The 2022 MIAMI thinks its Monaco GP in the US of A

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Lewis complains of his strtegy not being kind to him.

[John]

Checo went full LLLLEERRROOOOYYYY JJJJEEENNNNKKKIIINNNNSSSS.

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Sergio now lost DRS on Sainz as has Leclerc lost DRS on Max.

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Schumacher took out Vettel. Both out I suspect. There goes Schu's points finish.

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Schu and Vettel under investigation. I think that one was dow to MSC. Ironically he was able to pit and rejoin with a new nose.Seb is out. That might stretch their friendship.

Anyway final lap.

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Russell showing he is the leader of Mercedes! He personally defeated Hamilton.

Max Verstapppen wins the race. Stunning job!

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Max wins from Leclerc nd Sainz

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Max got the FL point too.

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How they finished.... Alonso has a 5 second penalty dont forget so may not stay that way.

EDIT: REVISED RACE RESULT POSTED HERE
Fernando Alonso, who received a 5 second penalty for causing a collision with Gasly received an additional post race 5 second penalty for leaving the track and gaining a lasting advantage at Turn 14.

The penalty has been added to his race time, meaning he drops from 9th to 11th place in the final race classification. Alexander Albon has moved up to ninth place for Williams and Lance Stroll is promoted to 10th place

FINAL REVISED RACE CLASSIFICATION

POS NO DRIVER CAR LAPS TIME/RETIRED PTS
1 1 Max Verstappen RED BULL RACING RBPT 57 1:34:24.258 26
2 16 Charles Leclerc FERRARI 57 +3.786s 18
3 55 Carlos Sainz FERRARI 57 +8.229s 15
4 11 Sergio Perez RED BULL RACING RBPT 57 +10.638s 12
5 63 George Russell MERCEDES 57 +18.582s 10
6 44 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 57 +21.368s 8
7 77 Valtteri Bottas ALFA ROMEO FERRARI 57 +25.073s 6
8 31 Esteban Ocon ALPINE RENAULT 57 +28.386s 4
9 23 Alexander Albon WILLIAMS MERCEDES 57 +32.365s 2
10 18 Lance Stroll ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 57 +37.026s 1
11 14 Fernando Alonso ALPINE RENAULT 57 +37.128s 0
12 22 Yuki Tsunoda ALPHATAURI RBPT 57 +40.146s 0
13 3 Daniel Ricciardo MCLAREN MERCEDES 57 +40.902s 0
14 6 Nicholas Latifi WILLIAMS MERCEDES 57 +49.936s 0
15 47 Mick Schumacher HAAS FERRARI 57 +73.305s 0
16 20 Kevin Magnussen HAAS FERRARI 56 DNF 0
17 5 Sebastian Vettel ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 54 DNF 0
NC 10 Pierre Gasly ALPHATAURI RBPT 45 DNF 0
NC 4 Lando Norris MCLAREN MERCEDES 39 DNF 0
NC 24 Zhou Guanyu ALFA ROMEO FERRARI 6 DNF 0

Note - Verstappen scored an additional point for setting the fastest lap of the race. Alonso and Magnussen received five-second time penalties for causing collisions. Ricciardo and Alonso received five-second time penalties for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

[Picci]

The Haases got fet up of the Astons around them so they decided to try to knock them both out instead, with self-destructing effects.

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Leclerc still leads the championship by a decent margin. (20 points off the top of my head)

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Oh these interviews are just the worst.

[Cheeveer]

bad race

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Oh this podium is just the worst.

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whilst it doesn't have Dallas-proportions of a mess, it seems some drivers are not overly happy with the quality of the road.

Surely they understand the limitations of new tarmac. What they are pissed off about is the lack of techpro

Techpro was yesterdys whinge... today its the quality of the surface is not up to F1 standards.

A few comments

“I think most importantly the surface is a joke,” said Perez when asked if there will be any passing in the race.

“Tomorrow the racing is going be difficult. And you're going to have the drivers making mistakes because we've been put into this situation.”

In addition to Perez's comments, Fernando Alonso said that the track surface was “not F1 standards”, while Lando Norris suggested that it was “not good enough.”

Alonso revealed that the subject had been discussed in Friday night’s drivers’ briefing, and that the lack of grip had not improved on Saturday.

“It's still very difficult to go offline,” he said. “There's like rubble out of line, so it's going to be difficult. We said yesterday that the track, the tarmac, is not F1 standards.

“Nothing we can do. I think this weekend we need to put the show, but this has to change for next year. It's very difficult to race like this.”
Daniel Ricciardo agreed that it was not possible to stray off the racing line.

“You literally have to just stay on that one line,” he said. “Otherwise, you're not not really on the track anymore.

“So actually instead of kind of making it a kind of a good challenge, it just makes it a little bit, in a way, like one-dimensional, because you only have kind of that one option of that one line where a little bit of rubber building up. So I don't want to lie and say I like the surface.”

Ricciardo’s view was shared by his McLaren team mate Norris, who rued the fact that the race may not be as entertaining as fans had hoped for.

He also suggested that the organisers were “winging” it by trying something different with the track surface, which is made from local materials.

“On the racing line it's not bad grip, is reasonable-ish,” . “I think it's just very hot, which makes it feel even worse. The fact is just offline it's really, really terrible.

“And we come to the races, and there's so many fans here. And everyone expects such an amazing race. So when you come to it, and then they're trying something new with the surface, and something they've not really done before, then I think we end up in a position like we are.

"You don't want everyone to be exactly the same, every track, you like the differences, you like them to be unique.

“But when there's so much expectation, and you want good racing, and you want us to provide good racing and entertainment and everything, and then there's a surface, which they're trying and they just kind of winging it in a way to see what it's going to be like…

“It’s not good enough, because then we can't do what they require, we can't put on a good show. We can't race. It's not our fault, but it's a shame.”

Oh and we had an Its not as good as Jeddah...cited Jeddah as a track with as surface that provides ample grip.

“I think if it was a surface like we have in Saudi, for instance, it's just very high grip in general, it survives in hot temperatures, then I think everyone will be looking forward to an extremely exciting Sunday,” he said.

“Because you can go wide, you can do different lines, you can do alternate lines, you can do everything. Whereas tomorrow, everyone's pretty much stuck to just following line.

I think the Merc drivers were complaining of the bumps. Someone remind them thats the car not the track.

Turned out to be a load a whinging driver shite as usual, nothing wrong with the surface, overtakes in quite a few places

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bad race

Did you miss 'the Hamilton years'?