Italian GP Chat and prediction thread

Sounds like he hasn't got any new softs!!!!!

 

Bottas blown it hasn’t he. That’s why he’ll never be a WDC

 

Once again it shows how having a team mate helps. Lewis put pressure on CLC and ran out of tyres then Bottas can have a go!!! Vettel is costing Ferrari big money and not helping very much. CLC is doing amazingly pity his team mate is letting him down..... Vettel just seems to have gone downhill since the hybrid PUs came in.

 

Even on oldish ones, he’ll grab the quickest lap.

 

Lewis in on lap 51?

 

How the **** has Bottas got an extra year in a Mercedes.

Get a better driver in FFS

 

To be fair Lewis lost it worse on same corner that's how Bottas got 2nd!! I do think Bottas is a good wing man but he has the last few percent missing.

 

if he hadn't he has now.

 

Well done Charles. A bum kicking performance. And this week he can just enjoy it, especially with his team mate finishing 14th.

 

Big congrats to Leclerc, held it under pressure throughout.

 

following cars is Mercedes Achilles heel

 

Why was LeClerc not told to hand the place to Hamilton when he cut the corner at the end of the straight. He kept in front whilst Hamilton had to go the correct way, he would have lost the place otherwise due to his lock up

 

If I was on the Ferrari board I would really be questioning Vettels value for money.
Great great drive by clc, so much pressure and he held it.

 

because he didn't gain out of it.

 

Not deemed to be deliberate. I think you generally get one of those for free, do it again and you’ll get a penalty.

 

Didn't Albon get a 5 second penalty for doing exactly the same thing?

 

How did he not gain, he kept the lead he would have lost

 

I know rules are rules but if they had punished clc I don't think the stewards would have been able to leave Monza alive. It was also a great battle and would have deprived us of that, so I can sort of understand the decision.

 

You can't say whether he would've lost position or not, he could've taken a highly defensive line through the 2nd chicane that would've blocked Hamilton from passing, that may, or may not, have compromised his exit enough to let hamilton ahead. He didn't 'gain' by doing it as Hamilton was closer to CLC after the chicane than he was before it, he just didn't lose as much, which is subtly different.

 

Meanwhile Vettel is probably sneaking out the side exit whilst no one notices.