Pick the Podium: F1 - Catalunya

[IndyAndy]

I'm heading down to Indy later on today for the IndyCar road course race weekend & I don't know what my internet access potential will be, so I'm going to start this thread while I can.

MY PICKS:

Hamilton
Rosberg
Riccardo

 

[forty_three]

Rosberg
Hamilton
Bottas (Boy's gotta deliver sometime)

 

[Retroram52]

Hamilton, Rosberg, Ricciardo

 

[lakersrule]

Hard to pick against Mercedes

Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

Rosberg
Hamliton
Riccardo

seems like Rosberg has been faster despite Hamliton winning pole.

 

[Retroram52]

What a race. Hamilton nails down four-in-a-row and Mercedes dominates again. Hamilton wins followed by Rosberg and then Red Bull's Ricciardo. Let's see. Mercedes, Mercedes with Petronas and then Red Bull, Red Bull as Vettel worked his way back to fourth. Could it be that Red Bull and especially Vettel are working their way back from a disasterous start? We shall see. Congrats Indy on the podium call. I'll be right there with you.

 

[IndyAndy]

Here's how we did:

Retroram52, BoiseStateFan27 & IndyAndy: 10 points - got all three podium finishers correct
lakersrule: 8 points - got the top two steps on the podium correct
forty-three; 2 points - got Hamilton & Rosberg out of position.

Season Totals so far:

lakersrule: 31 points
Retroram52: 26 points
IndyAndy: 23 points
forty_three: 20 points
BoiseStateFan27: 18 points
shaqdaddy: 2 points

Next Up: Monaco, on May 25.

 

[Retroram52]

On we go. I have to figure out a way to get to the Texas race when F-1 comes to town. This season is really shaping up to be potenially a thriller especially if Vettel and Ricciard start to challenge the Mercedes drivers.

 

[lakersrule]

Teams still have a lot of work to do to catch up with Mercedes. They dominated yesterday. Haven't read anything post-race, but I wonder what was happening with Lewis and his crew. He seemed a bit perplexed during his last stint.

 

[forty_three]

Teams still have a lot of work to do to catch up with Mercedes. They dominated yesterday. Haven't read anything post-race, but I wonder what was happening with Lewis and his crew. He seemed a bit perplexed during his last stint.

Yeah, some tense radio communications. It was almost like he thought the team was sabotaging him to give the win to Nico. He was questioning the pit wall something fierce.

I think they just weren't sure he'd remain in front after they botched both stops. They just wanted to be sure that he could stay out front, so they pushed him.

I kind of laughed when he went off in qualifying and still turned in a time more than half a second faster than anyone other than Nico. What a punch to the gut for the rest of the field.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

yeah right now no one has anything for the Mercedes, they have been so dominant it was weird seeing Nico Rosberg battling with the pack in China before finishing 2nd.


Monaco will be interesting, the power the Mercedes cars have won't be as much of an advantage, the field might just be slightly closer this time.

 

[Retroram52]

There has been a growing rift between Lewis and Rosberg. Rosberg thinks he deserves more team attention and Lewis felt he was being dissed because his suggestions for changes to the car during pitstops were being ignored. Egos got inflated and then the radio chatter commenced. Overpaid little weenies ought to shut their pieholes and drive the damn cars. The little Brit has four wins in a row. What the hell is he bitching about?