Sebastian Vettel

[37chevy]

sparta6 said:

Rosberg did a good job

youre delusional....rosberg won the championship. but at NO POINT did he 'Boss' Lewis

[wibble cb]

Henceforth, Vettal's song:
Chicago- hard to say I'm sorry...

https://g.co/kgs/hSkGZb



I think the punishment was light, and a suspended race ban would have the way to go, do anything again in the next 5 races and you out of the next event.

[anonymous-user]

sparta6 said:

Doink said:

Anyone that tries to rough Hamilton up, to boss him is on a hiding to nothing, Lewis is the master of both those, you've got no chance of bossing lewis

Rosberg did a good job

On occasion. But Doink is right. Hamilton is more than capable of roughing up others and has done, with impunity, more than once.

[HustleRussell]

REALIST123 said:

sparta6 said:

Doink said:

Anyone that tries to rough Hamilton up, to boss him is on a hiding to nothing, Lewis is the master of both those, you've got no chance of bossing lewis

Rosberg did a good job

On occasion. But Doink is right. Hamilton is more than capable of roughing up others and has done, with impunity, more than once.

Unlike Rosberg, Hamilton had the finesse to make it look like an accident.

[Dr Z]

deadslow said:

Doink said:

Anyone that tries to rough Hamilton up, to boss him is on a hiding to nothing, Lewis is the master of both those, you've got no chance of bossing lewis

well, it is certainly going to make the rest of the season all the more interesting, because the gloves are off.

Watch out Seb, we got a badass over here!

[heebeegeetee]

vernz said:

I thought it was a brave decision by the Tour de France stewards yesterday.

Personally I think the initial points deduction was enough as I don't think it was intentional and Sagan isn't that sort of rider, but this does send out a very clear message to the rest of the riders, unlike the FIA who's message to Vettel and Ferrari will be:

'Now please don't do this again, otherwise we will really, probably, have to at least consider doing something, maybe, definitely have a meeting and will almost certainly tell you off if you don't say sorry quicker this time'

Agreed.

Cycling is a much tougher sport. Aside from the physical challenges, they have proper crashes, the riders get injured, but when needed to the organisers man up too and get tough. It all makes F1 look like handbags at dawn, imo.

Shame to see Sagan go out but that elbow just didn't look right, however even he didn't suffer the total melt down that Seb did.

[Doink]

HustleRussell said:

REALIST123 said:

sparta6 said:

Doink said:

Anyone that tries to rough Hamilton up, to boss him is on a hiding to nothing, Lewis is the master of both those, you've got no chance of bossing lewis

Rosberg did a good job

On occasion. But Doink is right. Hamilton is more than capable of roughing up others and has done, with impunity, more than once.

Unlike Rosberg, Hamilton had the finesse to make it look like an accident.

Finesse being the keyword and the Lewis haters just hate the fact he has finesse

[37chevy]

Doink said:

Finesse being the keyword and the Lewis haters just hate the fact he has finesse

to be fair....rosbergs parking at Monoco was pretty tidy...

[oyster]

37chevy said:

sparta6 said:

Rosberg did a good job

youre delusional....rosberg won the championship. but at NO POINT did he 'Boss' Lewis

Rosberg got under Hamilton's skin. Lewis coped with it fairly well, but there's no doubt Rosberg's ability to compete with him really riled him. Some of Lewis's comments last year (the one about Nico's upbringing especially comes to mind) suggested that Hamilton wasn't serenely in control.

Then there were the comments about the mechanics swap in the close-season.

[Doink]

37chevy said:

Doink said:

Finesse being the keyword and the Lewis haters just hate the fact he has finesse

to be fair....rosbergs parking at Monoco was pretty tidy...

Borderline tidy but I'll give you that, it just didn't look natural enough and it drew many a conversation from the pundits, Lewis would of nailed it I feel

[Doink]

oyster said:

37chevy said:

sparta6 said:

Rosberg did a good job

youre delusional....rosberg won the championship. but at NO POINT did he 'Boss' Lewis

Rosberg got under Hamilton's skin. Lewis coped with it fairly well, but there's no doubt Rosberg's ability to compete with him really riled him. Some of Lewis's comments last year (the one about Nico's upbringing especially comes to mind) suggested that Hamilton wasn't serenely in control.

Then there were the comments about the mechanics swap in the close-season.

I think it's more about on track than what happened in the media, Lewis is a bit insecure maybe even a bit paranoid, Nico realised that and exploited it and the war of words and one upsmanship started

[sparta6]

Vettel is fighting for his 5th WDC so we can expect a little drama - makes for interesting races

[swisstoni]

It'll be down to car performance over the season,

[Doink]

It'll be interesting to see how the removal of the oil burning tank from the Ferrari plays out, it looks to of handed the advantage back to Mercedes who haven't been using the system since redbull bought it up, haven't seen the Merc smoke when leaving the pits in quite a while but they seemed to develop in a different direction, can Ferrari?

[deadslow]

sparta6 said:

Vettel is fighting for his 5th WDC so we can expect a little drama - makes for interesting races

yes, Ross Brawn said he admired Vettel's passion. Its obvious he really wants it. I'm glad he's up for a fight all the way. Just hope the cars remain more or less equal.

[HustleRussell]

swisstoni said:

It'll be down to car performance reliability over the season,

FTFY

[swisstoni]

HustleRussell said:

swisstoni said:

It'll be down to car performance reliability over the season,

FTFY

I class reliability as part of the car's overall performance. It's no good having a rocket that craps out regularly.

[Doink]

Details of drivers power unit elements used prior to the Grosser Preis von Osterreich weekend.
Driver ICE TC MGU-H MGU-K ES CE

Hamilton 2 2 2 2 2 2
Bottas 2 2 2 2 2 2
Ricciardo 2 2 3 2 2 2
Verstappen 2 2 3 2 2 2
Vettel 2 4 3 2 2 2
Raikkonen 2 3 2 2 2 2
Perez 2 2 2 2 1 2
Ocon 2 2 2 2 2 2
Massa 2 2 2 2 2 2
Stroll 2 2 2 2 1 2
Alonso 5 7 7 5 4 4
Vandoorne 3 7 7 4 5 5
Kvyat 3 3 3 2 2 2
Sainz 2 2 3 3 2 2
Grosjean 2 3 2 2 2 2
Magnussen 2 3 2 2 2 2
Hulkenberg 2 2 3 3 2 2
Palmer 3 4 3 2 1 2
Ericsson 2 2 2 2 2 2
Wehrlein 2 2 2 2 2 3

Vettel already on his last turbo, sure to hit penalties before the mercs

[C2996]

Doink said:

Details of drivers power unit elements used prior to the Grosser Preis von Osterreich weekend.
Driver ICE TC MGU-H MGU-K ES CE

Hamilton 2 2 2 2 2 2
Bottas 2 2 2 2 2 2
Ricciardo 2 2 3 2 2 2
Verstappen 2 2 3 2 2 2
Vettel 2 4 3 2 2 2
Raikkonen 2 3 2 2 2 2
Perez 2 2 2 2 1 2
Ocon 2 2 2 2 2 2
Massa 2 2 2 2 2 2
Stroll 2 2 2 2 1 2
Alonso 5 7 7 5 4 4
Vandoorne 3 7 7 4 5 5
Kvyat 3 3 3 2 2 2
Sainz 2 2 3 3 2 2
Grosjean 2 3 2 2 2 2
Magnussen 2 3 2 2 2 2
Hulkenberg 2 2 3 3 2 2
Palmer 3 4 3 2 1 2
Ericsson 2 2 2 2 2 2
Wehrlein 2 2 2 2 2 3

Vettel already on his last turbo, sure to hit penalties before the mercs

but at least vettel's on his original headrest.

[Doink]

I bet he's not, they change them for every race, there's 2 different densities of foam depending on the air temp