Canadian Grand Prix 2014, Montréal - Race 7/19

smr said:
Lolwut?
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I think every qualifying so far Rosberg had gone out ahead of Lewis. Why? Unless it's his preference it seems strange. What advantage does he think he's getting? McLaren used to alternate it between their drivers. Which is what caused all the problems when Lewis refused to play ball.

EDIT: already answered by XeNoN89
 
Lewis should be able to get past Nico in the first few laps. He was all over the back of him at Monaco but we all know Monaco is lol for overtakes..
 
utajoker said:
i have a feeling Rosberg may have a mechanical DNF tomorrow.
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While it would 'even things up' I hope it doesn't happen.

In Bahrain and Barcelona we saw Hamilton keep Rosberg behind him. In Monaco there's little to no chance of overtaking and until the eye incident Lewis was glued to his gear box.

I wan't to see if Lewis can get past him and make it stick, something neither driver has been able to do to the other until now.
 
Irish_Tom said:
While it would 'even things up' I hope it doesn't happen.

In Bahrain and Barcelona we saw Hamilton keep Rosberg behind him. In Monaco there's little to no chance of overtaking and until the eye incident Lewis was glued to his gear box.

I wan't to see if Lewis can get past him and make it stick, something neither driver has been able to do to the other until now.
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dont want it top happen, i want merc 1-2s all season, hamilton 1 rosberg 2s :)
 
I think rbr are going to be strong second half of this season. Looks like vettels adapting to the car quite well just lately.
 
Glaucus said:
Hammy messed up :(. Slow middle sector.

Edit - lock up.

Damn you hammy, why can't you be consistent.
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I'd say Hamilton is consistently fast.
The problem is that he realises that now is game-time. This is it. If he is going to "break" Rosberg, it has to be now, so he has put an immense amount of pressure on himself. And what you saw today was pressure.

I said this as far back as 2008. If Hamilton is the lead driver and the darling of the team, his performance will be Alonso-esque. However, the moment he is not getting preferential treatment, problems appear. We saw this at McLaren after Button arrived. This will definitely give Rosberg hopes of beating his team-mate across a full season.

If RBR were within striking distance, I'd say that Vettel would be favourite to beat both Nico and Ham BUT Merc still have a minimum 0.6s/lap advantage and we are already nearing the half way stage, which is the point at which RBR needed to be level with Merc, to mount a challenge.

And as for Alonso - its getting unbearable for me to see the best driver in F1 at Ferrari. They are clearly going nowhere and he surely has to sign up with another team soon. How many years is he prepared to let pass before he acknowledges that Ferrari just are not good enough?

R.Denis was looking on while his drivers just couldnt get the best out of their car today. Using the Merc engine, there cars qualified 9 and 12. Pitiful. I'm sure he was thinking that these 2 drivers need to be replaced if McLaren ever want to win a race. Either that or they will need a car 1s/lap faster than everybody else. For me, McLaren need Alonso and Alonso needs McLaren - what are McLaren waiting for?
 
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smr said:
I think rbr are going to be strong second half of this season. Looks like vettels adapting to the car quite well just lately.
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Too little, too late.

Vettel/RBR needed to be level pegging by mid-way point of the season.
Had this been the case, my money would be on Vettel to win this year BUT today, the Mercs were about 0.6s/lap faster. That's huge.

I do believe though, that in the 2nd half of the season, after the Summer break, Vettel will be the top points scorer...so he should be able to finish 3rd.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Lewis should be able to get past Nico in the first few laps. He was all over the back of him at Monaco but we all know Monaco is lol for overtakes..
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DRS will ensure that both Merc drivers will be close together for the entire duration of the race.
 
sunama said:
I'd say Hamilton is consistently fast.
The problem is that he realises that now is game-time. This is it. If he is going to "break" Rosberg, it has to be now, so he has put an immense amount of pressure on himself. And what you saw today was pressure.

I said this as far back as 2008. If Hamilton is the lead driver and the darling of the team, his performance will be Alonso-esque. However, the moment he is not getting preferential treatment, problems appear. We saw this at McLaren after Button arrived. This will definitely give Rosberg hopes of beating his team-mate across a full season.

If RBR were within striking distance, I'd say that Vettel would be favourite to beat both Nico and Ham BUT Merc still have a minimum 0.6s/lap advantage and we are already nearing the half way stage, which is the point at which RBR needed to be level with Merc, to mount a challenge.

And as for Alonso - its getting unbearable for me to see the best driver in F1 at Ferrari. They are clearly going nowhere and he surely has to sign up with another team soon. How many years is he prepared to let pass before he acknowledges that Ferrari just are not good enough?

R.Denis was looking on while his drivers just couldnt get the best out of their car today. Using the Merc engine, there cars qualified 9 and 12. Pitiful. I'm sure he was thinking that these 2 drivers need to be replaced if McLaren ever want to win a race. Either that or they will need a car 1s/lap faster than everybody else. For me, McLaren need Alonso and Alonso needs McLaren - what are McLaren waiting for?
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Nice trolling, so because mclaren have the merc engine they shud be 2nd? So aero doesnt play a part in f1 this season or something? Button is extracting every ounce of performance possible out of the car and again beating his team mate. Has Button ever lost on points to a team mate over his 250+ gp career?

Alonso will not go to mclaren so stop dreaming. He made a mistake in missing the boat at the end of last season. Mclaren will most likely run button and magnusson next year and alonso will switch to rbr. Vettel has always wanted to drive for ferrari and has said this. Rbr would love alonso and alonso would love them. Simple.

Infact vetteo drove bergers ferrari a couple of weeks ago. Something tells me ferrari are quite close to him recently and also had talks. Alonso looked quite coy this weekend so far too so hes probably been talking to horner.
 
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Guerrilla said:
The start should certainly be exciting :) think the Williams may well be able to jump the RB on the straights if they can be close enough even if they don't get him on the start, they are in a great position.
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Williams have good straight line speed but might drop significantly back from them in sector 2, then simply catch back up in sector 3 again.

Have to see, Williams had some woeful tyre wear at certain races so far. Speed but very very like Merc in the past 3 years, speed being hurt by terrible tire wear. I remember here when Schumi held up Hamilton for ages, Hamilton couldn't get past even though clearly faster, Schumi's tires fell apart very quickly over a couple laps and Hamilton being hurt by being stuck so close behind him his tires went off and cars(button/others) in clear air were able to go miles longer than Merc's without dropping speed and tires falling to pieces. Williams haven't been like this at every race so far like the Merc's pretty much always did more stops than most in the past 3 years. This will be another good track to see if Williams really do have fundamentally crap tire wear, and I suspect we will see them do well at first but be amongst the earliest to drop off.

Canada is pretty good for safety cars though so the Williams could get lucky with need maybe an extra pit stop but making that time back up through a safety car. I get the feeling they will drop places due to tire wear, end up behind both RBR's, maybe the Ferrari's, maybe FI/Mclaren as well, depends how bad their tire wear is.

If Massa in particular from third, I could see him maybe getting out front, having the clean air, better tire wear that brings and having the raw straight line speed to stay ahead on the straights and it could become very interesting. Following others I don't think their tires will hold.
 
I'd love it if Newey, Vettel and Brawn went to Ferrari. New challenge to re-ignite the prancing horse. I can't see Alonso going to McClaren though and Vettel and Kimi are bessie mates too.
 
During the qualifying, Martin Brundle just completely destroyed any positive arguments of the reduced friday practice proposal. Just an absolutely moronic idea!


Have to say that in qualifying today, fair play to Williams for their improved performance :).
 
Was that when he said about losing Friday practice would mean losing 3rd drivers, and therefore the £m they bring? And Crofty then said that the more you think about it the worse an idea it becomes?

Its pathetic that its even been suggested.
 
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