bugylibicska wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 05:13
The Oilers beat the Panthers 5:1 here in Edmonton and the series are tied 3:3. The last game will be played in Florida on Monday.
Amazing to strike back in this way. I hope for Oilers and our Leon Draisaitl (who is an excellent assist provider in this finals series) that they can turn it around completely and win game 7 in Florida. I can't believe that Canada have to wait for such a long time to win this trophy again (Montreal in 1993).
bugylibicska wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 05:13
The Oilers beat the Panthers 5:1 here in Edmonton and the series are tied 3:3. The last game will be played in Florida on Monday.
Amazing to strike back in this way. I hope for Oilers and our Leon Draisaitl (who is an excellent assist provider in this finals series) that they can turn it around completely and win game 7 in Florida. I can't believe that Canada have to wait for such a long time to win this trophy again (Montreal in 1993).
Odds are 1.90 for both.
Well, the Oilers have the momentum for sure and McDavid is on fire, but they play in Florida. As you can imagine the whole city went berserk, only Calgary choking from jealousy.
rpo.castro wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 17:04
Spanish GP Qualification
1 Lando Norris
2 Max Verstappen
3 Hamilton
4 Russell
5 Leclerc
6 Sainz
1st McLaren pole here in Catalunya since Kimi Räikkönen in 2005 (2nd all around since Interlagos 2012, the other was Sochi in 2021).
Very tight qualification
Superb. Is Lando Norris making a believer out of you yet?
One year ago I said that I saw more raw potential in Piastri, that I thought would be World Champion than Norris.
Not only Piastri didn't confirmed so far what is expected from him but Norris has been presenting solid performances, so yes. And I m very happy to see McLaren back again to top, it was the team I cheered for until I made my peace with Ferrari.
Piastri seems to have issues at the end of the races. We'll see in the future if he can find a solution. Norris' first win probably liberated him, we'll see if he can challenge Max newt year (I wouldn't bet on it right now).
Norris was focused on Verstappen, Russell took advantage of it and went from 4th to 1st. And Norris lost the position to Max nevertheless. Disaster start for Norris.
Verstappen already 1st.
matt wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 15:11
Norris was focused on Verstappen, Russell took advantage of it and went from 4th to 1st. And Norris lost the position to Max nevertheless. Disaster start for Norris.
Verstappen already 1st.
matt wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 15:11
Norris was focused on Verstappen, Russell took advantage of it and went from 4th to 1st. And Norris lost the position to Max nevertheless. Disaster start for Norris.
Verstappen already 1st.
Oh, I thought this started an hour later.
Max in the lead already? No need to watch then.
Well, British drivers are 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Norris is trying a different strategy and will have fresher tryres at the end.
So close and yet so far. The botched start of Lando and Max's ability to build a few seconds advantage in the first stint decided the race
The "Verstappen factor" once again made the difference.
A good weekend for Mercedes, a disappointing one for Ferrari.
matt wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 16:37
So close and yet so far. The botched start of Lando and Max's ability to build a few seconds advantage in the first stint decided the race
The "Verstappen factor" once again made the difference.
A good weekend for Mercedes, a disappointing one for Ferrari.
Hopefully it was a good learning experience for Lando and he continues to challenge Max.
He's also now taken 2nd in the Driver's Championship.
Bad start for Norris, that didn't defend well, and he did held quite some drivers back (I think Leclerc was one of them).
Russell took advantage of Norris-Verstappen battle and his new tyres (most people starting with qualifying tyres, Mercedes on brand new).
When Russell was overtaken he did take the pack behind him letting Max had a big gap since Mercedes was overall slower than McLaren (and of course Red Bull) but faster on straight.
With first pit stops we saw that undercut was working, and McLaren stuck behind Russell decides not to stop and to be on track, supposedly to "fight Max" when they were losing a lot to Max and Mercedes. To see how wrong this was lets just say this was same strategy that Ferrari took for Leclerc, so a real shitty strategy.
When they pit, they put mediums, meaning they would need another pit stop like the others. Even if they had fresher tyres by the end of the race, it would be after a few amount of laps, when the "fresh effect" isn't great unless the other drivers tyres life just ends, and McLaren to overtake Red Bull needs a lot differential speed. One thing is to reduce the gap to 1,5-1,2s, another is overtaking.
But McLaren would never have fresher tyres because Max softs on 2nd pit stop were brand new while Norris were used, few laps but used. So they blew up all the strategy on first pit stop and they had help of Russell slow pitstop, that left him in a very bad position on the pack and mercedes being bad on hards.
McLaren is improving but needs to improve a lot more in pit stops and especially in strategy. We see a lot of times drivers going against teams strategy or teams asking "what do you think plan A or plan b". With Norris it looks always like they expect him to make the plan.
June 29, Las Vegas: McGregor - Chandler, Swanson - Fili (and after 3 years McGregor is also back1)
Not really. McGregor injured or was in rehab(?) depends whom do you believe. I don't really care and think he's toast. The main event was replaced fast with a Pereira - Prochazka 2 fight and Pereira again knocked Prochazka out in the 2nd round. Fili beat Swanson with a split decision. There's another interesting fight between Garry and Page, where Garry won a close fight with unanimous decision.
