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It's a none event worrying who is 7th and 6th unless you are contending for your job or the championship, where as an extra 1 point for fastest lap could change the literal fortunes of Mercedes at the end of the season.
Poll: Official 2024 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix Race Thread - Autodromo Enzo E Dino Ferrari - Race 7/24
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It's a none event worrying who is 7th and 6th unless you are contending for your job or the championship, where as an extra 1 point for fastest lap could change the literal fortunes of Mercedes at the end of the season.
Exactly. Its 6th and 7th vs 6th and 7th +1 extra point. (Which they probably want to cement 4th best team. Which is a pretty sad state of affairs compared to their recent success.)
So George got 7 points to Lewis’s 8? Whereas he would have got 8 compared to Lewis’s 6 had they stayed as is? Am I math’ing right? 
I mean to be fair to Russell, you’d still ask the question, and there wasn’t anything stopping Hamilton completely slowing up to let him past was there?
I mean to be fair to Russell, you’d still ask the question, and there wasn’t anything stopping Hamilton completely slowing up to let him past was there?
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Poll added (2nd time lucky 
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5/10 from me.
Absolutely snoozefest until the final laps, but never thought that there was any danger of Norris winning this one. Even though he caught Max, there's no guarantee that he could have passed him
)5/10 from me.
Absolutely snoozefest until the final laps, but never thought that there was any danger of Norris winning this one. Even though he caught Max, there's no guarantee that he could have passed him
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Missed the race, stopped at GF's dad on the way back from gym and we ended up having few drinks in the garden, sounds like it was a good choice. Not voting as only watched the short YouTube highlights, didn't seem like there was a lot going on.
So George got 7 points to Lewis’s 8? Whereas he would have got 8 compared to Lewis’s 6 had they stayed as is? Am I math’ing right?
I mean to be fair to Russell, you’d still ask the question, and there wasn’t anything stopping Hamilton completely slowing up to let him past was there?
Not so sure. It looked incredibly likely that Lewis was going to pass George. The lap time delta was getting crazy. So pitting him so he could get an extra point for the fastest lap actually did George a favour.
It would have been unfair on Lewis for just being faster if Lewis had to let George back by. Lewis shouldn't really be made to sacrifice his position just because George completely cooked his tyres. It isnt like either of them are going to come anywhere beyond 6th in the championship in that car this year (at best probably) so there is no reason for team orders to help a particular driver.
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Mark Hughes's take on the race https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mark-hughes-final-red-bull-f1-imola-weakness/
Cant stand Monaco , pain for pit set up. I get why the TV and FIA love it , it's very glamourous but my god it's dull.
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Can't even really hope for rain, as they'll only go and red flag it...
I still quite like Monaco even though the races can be boring. It's still fairly exciting to watch them thread these cars through the track like a needle.
If it rains or there are crashes it can be absolute madness though so it does have some potential for excitement.
If it rains or there are crashes it can be absolute madness though so it does have some potential for excitement.
Plus we get to see the bottom of Perez’s car as it’s craned off track.
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I agree. Besides we’ve pretty much known the outcome of the last 95% of races since 2022, so Monaco could be positively exciting in comparison
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