Poll: Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021, Baku - Race 6/23

Rate the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix out of ten

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Mr Jack said:
I remember Schumacher arguing he didn't need to slow 'cos he held up his hand to acknowledge the incident. They want drivers to slow, penalise them when they don't. Complaining they don't slow whilst letting them gain an advantage by not slowing is never going to work.
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There was the discussion with the McLaren pitwall during the red flag about drivers speeding under the yellows. Give them all drive-throughs! :D

I remember Hakkinen waving at the marshals twice, once at Monaco and once at the Nurburgring, but I can't recall Schumacher doing it. You struggle to get your hand out of the cockpit now.
 
Enjoyed this one. Real shame for Max and Stroll even through I don't like either of them. Pirelli are making the tyres the FIA asked for, yet they had been two conservative at Portimao and Barcelona, now questions will be asked of them again. Anyone can make mistakes, but Pirelli seem to have made more than any other tyre manufacturer. Michelin as the US GP was a shocker though.

Nice to see Checo win. Lewis just didn't have the pace today. Funnily enough on the restart my GF pointed out the smoke from Lewis' brakes, I said he's probably going to lock up and run wide at the first corner now as they will be snatchy if they are overheated. Sure enough that happened.

Nice to see Vettel and Alonso now both ahead of their teammates who'd been beating them all season. I wonder if they will continue to improve from here out.

Long break now since the cancellation of Canada. I can't stand all the painted run offs at Paul Ricard.
 
Well done to the top 3(Perez was awesome) .
Hamilton feeling the pressure now.

DOTD was Vettel for me and Alonso did the best overtake.

Pirelli needs to go or change the tires makeup asap.
 
Best race this of the season so far. Always a good track for action.

I was almost excited to see Lewis go off - keeps the championship closer after Max's tyre failure.

Not sure what happened to George? He stayed 15 - 16, than retired the car before the end. Was hoping Williams would better Alfa by now
 
englishpremier said:
Enjoyed this one. Real shame for Max and Stroll even through I don't like either of them. Pirelli are making the tyres the FIA asked for, yet they had been two conservative at Portimao and Barcelona, now questions will be asked of them again. Anyone can make mistakes, but Pirelli seem to have made more than any other tyre manufacturer. Michelin as the US GP was a shocker though.

Nice to see Checo win. Lewis just didn't have the pace today. Funnily enough on the restart my GF pointed out the smoke from Lewis' brakes, I said he's probably going to lock up and run wide at the first corner now as they will be snatchy if they are overheated. Sure enough that happened.

Nice to see Vettel and Alonso now both ahead of their teammates who'd been beating them all season. I wonder if they will continue to improve from here out.

Long break now since the cancellation of Canada. I can't stand all the painted run offs at Paul Ricard.
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They didnt make what was asked for. The tyres failed way before the specified failure point provided by Pirelli themselves.
 
MooMoo444 said:
wouldn’t say it is pressure, he accidentally flipped a switch on the steering wheel that has hundreds of thingys, could happen to anyone. I’d say he feels gutted for missing a freebie, not pressure.
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Flipping a switch accidentally sounds like a very pressure kind of error to me. We've seen it a few times from a fair few drivers but I'm surprised to see it from Hamilton: it seems uncharacteristic to me.
 
MooMoo444 said:
wouldn’t say it is pressure, he accidentally flipped a switch on the steering wheel that has hundreds of thingys, could happen to anyone. I’d say he feels gutted for missing a freebie, not pressure.
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Mr Jack said:
Flipping a switch accidentally sounds like a very pressure kind of error to me. We've seen it a few times from a fair few drivers but I'm surprised to see it from Hamilton: it seems uncharacteristic to me.
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This.

Hamilton has never made that mistake before.
 
MissChief said:
You'd have thought the team would have seen magic mode was on, but it depends when he hit the button as he said he didn't even know he'd done so
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They told him he did it on the upshift - There’s an interview on the Sky site where he says that as Checo moved towards him after the restart he clipped a switch which basically switches the brakes off. I doubt that the team had time to tell him.
 
From a safety perspective it simply shouldn’t be possible to render the brakes virtually useless by inadvertently knocking a single switch. Imagine if that happened on the approach to a much more significant braking zone…
 
kaiowas said:
From a safety perspective it simply shouldn’t be possible to render the brakes virtually useless by inadvertently knocking a single switch. Imagine if that happened on the approach to a much more significant braking zone…
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The more I think about the potential issues here the more horrifying it seems. How have we gotten to the point with F1 car design where you can disable most of the braking performance with a single button press??? How can that possibly not be a massive safety issue? And how the hell can a car designed like that pass muster with the stewards of the meeting?

Even in the carefree days of the '50s and '60s cars got chucked out of race meetings for design flaws less serious than that!

jonneymendoza said:
Even Messi and ronaldo make mistakes!
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I'm feeling rather more charitable towards Hamilton this morning. There is no way in hell that he should even have been in the position where a single inadvertent button press could do that to his car. If that's specific to the Mercedes then the Mercedes wants redesigning. If that's common to all the cars on the grid then the rulebook wants altering/ripping up and starting over.
 
It's on Mercedes since it's their 'magic brake' heating function, but having it so close to the upshift seems like it's came back to bite them in the backside. I can't imagine it's something they're pressing regularly.

As for it being never done before - the amount of buttons and knobs on the wheel, it's probably happened before. Rosberg in wrong engine mode, etc etc. Happens to anyone. You never fat fingered a keyboard before?

Some of y'all painting it to be him cracking under pressure. It was just a clumsy mistake.
 
JRS said:
I'm feeling rather more charitable towards Hamilton this morning. There is no way in hell that he should even have been in the position where a single inadvertent button press could do that to his car. If that's specific to the Mercedes then the Mercedes wants redesigning. If that's common to all the cars on the grid then the rulebook wants altering/ripping up and starting over.
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He was holding the wheel in a very odd position, which suggests he might have been trying to manipulate a switch/toggle or something that's in an awkward position in a way he normally wouldn't. He then rapidly moves his hand back to grip the wheel 'correctly' as Perez comes across.
 
It's nice to see the "rejects" on the podium all together, adding Gasly to that list as he was dropped by RB then overlooked when the seat was available again from dropping Albon.

Maybe the qualifying sprint race needs to be a 3 lap job. (Please don't)
 
englishpremier said:
Michelin as the US GP was a shocker though.
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It wasn't really Michelin's fault. Nobody told them the surface had been diamond cut and apparently that was what caused the failures. Bridgestone knew because of the stock Firestone's at the Indy 500, but nobody briefed Michelin and by the time they got there it was too late and nobody wanted to reach a compromise.

Nobody came out of it well. Not F1, not the FIA, none of the teams and neither of the tyre suppliers and the only ones suffering were the fans, particularly those at the circuit. And all for some individuals trying to score political brownie points.
 
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