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This safety car was a massive help for Mercedes, but Vettel is ahead of Bottas nonetheless. Vettel now needs to drive fast enough to prevent Bottas from overtaking him, but at the sam time he needs to keep Bottas close enough to cause wear on Bottas' tires with his slip stream. After lap 35 Vettel needs to maintain a lead bigger than 1s in order to prevent Bottas from using his DRS.

Verstappen crashed and caused a yellow flag. It looked like a beginner's mistake, but it was probably a mechanical failure.

Undercut from Vettel!

Bottas is slowing Vettel down, but Vettel can't overtake either.

Fantastic start from Vettel who was able to overtake Hamilton in the first turn and is now able to pressure Bottas. Raikönnen has fallen behind on the 7th place, unable to help Vettel who's inside the Mercedes sandwich.

In order to win a race the tires need to last a little longer than a couple of hot laps. It's difficult even for a team like Mercedes to fix an issue like overheating rear tires within a week. On the other hand Ferrari had trouble with their electronics.

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Mercedes drove a racing setup instead of an qualifying throughout out the entire training. They are really determined to not let their tires overheat during the race. I wonder if they can win the qualifying nonetheless, it would be massive for them.

The race and qualifying are starting pretty late in Bahrain. I wonder how much the lower track temperatures will help Mercedes.

Finally Alonso will know what it feels like to sit in a proper car.

Tuchel actually voiced his displeasure before the game. It was shown and discussed on Sky before the match.

Ferrari must be fuming about the decision to "release" the virtual safety car instead of the real one. That "undercut" cost Vettel about 15 seconds. Nice come back though. https://my.mixtape.moe/uuxage.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/gvdzef.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/rhlagj.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/jkzmls.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/dsusmy.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/otgceh.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/uoimbp.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/jqoxpx.mp4 https://my.mixtape.moe/bkixoj.mp4 Enjoy! I like Grosjean's move in particular. So spectacular! It looks like one of these moves kiddos on f1 2015 would try, except it worked without crashing the other driver off the track.

1 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1.31.678 --- 6 2 5 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1.31.864 + 0.186 6 3 77 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1.31.865 + 0.187 6 4 7 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1.32.140 + 0.462 6

https://jungefreiheit.de/?attachment_id=186351&postid=154935 Not a big fan of this newspaper, but this is spot on.

Sad K? The BPL is too physical for Max i think. He should try La Liga or Seria A, if he wants to leave the Bundesliga. Are there examples of Weinzierl's "lack of respect and professionalism"? Who would lead the team ahead of Höwedes?

Let's hope they are not trying to find the 'b' now.

There was so much smog that the training session had to be aborded.

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I'm not saying I'm sure who'll win. There are favourites based on who's car performs better under conditions defined by the track(climate and layout). I already explained that actually. If Mercedes want to protect their tires in ultra hot conditions, they'd prolly need to change fundamentals of their suspension design such as GoG. Something like that can't be changed before the season's break, maybe not even until the season's end.

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Mercedes do still have the best powertrain, hence they are still favourites to win every qualifying, but their suspension is their achilles heel. If the temperatures are getting too high, the rear wheels can't handle all the torque. Thus Ferrari are still strong during the race, even if they didn't win the qualifying. Season predictions: 1. Shanghai: With avg temperatures around 15°C and possible rain Hamilton/Mercedes are prolly going to win. 2. Sachir: This track is even warmer than the Australian GP. -> Vettel/Ferrari 3. Sotchi: See "Shanghai" -> Hamilton/Mercedes 4. Barcelona: similar to "Sachir", but rain is a little likelier here. -> Vettel/Ferrari 5. Monaco: You simply cannot overtake here, especially this season. -> Hamilton/Mercedes 6. Montreal: On a normal day -> Hamilton/Mercedes, but too many safety cars can ruin the race for him like they ruined the racec for Vettel in 2011 7. Baku: Similar to "Montreal" -> Hamilton/Mercedes 8. Spielberg: Similar to "Montreal" -> Hamilton/Mercedes 9. Silverstone: Even colder and rainier than Montreal -> Hamilton/Mercedes 10. Budapest: Vettel/Ferrari ---- Season break ----

True. I wasn't 100% serious, just a little jab. He did some proper defensive with our national team, too. Once he even played in our defensive midfield and did a great job. I can only recommend to watch this game:

Welcome on board, Alan. I doubt Özil would switch to a club where he has to sprint around without the ball and do some proper pressing.

Who's a ginger in this forum besides Honey?