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It looks like he’s sitting in a lobby. There’s a wet floor sign, who appears to be a bellboy, a fountain, and an elevator in the background which is just odd.

 

hotel pool I think.

 

too much information?

 

Keeping Lando behind around Singapore, where you can't pass is one thing. Not making a mistake with all those issues and all that pressure for that many laps... that's impressive.

 

well, the whole team and it's entire identity. British team winning both titles with a British driver will always be a bigger hit.

It's the only link that makes sense. Maybe it's coincidence and poor timing (or on purpose to fuel engagement), but Zak's face lights up when Norris wins and seemingly always (until he notices the camera) he seems a bit bemused when it's Piastri ahead...

Norris is the only one this year that's benefitting of the Papaya rules. Pit stops, crashing into teammate, alternative better strategies (that he could only take AFTER Piastri executed his).

You either make it completely even or not at all...but you can't change your way halfway through the season, that beats the entire idea of being fair.

 

When Norrris had the opportunity to pass I absolutely loved what Max did...Point car ever so slightly to the right and start braking early whilst keeping wheel straight, but trajecting slightly towards Norris' line but still keeping a cars width. With the wall on the otherside that must've absolutely frightened Norris. Norris knows 1 more crash or indeed if he just went off there and had to turn around, would've been very expensive for his title hopes.

 

I remember that Piastri alluded once, after he joined the team, that in all fairness McLaren should race under a NewZealand licence, because that's where its founder came from. Maybe that did put a few people's nose out of joint, although it was said in jest.
Both Norris and Piastri are quality drivers, I would say, but even if the Brit has been longer in the team, to be fair he shouldn't be given preference, IMO. Someone mentioned that Zak Brown and Norris' father shared some commercial interests outside of F1. Maybe that's why Lando is more "integrated" in the team, and because of this benefits from more protection ?
Maybe Piastri getting ahead of Norris goes against the "master plan" at McLaren, but the help Norris receives is now very obvious. I like Piastri more and more, and I hope he wins the title. I deplore McLaren's effort to turn the table on him, and that increasingly fuels my resentment of Norris. It's totally illogical, I know.
Ron Dennis handled it better when he had Senna and Prost, IMO.

 

I guess we've explained that incident

 

Well then I'm not at all surprised that the brakes failed on Hamilton's car. What was the logic behind fitting a set of softs and then setting of on a run of Banzai laps when they know they have brake issues? How much dumber can this team get?

 

Just wait.... I'm sure they will show you in due time! Really to bad as Ham was getting after it.

 

This makes no sense. they literally made Lando give up pole position last year to put Oscar in front. Lando made a racing move on the inside and took the lead over Oscar. Oscar had the entire race to catch up and could not.

 

And people seem to overlook the fact that the stewards didn’t consider it an infraction. I guess they’re secretly working on NOR’s behalf, too…..

 

So, I'll explain to you why it makes sense. Lando nearly put both cars out in the first corner by doing a risky move. OK, he got lucky and it worked out for HIM. But the team needs to tell him this is unacceptable when the world championship for constructors is on the line.

 

Remember the day when, if the faster driver had a crash or mechanical failure, they would bring in the number 2 driver and give his car to the faster driver...in the middle of the race! The only thing that mattered was winning. I don't think the drivers of today would have the balls to race under the conditions of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Or even the eighties.

 

Could not, with a screwed up pit stop - which, when it happens to Norris, has the team asking to swap the cars... So that's obviously completely fair...
Time lost in the pit stop (at 5.2s) is approximately 3s, and Piastri finishes 2s behind Norris.

 

They asked to swap cars because it was Landos right to pit first and he let his teammate got help him. You are missing the full context here.

 

So now Lando shouldn't be racing? How many posts are on this website about how you need to let the drivers race. It wasnt a risky move. There was room on the inside. Lando got bumped by someone else forcing him into Oscar. The amount of Mclaren and Lando hate here is comical.

 

They explicitly said it was because of Lando's bad pit stop - rewriting the story does not change the actual context.

 

lol. Lando sucks. Oscar is god. Mclaren as a team is dysfunctional. got it.

comical.

 

Denying facts is indeed comical
It's possible to have different opinions based on the same actual facts, but refusing to consider the facts is typically not a good start (... that's my opinion anyway )

 

The sequence of the pitstops did not change the order of running. It was the Lando's slow pitstop that changed the order of running. Prior to the pitstops, the team said that they would not allow the sequence of stops to alter the order of running. And I agree with that. But that is NOT what happened in that case.

 

This altering of reality regarding Hamilton's races is comical. Such a hard charging racer because he was beating everybody on a set of Soft tires while others were all on aging hards. Forgetting that fact that in nearly every race, Hamilton has the option to try unusual strategies because he is nearly always at the tail end of the lead cars, well ahead of the mid pack.