Poll: Official 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix Race Thread - Autódromo José Carlos Pace - Race 21/24

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Mercedes fined €5k for tyre pressure adjustments on Hamilton's car on the grid.


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enjoyed that, lots of drama, plenty of overtaking, driver skills (or lack of) on display, luck, would prefer to watch this kind of thing than a boring procession around half the tracks we seemingly have to endure each season (i'd quite happily see Monaco get binned for example).
 
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It'll be clear very quickly next season if Lewis still has it or not; its clear he's pretty fed up this season after 3 years in a crap car and he does seem to have checked out.
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Indeed.

Not sure what's happened to him in the last few races.

He schooled Russell in the rain in Silverstone, so I have no idea why a few months later he was so poor here. He looked like he had zero condition the car.
 
That cool down room earlier in the season where Lando talked down to Lewis about how it's his time now with the fastest car... Oof. Yeah it's all about the car Lando, you don't have to be skilled.

Watching him moan when interviewed this weekend trying to play down the championship and how "it doesn't matter" and "I hate these questions". He hates the questions because he can't deal with the pressure sadly.

Max will win this championship, but I think it would be fair to say Lando also definitely lost the championship; through a series of poor starts, individual and team errors and generally being weak mentally. You don't get many shots at a WDC. He may not get another.
 
Max was brilliant today. Yes he lucked out with the safety car/red flag timings. However he was the class of the field today.

Bonus points for not cheating/trying to cheat too.



Also, can anyone fill me in on what happened to Leclerc? I watched the highlights and it jumped from Leclerc ahead of Russell to him suddenly being 7 seconds behind yet still with the McLaren's behind him. Seemed bizarre.
 
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You can't say he lost the title if he never got within 50 points of having it. It was a stretch even back in Hungary but because the media kept going on and on about it and Red Bull went on a downward trajectory in terms of performance this false optimism crept in. In the last few races Norris would have had to have repeated something similar(ish) to what Hamilton did at the end of 2021 and he's not at that level yet, the experience isn't there and maybe it never will be. A guy with no championship experience who has only won 3 races in his career is all of a sudden expected to close out the season with multiple back to back wins like some veteran champ ? Ferrari also improved at a bad time for McLaren and ended up having the best or at least equal best car at the previous two races. Red Bull also pulled some performance back with their most recent updates although still not enough to counter their poor pace on the Hards which has left them vulnerable on long rungs ever since Miami.

It's always been a long shot, trying to make out he threw a title away is crazy harsh.
 
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