Grand Prix thread Grande Prémio De Portugal 2021

Mercedes far more at home in cooler temps and medium speed.

Red bull all about high speed.

It will ebb and flow all season.

As for Ricciardo- sure it’s a disappointing lap today but McLaren are in some position with Norris driving the wheels off the car and knowing they’ve got a multi race winner up their sleeve once it all clicks together for him.

Ferrari very neat and tidy but underpowered.

 

I really hope George can have a good race and keep it clean. He was saying they have one of, if not the fastest straight line speeds of anyone! It would be great to see them get some points.
Anyone see what happened to Alonso? Ocon did well and I would have expected Alonso to have started to gain pace as he can normally extract extra performance out of anything.
Interesting that Vettel managed to get better quali position and he has the old bits on his car. I really would like to see him get his mojo back especially against Lance

 

Christ... Just noticed the next F2 event isn't until July. These F2/3 events are whack.

 

But I would like Honda to go out on a high, i.e. constructors, but not the drivers championship.

 

The first two races, they've had the advantage. Not so sure about this race though. Sunday will tell for sure based on tyre strats. RBR and Merc may go separate ways based on qualifying.

Like Top said, it's likely to ebb and flow a bit throughout the season... But as it stands, RBR looking to be slightly off it here. A solid 2nd or 3rd for Max and he's in a good spot. If Merc don't capitalize here... He's in an even better one.

Feels like both Verstappen and Hamilton need to makes the very most of each opportunity. Something Max failed to do in race one, and Hamilton was extremely fortunate in race 2 to stay in striking distance. This really could be back and forth between them all season. No clue how it might play out and I love that!

 

Sky Sports: “Don’t write Valteri Bottas off today!”


He’s on ****ing pole position


PEREZ to win

 

Cant see Bottas leading after the first lap , let alone win the race .

 

Mercedes won't want Bottas to finish above Hamilton so probably have another slow Pitstop like he normally has when ever he's ahead of him

 

I can't help but really like Lando.

 

Don't need a safety car for that, surely VSC of been fine

 

I think they need to get a broom out.

 

great restart by Bottas, really caught Hamilton sleeping.

 

Nice one max, cought Lewis napping

 

Lewis on a charge, can't see Bottas keeping ahead with the DRS being as strong as it looks

 

FIA are so useless with track limits, some people get away with it yet others called up about it

 

Wasn’t expecting that.

 

wow, what a move!!

 

Looked more Bottas taking a poor line.

 

Did Bottas forget there was a corner coming up?

 

yeah, first impression was probably swayed by the sparks and the camera angle.