🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2022 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread

[CLS63]

Qualifying session was really surprising in my opinion. I didn't give any chance for a Mercedes driver to win the pole position like many people did as well. I'm still curious about how Russell managed to get past both Ferrari drivers. Verstappen had a really bad day. There wasn't any problem in Q1 and Q2 for him but something started to go wrong in Q3. Because he lost some power and his laps in Q3 were very poor. He is starting from the tenth position in the grid tomorrow. This is like the biggest opportunity for Leclerc to take advantage of.

[swogerino]

Qualifying session was really surprising in my opinion. I didn't give any chance for a Mercedes driver to win the pole position like many people did as well. I'm still curious about how Russell managed to get past both Ferrari drivers. Verstappen had a really bad day. There wasn't any problem in Q1 and Q2 for him but something started to go wrong in Q3. Because he lost some power and his laps in Q3 were very poor. He is starting from the tenth position in the grid tomorrow. This is like the biggest opportunity for Leclerc to take advantage of.

He was lucky,Russell because Sainz made some errors in the S2 of his fastest lap otherwise he would have been near 1.17.0 and not 1.17.3x which was Russell.Still though I am glad that he managed to get pole,he deserves it after so many good consistent performances,I hope we see a really good race after two hours and the rain would be a nice addition to this race although from seeing the weather forecast it looks like there is only a really slim chance for rain near 17 Pm while the race start at 15 Pm so most likely the race would have ended unless a lot of crashes and Safety car entering the track prolongs the race.

[jeremypwr]

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[ILuckyGuyI]

It was such a wonderful race! I'm actually sad to see Leclerc missing another opportunity to win a race.     Everything was going on nicely until Ferrari made a meaningless choice about Leclerc's tyres. They chose hard tyres rather than medium or soft. Red Bull had a really good strategy and Verstappen benefited from this a lot. He didn't have any problem on overtaking Leclerc even two times. Ferrari still had a chance for Leclerc after that. They could have made Leclerc pit once again quickly and changed the tyres to one of the options I mentioned. But they did this too late and the race ended horribly for him.

It is another great week for Mercedes drivers. Good job!

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[darxiaomi]

Really interesting race to see, and always the weather keeping us vigilant, i really want some rain in the last laps for a chaos, but still a very good race.

Ferrari........ i think they need to change the whole team of engineers and head.

But most important thing, now we can say Mercedes its back on track.

[casperBGD]

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thanks, it is a second in a row

It was such a wonderful race! I'm actually sad to see Leclerc missing another opportunity to win a race.
~snip

yeah, sad for LeClerc, and probably end of race for Max, another title is already served
Sainz finished above Perez, but Mercedes took two position on podium, they are back, and probably be better next season

[CLS63]

This race was really something else right before a long break in the season. To be honest I was expecting Leclerc to win this race after seeing his very determined performance. But everything collapsed in a short time after his second pit indeed. Leclerc was very angry with the tyres after the pit. It was another tactical mistake by Ferrari I'm afraid. I really don't understand how they still can't find a solution to this kind of simple mistakes. It is like they are trying their best to prevent Leclerc from being the champions.

[swogerino]

Honestly I did not expect these many points from today race at 11.5 especially when Ferrari screw it up big time for I don't know how many times is this.I don't know and I am not a Leclerc fan but I honestly feel sorry for him,he seems to get all the possible bad luck and even when he is driving a perfect race which he was doing today the team made a huge mistake by giving him hard tires when they had telemetry data from the Alpine team that they were struggling with these tires a lot.That was the biggest mistake for me that Ferrari has made even bigger than Monaco this one.It is a sure thing now that 99.99% the winner of this season will be Max Verstappen and the upcoming tracks sure do not favor Ferrari like this one did.

[buwaytress]

Nice going casper! Make it 3 in a row next one maybe eh?

Back to my sub-10 point racing week, but have to admit, my fault for going with even less than gut on that one, you get what you get, deserve it too

Not sure last time I saw over half the table overlapped!

Also, the Brits did do as well as they showed in practice, even better in fact.

[casperBGD]

Nice going casper! Make it 3 in a row next one maybe eh?

~snip

will try to do it, but it would be too much
nevertheless, finally getting into top3 in this pool table, hopefully could stay there until the end, had a rough start, but it is getting better now

there is too much pools these days, keep joining day by day, will probably think in October why I needed all these pools, but it looks as great fun atm

[darxiaomi]

Well, the summer break its painfull, but at least we have the come back of the football to keep using Superbru.

Related of F1 i see one graphics what show the average pace of the drivers in the Hungaroring, and the best pace was for......... Charles Leclerc followed by Max Verstappen at 0.05 s and Hamilton at 0.1 second.
So you can see how bad was that strategy and how good was the Ferrari pace.

[swogerino]

Well, the summer break its painfull, but at least we have the come back of the football to keep using Superbru.

Related of F1 i see one graphics what show the average pace of the drivers in the Hungaroring, and the best pace was for......... Charles Leclerc followed by Max Verstappen at 0.05 s and Hamilton at 0.1 second.
So you can see how bad was that strategy and how good was the Ferrari pace.

I think this was clear,Leclerc was the most performing driver with the medium tires but Ferrari just wanted to screw everything up with their not so well thought strategy by going with the hard tires.The hard tires never came to temperature because of the cold weather in the Hungaroring track and thus he suffered a lot of overtaking even from drivers with slower pace than him.Ferrari made a big mistake on this one because they had data if they were paying attention to the Alpine cars which suffered really big with those tires.

[buwaytress]

will try to do it, but it would be too much
nevertheless, finally getting into top3 in this pool table, hopefully could stay there until the end, had a rough start, but it is getting better now

there is too much pools these days, keep joining day by day, will probably think in October why I needed all these pools, but it looks as great fun atm

Nothing is too much in these pools, and I do see a trend of leaders getting points to stay in place for a while, might even see if I would follow your picks for a bit after a couple more races.

And definitely no such thing as too many pools haha. I think if you put in picks way ahead for some of them (football anyway) it becomes more manageable

[CLS63]

Now we have 9 races to go in this season. Verstappen is already 80 points ahead of Leclerc and this is a huge advantage for the championship now. I would like to remind you of something from the previous season that Hamilton caught up with Verstappen from a very serious point gap and lost the championship by literally the last lap in the last race. I wonder if Leclerc also can catch up with Verstappen but it is really difficult at this point. Even if Leclerc shows his best ever performance Ferrari are creating obstacles for him.

[darxiaomi]

I real feel sorry for Leclerc, he drive amazing and he is 80 point behind with only 9 races to end the season. I dont think he can catch Max Verstappen.

In other related thing to Ferrari i cant belive the realiability of his engine, Leclerc its now using his 8 exaust, its the only in the limit of a new sanction, for all of those who dont know, you can use 8 exaust per season. A few drivers are only in his second exaust for example.

So all the parts of the engine are shit.

[swogerino]

Now we have 9 races to go in this season. Verstappen is already 80 points ahead of Leclerc and this is a huge advantage for the championship now. I would like to remind you of something from the previous season that Hamilton caught up with Verstappen from a very serious point gap and lost the championship by literally the last lap in the last race. I wonder if Leclerc also can catch up with Verstappen but it is really difficult at this point. Even if Leclerc shows his best ever performance Ferrari are creating obstacles for him.

Well Hamilton is a 7 times World Champion which is clearly with a lot more experience than Leclerc and beside that,Mercedes improved the car insanely in the second part of the season,if there were another couple of races the last season Hamilton would have also been Champions for the 8th time.The only way I see Leclerc closing the gap is if Redbull gets reliability problems as I doubt very much Verstappen can make a lot of errors in the remaining part of the season,he has the luxury of finishing 2nd or 3rd for quite some many races and still keep a comfortable lead even if Leclerc wins the races,that should say it all,chances are almost 0 for Leclerc to win this F1 season.

[CLS63]

Now we have 9 races to go in this season. Verstappen is already 80 points ahead of Leclerc and this is a huge advantage for the championship now. I would like to remind you of something from the previous season that Hamilton caught up with Verstappen from a very serious point gap and lost the championship by literally the last lap in the last race. I wonder if Leclerc also can catch up with Verstappen but it is really difficult at this point. Even if Leclerc shows his best ever performance Ferrari are creating obstacles for him.

Well Hamilton is a 7 times World Champion which is clearly with a lot more experience than Leclerc and beside that,Mercedes improved the car insanely in the second part of the season,if there were another couple of races the last season Hamilton would have also been Champions for the 8th time.The only way I see Leclerc closing the gap is if Redbull gets reliability problems as I doubt very much Verstappen can make a lot of errors in the remaining part of the season,he has the luxury of finishing 2nd or 3rd for quite some many races and still keep a comfortable lead even if Leclerc wins the races,that should say it all,chances are almost 0 for Leclerc to win this F1 season.

Hamilton was actually going to win the title for the 8th time if it wasn't for controversial decisions in the last moments of the Abu Dhabi GP. You have a point there by saying that Hamilton is a much more experienced driver. But still something is really different in Leclerc. His driving style is very similar to the style of an experienced driver. He sometimes makes mistakes but this happens to every driver sooner or later. The most important thing is to learn from his mistakes and not to repeat them. He has made some in this season as well but the current situation is definitely Ferrari's fault.

[CLS63]

Interesting things are going on in F1 these days. Piastri was announced with Alpine for the next season first. However Piastri said that he didn't even have any idea about this and added that he wasn't going to drive for Alpine then. In addition to this news, he is even likely to join McLaren next season to take Ricciardo's seat. If this happens we can see Ricciardo at Alpine at the same time. This is surprising to me to be honest because I was seeing Piastri as a future Alpine driver.

[darxiaomi]

Yes really strange movements in the F1 market, so if you are correct, Ricciardo come back to Renault/Alpine?.

Today i read one mega suposition, in this they said, Toto Wolf make a big part in the deal between Alonso and Aston Martin, thinking to have Alonso for the 2024 season in Mercedes....

[swogerino]

Yes really strange movements in the F1 market, so if you are correct, Ricciardo come back to Renault/Alpine?.

Today i read one mega suposition, in this they said, Toto Wolf make a big part in the deal between Alonso and Aston Martin, thinking to have Alonso for the 2024 season in Mercedes....

As much as I would love to see Alonso with Mercedes I doubt that he can perform as well as Hamilton and Russell because of his age at 2024 which will be 43 and that honestly is an age where rarely I have seen drivers performing well including Michael Schumacher.

Having said that I would love for him to be offered a seat at Mercedes and end his career with a title as I am sure that despite his age if he gets a winning car he will mostly go and win with it but this is what I want to see and not the reality.