I am liking the consistency I am having in these last 4 races being second every time just 0.5 or 1 point from the leader.While I don't care much about being first in a single round,I am really loving the consistency and this week it paid off,I have now climbed directly three positions from the 10th to the 7th place.I hope to continue this way in the upcoming rounds.
I knew that Sainz would not win even in the last part of the race I was not at all worried because Sainz is not a driver who dares a lot differently from Leclerc,if Leclerc were to be at his place for sure he would have tried once and even if that meant to risk the whole race,Sainz is not like that,I saw him in the Mclaren race when he was second and he had all the chances to overtake Gasly at that race a couple of years ago.
Don't know about it. Leclerc got a lot of problems today. Sainz did what he could and in the end, was not a bad day for him. Keep also in mind he has not won a race yet so he has a big psychological pressure going on. Astonishing performance for Mercedes today with both cars. |
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~snip~
But here is the question, does Chelsea still have the market locked?
It seems like they have no problem with signing players anymore. Because I assume they aren't chasing many players to sign now for nothing. Chelsea are very determined to make their lineup solid now and they are continuing their attempts for it. Maybe they can finish the transfers they want a little late in the transfer window but they can still reach their goal. They need a defender and striker first. I'm saying striker too because Lukaku is obviously leaving soon. Lewandowski is the best candidate but Chelsea have at least one rival in this race: Barcelona. Yep, but I can't remember anything official. I can only remember that they had the market officially closed with the Russian war but I can't remember they unlocked it after the sale of the team. |
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That was one of the cleanest races despite three DNF, they weren't big crashes. Mick Schumacher was unlucky again, I wonder when will he get points. Bad day for Sergio Perez but good for his teammate. Verstappen won another race without too much pressure. Last ten laps were exciting but Sainz couldn't find an opportunity to overtake Max. Good race for Mercedes, Hamilton got another podium and Russell finished fourth, and driver of the day was definitely Charles Leclerc. He went from last place to finish fifth. He could've been in better position if he didn't get caught in the traffic after pit stop. Fun race though, not the best one we've seen.
Charles will have a big advantage later in the season, with the penalty they choose to take they will have a lot of free pieces. And considering the fact they have problems with the engines at the moment, they are the only team that could have a free upgrade. |
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Ibrahimovic in Roma?  In fact I think Roma would be more profitable to buy several players than one super player - too many positions need to be strengthened and a "uniformly" strong team is what most suits the implementation of Mourinho's ideas in my opinion. I heard that Di Maria has already offered his services to Juventus and is waiting for a response, quite an interesting situation. No the rumor is the following. If Cristiano Ronaldo will move from Manchester, Roma will try to take him |
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Lukaku is probably coming back to Inter and with Dybala, they will have a good attack.
Dybala-Lautaro-Lukaku
Maybe even too goo and they will end to sell Lautaro.
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According to several sources from both Italy and Uk.
Rabiot is going to leave Juventus and the most candidate team is MAnchester United.
Juventus is expecting an official bid. (IMO could be 10-15m he has only 1 year left)
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Good recovery from Ferrari but Sainz had no possibility to overtake Max.
Impressive race for Mercedes, they are getting closer to the top once again.
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No doubt Benzema will extend his contract. Benzema has done a great performance in Real Madrid last season. His role is irreplaceable and Real Madrid only has 1 strong CF (Benzema). It will be stupid if Real Madrid won't extend his contract.
Of course, Chelsea wants Lukaku to leave as soon as possible. Both Chelsea and Lukaku have a bad relationship. So, simply Lukaku must move to another club for the next season.
It is clear that Barca has not enough money to sign a top player. Bayern wants a lot of money for Lewandowski's transfer fees. So, both Barca and Bayern won't get a deal for Lewandowski's transfer.
They can't gift Lukaky to inter after 1 year and after paying him 100m €... Inter already won a title with Lukaku not paid the past year, I repeat they won a title without paying a bought player, (he was not on loan). Lewa could end to Chelsea if Lukaku leaves. But here is the question, does Chelsea still have the market locked? |
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Easy pole for Max, this was the best condiction for him.
With rain, RBR was panicking.
Astonishing second time for Alonso.
It will be a fun race with Perez and Leclerc in the pack.
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I have looked at the odds for winning the Serie A in Italy. Not unexpectedly, Inter is favorite to win the title with 2.0
Juventus is just below it, but it doesn't really matter. Ac Milan is around 4.0, but they still became champions last season. Perhaps not so much because of the good game, but mainly because of Juventus' failure in the first half of the season. After the winter, Juventus put things in order, but the backlog was huge. Inter and Juventus will compete for the championship.
odds right now are useless. Juventus wants to change 7-8 players this year so right now it is a pure gamble pointing in one team. |
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Benzema is rumored to extending his contract with Real Madrid.
Juventus is maybe going for Koulibaly from Naples.
Inter is close to getting Lukaku back from Chelsea on Loan.
Barca will probably not go for Lewa.
Di Maria will give a final decision to Juve before Monday.
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Charles will be starting at the back of the grid this race because they are replacing basically everything in the engine. Let's see if they will help, the idea wasn't to get "better" stuff but more like new stuff so there wouldn't be any reliability issues next race.
Considering how over half of all Ferrari engines failed last race, there is a good case to be made about their engine being able to take only this much, it's bad that they had to do this early and will probably need to do it again in the season anyway, but good that they will be much better for the next race at least. Let's see if he can do anything from 20th, if not then the one after that should be pretty great.
Not true, they needed to change only the turbo. They choose to change everything so in this way, they will have an extra engine until the season with no penalties. They took the double penalty and got 1 free engine, 1 free battery, 1 free electrical engine, etc, they changed everything so they have more items. Redbull is still under the limit but if they will go near the limit they will do the same thing. |
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Yeah it sucks for him...
And it's a very wet track rn going into FP3 which starts in a couple of minutes or so... Was FP1 and FP2 also wet? It didn't really look wet from what I've seen what they were showing. And I kinda like Hamilton now that he's struggling. Go Hamilton! I kinda feel sorry for him. He wants to perform well but he just doesn't have the car to do it.
Edit: Judging from the times of FP1 and FP2, no it wasn't.
No only fp3 was wet. Qualify should be wet too but without rain, it will start in 30 minutes |
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Leclerc is taking 10 positions of penalty for changing the electrical engine.
They are thinking of taking 20 positions instead and getting a free engine for the rest of the season.
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Rabiot according to Fabrizio Romano and Gianluca di Marzio wants to leave Juventus and he was some premier league club interested in him.
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Session 2 done 1 Max Verstappen NED Oracle Red Bull Racing 1m14.127s 2 Charles Leclerc MON Scuderia Ferrari 1m14.208s 3 Carlos Sainz ESP Scuderia Ferrari 1m14.352s 4 Sebastian Vettel GER Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team 1m14.442s 5 Fernando Alonso ESP BWT Alpine F1 Team 1m14.543s 6 Pierre Gasly FRA Scuderia AlphaTauri 1m14.879s 7 George Russell GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team 1m14.971s 8 Lando Norris GBR McLaren F1 Team 1m14.987s 9 Daniel Ricciardo AUS McLaren F1 Team 1m15.033s 10 Esteban Ocon FRA BWT Alpine F1 Team 1m15.119s 11 Sergio Perez MEX Oracle Red Bull Racing 1m15.167s 12 Lance Stroll CAN Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team 1m15.396s 13 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team 1m15.421s 14 Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas F1 Team 1m15.499s 15 Mick Schumacher GER Haas F1 Team 1m15.516s 16 Guanyu Zhou CHN Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen 1m15.526s 17 Yuki Tsunoda JPN Scuderia AlphaTauri 1m15.567s 18 Alexander Albon THA Williams Racing 1m16.171s 19 Nicholas Latifi CAN Williams Racing 1m16.509s 20 Valtteri Bottas FIN Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen No time set Still not clear if Ferrari will take a penalty for changing the engine. https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1005704/1/f1-2022-canadian-grand-prix-free-practice-results-2 |
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A lot of people were laughing and didn't take Hamilton seriously. But if he really has been having a hard time driving the 2022 car, I don't think he'll last a season driving with a recurring back problem caused by all the bouncing. Anyway I didn't think we're having a race weekend. I thought it was gonna be another week off as Azerbaijan is far away from Canada. Who do you guys got winning this? And Cnut, what do you see in the betting market as far as safety cars go? Share some info please... Mercedes is fixing it and soon we will have a new limitation from FIA, so all the teams will change their setting. |
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1 Max Verstappen NED Oracle Red Bull Racing 1m15.158s 2 Carlos Sainz ESP Scuderia Ferrari 1m15.404s 3 Fernando Alonso ESP BWT Alpine F1 Team 1m15.531s 4 Sergio Perez MEX Oracle Red Bull Racing 1m15.619s 5 Charles Leclerc MON Scuderia Ferrari 1m15.666s 6 George Russell GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team 1m15.822s 7 Lance Stroll CAN Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team 1m15.877s 8 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team 1m15.877s 9 Sebastian Vettel GER Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team 1m16.041s 10 Daniel Ricciardo AUS McLaren F1 Team 1m16.083s 11 Pierre Gasly FRA Scuderia AlphaTauri 1m16.165s 12 Lando Norris GBR McLaren F1 Team 1m16.211s 13 Alexander Albon THA Williams Racing 1m16.308s 14 Yuki Tsunoda JPN Scuderia AlphaTauri 1m16.322s 15 Esteban Ocon FRA BWT Alpine F1 Team 1m16.421s 16 Valtteri Bottas FIN Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen 1m16.426s 17 Guanyu Zhou CHN Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen 1m17.152s 18 Mick Schumacher GER Haas F1 Team 1m17.223s 19 Nicholas Latifi CAN Williams Racing 1m17.241s 20 Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas F1 Team 1m17.555s The first hour has been completed and Leclerc is going slow. The rumor is he is not pushing because he will not try the pole position and he is optimizing the race because he will take a penalty to get more free parts for the car during the season. Source: https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1005664/1/f1-2022-canadian-grand-prix-free-practice-results-1 |
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It is an indisputable fact that Ferrari are very good compared to the past years. Binotto said this in a statement he made on BBC recently: "We set our objectives to be back competitive in 2022. So our objective is to be competitive, not to win the championship, and it would be completely wrong to turn that into: 'Let's try to win the championship because we are so competitive.'' I also think that Tifosi are giving a good signal to the future seasons even if Ferrari don't become the champions this year.
Yup fans are both happy with results but unhappy because they could have a lot more points. It is not over yet we are only at 1/3 of the championship, we will see. |
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How bad its Ferrari doing? take a look on this.
Red Bull - Ferrari gap in constructor championship: 80 points.
Ferrari - Mercedes gap in constructor championship : 38 points.
So Mercedes its more close to Ferrari than Ferrari close to Red Bull. And this with a really bad Mercedes, imagine if Mercedes have a good car to fight. Good bye to Ferrari chance to win constructor if that pass.
They are doing badly, but still a big improvement since last year. These cars are new they need to study them more to get good reliability. Without the mechanical fails, Ferrari is the car to be beaten. |
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