d never hear the end of the conspiracies.

Great race. Undeserved win for Lulu, but a win is a win. Game on. Max is a bonehead, and that’s the PG version.

[Articus]

Max loses on all his senses when he starts defending. Things like this happen.

[loon]

What great fun watching the Red Bulls crash into each other, they should have had a trackside punch up to settle things

[steve nielsen]

Originally Posted by chunder

Two moves, as usual the little **** is making the mistakes

Yes DR was coming fast, but he moved twice, and he also hit him earlier.

Needs dropping for a race.

he moved BEFORE the braking zone, Daniels DRS closed as Max moved left

so Max did nothing whrong here

I think Daniel would'nt have made that corner even if Max was not there

[sparkione]

Originally Posted by Skam85

Imagine if the Ferraris were in the Mercs position late race and Kimi got the puncture?

We’d never hear the end of the conspiracies.

Great race. Undeserved win for Lulu, but a win is a win. Game on. Max is a bonehead, and that’s the PG version.

'Undeserved' is unfair. He was in the right place at the right time. His demeanour at the end was admirable. He knew he'd got lucky, but he's not the first...

[bjohnsonsmith]

Lewis got lucky but it wasn't undeserved. He clearly wasn't having the best of races but he hung on in there and was able to capitalise on other's misfortunes, which is part of it.

[Taxi645]

Red Bulls pace was equal to Ferrari's and Mercedes, they were just in each others hair the whole race. At one point it had to go wrong. I still commend them for letting them race. People will probably talk bad about it, but for us fans is only for the better.

Personally I think they can skip the whole DRS thing on the main straight. Or rename it SDE (sitting duck effect)! At least shorten the zone a bit. It's just too easy to drive by.

[Paulaweybridge]

Listening to Lewis Hamilton just now, he really has matured down the years and is a delight to listen to. He is such a nice guy. I was privileged to photograph him in 2003 when he was racing in Formula Renault and back then who would have thought that he would become one of the F1 “All time greats”. This season is shaping up to become a classic...😎 Roll on Barcelona

[Adam43]

Head shrapnel everywhere.

[Purist]

I've only caught the clips on the official site to this point, but um, was that a motor race, or a bad amusement park ride?

Just about everybody seemed to have lost his mind at one point or another.

Honestly, I didn't see Max do anything I haven't seen any number of the others do.

And frankly, if you're going to just sit back and accept the stuff that allows driving standards to suffer as they have (like paved run-offs), then you have no grounds to complain when "stuff" happens.

I was a little surprised at first to see that the race hadn't been shortened by a lap or two from running up against the two-hour limit due to all the Safety Car periods.

Hmm, guess we'll see if Mercs decide to do a repeat performance of Hamster and Rosberg in Spain from a couple years ago. Sheesh.

[chunder]

Lol, you are Dutch.

In this argument your opinion is utterly meaningless.

the cretin could kill your King and he would be innocent

[GT6]

Best race for a long time this circuit is probably the best to watch now and show just how poor and boring monaco has become compared to what a real street race could be.

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by GT6

Best race for a long time this circuit is probably the best to watch now and show just how poor and boring monaco has become compared to what a real street race could be.

Interesting point...Monaco has perhaps become too slow of a track for the speed of the cars/rules they are going for these days.

[steve nielsen]

I heard rumours this was the last race here and they sold a lot of materials to the organizers of the Miami GP

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Paulaweybridge

Hamilton has got lucky today 😎😀

Not the first driver (even this season) to get lucky.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by ASCII Man

Bonehead move from Vettel, to be honest.

I disagree. Much as I was delighted that he didn't win, he proved (as if he needed to) that he's a racer. Someone who wants to win, not come second. He went up several points in my personal estimation for trying to do just that.