Poll: French Grand Prix 2018, Le Castellet - Race 8/21

Rate the 2018 French Grand Prix out of ten

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How can anyone say the race was drab or boring?

We've had more overtakes today than last three races added together .....
 
I voted 5 because it is the average between 10 for Sebastian doing his best to make it entertaining, and 1 because of all the troubles the drivers had through it.
 
Always amuses me how many people rant on here after every race about how boring and crap it was.

Then without a doubt do it again after the next one, go do something else then lol.
 
Interesting watching the post race Hamilton and Verstappen, albeit conversation is slightly guarded (probably the cameras).

Got to hand it to Hamilton, just conveys the calm assurance akin to great veteran racers (Senna, Schuey, Stewart etc). :)
 
Thought the track was ugly and had way too much runoff area. Editing was poor too e.g. starting the race from the sideways camera angle, and Kimi's overtake of Ricciardo. Rated this a 2 given that those two aspects stood out more than the racing.
 
Entai said:
How can anyone say the race was drab or boring?

We've had more overtakes today than last three races added together .....
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Lots of overtakes doesn’t make an interesting race. On track battles make an interesting race. Vettel and Bottas had to work for absolutely none of their overtakes today.

Kimi vs Ricciardo could have been interesting but Kimi just drove past him.

There wasn’t a single ‘impressive’ overtake where the driver had to work and fight to overtake. That’s what makes it boring IMO.

markoboyo11 said:
Always amuses me how many people rant on here after every race about how boring and crap it was.

Then without a doubt do it again after the next one, go do something else then lol.
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I keep watching because it’s Sod’s law that the one race I miss will turn out to be the race of the season. The last race I turned off because it was boring was Canada 2011 and we all know what happened there lol
 
4K8KW10 said:
No, Bottas should have left enough space, not crossing the corner, Bottas lost the position way before the corner, but Sebastian didn't have space to overtake Ham.
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What a load of rubbish. Vettel just locked up and ploughed into him. It was obviously slippery into turn 1 (at least three on the inside locked up) but Bottas couldn't have done much more to avoid contact short of doing a Verstappen (floor it through the run-off).



Ninco! said:
Got to hand it to Hamilton, just conveys the calm assurance akin to great veteran racers (Senna, Schuey, Stewart etc). :)
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It's easy when you end up in a race of one. But don't include Senna in this as you clearly didn't watch much of Senna's races if your primary description of him is 'calm assurance'.

And you're just as mad overlooking Clark in favour of Stewart in the same category.



Vettel was lucky to get away with a 5 second penalty. I thought a drive-through (with no stop/go) would have been about right, but as it turned out it wouldn't have affected anything (even a 10 second stop/go might not have affected anything).

Not a great race but better than I expected, and about 10 times better than both the BTCC races and the Indycar Road America race. Didn't expect that either.



Driver of the race... I'll go Leclerc despite finishing lower than his start position (but his qually was staggeringly good, his race only good). Hamilton: nope, far too easy. Vettel: nope, because his turn 1 cockup (otherwise would have finished an easy second or challenging for 1st). Struggling to find anyone else really.
 
this_is_gav said:
It's easy when you end up in a race of one. But don't include Senna in this as you clearly didn't watch much of Senna's races if your primary description of him is 'calm assurance'.

And you're just as mad overlooking Clark in favour of Stewart in the same category.
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I wholeheartedly agree. Jim Clark is one of the greatest racers of all time and one of my favourite's - I was just quoting names for my post. Hell, I excluded Gilles Villeneuve who is my all time No1.

Yes it was an easy win, I was just saying that Hamilton is deservedly in a place of champions and adopting the persona as such.
 
So what does everyone think of Lewis' singing voice. Song isn't my cup of tea at all but I'm actually a bit annoyed he sounds half decent. Isn't he happy with the little amount of talent he has in F1 already?

https://streamable.com/0i6ii

:D:D:D Someone on reddit made Kimi have a flashback. Genuinely made me laugh out loud. I will miss Kimi
 
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Ninco! said:
I wholeheartedly agree. Jim Clark is one of the greatest racers of all time and one of my favourite's - I was just quoting names for my post. Hell, I excluded Gilles Villeneuve who is my all time No1.

Yes it was an easy win, I was just saying that Hamilton is deservedly in a place of champions and adopting the persona as such.
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Gilles Villeneuve is about as far removed from 'calm assurance' as a racing driver will get. I was never a fan of Villeneueve. He wasn't especially quick and made numerous errors most weekends. His legacy far exceeded his ability in my honest opinion. Max Verstappen reminds me of Gilles in a few ways, and that's not a compliment (capable of occasional brilliance, but often more capable of a mistake).
 
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