F1 The Wash Up - Previous 2024 Race Weekends
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hotchilli
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No messing around from Oscar in his SQ1 run.
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**** yeah Oscar!
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Nice lap Oscar!
Pulled that one from nowhere! Guess team directives tmrw will be to let Lando through, which is fair enough given championship still within reach
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Hopefully he's forced into some team orders to let Lando through, few little mental wins that that he's not capable of beating Oscar on merit
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Good boy.
**** Lando
Norris' misinterpreting the question thrown at him after sprint quali as being about Piastri finishing above him and then giving a petulant answer about him not caring shows that he does care and it does tick him off when his team mate trumps him.
Him getting ticked off saying that 'it's the same question every time' when it actually wasn't the question he thought it was pretty funny especially when the same generic questions are asked of drivers after EVERY practice or quali session unless there's an incident or unexpected result.
McLarens are clearly in good form at this track and Norris chances of taking a significant chunk out of Verstappen's championship title lead are very strong. Especially with Oscar openly admitting again today that he will hand over a position or race lead to his team mate if asked by the team.
Seems to me is the only threat to Norris at this track is the pressure he might place on himself by trying to prove a point againt his team mate.
Him getting ticked off saying that 'it's the same question every time' when it actually wasn't the question he thought it was pretty funny especially when the same generic questions are asked of drivers after EVERY practice or quali session unless there's an incident or unexpected result.
McLarens are clearly in good form at this track and Norris chances of taking a significant chunk out of Verstappen's championship title lead are very strong. Especially with Oscar openly admitting again today that he will hand over a position or race lead to his team mate if asked by the team.
Seems to me is the only threat to Norris at this track is the pressure he might place on himself by trying to prove a point againt his team mate.
Great work from Ollie Bearman btw.
But having another British driver for the Sky F1 crew to get all hot and sweaty over - especially Schiff and Chandhok - is not something that makes their already unbalanced commentary any easier to listen to.
But having another British driver for the Sky F1 crew to get all hot and sweaty over - especially Schiff and Chandhok - is not something that makes their already unbalanced commentary any easier to listen to.
I can forgive Schiff....
I said 'listen to' Crom
Oscars directive, get a good start and hope Charles gets past Lando lap 1 cruise to win repeat tomorrow
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Still find Damon Hill insufferable, had to get the 'wrong driver p1' for mclaren out straight away. It's 1 point in a race without pitstops.
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I'm confident his response was due to the question including Max being in p4 and not about Piastri. Agree his answer was petulant though, I guess in his mind it doesn't matter where Max is, he just needs to finish as high as possible and see what shakes out.
I can understand questions be annoyingly repetitive, but they are asked because they need the driver saying these things for content. It would be dumb to quote him from 2 weeks ago for fresh content, Lando should understand this.
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Very happy to seen Piastri on pole! Even if it’s a sprint race and not a full one. The silver lining though is when McLaren issue team orders it’s easier to concede a Sprint race win to Norris than a full race. Oscar will also get brownie points for being a team player but not really care too much.
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He's comfortably beaten Oscar on merit in most races this seasonthat he's not capable of beating Oscar on merit
Won't for too much longer
Didn't catch it in the coverage but F1 sites are reporting that after the "woo" response when he told he got pole Piastri said "I should get food poisoning more often".
Even more impressive pole drive in that case. I can't imagine that driving an f1 car on a bumpy track like that after a bout of food poisoning would be a pleasant experience. Good on him for keeping focus on that last lap.
Imagine his instructions will be to do all he can to support his team mate in both the sprint and race sessions though.
He'll definitely play good team mate during the sprint as it's only 1 pt. Not so sure about the race if he outqualifies Lando and has a chance to win though.
He'd have to concede as it's still worth it from Mclaren's position.
