For me the most interesting thing about the start was the two Finn's crashing with each other again. This time it seemed to be more Valtteri Bottas' fault and not Kimi Raikkonen's. They both dropped to the back and Kimi was furious. Bottas had to drive through the whole track with three tyres and was 1 lap behind everybody else. It seemed impossible to recover from that to the same spot.
After a few safety cars (due to debry on the track) Bottas managed to catch the rest to the same lap and warm his tyres better than anybody else. Then he just overtook drivers one by one...
...but let's get back to the safety car deployment for a bit....
Behind the safety car Lewis Hamilton complained numerous times that the pace was too slow. Then even though the pace was too slow he slowed even more down so that Sebastian Vettel crashed into his back. I am 99% positive that he did it to piss off Vettel and mission accomplished! Vettel was furious and drove to the side of Hamilton's car and turned into him on purpose. THAT WAS STUPID!! A four time world champion should not let his emotions come ahead of his intelligence like that. Because of this Vettel got a 10 second stop/go penalty and also penalty points which may lead to a race ban! Not very smart. Hamilton complained that it was not enough. In my opinion it was enough because even though he "only" got a 10 second stop/go penalty it took him over 20 seconds on the pit lane which basically ruined his victory.
After all safety cars, red flag and debry cleaning Hamilton still needed to pit because his head rest in the car was loose. This of course helped Vettel again but he was still too far away to win the race. In front we had now Daniel Ricciardo, Lance Stroll, Kevin Magnussen, Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon and the very lucky and talented Finn, Valtteri Bottas.
Alonso got overtaken by Ocon and Bottas. He said on the radio then that he could have won the race....?? WHAT?! why would you think that?!? You are still driving a McLaren Honda aren't you?!
Bottas continued to overtake drivers one by one and when he overtook Stroll on the last lap just before the finish line they were 0,1 seconds apart. WHAT A DRIVER!! WHAT A RACE!!!
So happy for Stroll even though Bottas ruined his party a little. I guess people can stop with the Stroll jokes now right? I guess he is pretty good after all. Give the kid a break.
A big congratulations to Ricciardo for winning his 5th race of his career. Superb drive!
Now let's see my predictions:
Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - CORRECT
The race:
The race:
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. Daniel Ricciardo won.
- Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes - CORRECT.
- Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG. He was 4th and LANCE STROLL was 3rd!!
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. Sebastian Vettel was fastest.
Surprise: McLaren will have a great race here if the engine lasts - CORRECT. They got their first points of the season and both cars finished the race.
Remember to post your own predictions to our F1-4-LIFE PREDICTORS LEAGUE.
The rules:
POINTS: 1st - 3
2nd - 5
3rd - 10
HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. If you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points same if you get 1 correct. eg. 2nd you get 5 points. If a driver wins the race and you said he would come 2nd or 3rd no points would be awarded. Same if he came in another position, and you predicted that wrong. A table will be posted up every race weekend. The point scoring system will change once the cars become more competitive. Everyone will say a merc 1,2 so it won't be close or fun.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick! like the Mercedes.
THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MH, MW, JI and PM. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway. We may also come up with some other prize if it helps.
THIS TIME YOU ALSO GET BONUS POINTS! PREDICT POLE POSITION AND FASTEST LAP CORRECTLY TO EARN 5 EXTRA POINTS!
That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com
2nd - 5
3rd - 10
HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. If you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points same if you get 1 correct. eg. 2nd you get 5 points. If a driver wins the race and you said he would come 2nd or 3rd no points would be awarded. Same if he came in another position, and you predicted that wrong. A table will be posted up every race weekend. The point scoring system will change once the cars become more competitive. Everyone will say a merc 1,2 so it won't be close or fun.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick! like the Mercedes.
THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MH, MW, JI and PM. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway. We may also come up with some other prize if it helps.
THIS TIME YOU ALSO GET BONUS POINTS! PREDICT POLE POSITION AND FASTEST LAP CORRECTLY TO EARN 5 EXTRA POINTS!
That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com
