"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
That race stressed me out until the chequered flag, with the tires last time i was wondering if the steering would last!! Well done Ferrari and well done Kimi for not having a ego bigger than the team
Kimi was never instructed to not attempt to pass. He asked to be let by. The team said wait and see. If he had that pace, why didn't he used it? Pit stop windows was straight forward: track position is king. Seb with issues hold position.
WDC has always been more important in F1.
Fans may have different opinion, but teams are often geared towards WDC.
This is why ever since the sport tries to control cost by enforcing reliability, we have rules that punish the drivers for team/engineering issues.
It's not fair to the drivers, but unfortunately it was the only way such enforcement will work. Because otherwise, teams will gladly take WCC penalty to boost their WDC chance.
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Kimi was stuck behind Seb not being allowed to overtake. Simple as that. However, Ferrari calculated that because of the nature of this track they won't be able to overtake that easily so they didn't allow Kimi to pass. If this was a different circuit with more overtaking possibilities Kimi would've been allowed to pass.
Because Seb was slower than everyone, holding everyone else back eventually?
Kimi was faster than Seb but (and rightfully, mind you), decided to keep Kimi behind Seb in order to defend an 1/2 finish.
Point is that if the two cars were left to race freely, kimi could go past Seb, however my opinion is that should that be the case then Ham would pass Seb because Seb had that problem.
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
Kimi said over the radio that he was being held up by Seb and thus being put under huge threat from Merc. He subtly asked the team to let him through. However, given the nature of the track and wanting to increase Seb's WDC lead, they didn't allow him to pass. Which is understandable. Nevertheless, Kimi was the fastest guy here, no?
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
are you high or something??when did i bash kimi?? i was just stating the fact that people saying kimi deserved to win didnt make any sense... vettel clearly pulled away from kimi in the starting laps..or were you snoozing?? vet could have gone faster if he didnt have any issues....
Dude, did you ever heard: push push, you are pitting this lap? The 44 laps from Verstappen is hindsight. There is no such thing in realtime decision.
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