Glen

LuigiVampa

Jolyon Palmer on the BBC 5Live podcast after the race made the remark of "when has Lewis not been on the radio complaining about some aspect of his car during the race."

He thinks it is a little bit mind games with Ferrari and Redbull and also a bit of showmanship. "I don't know how I got to the end of the race because of ........."

I tend to agree.

Coochas

TOTALLY.
I do believe that Lewis is a phenomenal driver but the HAM likes to ham it up. Hehehe.
He doesn't need to do this BS. He's one of the best drivers and he's in the best car.

Paul Solk

The interesting thing is what the FIA actually "chooses" to broadcast... If you have f1tv and listen to each team it's amazing what you actually hear...
Watching the broadcast you get the impression all the other drivers are silent and Lewis is the only one on the radio complaining. Listening to each team's radio you can actually hear what's going on.
Poor LeClerc sounded like he was having a meltdown, Haas always makes for very entertaining listening, two kids I really enjoy listening to are Norris and George Russell. Oh and Kimi is really impressed with Lance LOL...

hf1

Monaco has become a boring parade lap show, not a race anymore. The pole position winner might as well run the whole race on street summer tires, never pit in, and still keep P1 for the whole length of the race.

Coochas

They could save a whole lot of money by just using the qualifying results as the race results for Monaco.

951and944S

I was surprised to see the on-board on/% throttle of Vers' car after putting on the hard tire.
1/2-3/4 throttle where had been WOT on the softs.

Seems to me, it's all a game with Mercedes and in actuality, it's the med tire that won the race for Ham.

The superior traction out of the corners was blatantly obvious, especially Portier.

If I'm not wrong, Ham's stint on meds was within or at the lap count expected by Pirelli...?
Cloudy conditions should have solidified that prediction and also been the better choice (meds/hards) had it sprinkled.

Right call was meds, especially in the lead where the pace could be controlled.

Rest of the radio faux concern and after race trolling is all just a heap of entertainment bu11****.

T

okie981

Indy 500 was a race, Monaco was a show. I saved the Indy recording to watch again, deleted Monaco as soon as checkered flag was thrown.

951and944S

BTW, what is the consensus on the "unsafe" release....?

WTF are you supposed to do when your crew beats the other team (Vers was ahead in pitlane)....?

The stop/go sign pole guy (or lights nowadays) should add a triangular "yield"....?

RollsEyes

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gbuff

I dunno, I rather enjoyed watching--towards the end Max turned up the juice and got really close and the anticipation of knowing he was gonna go for it at some point SOON kept me on edge. He did go for it, and failed, even though if he'd "won" he'd be third with the 5sec penalty. Helluva drive by Lewis on those tires.

Yes, his whining got tiresome. Yes, it's a street course where it's nearly impossible to pass so it inherently sucks But it's Monaco, and the in-car footage was worth the price of admission ($0 ) for me.

On to Canada, eh?!

Gary

DTMiller

Was at the track Sunday so just watched the last 10 laps or so. Max was a lot faster than HAM, there's a chance he does better than 3rd even with the 5 sec penalty if he gets clear with a few laps remaining. After the touch at the chicane Max reeled him back in very easily.

gbuff

Yep, and kudos to Max for keeping his cool--it wasn't that long ago he prolly would've wrecked both of them trying to do the improbable which I'm sure Vettel was praying for

LuigiVampa

I was watching quali while standing online in Disney. I like F1TV but usually only use it when I am not home. It is interesting to follow and listen to a single driver. As you stated, you realize that there is a lot more going on than just the few messages they broadcast. They don't broadcast alot of the #$% &^%%& #$% stuff!

Honestly, not far off from the reality.

JTT

...and it's as crowded with bodies as a boy band concert.

JTT

As I remember, Pirelli gave them 50 laps....Hammy was WELL over that window. You could see his fronts were shagged 15 laps before the end.

Leclerc had every right to be frantic. The way he was treated wasn't right...but it was Ferrari.