FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO 2021...Mexico City..RACE...▄▀▄▀▄▀ SPOILERS▄▀▄▀▄▀

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This should be a good one.

Forza Ferrari!

 

Good job Bottas is on pole.... minimises the chances of him catapulting into other drivers.

 

Nice to see Tost standing up for Yuki. Horner the crying baby. Next time sort your drivers out first with the traffic. Yuki did nothing wrong. Shut up and race Horner. The only idiot in all this was your team. Pathetic. Max needs to be very careful with the word idiot. He has had his own moments. Perfect he is not at all.

Why Tsunoda wasn’t at fault in Mexico F1 qualifying controversy
By: Adam Cooper
Nov 7, 2021, 5:14 AM
Yuki Tsunoda inadvertently became the villain in the eyes of many after Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix qualifying, as Red Bull boss Christian Horner claimed his pole-chasing drivers "got Tsunoda'd".

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/why-tsunoda-wasnt-at-fault-in-mexico-f1-qualifying-controversy/6755166/

It was an unfortunate co-incidence that the cars affected were the two Red Bulls. The incident made for some tension between the AlphaTauri and RBR camps, and it was clear that Franz Tost wasn’t happy that his man had taken such a verbal beating from all sides.

“I absolutely don’t understand why Perez went also off the track there,” he said.

“Yuki went to the side as all the drivers do in qualifying to make a place for the cars that are coming behind which are on a qualifying lap, he was not on a qualifying lap.

“It is as easy as that. Therefore I don’t understand anything about this.”

 

Aside from being a “good sport, old chap” what incentive does Bottas have to “help” Hamilton? Or will he let him through at turn one and block the others?

 

This. I couldn't understand why they were blaming Tsunoda at all other than just venting their frustration, but still it was super childish of them. Perez clearly lost focus/succumbed to target fixation which is no one else's fault but his own. If anything Perez coming back out onto the track was likely what caused Verstappen to lift.

 

Guys race at 1230 Eastern on abc?

 

I think it should be 2PM for East Coast? I think that graphic forgot about DST for USA/Canada. Race is 3AM for us here in HK

 

Coverage starts at 12:30 EST on ABC.

 

Yah remember to set your DVR's because its ABC today.

Still should be commercial free like the USGP was.

 

Probably has hour pre race. Overkill. I used to love pre race back in the day when the drivers didn’t have much to say but when they did it was cool. And watching the pre race was the only way to get info.

 

If one needs a link to view this event - this is working today - https://cricfree.live/livetv/skyf1.php

 

Oh Nikita lol - enjoy lol

Haas: Drivers should listen, not try to be strategists
By: Jonathan Noble
Co-author: Oleg Karpov
Nov 7, 2021, 8:08 AM
Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner says his drivers should listen and stop trying to be strategists, following the latest incident between Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher.

Mazepin was left annoyed in qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix when he was refused a request to overtake his teammate during a preparation lap in Q1.

When told he could not, he responded on the radio: "Are you having a laugh?"

Haas' chief race engineer Ayao Komatsu intervened and made clear the team was not joking, and told the Russian that he should drop back if he wanted a gap.

Mazepin felt it was unfair that he was turned down the request to move ahead of Schumacher, whereas his teammate was allowed to do exactly that to help better prepare his tyres at the Dutch Grand Prix.

"In the previous event in the Netherlands, we could exchange positions, and he's been given a green light, where I've been given a red light," explained Mazepin.

But Steiner does not think comparisons with what happened at Zandvoort are fair.

He is clear that one of the lessons from after that event was that the pitwall had final say on matters, because it was better able to judge the bigger picture of traffic than the drivers could in the cockpit.

"I think it was clear after Zandvoort, we discussed it," said Steiner. "We said that we [on the pitwall] will look in to what is going to happen, because we see a lot more than they see.

"We saw that there was no point [to let him through], because even if Nikita overtakes Mick, he will be stuck behind the Williams. So there is no gain there. And then his tyre temps were okay.

"So it was just like: no, stay where you are because otherwise we take a risk, going over the finish line and having our two cars drag racing down the straight and both losing out in Turn 1.

"In the end actually it ended up better for Nikita, because Mick got in traffic in the last turns, and he didn't. But he does not know that."

 

Wow! Amazing pre-race atmosphere.

 

But he can brake check MAX now.

sjd

 

Having seen a replay today of that - a penalty should be considered.

 

Marko telling Pierre if you pass a Red Bull you have to eat strudel for a month!;-)

 

Sounds quite good - with Nespresso - what else lol

 

Yuck;-)!

 

LOL!