Poll: Canadian Grand Prix 2019, Montréal - Race 7/21

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Wonder the odds on a Vettel spin while he gets overtaken?

Bottas in 5th, Max in 11th and Hamilton spliting the Ferraris should give us a decent race
 
Apone70 said:
Wonder the odds on a Vettel spin while he gets overtaken?

Bottas in 5th, Max in 11th and Hamilton spliting the Ferraris should give us a decent race
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Nah, Charles will overtake Hamilton in the first corner and it will be one-two for Ferrari, the first time this year :D
 
There we go Ferrari... when you actually have cars on the track you can achieve something in Qualifying.

But... Ricciardo in P4 ahead of Gasly and Bottas.
 
It's going to be a difficult race for Hamilton tomorrow. He's 3 tenths down in the run down the back straight. Unless Ferrari have tyre or fuel problems I think he'll be on the podium at best as you just can't overtake in the first two sectors where his car works best.

*Conspiracy mode* Also seems rather odd that Leclerc's had the pace all weekend and suddenly loses .5s in Q3...
 
Flibster said:
There we go Ferrari... when you actually have cars on the track you can achieve something in Qualifying.

But... Ricciardo in P4 ahead of Gasly and Bottas.
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I mean Gasly is Gasly and Bottas's lap was done literally before it started. Terrible exit out of the chicane so even across the line he was slow, then poor T1 pushing hard to try to make that up, locked up in T3, was over by then already but then he made more mistakes, poor at the hairpin and 8/10ths down. Was a good lap by Ricciardo but 8/10ths down on a short short track, should have been 4/10ths back from the cars ahead.

Verstappen actually in a good position for me, the right race tire so he can do a longer stint, then move to hards and do a easy one stop most likely. THe guys on softs ahead will be slower quickly have to pit early and potentially get held up by those on the mediums and hards further back and Max will go much longer. Not sure if he'll start on mediums on hards tbh.

Realistically Gasly and Bottas should be past Ricciardo very quickly but if he can help slow them up Verstappen might get right up to them very very quickly. I can see Verstappen being up with Bottas within a few laps, 4th or 5th by lap 10 then see what race pace that car has.

So irritating watching fans ignore logic on various forums though. New engine needs testing, Ferrari pushed hard in FP1 in Spain, looked competitive, were nowhere by qualifying. Merc pushing engine hard in FP1 here, looked miles ahead, were not ahead by FP2.

Ferrari were strong in Bahrain, they were gaining time on the straights at every single track, they were always going to be stronger in power tracks (when they don't screw up), than in tracks like Monaco and Barcelona. Yet after those races everyone is saying season is over, Ferrari are miles slower everywhere, no chance of them doing anything in Canada, write the season off. So many fans seem to just completely ignore that every track is different and they act like the result at Barcelona or Monaco directly translates to Canada, Spa, Monza.
 
Spunkey said:
It's going to be a difficult race for Hamilton tomorrow. He's 3 tenths down in the run down the back straight. Unless Ferrari have tyre or fuel problems I think he'll be on the podium at best as you just can't overtake in the first two sectors where his car works best.

*Conspiracy mode* Also seems rather odd that Leclerc's had the pace all weekend and suddenly loses .5s in Q3...
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It's possible he had poor laps, didn't really see them, but yeah those laps weren't good and did feel like Vettel just had another level of power. It could be more that the team split strategy and had one driver warm up tires really aggressively and one very softly as they weren't quite sure how to get the best out of them.
 
Spunkey said:
It's going to be a difficult race for Hamilton tomorrow. He's 3 tenths down in the run down the back straight. Unless Ferrari have tyre or fuel problems I think he'll be on the podium at best as you just can't overtake in the first two sectors where his car works best.

*Conspiracy mode* Also seems rather odd that Leclerc's had the pace all weekend and suddenly loses .5s in Q3...
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Mercedes had a fairly significant pace advantage in the long runs. Something along the line of 0.2-0.3s per lap.

It's just S3 where Ferrari have any advantage.
 
3 place grid penalty for Sainz, and a single penalty point on his superlicense. (Now has 4)

The Stewards reviewed video evidence and heard from the driver of car 55 (Carlos Sainz) and the driver of car 23 (Alexander Albon) and the team representatives.

ALB was on a fast lap when he closed the gap to SAI, who was driving slowly on the racing line at Turn 2. SAI was on the radio with the Team, talking about tyres. The Team’s warning about ALB approaching was given too late. Because of this, ALB had to abort his lap.

Competitors are reminded that they have the right to appeal certain decisions of the Stewards, in accordance with Article 15 of the FIA International Sporting Code and Article 9.1.1 of the FIA Judicial and Disciplinary Rules, within the applicable time limits.
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Oh, Magnussen will start from the pitlane as they need to replace his chassis.

No news on Leclerc yet.
 
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Charles Leclerc has kept his third place on the grid despite being penalised for an infringement during qualifying.

The Ferrari driver was found to have rejoined the track in an incorrect fashion after going off at turn nine.

The stewards ruled Leclerc “rejoined the track safely, recognised his error and aborted his lap in order not to gain a sporting advantage”. The lap time he set was deleted, which does not affect his qualifying position.

The stewards noted that “had this incident occurred during the race a time penalty would have been imposed.”
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Anyone else noticed a pronounced step up in everyone, commentators, drivers, team principals using the colour to describe the tyre rather than the soft medium hard this weekend?
 
Looking at the difference between the Ferrari and Mercedes over the lap, it is mental how much Vet pulled away in sector 3.

Hamilton will need to jump him off the line or stick within DRS range to overcome that sort of advantage.

https://youtu.be/0RBuENbhs4I
 
EVH said:
Looking at the difference between the Ferrari and Mercedes over the lap, it is mental how much Vet pulled away in sector 3.

Hamilton will need to jump him off the line or stick within DRS range to overcome that sort of advantage.

https://youtu.be/0RBuENbhs4I
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Yup, its going to be interesting. Hamilton's starts have been really good this year so it will be interesting to see how aggressive he is into turn 1 if he does get a good start
 
I hope we get some good following between Hamilton and Vettel; if Hamilton can stay within DRS he'll get a good slipstream and then next lap vettel will breeze past him... If it did that for most of the race it would be mildly interesting!
 
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