Motorsports Thread

[Regular.Cyclist]

I think it is fairly inarguable that, although Antonelli is leading the championship on merit, Russell has had much worse luck and reliability over the course of the season so far. Antonelli's only real misfortune this season was his retirement/16th in Spain (damaging his own car and getting a track-limits penalty at Silverstone was of his own making); even excluding interrupted practice and qualifying sessions, Russell has had no-fault incidents, ill-timed pitstops and unreliablity at Japan, Canada, Monaco, GB, Hungary and Belgium.

Sometimes you create your own luck. Yes, on the face of it Russell has had more bad luck but is he doing something different that is exacerbating problems with the car? Just a thought.

 

[figbat]

This lad should be give some kind of medal or recognition by the King for saving the life of a British citizen...

https://news.sky.com/story/race-dri...ari-during-china-gt-race-in-shanghai-13582764

A brave feller with an excess of testes.

Where TF were the marshals, or anybody else for that matter??

 

[Reynard]

I think it is fairly inarguable that, although Antonelli is leading the championship on merit, Russell has had much worse luck and reliability over the course of the season so far. Antonelli's only real misfortune this season was his retirement/16th in Spain (damaging his own car and getting a track-limits penalty at Silverstone was of his own making); even excluding interrupted practice and qualifying sessions, Russell has had no-fault incidents, ill-timed pitstops and unreliablity at Japan, Canada, Monaco, GB, Hungary and Belgium.

Hence my reference to Nico Rosberg...

 

[Reynard]

This lad should be give some kind of medal or recognition by the King for saving the life of a British citizen...

https://news.sky.com/story/race-dri...ari-during-china-gt-race-in-shanghai-13582764

A brave feller with an excess of testes.

Shades of Zandvoort '73, especially what with the single marshal standing to one side twiddling their thumbs...

Definitely a demonstration of why our boys and girls in orange are the best in the world by a fair margin. And that lessons of the past have not been learnt.

If it wasn't for Loek, we'd have had another Roger Williamson on our hands.