Formula One - 2022 - Rllmuk League is live

[bear]

Vettels now in the points, what a pair of gents Alonso and Hamilton are. 

[Count Buffalos]

Dominant drive by Max there. Good drive by Leclerc.

[Sidewaysbob]

Hahahahaha ha redbull fucked it up ghahahahahah hahaha max you tosser. Hahahahahaha

[ryodi]

Hamilton cost Perez second in the Championship with his defence. Max and Red Bull on another level this season, hopefully Merc can build a better car next season.

[Count Buffalos]

Yeah, looking forward to a proper 3 way fight next year.

[Sidewaysbob]

I do hope Checo punches max on the podium 

[Bushtopher]

Red Bull on another level by breaching the cost cap…. hard to give them credit when we know they had an unfair advantage (sure, they probably deserve it but it should cast more of a shadow over their year than it probably will)

[JohnC]

Sharl is knackered

[davidcotton]

Car aside can’t stand red bull as a team.  Now max is concerned about Perez?  Piss off. 

[JohnC]

Oof, boos

[layten]

A few Max Boostappen's there.

[Sidewaysbob]

Yeah. Redbull got its act together faster than anyone else. 

Ferrari continues to contrive to lose everything 

Merc were hamstrung with a fundamental design flaw. 

 

I'm not sure redbull really "deserve" the win with questionable accounting and a toxic culture. They didn't have much competition ultimately and delivered the points when required. 

[ryodi]

I was seeing the cost cap breach as being last year and let’s face it the penalty is going to have no effect on their performance in 2023. Perez was the definition of a number two driver. Sad that Hamilton’s win / pole record every season is broken especially when Russell managed it in the same car.  Hopefully he can come back strong next year when I expect Ferrari to break him like they did with Vettel and Alonso. Speaking of Alonso I wonder what his thoughts were when he saw the strategy AM had given Seb in this race.

[Sidewaysbob]

Without Seb leaving this weekend would have been a complete bust. 

 

Oh well 

 

Time for the footy then. 🤔

 

[Blue]

4 minutes ago, ryodi said:

Sad that Hamilton’s win / pole record every season is broken especially when Russell managed it in the same car.  Hopefully he can come back strong next year when I expect Ferrari to break him like they did with Vettel and Alonso.

Ham driving for Ferrari next year?

[Shimmyhill]

Ahh if only Max had let Perez past last race 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[ryodi]

5 minutes ago, Blue said:

Ham driving for Ferrari next year?

Damn I meant Leclerc I’m regards to next year. Although even when Ferrari was on the pace this year I didn’t see anything in Leclerc that makes me think he could beat Max over a seasonal

[Count Buffalos]

1 minute ago, Shimmyhill said:

Ahh if only Max had let Perez past last race 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

It wouldn’t have made a difference .

[Shimmyhill]

1 minute ago, Count Buffalos said:

It wouldn’t have made a difference .

 

We will never know, points maybe but strategy who knows - you have to imagine Ferrari picked the right call by accident!

[Sidewaysbob]

It would have changed what ferrari did here though. They'd have been more aggressive and probably gone 2 stop with everyone. 

[Blue]

Checo doesn't deserve 2nd place. With Max circa 150 points ahead of his nearest rival, Checo should have easily been able to secure 2nd, but he didn't, because he's shit.

[wev]

Well that nap was needed

[taurusnipple]

9 minutes ago, Blue said:

Checo doesn't deserve 2nd place. With max circa 150 points ahead of his nearest rival, Checo should have easily been able to secure 2nd, but he didn't, because he's shit.

Don’t agree with any of that. Start of the season Ferrari were in the mix for race wins, the rivalry was between Max and Charles, thus the points. Redbull prioritized 1 racer (even to the last race and well after Max had won the championship) Checo is not shit by far.

[Blue]

2 minutes ago, taurusnipple said:

Start of the season Ferrari were in the mix for race wins, the rivalry was between Max and Charles

 

1st quarter of the season maybe, but thereafter the RB was dominant, so I maintain that Checo should have been easily able to secure 2nd. "Shit" might be a tad harsh, but in terms of driver skill he's a long way behind half the field.

[sprite]

I love that Gasly and Albon gave Perez a little grief and let their boy get home as well  

[Shimmyhill]

32 minutes ago, Blue said:

Checo doesn't deserve 2nd place. With Max circa 150 points ahead of his nearest rival, Checo should have easily been able to secure 2nd, but he didn't, because he's shit.

So by the Alonso o’meter Max championship’s** don’t count as much!?

[Sidewaysbob]

Checo isn't a shit driver by any stretch of the imagination. He's a good solid, bring it home drive that given a following wind a bit luck will win you a race, if max isn't second behind him.. 

 

And the word is, the car was neutral at the start of the year and development was 100% Max driven. 

[Blue]

42 minutes ago, Sidewaysbob said:

He's a good solid, bring it home drive that given a following wind a bit luck will win you a race

Gosh, when you put it like that, he sounds great. 

[kiroquai]

Interesting year in some ways. The new cars looked awkward, heavy and cumbersome in testing and the porpoising made it worse, but once the season got rolling they weren’t too bad. They’re still entirely too big and heavy, but they weren’t a total disaster and likely improved the quality of the racing a little.

 

Obviously Max/Red Bull kind of made that a moot point. Ferrari didn’t help by squandering a great car with strategic ineptitude. Merc’s much-hyped revival never came, but was good to see Russell doing well and getting his win.

 

Was quite disappointed by McLaren. They ended 2021 racing for victories on occasion, but never looked even close this season. Alpine were a watered-down Ferrari in how much they wasted a potentially great car, this time due to unreliability. 

 

The rest were a bit *shrug*. AlphaTauri went backwards. Alfa Romeo started brilliantly but then did the classic Sauber Slide as they got out-developed by almost the entire grid. Zhou completely surprised me, though - he looked well worth his seat. Haas proved that focussing on 2022 was worth it, and it was good to see Albon peddling that Williams well into the midfield.

 

Oh, and Aston were there too. Sad to see Seb go. Proof positive that once you’re outside of the Horner and Marko bubble then you’re likely to become a very likeable driver indeed.

 

Main highlight of 2022 for me will forever be watching the second half of the season with my little son. I’ll quote reply this post after the 2040 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix when he’s just crossed the line to become the youngest F1 champion in history.

 

[Sidewaysbob]

34 minutes ago, Blue said:

Gosh, when you put it like that, he sounds great. 

 

he's a number two that almost came second in the championship and did as he was told (mostly).. so really. he's not shit, he did what he was employed to do.