Lorric wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 23:24
Ricardo wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 21:48
rpo.castro wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 17:31
Charles Leclerc finally wins at home, with his step brother just behind him.
The accident just killed the race since they didn't want to stop again and kept running in a low pace. Still they gave a lap to almost everybody and 2 laps to a lot of drivers!
Only point of interest was possible free stop for Norris but as we saw with Verstappen, a slower car in Monaco can held a faster one. Now into Indianapolis.
Though I love Charles finally winning his home gp, the race was a killer for the sport. Driving extremely slow upfront (5-6 seconds per round slower as they normally would) and getting away with it is horrible.
Last 3 races Ferrari won (sainz 2x and now leclerc) all were won tactically with driving slower as possible knowing that passing couldn’t be done. Lando won on speed. I don’t see Ferrari fighting on speed circuits for the win, while McLaren and Max will.
Unbelievable Magnussen got nothing for the incident. And when not from F1, then from Haas themselves. He is a very costly driver like this
Next one Canada. I hope Piastry will win…
Yeah, that's a complete farce. I can accept it if people can't pass but you need to be driving hard in order to make that happen, because at least then you have the course factor, you can be impressed by what the driver's doing and people
will crash due to the difficulty level of the course. But you get none of that if they can just ease off and hold their positions. You might as well just have the qualifying, then the start, then bring out the chequered flag, then bring out the Monaco Historic cars for the rest of the day.
If the front cars were driving slowly, what to say about the cars below 7th that all were lapped or the cars behind 11th that were lapped twice? If only front car was driving slowly, the pack would stick together.
Pushing hard, well Verstappen did it after pit stops with zero consequence. Piastri tried for the beginning but get nothing.
The question is that in Monaco track position is everything so after the red flag and the change of tyres drivers on hard tires and russell just wanted to get till the end without stopping. And you can't get too close the next car for a lot of laps or your tires will get hot and degrade. Monaco is what it is. This years was worse thanks to red flag.
Yesterday was full of shitty races. Indy 500 delayed around 3hours due to weather than crashes in turn 1, after the restart, after the 2nd restart, Honda engines blowing up... fight for victory was good and Kyle Larson was doing good until sppeding in pit lane.
Coke 600 was more a coke 400 since more than 200 miles weren't run due also to bad weather. Kyle Larson arrived just when race was stopped. They managed to dry the track but was around 1.30 am and curfew laws force to end what should be longest race of the season, and prevented the double for Kyle Larson that now will need a go from Nascar to go to playoffs (per regulations to compete in playoffs you must race at every race).
