2019 Australian GP : Race

[h3ro]

Isn’t it curious that bottas was faster than Hamilton with medium tyre? Is hamster playing mind games and tanking ?

Lewis is a racer. Doubt he'd tank a race.

If Charles keeps this up, I hope Seb doesn't give him trouble and let's him through. No point in losing both cars or hold Charles up.

[mwk360]

ugh max screwed up, ham easy p2 now

[nani_s23]

I think 2014 is all over again.

[Kyss4k]

No they must give him orders to stay back as Merc was doing all these years. It’s not Vettels fault that Ferrari tried a brainless undercut soooo soon.

Hamilton did pit lap after him and he is 1,5s faster now. It's not about tyres.

[Kristof_F40]

LEC should pit and put in FL

[nani_s23]

And I woke up early on Sunday morning for this....

I’ve expected this. But not with such humiliating deficit.

[mwk360]

drs leclerc

[bondilad]

We should pit Seb and go for FL.

[tifosi1993]

No they must give him orders to stay back as Merc was doing all these years. It’s not Vettels fault that Ferrari tried a brainless undercut soooo soon.

Nor is Leclerc's. Vettel is slow and he/Ferrari should take the sensible decision and let Leclerc go.

[Nomore]

At this point Seb should let Charles go...

[nikola0406]

Superb race.

[hakanabi]

Isn’t it curious that bottas was faster than Hamilton with medium tyre? Is hamster playing mind games and tanking ?

Not a chance. No way ham will ever do that.

[tifosi1993]

I guess Ferrari gave the order. Leclerc is very slow on this lap.

[DJTaurus]

So Ferrari didn’t learned their lesson with Kimi Vs Vettel. They are allowing that situation at public view. They should have team ordered Lec to slow down before reaching behind Vettel. They can’t handle even their PR moves. A bunch of amateurs.

[h3ro]

Team orders here?

[mwk360]

so merc gets FL too congrats giving a bigger advantage to the best car Liberty/FIA way to go

[nani_s23]

Ferrari pushed team orders already ..... great season

[Nomore]

Let him go..Binotto made the wrong call

[mwk360]

hopefully play safe they need to pass or hold steady and not risk danger crashing

[abbottcostello]

"I want 26 point though" -- Bottas

[Rishu]

This has been a depressing race, hopefully just a bad weekend, I will wait for 2 more races to make a solid impression

[KimiBot]

Let him go..Binotto made the wrong call

[stefa]

5 more laps to end this misery

[mwk360]

Ferrari pushed team orders already ..... great season

makes me happy, although seb struggling should be pitwalls fault and not leclercs problem should'v let him pass and seb can go for FL on new softs

[Kristof_F40]

I get it we don't want our drivers to race.. but why not pit LEC? he can do FL with new tyres... that is 1 point extra..

[ss-89]

At this point if they cant race pit Charles and get fastest lap surely???

[Kyss4k]

Okay Ferrari... we are slow as a midfield and we are still "smart" as well by not letting Charles through and pitting Seb for FL to at least get 1 point out of this mess. Thanks for a great sunday morning.

[mardyrt]

Ferrari was overconfident about their car during testing. They stopped couple of days early, saying they have nothing more to learn while others did a lot of laps. Even if you think you have nothing to learn, you can gather data, and data is usefull. Anything, diff settings, wing settings, engine maps, braking bias, running the engine warmer, so it works in a higher temp, to see what would happen, where ther weak points are. Mercedes are so good because they do their work, not just say, ok we did the work, good enough. Its never good enough. The more milage you do, the more data you have and more experience you have with the car on how to correct a handling or tire or other issues when they come up. Ferrari have only themselves to blame.

[h3ro]

Not going to lie, loved hearing Bottas say he wanted all 26 points.

[Kristof_F40]

I really don't understand... if LEC gets FL Ferrari scores 1 point more, MERC 1 point less..