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Pick the Podium - F-1 - Heineken Grande Premio de Portugal 2021, Portugese Grand Prix, May 2021

Retroram52

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The battle between Verstappen and Hamilton continues to heat up as F-1 goes to Portugal for their 2021 Grand Prix. This is a legitimate battle now as the changes Red Bull have made to their cars to be weekly threats to Hamilton and his Merc. Bottas seems to have significantly faded as Hamilton goes for a record eighth championship this year. Should be another fun race.
 

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According to christian Horner the next 2 tracks favoured MB last year and likely will this year.

Bottas needs to get off the schneide...
 

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According to christian Horner the next 2 tracks favoured MB last year and likely will this year.

Bottas needs to get off the schneide...
Also according to Christian Horner, Mercedes is just trying to ramp up the pressure on Red Bull by calling them the favorites.

So I wouldn't take everything he says as Gospel lol


I just want to see McLaren continue to improve. It will be interesting to see who they want in front once Danny Ric is comfortable with the car.
 

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Also according to Christian Horner, Mercedes is just trying to ramp up the pressure on Red Bull by calling them the favorites.

So I wouldn't take everything he says as Gospel lol


I just want to see McLaren continue to improve. It will be interesting to see who they want in front once Danny Ric is comfortable with the car.

For sure it's a war of propaganda.

But from what I saw, MB had the race pace if not the quali pace.

McLaren will do the right thing and take each race on it's own.
 

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Boring prediction.

HAM
VER
BOT
PER
 

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HAM
BOT
PER
SAI

Max was furious after quali, so that will likely lead to him doing something stupid in the race.
 

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Reasonable assumption there. Could totally see that happening
 

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Hamilton
Bottas
Verstappen
Norris
 

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Max: "I got fastest lap"
DiResta: "Actually you didn't - deleted for track limits at turn 14"
Max: "There's track limits at turn 14?"

lol

Track Limits 3 - Max Verstappen 0.
 

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Here's How We Did:

ckhokie:
15 points-Correctly selected Hamilton for the win; Verstappen for second place; Bottas for third place; Perez for fourth place; Receives 2 bonus points for running the table, 1 through 4
forty_three: 6 points-Correctly selected Hamilton for the win
Hank Kingsley: 6 points-Correctly selected Hamilton for the win
Retroram52: 15 points-Correctly selected Hamilton for the win; Verstappen for second place; Bottas for third place; Perez for fourth place; Receives 2 bonus points for running the table, 1 through 4
Schmoopy1000: 6 points-Correctly selected Hamilton for the win

2021 Season totals:

ckhokie:
25 points
forty_three: 19 points
Hank Kingsley: 19 points
Retroram52: 28 points
Schmoopy1000: 6 points

Next Race: Grand Prix of Spain, May 07-09, 2021
 

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Nice call by ckhokie on his first competition. Running the table is tough to do but you did it in the early part of 2021 season. Well Done!!

Everyone else got points and Schmoopy is on the board and has us all right where he wants us. Nice job.

Onward we go next week to Spain for the Grand Prix there. I'll see you all race day. Have a great week.
 
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