For me personally, it was all about balance.

15 years ago, Gmail/Inbox was a great email client, the domain was great and popular (so no need to spell it out for people) and I would “pay” by getting ads based on my emails read by a bot.

Now Gmail is a terrible email client, the best updates are ridiculous things like moving buttons around and it takes Google years to roll out. The thing loses emails, mislabels and misclassifies stuff and the rules work for a week then blow up. On top of that, google is now basically a proctologist considering how far up my ass they want to go

The balance is broken… Google now officially sucks (IMO)

Well in this case… I will continue to not buy anything EA produces

Sure, I get Lando got lucky but still… it’s not like Max had 20 lap old tires, the difference was super small. I do not recall anything about damage from the bollard (I’d be surprised if he did and no-one mentioned it in the race)

And yes, Max did mention he had a hard time on Hard tires once… but regardless, my point is that once you get to first, it seems too easy to keep it

In my opinion, if you remove blue flags for the leader, then you’re just asking for this to happen time and again

Fair, then they should get the blue flag and not DRS… why get DRS to help pass a car that is mandated to let you pass? Honestly, if there were just harsher penalties for stupid moves like the one Ocon made for lapped cars vs regular spots that would probably solve the issue

I do not think people will crash all the time without the blue flag though… it doesn’t happen too often when it “counts” (as in someone actually losing a spot that matters), I doubt all F1 drivers would just be as petty as Ocon was then.

I disagree with you. My understanding of Formula 1 is that it pays (literally the prize money) to be the leader and rest of them want it they have to either catch up or concede.

Precisely… why make it easier to keep the lead? and the reason why I think we shouldn’t is: entertainment. Too many races turn to car parades where nobody can pass each other. Even Miami was getting really boring until some lucky VSC and SC events switched the line up and that was just luck… otherwise, we were watching many cars within DRS still unable to pass each other… and this is not Monaco hehehe

In any case, thanks for taking the time to reply. Your answer gives me a better perspective on the matter

Super happy for Lando but his win sort of confirmed a thought I have been having

At the time of the restart, Max was right on Lando… Lando barely managed to keep the lead and then, little by little took off… in 20 laps he accumulated a 7+ second lead and, more importantly, at no point did it seem Max was able to shorten that lead

The thought/question I have is:

Are the F1 rules making it being #1 easier than being #2 or further down the line? I know some rules which make no sense to me, like getting both DRS and Blue flag when lapping cars (IMO, it should only be DRS)

Currently, Max normally takes the lead on the first turn and then becomes impossible to catch… I was assuming it was part of Max’s magic dust… but Norris just basically did the same (had he taken the lead from lap 1 he may have accumulated the same 20+ crazy seconds Max has been)

IMO, being in the lead should be either same or actually a bit harder than not… it would make races SO MUCH MORE FUN… kind of like the board game King of Tokyo… you need to be in Tokyo to get points to win but doing so makes you prone to attacks and you cannot heal, this makes it impossible to just move to Tokyo and park there until you win.

awesome!.. care to share recipe/instructions?!

Ah… Key word I missed… Makes more sense

They also said Max got his brake stuck from the beginning of the race… but I have a hard time buying that, how could the brake be stuck and NOT even smoking for 3 laps?

I think with 1 lap to go, the risk could be mitigated as people would have to pass the crash once

Also, other than the Russell v Alonso crash, all the other spots were basically set

Amazing race… So happy for Sainz!

It did look like Max was not as dominant this weekend, he had to work for that pole (at least it looked that way)… Too bad that with the retirement we didn’t get to see more of an actual fight

I do think Sainz just proved that getting 20 second advantage when you are first is a bit too easy (DRS for you and blue flag for any lapped cars seems to me like too much. I think just DRS would be fairer and make the races more interesting… Just my opinion)

Finally, terrible camera work… WTF did we need to see Max walking around with security TWICE after his retirement??

PS: go Yuki, points again while Ric all the way to the back… Yuki is never getting the call to Red Bull, maybe for good reason and he is a hot head, but I think it’s clear he is #1 in Visa we don’t care about the name as long as we get paid RB team

Agreed 💯

Definitely, the starting grid ended up su mucpre interesting as a result of this penalty

This was mostly RBs fault for not telling Perez about Nick until the last possible moment

In any case, I agree with others that he likes a dog fight from the pack so this will motivate him and honestly, make the race more interesting for all of us!

Perez impeded Hulk… Mostly RBs fault, they didn’t tell him Hulk was coming up until last second, causing Perez to move (to try to give the space) when Hulk had already taken a different line

Yes, what’s wrong with them? They had a bad season last year but they basically fell off a cliff this season

Alpine is this year’s Haas

Absolutely… If Carlos keeps this up, I’m betting he’ll replace Perez at RB

I do think Sainz deserves a seat in a top team… Even a Russell Sainz combo would be so much fun to watch with Merc

It wouldn’t have … If he didn’t have enough gas there was no time for about stop.

In any case, he didn’t show anything hiring at performance in the practice runs or earlier quali laps… Unfortunately he is not in the form of years past and by now I doubt he’ll get there