The FIA has handed Max Verstappen a 3 place grid penalty and 2 penalty points on his license for failure to slow for single waved yellow flag in turn 17
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The FIA has handed Max Verstappen a 3 place grid penalty and 2 penalty points on his license for failure to slow for single waved yellow flag in turn 17
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It's not how start but how you finish.
So there we are. P1 and P2 again!!!!!!
Let's control the race and bring it home!!!!!
I take my comment that because max is a "fan favourite" that he wouldn't get a penalty, I'm glad the actual rules have been followed.
Getting out of S1 of the first lap 1-2 is the key to the castle here. With a one-stopper to the hards being likely, there's very little chance (probably Max) could undercut two cars.
I love it
Forza Ferrari
After opening his mouth the way he did in the conference, he was bound to be stripped position, quite frankly he landed softly.
"I think we know what we are doing. Otherwise we wouldn't be driving an F1 car. It's qualifying, you go for it, but like I said before if they want to delete the lap then delete the lap."
When asked if he had slowed down, the Dutchman smirked and said:" It didn't really look like it did it? No."
If they let this slide, everyone would ignore yellow flags.
But still , there are people that fantasize him in a red car. Still amazes me.
"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
Well deserved penalty. Whether he kept his mouth shut at the press conference or not, he should have been investigated.
For the record does this officially count as a RB pole or sixth consecutive Ferrari pole ?
I just woke up, checked the news, and there you go. Justice has been served
FIA only gave penalty as it moves Lewis to P3.
Forza Ferrari
Now I am just waiting for team-orders of Seb having to stay behind Charles at the start, and than Lewis comes and takes the lead.
Expecting a carnage into turn 1.
Verstappen didnt deserve the penalty, he should have his lap deleted, but would still had pole.
Last year the second man Verstappen jumped the pole man at the start, Hamilton nearly had the lead from the third. This is gonna be intense really.
From the AMuS qualifying analysis, Ferrari increased the downforce of both cars from Friday to Saturday. They sacrificed a bit on the straights to be better in the corners. For comparison, Red Bull did the opposite
Does this count as Lec pole or still Ver?
Pole lap
I saw this another videos comments, so funny that I have to post it
Verstappen: “I didn’t see any yellow flag”
Maldonado: “I nearly got signed by Ferrari”
Last year the thing was that both Red Bulls had a weak engine at 1-2 and still managed to come out with a car up front after S1. Slipstreaming a strong engine like ours makes less of a difference if our guys get away well. What happened in Japan obviously shouldn't happen again, but the key is that our guys work together. Whoever gets the worse start should duck into the tow of our lead guy and thus make our car that is the fastest in a straight line control a single airflow that neither Hammy nor Mad Max can use. We have about 10 km/h in top speed on them with DRS, and that should be even more without it. Vettel got a decent start from P4 and had a better engine than the Red Bulls last year, yet went nowhere in the run to Turn 1 so it's not as extreme as Sochi.
Actuually I would have liked more if Max started in front. That would have given the guys a nice tow to catch him by the end of the straight.
I don't know if there will be an agreement again or not but I think this time Charles is gonna be defending that inside line regardless of his start.
I can certainly imagine a scenario when the top 3 cars arrive at the 1st corner next to each other. From then on, its up to driver race IQ.
which Charles lacks at the moment due to inexperience and we know Seb's from the past 3years..
Hopefully no stupid pre race agreement this time and I doubt Leclerc will trust Vettel anyway. Just tell both to be nice to each other and go flat out
Worst qualifier 2018: Charles Leclerc
Pole King 2019: Charles Leclerc
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