F1 2022 Season

Lewis should have made his own call to pit for softs and sacrifice track position.
 
rimaldo said:
mercedes strategists are so lucky that ferrari exist.
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Isn't that just true. They made numerous suspect calls last year and when you're dealing with exceptional strategists like Red Bull, you have to be better
 
Merc have completely screwed Hamilton here, but the Red Bull is so much faster the race was done as soon as Max was given softs.
 
Mickeza said:
Yeah no. You’re talking bollocks. He’s been hung out to dry.
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Do you genuinely think there was a chance of a Mercedes win when that safety car was coming out? The Red Bull is a rocket, and new boots strapped to it is game over. The only chance of a Mercedes win was on tyre strategy and degradation. Safety car nullifies all of that and puts the race back to neutral. They aren't quick enough, regardless of whatever tyre is put on.
 
The calls to suggest Lewis should have himself come on softs are stupid because Lewis would be faster but he’d have never overtaken Max.

The call for softs for Russell is the right one, for Russe purely.

If Merc wanted any chance to win this race, they had to keep both cars on mediums and work as a team. So as a team, it’s a dumb ass call.
 
The Hilton said:
Merc have completely screwed Hamilton here, but the Red Bull is so much faster the race was done as soon as Max was given softs.
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Was never about the Red Bull. They weren't going to beat Max but they could have had an easy 2-3 if they put Hamilton on softs but now Hamilton doesn't have a chance against Leclerc. Shocking from Mercedes, threw Hamilton under the bus
 
Rightnr said:
Isn't that just true. They made numerous suspect calls last year and when you're dealing with exceptional strategists like Red Bull, you have to be better
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what i like is that people in this thread, who spend most of the grand prix eating jam from a jar with their fist, saw this coming but somehow mercedes didn’t.
 
Even with the buffer, they wouldn’t have stopped Max.
Russell took the decision into his own hand and made the right call

Hamilton could have done the same

Leclerc passing him is proof of this
 
I hate that the TV director knows Hamilton's Physio, we don't need to cut to her reactions about 5 times a weekend
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Not totally Russell said he wanted softs and they said yes they should have put Lewis on softs.
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Its damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t but pitting Russell just handed it on a plate to Max. It’s just bizzare from Mercedes, all they should be aiming for is a chance to win and they gave it up.
 
F-Red said:
Do you genuinely think there was a chance of a Mercedes win when that safety car was coming out? The Red Bull is a rocket, and new boots strapped to it is game over. The only chance of a Mercedes win was on tyre strategy and degradation. Safety car nullifies all of that and puts the race back to neutral. They aren't quick enough, regardless of whatever tyre is put on.
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The call was leave out both to try and win. Or pit both. Those were their only options. What they did was throw away a guaranteed 2nd and 3rd with zero chance of an improbable win. It was bullshit.
 
Am I right in saying Russell is pretty quick on making correct calls or is this just an outlier?
 
rimaldo said:
what i like is that people in this thread, who spend most of the grand prix eating jam from a jar with their fist, saw this coming but somehow mercedes didn’t.
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So many times I've screamed wtf are you doing with the Merc strategies and I think my first one like that was Monaco in 2016 when they pitted Hamilton a few laps before the end of the race.

That cost Hamilton a championship
 
russell showing again how rubbish hamilton is by finishing ahead of him.
 
mitChley said:
I just want to check, is there still as asterisk on Max for this championship?
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yes. he is only winning it as he’s the fastest driver in the fastest car.
 
Rightnr said:
So many times I've screamed wtf are you doing with the Merc strategies and I think my first one like that was Monaco in 2016 when they pitted Hamilton a few laps before the end of the race.

That cost Hamilton a championship
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No one was criticising the merc strategy to one stop, considering they had an incredibly good chance of winning before the VSC and SC.
 
Mickeza said:
The call was leave out both to try and win. Or pit both. Those were their only options. What they did was throw away a guaranteed 2nd and 3rd with zero chance of an improbable win. It was bullshit.
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They never had chance of a win, it doesn't even come into a conversation. They would be likely 5th and 6th if they were left out on mediums. They're going to likely get a podium with Russell now.
 
F-Red said:
They never had chance of a win, it doesn't even come into a conversation. They would be likely 5th and 6th if they were left out on mediums. They're going to likely get a podium with Russell now.
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Right. So if you - man on internet is telling me they had no chance of a win - why did they leave Hamilton out on old mediums against verstappen on new softs RIGHT BEHIND HIM? Explain how that wasn’t a bullshit decision?
 
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