OFF-TOPICPhil wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 14:07Sierra117 wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 13:52If Mercedes felt that strongly about Ocon, they should rethink Bottas (or Hamilton) in their Mercedes seats. Or perhaps all the big teams should worry more about fairer distribution of price money to not have the midfield teams having to rely on pay-drivers and sponsors as much as they do. If they didn't - perhaps Stroll wouldn't be driving in the first place as there'd be no (survival) need for his fathers money in the first place. If the sport wasn't controlled by the big teams, perhaps the midfield seats would be more attractive places to race to begin with.
Hehe, Saul Goodman.
Hey man, I think you flipped the quotesWaikeCU wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 14:42OFF-TOPICPhil wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 14:07Sierra117 wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 13:52If Mercedes felt that strongly about Ocon, they should rethink Bottas (or Hamilton) in their Mercedes seats. Or perhaps all the big teams should worry more about fairer distribution of price money to not have the midfield teams having to rely on pay-drivers and sponsors as much as they do. If they didn't - perhaps Stroll wouldn't be driving in the first place as there'd be no (survival) need for his fathers money in the first place. If the sport wasn't controlled by the big teams, perhaps the midfield seats would be more attractive places to race to begin with.
You're out of your mind right? So a 4 time or 5 time world champion after this season will have to make way for a kid who hasn't proven anything yet regarding F1 besides some strong races with FI??
What Merc should have done last month, is bought FI and made it their B-team. Then Ocon would have been safe. It would have been a good platform as well for the next generation Merc talents, but they didn't, so daddy Stroll could do all what he wanted to do and thus Ocon loses out.
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Merc waiting for the track to rubber in before using the softer compounds?
You mean Hamilton Vettel and Raikkonen, Bottas is nowhere. Obviously they'll turn up their engines tomorrow, so the gap may be even greater.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 15:13On the quali sims, the RedBull is well off the pace of Ferrari and Mercedes who appear to be fairly neck and neck.
Agreed.
Bottas will have a lost a bit of time with his sight-seeing tour in the last corner but that is his problem. With the engines in full on quali-mode, the Ferrari and Mercedes will still be reasonably close although I could see Kimi taking pole. He looks to be very happy around the track so far today...godlameroso wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 15:19You mean Hamilton Vettel and Raikkonen, Bottas is nowhere. Obviously they'll turn up their engines tomorrow, so the gap may be even greater.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑14 Sep 2018, 15:13On the quali sims, the RedBull is well off the pace of Ferrari and Mercedes who appear to be fairly neck and neck.
Suggestions that it's from a radiator...so coolant leak from somewhere?