2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2024
Man piastri has got ice flowing through his veins. Calm throughout the race under immense pressure and even after winning such a great race. Unbelievable temperament.
Yes I thought to myself half way through the race that is the new ice man.
He had like 25 laps with Leclerc behind him AND with DRS. Every lap I was look at that interval timer and it was close to 0.6s which meant an overtake opportunity or it was almost 1.0s which would have broken the tow.
Then LECs tyres fell HARD. The crash at the end was crazy (haven’t seen Perez’s replay but it seemed like his fault), however I feel like the last two laps would have been bonkers and I think Leclerc would have finished 4th.
Indeed, I think I was more worked up than he was just watching the race from my couch hahahaha
What a bonkers race. So much close racing throughout. Still in awe about the crash.
Piastri was fantastic. Norris from 15th on start to 4th was excellent salvaging by McLaren.
10 mega points for Williams! Points for Colapinto.
Bearman squeezes another point in.
Russell getting a random podium yet again.
What a race, I was glued to the screen from the start to the VSC period. Oscar's overtake and defense were brilliant, Leclerc's defense against Perez before the crash was unbelievable too. What a race and racecraft.
Great season isn't it? Next year should be one for the ages. 2012 vibes
EDIT: year
This season seems like parts of 2009 and 2012 put together. The championship leaders have fallen hard like 2009 while 4 teams are fighting for wins like 2012. Great stuff
Oscar about Carlos & Checo: "They haven't been great friends this weekend" 😂
Never change, Oscar, never change.
Oscar is that quiet friend that drops the sickest burns every now and then.
The slow mos of piastri and leclerc grazing walls and sliding out of turns is so sick. They were pushing each other to the absolute limit.
That synchronised drift out the last corner was amazing! Their reaction to that clip in the cooldown room was so funny.
What a weekend for Williams and most specially for Colapinto! Here's to hoping he will take this chance and make his 9-race-only chance the start of a brilliant F1 career. He seems to have what it takes
That race had a lot going on. Unfortunate to see Perez put in such a good drive just for that to happen.
Indeed, I felt sorry for him. He had earned some good points.
Having said that and even though the Stewards rules nobody was at fault, I believe he had the better chance to avoid this crash
I was really fed up for him, it's not often he gets to be faster than Max pretty much all weekend, and he really needed a good weekend. He even stayed back out of trouble till the moment came to pounce with Charles and then it goes wrong.
This season is coming down to the wire and I love it. Bravo to Williams!
Russell suddenly finding himself on the podium is quite a plot twist
He has either the worst luck or all the luck, rarely in-between
What was that ending man
Am I correct in thinking this is the first time McLaren has led the Constructor’s Championship since 2008?
Edit: Nevermind, McLaren were leading the Constructor’s at the beginning of 2014.
I think they mentioned on the broadcast that it was the 1st time since 2014 they've led.
Russell confirms that the sun was in the eye in on the straight after turn 2. Could be why both perez and sainz did not realise that they were drifting towards each other
Unsure how their views are (usually terrible when they give us the inside helmet camera) but throughout the race I could barely see the colours of the cars from the ultra bright glare.
It seems they were going from sun in your face to tunnel dark. These people are super human to drive like that
Unpopular opinion here but Ricciardo has to go... almost literally ANYONE coming into F1 has shown to be better that him, even in much lesser cars.
It is time to open the seats for new talent!
Using that logic, can we also get rid of Stroll?
Yes. Stroll is a bad driver and only has a seat because Daddy bought him an F1 team for his birthday.
Hulkenberg is oddly mysterious in post-race interview right now on how he ended up behind Hamilton and Bearman, only saying "something happened in the last two laps and I don't want to talk about it"