2016 Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'ItaliaFormula 1
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- OutlawQuadrant
Yawnza. Even the championship fight is a snoozer because we don't get the battle on track.
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- Vinylshark
Well, that surely was a thriller today...
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Individually it may not have been terribly exciting, but think of the championship implications - this was the kind of measured, controlled drive that saw Rosberg win seven races in a row, and now he's only two points behind Hamilton. And despite Hamilton beating him by half a second in qualifying, the only time he was able to reel Rosberg in was when Rosberg was navigating traffic.
I think you're getting carried away there, the race was over between the Mercedes as soon as Hamilton made his mistake and fell so far back. He wasn't going to get the lead back from there no matter what he did, so it was pretty easy for Rosberg to stroll away from the slower Ferrari's with Lewis having to fight through. It's a totally different situation to last year where Hamilton just straight up didn't have an answer.
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- Peasantslayer
In qualifying Hamilton seemed to have an advantage in the first sector, last sector and the speed trap which suggests he had lower DF and perhaps a car which could defend or overtake better. Perhaps he didn't have a setup geared towards race pace so much which is why he couldn't catch Rosberg like he has in past races.
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I really wish Nico and Lewis would stop trying to crawl into the buttocks of the fans everytime they're on the podium.
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- TakFR
Yeah a lot of Mercedes fans already have their heads stuck in there anyway
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- HamiltonMP427
So did Mercedes themselves but effectively said they don't care. Which they shouldn't, they did their job other teams are still struggling.
Sounds like any group of fans loyal to their fandom. I mean we just saw a massive crowd of that in front of the podium...
Why is thanking fans a bad thing? I see most race winners/podium finishers do that.
Get old seeing people nag at everything drivers do or certain repeat faces. I mean I'm sure the FOM is sorry those who can't be pleased don't get to see DR up their drinking out of his shoe, until that becomes so frequent they complain about that next.
Even still the problem that was most big was that he put himself on the back foot of it all. If had had say lost maybe two places at the start he could have potentially fought back and seen a battle for the win. I think he had outright pace in the early parts of the stint, where Nico had a more balanced pace over the entire run.
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- mustafur
I would go Ricciardo as well, whilst 5th doesn't sound too impressive he didn't really make a single mistake all weekend and get him self 1 place higher then what any other driver would of been able to in the same position, the redbulls straight line just wasn't good enough to pass on that straight all race but he managed to do it.
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Was the issue I had last year, I missed the Belgium spectacle, and let's not forget it wasn't that long ago that we had the mess in Spain, a great Monaco race (for once) and a couple other notable things. We all knew this was going to be about as boring as they get, let's hope the fun Asian circuits bring it back.
It wasn't that bad, Quali proved that RBR were on par with Williams already super non effective down force cars. I mean really cars that people probably expected to fight Ferrari didn't show up and that's probably due in part with the Renault power boost earlier in the season and the low downforce extremes RBR went to. Also through the weekend DR and MV had better sector times than Williams.
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What happened to having 2 races in the same country, like wasn't that the case for a long time? Gran Premio de San Marino or something? Too expensive?
For the record, I like this track, but I do miss Imola.
For the record, I like this track, but I do miss Imola.
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Why did they boo Nico? Dutch fans again?
I dunno, the fans at the tracks just don't seem to like Nico, he's had it for a few races now. Silly, this isn't Wrestling, you don't need to boo the drivers you don't like.
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