Poll: Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 16/17

Rate the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix out of ten

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Just caught up on the C4 highlights. Gutted for Russell, he drove a fantastic race, don't think he put a foot wrong. Great move to overtake Bottas. Luck just not on his side today.

However of all the other drivers to be there to pick up the win in his place, I'm so glad it's Perez. I really hope he gets a decent drive for next year. Redbull please!! Make it happen.

Albon and Bottas were poor today. LeClerc very clumsy at the start and Verstappen just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Exciting race all in all!
 
clv101 said:
Hamilton's expected back next week?
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Nothing confirmed as yet, and heavily dependant on him getting better and providing enough negative tests. However, the chances are increasing that he'll be sitting out the season finale as well, I'll be equally as surprised as I will be happy if that is the case, he's nothing left to prove this year, and Russell is owed some redemption for this weekend, he upheld his side of the bargain, time for Merc to do the same.

What a drive though, regardless of the result, I feel somewhat relieved, for British F1 driver prospects there is life beyond Lewis, and it looks very very promising.
 
PinkFloyd said:
Verstappen just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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I disagree. His accident was his fault. All he needed to do was lift off, but he wanted to keep position. He should have prioritised survival over losing places and realised that he had the faster car so he could make those places back - just look at Perez. He'll learn for next time.
 
That's a 10!

So sad for Russell. But. He clearly beat Bottas. Which really is what matters.

Absolutely overjoyed for Perez. Just rubs it into RPs awful decision to swap him for Vettel.

Get Perez in that red bull! Just do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.
He won and had an incident! Amazing

Great by ocon. He got that second by out racing stroll.

What a race. Especially that dubious safety car!


Great by Russell.
Amazing by Perez.
Hamilton, stay home please.

Just shows how good f1 would be without the top 3, especially Mercedes


I think this race further cements Bottas and albons fate. Especially albon


Maybe the betting companies bribed Mercedes to stop the people with 1000/1 odds on Russell win making them bankrupt?
 
I wish RP all the misfortune in the world next season.
I understand keeping stroll. If your dad bought the company.. And stroll isn't bad. It's fine to have him in. What I can't get over is putting vettel in there
 
What a race! I watched it tonight on channel 4, best race of the season. As with everyone else, I was also like "nooooooo!:eek:" when he got that rear puncture. George Russell is a serious talent and potential championship winner. One might say luck wasn't on his side today but that depends how you look at it.

If Lewis wasn't sick, Russell wouldn't have been able to fully showcase his driving chops. And so because of how well he drove, any team would be mad not to be climbing over each other to sign him up, and he may even end up at Mercedes full time. So I'd say luck was definitely on his side.
 
chrismscotland said:
Stroll, Mazepin and Latifi though are what's wrong with F1, are any of them ever going to be champions? Unlikely - Stroll has his races but seems more like a Grosjean or Frentzen to me; decent but never a world beater, Latifi is barely an upgrade on an injured Robert Kubica and Mazepin again looks like he'll be a middling average driver albeith with a lick of speed.
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Broadly I agree, but...you remember Frentzen challenged for the '99 title right? :p
 
chrismscotland said:
Neither Perez or Stroll are going to be the "face" of Aston Martin; Vettel as a multiple World Champion will be much better for marketing, etc - say what you like he might have struggled on the track but he always comes across like a really nice guy off the track.
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True, and Vettel has big brand value in the important German market too.

Stroll, Mazepin and Latifi though are what's wrong with F1, are any of them ever going to be champions?
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Stroll does not deserve to be bracketed with those two. He is F3 champion, after all.

Not every driver can be champion. In fact, most of the field won't be. That's just how it is.
 
Quartz said:
I disagree. His accident was his fault. All he needed to do was lift off, but he wanted to keep position. He should have prioritised survival over losing places and realised that he had the faster car so he could make those places back - just look at Perez. He'll learn for next time.
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I did only catch the reply the once, I thought he was just in the dust and couldn't slow before the gravel, but maybe your right. As you say, even if he'd come out at the back of the field he'd have been right up there at the end of the race like Perez.
Fair to say that based on this and previous precedence he needs to be a bit more patient.
 
Quartz said:
I disagree. His accident was his fault. All he needed to do was lift off, but he wanted to keep position. He should have prioritised survival over losing places and realised that he had the faster car so he could make those places back - just look at Perez. He'll learn for next time.
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He'd already lifted off to avoid trouble, which is why he wasn't hit. I agree he caused his race to end but I don't see how he could be expected to predict the correct course of action in the half second he had to decide. By the time Pérez is spinning back into his path, it's too late.
 
Quartz said:
I disagree. His accident was his fault. All he needed to do was lift off, but he wanted to keep position. He should have prioritised survival over losing places and realised that he had the faster car so he could make those places back - just look at Perez. He'll learn for next time.
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You need to watch it all again.

I totally disagree it was his fault.

He had braked and backed off well before the corner, he was just given no where to go by Perez spinning right in front of him.

His only route was round the outside onto the dust where he could not slow or turn harder to avoid the gravel.

Putting it another way, had he stayed on the throttle like you say trying to keep position he would have been right in the middle of Leclerc and Perez when they came together, but he had backed off which was why they had their crash in front of him, giving him no where to go.
 
Max may have been able to slow off a little bit more, but that would likely have resulted in contact from Charles, so he was screwed either way. I'm no fan of the guy, but not his fault at all there.
 
Quartz said:
That's not what the commentators said.
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Sui said:
You can literally see him do it though, when the other cars shoot ahead of him....
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Worth watching the replays in the post race show. It's clearly true that Max could have avoided the gravel by backing out, but the point where he would have needed to have done that is way back, by the time he would have had a decent view as to how it's panning out he's already committed to going wide. I'm sticking with the view that it's unrealistic to think Max should have known to do that. His view of the accident, remember, is extremely limited and he does well just to avoid contact, IMO.
 
10 out of 10 for the rollercoaster ride Mercedes gave poor George.

A nested clusterfudge from the usually flawless Mercedes pit and I expect Toto’s had the team Luger sat on the table during the post-race debrief.
 
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