After Max Verstappen had initially gained the upper hand at the start, Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton fought back and executed a two-stop strategy to perfection towards the race win. Verstappen had to be content with second as Bottas finished a bleak third.
Imagine the argument over who would drive it!Hoffman900 wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 17:11If the forum posters on F1 Technical got together and ran a car, they would win every pole, race, fastest lap, and championship. That’s pretty clear.
Maybe it was a punishment for holding up Lewis when he was specifically asked not to.
Yes, it was the better strategy to get track position when Red Bull had a rare slow stop. Would've given them a much better chance at getting first and second. Maybe they didn't want to put their pit crew under pressure, and that's alright.Hoffman900 wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 17:08Uh, what?
“Toto, some forum expert thinks your strategy is subpar” , “hire him, James you’re fired”
He's an employee just like hundreds of other people in the team. When you ignore or disobey your bosses directions, it's going to come back to bite you at some point.
Martin said Lewis was afraid of slashing his tyres on Max's front wing. Very Mature. Might have cost the win, but second place is good trade off instead of a puncture for sure.Hoffman900 wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 15:09As Martin said, Lewis could have slammed the door on the straight. Not sure if he thought he had the dig or what, but left the door wide open to Max.
Lewis probably letting the tires / race come to him.
Edit: yep. He’s looking fast now.
every driver does that. hamilton has done it. he wasn't punished. why is it different for another employee like bottas?
Doesn't matter who the driver is, if you disobey team orders you do it at your own risk.
I suspect Max cannot grow a great big ZZ Top beard, why else would his regular beard be so thin?El Scorchio wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 16:49I’d like to see him with a great big beard. Wouldn’t be comfortable racing with it inside the helmet though!JordanMugen wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 16:42Bottas 3.0 is, as always, going maximum attack for the title!
Clean-shaven Max looks very odd.
When you are great, they take shi*. When you are senior star performer, you get a long rope. When you are middle of the road employee potentially sabotaging a championship battle with over the top antics then you get cut to size. If Bottas does that kind of antics again, Mercedes will announce Russel for the 2022 seat with 7-8 races to go.
Even with RedBulls slow pitstop the timings as mentioned earlier in this thread shows it was marginal and Mercedes would have had to perform the fastest ever pitstop to get Lewis out ahead. Going longer was calculated to possibly take advantage of a safety car, but also give Lewis just the right amount of laps to catch Max twice.Shrieker wrote: ↑09 May 2021, 17:18
Yes, it was the better strategy to get track position when Red Bull had a rare slow stop. Would've given them a much better chance at getting first and second. Maybe they didn't want to put their pit crew under pressure, and that's alright.
But I'm going from clear evidence when I offer my opinion, and it was extremely obvious that snatching track position away from Max would've given them a much, much better chance at securing first and second, and might've allowed more tactical flexibility in the closing stages to snatch the f. lap, or prevent Max from getting it.
If you have a counter opinion based on evidence, I'm all ears. If you're going to resort to childish behaviour instead, please don't litter the forum pages.
