Poll: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2019, Yas Island - Race 21/21
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Ferrari need to sort themselves out for next year. It will be interesting to see if Vettel is still there. I know he is under contract, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him either retire or leave by mutual agreement.
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Lol @ Vettel spinning in Q1!
And karma bit with his (alleged) shenanigans in Q3....
And karma bit with his (alleged) shenanigans in Q3....
Soldato
Classic Ferrari, classic Hamilton.
Given that Arrivabene dragged Ferrari up from a fourth place to designing the 2018 and 2019 car before they binned him for this season, Binotto must already be on borrowed time. If they don’t have positive results by the first European race, I think that his fate will have been sealed. Race operations have, once again, been underperforming the car. That said, no excuse other than himself for Vettel not being able to start a hot lap competently today.
Great result for Russell - a little bit of history there in his first, very tough, season.
Given that Arrivabene dragged Ferrari up from a fourth place to designing the 2018 and 2019 car before they binned him for this season, Binotto must already be on borrowed time. If they don’t have positive results by the first European race, I think that his fate will have been sealed. Race operations have, once again, been underperforming the car. That said, no excuse other than himself for Vettel not being able to start a hot lap competently today.
Great result for Russell - a little bit of history there in his first, very tough, season.
Soldato
What's Red Bull's long run pace looked like?
On the soft tyre, couple of tenths faster than Leclerc and Vettel, couple of tenths slower than Hamilton.
Didn't do a hard run that I can see.
Medium tyre, was slower than Hamilton and Leclerc, faster than Vettel, but they were all on the hard tyre. Vettel just seems slow on any tyre at the moment.
What are the odds of Vettel announcing his retirement after this race?
3rd kid just arrived and been beaten in the overall points, number of poles and wins by a 'rookie' teammate. Last time that happened he ran away from Red Bull to Ferrari.
Soldato
Thanks for the threads shimmy, I normally just lurk but they're great to track the season with, especially the OP for the info all in one place. Hopefully you'll keep it up next season.
Verstappen to win with the undercut today maybe?
Verstappen to win with the undercut today maybe?
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Should be an easy win for Hamilton, although I wouldn’t trust max off the start. None of the other teams have shown good enough long run pace.
I can see vettel calling it a day this weekend.
I can see vettel calling it a day this weekend.
Soldato
Ferrari are just the gift that keeps on giving 
how can they keep being this incompetent?
how can they keep being this incompetent?
They just don't want Leclerc further embarrassing Vettel by extending his points tally over him, Leclerc would have finished this season 50+ points ahead of him if Ferrari weren't screwing him, don't forget the first half a dozen races they were ordering Leclerc to move over for him.
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Ferrari in trouble already. Horner thinks they’ll be DQ’d. How embarrassing.
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And the wording is ‘significant’ difference.
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Pit - Ok Mate, we've got a few hard on's today. We've got Kvyat and the two Willies have gone hard. Everybody else with a free choice is medium apart from Guiovinazzi who's gone soft.
Norris - Thank you for that very precise information.
Pit - Ok Mate, we've got a few hard on's today. We've got Kvyat and the two Willies have gone hard. Everybody else with a free choice is medium apart from Guiovinazzi who's gone soft.
Norris - Thank you for that very precise information.
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Max has no grip! I’d be pretty annoyed if I was a car overtaken by leclerc who will later get DQ’d. Poor stewarding as ever.
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Hamilton can get the pipe and slippers on he's gone.
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That Mercedes is so impressive. From a previous car that destroyed its tyres it now seems perfectly in sync with them and switches them on perfectly. It gets the power down crazily early off the corners.
DRS disabled. Come on F1. Not great on a track where you can’t overtake.