Sorry but this is pure comical gold, I am dying of laught right now. Dont care because WDC is long gone, at least the race tomorrow should be interesting.
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Sorry but this is pure comical gold, I am dying of laught right now. Dont care because WDC is long gone, at least the race tomorrow should be interesting.
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Well we still have a chance of winning both championships so yes there was. Who knows what will happen at the start. And then we're nowhere to benefit from it.Originally Posted by KimiBot
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Que the Benny Hill theme song for Ferrari
It's not how start but how you finish.
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no, lol
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It's not over until the fat lady sings. I never give up hope while there is still a mathematical chance. Points wise it's far from over, but with strategy calls like these it's done.
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maybe Max can pull off a miracle and win from P3. Would be better than watching Ham come 1st again.
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How can the Red Barron aka Vettel win the championship? Lewis has a capable lapdog/wingman and a squadron of drones aka Ferrari strategists behind him!
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How can the Red Baron aka Vettel win the championship? Lewis has a capable lapdog/wingman and a squadron of drones aka Ferrari strategists behind him!
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i miss max when he would crash into cars ahead of him , who cares if i jinx ferrari its all gone to the fiery pit anyway
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
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I'm really not that optimistic, I just call it what I see is happening. The only chance if you're way behind on pace is to be on a different strategy than Merc. Obviously it would be easier locking out the second row to do that but then nobody has ever won here from the second row. Seb will find his way to P5 quickly. Ferrari will have to try and undercut Merc all the way in the race to be able to have a chance to catch them on fresher tyres at the end. Hopefully Merc will be on the mediums by then. That's all there is to hope for.
I really don't believe we have a chance in 2019.
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even if Ham dnf'd every race ferrari would still mess it up at this point. M.A is not doing a good enough job, the new CEO is gone absent and silent. SM would be kicking down the door at Maranello right now rounding them up
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
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Well Seb needs to survive fast. He can easily get taken out at the start.
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If I was Lewis I'd just pit into Ferrari's box pretending it's a mistake tomorrow and order a take out drive through style. At this point he can even race all the way in 2nd gear as he'd still win.
P.S. am sure that if Mercedes are still spying on us now it's just coz they unsubscribed from the comedy channel to save costs.
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By not putting the car on wet kerbs? Ferrari pitwall made a big mistake by putting inters at the start, but our drivers had the best conditions for the Q3 run and they bottled it.
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No they havent, Seb made it to end of S2 just as it started raining heavier at that point nothing you can do. Its game over anyway. Driving with dry on tyres on wet track is like driving on ice.
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can kinda picture ferrari doing a "good idea; bad idea" show lol
with the bad ideas all recaps of their mistakes
"good idea: *shows all the cars on dry tyres* ; bad idea: *shows ferrari on inters during the dry track*"
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
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Why did I bother to get up? This was just embarrassing and we don't deserve to win a championship, the pit-wall seem to have lost their grip completely and the drivers are expected to make up for these errors, which given the weather conditions causes desperation and mistakes. I don't care who wins as long as it's not Hamilton, it's beyond a joke now.
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come on Max you are our only hope of winning this race now
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Our deloved team has an incredible ability to dramatic total destroy a saeson. EVERTHING that can be done wrong in a saeson we do it HUGE !!!!! Bad design, bad strategis,bad pit wall calls, bad driver errors etc .
BUT thats why Ferrari has the best ,most hardcore fans in the world. Thet train as hard every year!!!!!!!
FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
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As I said before, I do believe our pitwall is a joke and we need better strategists. But the fact is both RAI and VET got on the wet kerbs and ran wide, when the track temp/condition was optimal. And it's strange to see Vettel getting out qualified by Raikkonen in the wet/changeable conditions.
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Yes, he's starting in a dangerous place. The bottom of the top 10 is usually where stuff happens. Stuff sometimes happen at the S-curves where drivers are over-optimistic and there's no room for two cars.
As for the strategies. If Merc stops around lap 20 and go to the end on the mediums for some 30+ laps then Ferrari has to gamble and come in around lap 15-16 to give themselves room and a few laps to be sure to be infront of both Mercs when the Mercs come out of the pits on the mediums. Ferrari can choose to go for the soft for some 20+ laps and leave the supersofts for some 17-18 laps with a light car, or switch around and go for the supersofts in the middle for some 15-16 laps to extend their lead and end on the softs for some 20+ laps and hope they will be that much quicker than the mediums. It all depends on traffic and SC cars. If we're infront prior to our second stops around lap 30-35 (depending on the last tyre) then closing the gap of around 20 seconds on the supersofts compared to the medium may be possible at the very end. According to Pirelli a two-stopper should in theory be quicker if you can get through the traffic.
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There is only one Red Baron and that is not Seb.
"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
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Thank goodness I didn't wake up early to watch this nonsense.
No excuses should be made. It is beyond embarrassing that a team of the stature and financial resources of Ferrari has a bunch of strategists (read: buffoons) who couldn't negotiate themselves out of an open front door. It's pathetic.
I've said it before and will say it again - Arrivabene needs to go. He's the team principal and he must take the fall for the non-stop litany of ridiculous blunders by the team.
Who of us here really realized the full extent of just how important Sergio Marchionne was to the Scuderia after all?
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Amen. Absolutely.
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It was raining at spoon and Seb was half a lap behind Kimi so had it even worse by messing around on Inters we missed the best track conditions and by the time they got to spoon it was wet
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and the ONLY time Ferrari were hoping it rains it didn't ... actually no, it did but not when they asked for.
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Agree Red Baron its a airplane war-pilot from WW2.
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It’s reminding me Alonso years at ferrari. When the car was abv avg, he dragged the car almost to the title.
Now car was good & strong, with combined errors from team & drivers loosing the title.
On both ocassions ferrari threw it away.
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If a two-stopper will be quicker than a one-stopper, as it should be in theory with the tyre wear, then the only problem will be that Merc might also switch over to two-stops to cover Ferrari's strategy. But I have a feeling the will go conservative and on to the mediums to the end as they want as few risk getting into trouble with traffic. But they could go for S-US-US as well, or two stints on S and one on SS. If two stops are quicker and Merc go for one with mediums then I don't think Seb's starting position should be a problem because even if he will obviously lose time in the opening laps he shouldn't be more than 10-15 seconds behind the leader. It will obviously be a lot closer than it would be if he would be on the 2nd row but the mediums for Merc might be too conservative. Everything will have to do with the difference between the supersofts and the mediums in relation to each other and the laptimes at the end. You obviously don't have to nurse the tyres on two-stops and leave any performance left in them. I firmly believe the difference is over 1 second a lap.
If Kimi and Seb pit the second time just infornt of the Mercs around lap 35 for supersofts to the end for some 18 laps and they come out some 23-24 seconds behind Lewis. That gap is doable to close if fresh supersofts are more than 1 second faster than somewhat old mediums. This is the only thing to hope for in the race along with a Merc DNF. If Merc extend their lead in the WCC to close to 70 points it all over beyond doubt.
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