Poll: Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018, Baku - Race 4/21

Rate the 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix out of ten

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utajoker said:
was he not meant to brake for the corner?

i would say 50/50.

it didnt look like ricci would make the corner to me if they had not crashed.
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Max knows his team mates driving style, he's going to come in fast and be late on the brakes so what does Max do? He pulls in front, brakes and weaves about so I blame him.

Hamilton could have closed the door on Ricciardo in the previous race and caused a crash, but he left just enough space.
 
timmeh said:
Screwing up an overtake has nothing to do with luck. It was poor judgement.

Also, karma? What?
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Not screwing up the overtake, ending up behind Botas despite Botas being a good 10-20 seconds behind him at one point in the race - i.e. unlucky (compared to Oz when he was lucky against Hamilton and the safety car).

Bottas Karma - Got lucky safety car deployed when it came did...
Then got the puncture.
Karma - what goes around comes around etc.
 
Shocky-FM said:
Max knows his team mates driving style, he's going to come in fast and be late on the brakes so what does Max do? He pulls in front, brakes and weaves about so I blame him.

Hamilton could have closed the door on Ricciardo in the previous race and caused a crash, but he left just enough space.
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Ricciardo always gave Verstappen space to stop him running into him.
 
Cavallino said:
Did I imagine it or did it look like Max tried two moves... jink to his right and then back to the left (albeit small moves)?
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Correct. Ricciardo dummied one side, Verstappen covered and then moved back across, and infact moved a third time back towards the middle of the track.

edit: Perhaps not a third a movement. Ricciardo had locked up by then.
 
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4K8KW10 said:
Vettel wasn't bad luck. He is just too quick with his mental reactions and used the worst timing to try the attack.

Fernando must be a better driver than Vettel. The poor luck for Fernando because Ferrari never gave him a winning car.

While, for a second year in a row, Seb has the best car or very competitive and again he is going to lose the Championship with amateur mistakes.
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Without the safety car it would have been an easy win for Vettel so in that respect he was unlucky.

But yes, completely agree that was an silly mistake at the end.
 
Cavallino said:
Whats difficult to understand?

Bottas lucked nearly lucked into the win due to safety car deployment did he not? Lucky.
Then he got a puncture some laps later. Unlucky.

His luck went full circle.
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Gaining one or two places thanks to the safety car is not the same as a DNF due to a puncture.

I don’t think you understand how karma works.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Gaining one or two places thanks to the safety car is not the same as a DNF due to a puncture.

I don’t think you understand how karma works.
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Ok then he was more unlucky on the karma scale then!


The point I was simply trying to make is that he was lucky (on course to win a race) and unlucky in the space of 10 laps or so by getting a puncture.

Lets call it the Mario Kart effect then! :D
 
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