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2018 Austrian Grand Prix preview
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| Austrian GP 1997 |
The Austrian GP is here again! I have been in Austria and I absolutely love the whole country. A very special and beautiful place so why not combine it with Formula One? ;)
What do we remember from this track?
4 years ago Felipe Massa took pole position and Valtteri Bottas was second in qualifying. Everybody were stunned. In the race the Mercs got ahead with Nico Rosberg as the winner and Lewis Hamilton 2nd. Valtteri Bottas was 3rd and Felipe Massa was 4th.
In 2014 it was also the first time in many years they raced in Austria. So when was the previous race before 2014? The answer is 2003!
Michael Schumacher was fighting for the championship with Kimi Räikkönen and Juan Pablo Montoya. They were no match for Michael and his Ferrari, so of course he won the race. Kimi was second and Juan Pablo retired from the race.
What kind of other memories do I have from this track then? I remember in 1998 when Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard took a 1-2 for McLaren and Schumacher was 3rd. Those three were fighting for the championship in 1998. In the end it was just Mika vs. Michael.
2 years ago it was also very interesting when the Mercs crashed on the last lap!! Hamilton tried to overtake Rosberg from the outside and then Rosberg just forced him off track. It was a very dirty move and it was very clear what he did. He blamed it on his brakes for some reason.
When Hamilton tried to come back on track Rosberg was in the way again and clearly on purpose. They crashed again and Rosberg lost his front wing and the lead as well! Hamilton was now flying and Rosberg dropped behind Verstappen and Räikkönen.
This year I believe that the Mercs will be on top and Red Bull might do a surprise and beat Ferrari! We shall wait and see.
Then it's time for my predictions.
Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
The race:
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
- Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes
- Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull
Fastest lap: Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull
Surprise: Red Bull will do better than Ferrari.
Monday, June 25, 2018
2018 French Grand Prix review
Well everybody were talking about Sebastian Vettel crashing into Valtteri Bottas at the start.
Bottas had been working hard all weekend and everything was lost in an instant by a mistake by Vettel and he only got a 5 second penalty! So everything Bottas had done whole weekend was worth 5 seconds. Right..... what a joke! Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen thought so too. Verstappen even gave the media a taste of their own medicine when he said that they should tell Vettel to change his driving style because that's what they told him earlier this season. I got a good laugh from that.
Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon also had some drama after the start and were forced to retire right away. Two Frenchmen out on the first lap on their first ever home race! Also not a good race for Ocon's team Force India when Sergio Perez also had to retire due to an engine issue. Force India is really going backwards but at least their not as bad as McLaren and Williams. They behave like top teams but this is not 1997! This is 2018 so start doing big changes or get used to it. Both teams have been saying for a long time that the directions is right... doesn't look like it does it?
Happy for Kimi Raikkonen though. When Vettel had problems he was free to drive with full throttle and not help Vettel as it seems nowadays. I was already thinking that if Ferrari want's Kimi to stay behind the slow Vettel then I am going to throw my sandwich at the TV! Luckily Kimi was able to pass him easily and overtook Daniel Ricciardo after that for 3rd place.
I was very happy for Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc as well. They did very well with the cars they have and could both do much better in better cars. The top teams should keep them in mind when choosing new drivers in the future.
Here are my predictions and the results:
Pole positions: Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG. Hamilton got pole.
Race:
- Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. He won the race and Verstappen was 2nd
- Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes - WRONG. The other Finn Raikkonen was 3rd.
Fastest lap: Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull - WRONG. Bottas was fastest.
Surprise: Charles Leclerc, Sauber - CORRECT. He was fantastic all weekend but didn't get points.
I got almost everything wrong right after I ended the Predictors League. At least I didn't loose any points.
The next thing I am going to write is the Austrian Grand Prix preview. It's nice to have back to back GP weekends!
That's it for today. Thanks for reading ;)
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