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Jul 13, 2015 2:13:46 AM
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Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
Lewis will win.... he will still be pi**ed about his Wimbledon snub....
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Jul 26, 2015 3:53:19 PM
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Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
Best F1 race for quite some time - action packed with some great driving skills as well as some lucky breaks...
The tributes to Jules were very sincere and moving...
If this continues, I may fall in love with it again..
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Jul 26, 2015 7:31:56 PM
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Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
What a mediocre perdormance of NR!?!
LH did as well very bad as he was pushed from the track right after the start from Nico.
Still I didn't understand why LH battled that bad with DR that move was useless resp. he missed the restart behind NR!
Great drive from SV and KR and especially the Maccas (FA & JB) did well too; if the safety car didn't enter the pits way to early FA could have maybe been even on the podium...
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Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
That was a brilliant race, just what F1 needed in these times of people doubting the sport. I still don't agree with the move to turbocharging but I can't argue with the racing we've seen.
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Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
I finally watched the recording of this (and FP2 and Qualifying) and it certainly was the most interesting race of the season. It would have made the championship even more interesting if Rosberg hadn't had his tire cut down, but I think that was as much his "fault" (or his tires' fault) as Ricciardo's. But, maybe a 2 second tire delta is a good thing for the racing; it certainly contributed a lot to the excitement.
Rosberg was mediocre all weekend, never got the car setup right, but did the best he could with it. Hamilton showed his best and worst sides: his skill as a driver and his recklessness and impatience as a driver when things go wrong. (As well as his inability to accept responsibility for his mistakes: blaming Rosberg, on radio, for running him off the track on lap 1 when he clearly ran himself off.)
It's an atypical track, which may in part account for the excitement of the race, and the performance of Ferrari and Red Bull, but I guess we'll see after the break if Ferrari, Red Bull (and McLaren) have made real progress or if the track was just optimal for them. (Hamilton's/Mercedes' poor starts certainly helped, as did Vettel's/Ferrari's good starts; it's almost like Hamilton takes a little nap on the grid before the start.)
Raikkonen's terrible luck continues. Ok, he hasn't always driven fantastically, but between car failures and crashes that weren't his fault, he looks on paper much worse than he is, and this gets put down to his mistakes. Definitely good to see McLaren move up into points places, but, again, not clear if that was due to real performance improvements or track characteristics.
Looking forward to Spa.
Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
In my previous post mentioning Rosberg's bad luck, I probably should have been more clear that I do believe it was "bad luck" of his own making. He crowded Ricciardo in almost exactly the same way Hamilton did to Rosberg in a previous season and got the same result. 
Re: 2015 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring
Was just reading James Allen's take -- Did Rosberg’s race in Hungary show a lack of aggression and title ambition? -- on the race, and his analysis (and I was wondering why Rosberg was on mediums at the end, but thought I must have been mistaken about what tires he was on in his first two stints) is that Rosberg wasn't trying to win, but just driving defensively, trying not to let Hamilton beat him. He points out that Rosberg asked for medium tires for his last stint, rather than going with softs, which would have been the expected tire at that point, having already used both compounds.
Clearly this speaks to a lack of confidence for Rosberg, not a good situation for a driver competing for a championship. As much as I'm not a fan of Hamilton's, for a number of reasons, I'll give him that he always goes out there and drives the tires off his car, trying for wins, not just to score more points than his closest competitor. I don't see how Rosberg can even compete for the championship if he doesn't think he is the best driver out there: some amount of hubris is necessary.
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