It makes great watching, but it must hurt the team.
You want to see great racing and sometimes that’s just team mates going at it.
You could see the boss trying to keep a straight face but you could tell it was killing him inside
I'm not sure why/how Alpine can be angry when Szafnauer was telling the TV commentators it was all OK and that it'd calm down later and then 4 or 5 laps later Ocon was given the 'hold station' message. If they didn't want them to race, that message would have gone out sooner.You could see the boss trying to keep a straight face but you could tell it was killing him inside
It was great to see them fighting but lets be honest they should have had a comfortable 6th/7th place. In the end they allowed Bottas and Magnussen to catch them up and turned it into a 4 way battle.
As others have mentioned it might have pushed Alonso's car into overheating having to constantly push like that.
Good for the sport but i'm sure Alpine will be angry. Unfortunately for them both Ocon and Alonso are hot heads and hate being beaten by their team mate's, so I can't see much changing.
like he's going to tell the live television broadcast his drivers are being bellends and ignoring the team orders. Tbf they did tell Ocon to hold station literally about 2 laps after they talked to him. I read somewhere that Ocon was told 3 times to hold and he did not listen. History has shown that he is like that with his team-mates. Why did he not show the same aggression when Bottas passed him.
If true, that would really endear him to prospective employers in the future.
there was some team radio a bit after the pit stops where RB were telling max that they thought Le clerk was being harder on his tyres so perhaps they were right
bernie ecclestones (grandfather of f1) used to ensure that hamilton always won races and championships as this helped to cover up racist things he was responsible for in his past (one of his grandchildren was hitler.) he would often be heard to say “how can i be racist? i fix things so an untalented black driver wins all the time in the fastest car.”
then he got so old and so racist that he sold his f1 company to someone else who isn’t that bothered about hamilton winning all the time. so the mercedes car is slow now without all the outside interference and hamilton is being shown up for being really slow, even compared to a teammate whose face was clearly made in a factory.
No need for patronizing smileys. I would be amazed if those messages weren't put out in the broadcast, would be great TV.
It's all well and good until they crash into eachother like Ocon/Perez used to do weekly.
Possibly true, but as above, I'm surprised they weren't broadcast if that were the case.
Precisely for the reasons I listed. But as I said, he took full advantage, and that is the key if he is to continue to win championships, which I am positive he will.
Guenther being Guenther
I am not a Max fan by any means, but I thought he deserved the win, he played a waiting game so his chance and took it.
Crash costs and the budget cap was a contentious issue last year when this years rules were being finalised. I wouldnt be suprised if we have more "big" crashes that the teams lobby the fia, to ensure crash costs are seperated from the budget cap.
Yeah. Perez for me. Literally 1 lap and he'd have been fine.
It would have been interesting to see if RB would have asked Perez to move over for max if there were 10 laps or so left and they were running 1st and 2nd.
Don't think so. It seems unlikely that Max wouldn't be able to get past Perez if he's on his arse considering they're in the same car and it's a lot easier to follow this year. DRS should do the trick. And if not, it would probably depend on the situation. If they're in a comfortable position I don't think Red Bull would do anything, but if Perez is holding Max back while Max is under pressure from someone like Leclerc I could see them giving the order.
