Spanish Grand Prix 2016, Catalunya - Race 5/21

How long before Jos' wiki is updated?

"Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen (born 4 March 1972)[1] is a Dutch racing driver. He is the most successful Dutch Formula One driver"
 
Ricciardo drove very poorly while Max was excellent. I say that because Max defended excellently from Kimi, he was taking it easy over the whole lap, he braked early into turn one even if it let Kimi close. He was protecting those tires, taking easier lines and had the tire life lap after lap to get great traction out of the final few corners to pull the gap he needed on Kimi.

On the other hand Ricciardo attempting to get past Vettel took every single corner ultra tight, which is faster but put more pressure on tires. He was braking hard, he was taking risks, he was locking up. Honestly I think Ricciardo maybe had an element of bad luck but he was driving WAY too hard throughout every single lap to get Vettel. Ricciardo drove in a way that would cause higher tire temps and worse deg.


Verstappen though, immense, amazing he won, brilliant drive overall.



Rosberg/Hamilton, I see that as mostly Rosberg's fault, he has previous with driving people off the track in Bahrain, way too aggressive, pushed Hamilton off the track and caused the collision.

Thing is looking back at the past couple of years if Rosberg/Ham had equally fast cars but different teams Rosberg would have got a huge penalty for Monaco, a huge penalty for the Spa incident and a penalty for the Canada chicane cut. Because they are in the same team there isn't the same push for punishment where rival teams would complain very loudly. At this point Rosberg would have gotten multiple penalties for such driving and that would be taken into account when judging this. He's getting away with a lot because he's in the same team as the guy he keeps doing dodgy things against.
 
Kenai said:
He's done well to hold on to that win but you kinda get the impression the C4 commentary have forgotten that two Mercedes cars would have been a minute up the road if they didn't crash into each other.
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First time I watched on C4. It's rubbish. Missed the restart because Prost wouldn't shut up, Didn't understand the pit stops. Kept going to Chandhook for his mostly worthless opinion, and generally poor commentary. Sky next time for me.
 
Kenai said:
How long before Jos' wiki is updated?

"Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen (born 4 March 1972)[1] is a Dutch racing driver. He is the most successful Dutch Formula One driver"
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Already been done.

Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen (born 4 March 1972)[1] is a Dutch racing driver. He is second most successful Dutch Formula One driver, and has won races in A1 Grand Prix and Le Mans Series LMP2 races.
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MooMoo444 said:
Ric firing shots haha
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He's got a point though, both him and vettel were put on the sub-optimal strategy unfortunately for them.

Also as well as max drove it's a lot easier to manage and lead from the front then have to chase down and pass 3 drivers on track. He drove a great race but to say that ric had a bad one is off the mark imo.

Not sure RB have the race pace on ferrari, Vettel was 7 tenths a lap quicker than Ric before they decided to pit him after only 8 laps on the soft.
 
Ant pretty much giving Rosberg a kicking for not having enough mental capacity to set the switches correctly and be able to know whats going on around him.
 
I can't help but wonder if the split strategy decision was skewed in favour of Verstappen. Good publicity for Red Bull and also silences any critics of their treatment of Kvyat.

Given the same position Ricciardo would have bought the win home in the same way.
 
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