🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2024 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread

[slaman29]

This is the problem with no BSFL, I totally forgot to send my picks for this F1. Was there a reminder or tag? Because I missed it I guess 

Not that I can win anymore with so far behind in total points but this miss ensures I totally gave myself zero chance.

Seems like a great race, new winner, Max pressure into collission. This is the season we were all asking for right

[goodpunt]

McLaren should stop worrying about the opposition and try to be extra smart.
In Silverstone they were worrying too much about Hamilton and now again when Norris 2nd place was actually never in danger.
They should have called Piastri first into the pits and none of this drama would have happened.
Both decisions backfired and make them look quite amateurish.
But they weren't the only ones what Racing Bulls did with Ricciardo was on par if not worse

[Reatim]

The races themselves are boring as fuck and FIA makes them even more.That is a way how to make fans go away,overall the only ones to blame are at McLaren,

I agree. Team orders are boring and they should do real racing instead. However I would imagine that if Norris had won, it would be very awkward for everyone. It’s totally not the drivers’ fault as Mclaren could have made better strategy calls. I do feel bad for both the drivers. I am sure giving up a win is never easy and having everyone call your maiden win a gifted one could not be any easier as well.

This race reminds me of one with Vettel and Webber where Vettel were given team orders but did not follow it and won the grand prix. Multi21, as they call it (iykyk) .

[Koal-84]

I understand the call. Piastri was leading, the unwritten rule is that he chooses who pits first.
The team decided tactically that Norris should do it, and after Piastri lost the lead it was clear that the team will ask Norris to let him pass.

I'm actually surprised that it took him so long to accept it, but his post-race comments were actually quite fair.

By the unwritten rule it is correct to let Piastri back to the front, but in terms of the world championship I don't understand McLaren's move at all, the now missing 7 points could be very close in the end, and personally I don't think much of a stable order either. But that's how it turned out and Norris accepted the stable order.

[buwaytress]

Nice McLaren drama in the end, I think the team shouldn't have meddled and just pitted and let both drivers race, they'd both have been happy. Now you have two possibly unhappy drivers. But this season has to be something of a record for number of different champions and maiden wins (that's 3 already if I recall correctly?). And we still have many races to go!

Crybaby F1 drivers is a problematic joy to behold, I used to think footballers were divas.

[cryptofrka]

Nice McLaren drama in the end, I think the team shouldn't have meddled and just pitted and let both drivers race, they'd both have been happy. Now you have two possibly unhappy drivers. But this season has to be something of a record for number of different champions and maiden wins (that's 3 already if I recall correctly?). And we still have many races to go!

Nah, Piastri is without a win and he wouldn't have been happy with 'let them race' method.
I'm all for it, don't get me wrong, and I consider F1 to be primarily an individual sport and secondly a team one. However, the team decided to pit Norris first to protect the team from Hamilton, it was clearly told to both drivers that the order would have to be restored.

From a team perspective, letting Norris win would have been the right call - after all, he's got a theoretical chance of pushing Verstappen for the title. Piastri does not, so I was really surprised by the call.

[ILuckyGuyI]

I missed yellow cap only by 0.5 points.    Congrats Spack17 on that yellow cap! By the way if Norris won the race I guess things would be worse for me so I have no problem with McLaren's call there. 

However I'm thinking that McLaren's decision didn't make sense. Norris is fighting for a title in the end. Yeah, maybe the point difference with Verstappen is still wide but it isn't impossible as of now.

I believe the fastest car on the grid is McLaren at the moment. Red Bull is far away from those strong days. We are in a new race week now. It is on Spa-Francorchamps track and after this one we are going to take a break of a month.

[swogerino]

If the pool stays like this even after this last race in this weekend before the 1 month break I think it is the most competitive pool ever,just less than 5 points in top 8 places and I think that everyone has equal chances now that into the equation are also bullshit team orders which we have never seen before and they can impact our predictions really hard,be it for the best or for the worse,I found myself hit hard for the worse in this first call of McLaren hopefully they don't do it again or the fight in between both drivers of the team would become huge like we had crashes before,Vettel vs Webber and Hamilton vs Rosberg.