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[FittingMechanics]

I fully understand Lando, he is showing he is faster and he is pushing Oscar to make a mistake. What else can you do, the team won't swap them when they are not in WDC contention (atm).

In my opinion, they should be free to do so. I know ideally they would swap and if we had robots in the cars we would do that, but let them fight.

[Mcl_G10]

Think Lando is trying to hard here with the running off track

Yes and proceeds to close in by 0.5 seconds within a lap.

Edit and another .5 on the following lap.

Hes much faster than oscar

[101FlyingDutchman]

What a stupid team at times. Grow some

[Avocado]

Why stupid? What would you do?

[101FlyingDutchman]

Why stupid? What would you do?

They’ve gone divergent strats finally. Up to that point they could have swapped positions and re swapped at the end if it was close. Clearly it isn’t close as NOR is 0.8 quicker on the same tyre

[matt_b]

They're going to give Lando a big offset to Oscar now, they could've waited 1 more lap for Oscar though

[Mcl_G10]

Will piastri even make it to the end on these tyres?
Nearly got wrecked thanks to williams.

[FittingMechanics]

I don't think we can complain about the team strategy. You cannot just gift Norris track position, this is not Red Bull. They fought fairly and Norris got lucky to get ahead but he was building toward the overtake even without Sainz crashing into Piastri.

[Mcl_G10]

Team set oscar up abit to fail getting him out the way for a faster norris but ultimately it was the williams that cost him and hes slower anyway.

[michl420]

PIA was just too slow. Either PIA lost to NOR or both to everyone else.

[Mcl_G10]

PIA was just too slow. Either PIA lost to NOR or both to everyone else.

Agreed.

Without a safety car or virtual safety car norris should sail into the sunset from here

[FittingMechanics]

This is the problem with the car ahead having first choice of strategy. It was probably beneficial for cars to go long but Norris wanted to do something different and was willing to take a weaker strategy (go early) to overtake. Then Piastri team was forced to take the earlier pitstop because they can't deny pits to Norris for 10 laps. And here we are.

Norris looks super dominant after the second pitstop.

[FittingMechanics]

Piastri now needs to go after Antonelli, he may be trying to go to the end.

[Mcl_G10]

Lovely lando!

[Mcl_G10]

Piastri now needs to go after Antonelli, he may be trying to go to the end.

Yes although id be suprised. Hes pretty slow right now lando was pushing him along.