Formula One Emilia Romagna Grand Prix | Driver of the Day: Vote Now

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Who is your RaceDepartment Driver of the Day?

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After a thrilling race, voting has opened for the RaceDepartment Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 'Driver of the Day'.

After a close start to the season, expectations were high as the teams headed to Imola, and the classic circuit certainly delivered excitement.

As expected, the start of the race was affected by wet weather, with low grip making the opening laps challenging for the drivers. As the cars got up to speed and conditions improved, we saw some more adventurous driving, which delivered great overtakes, produced numerous collisions and even a red flag. Despite changing conditions and an interrupted race, today's winner took a very dominant victory.

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There are however, plenty of good candidates for Driver of the Day up and down the grid, with some very impressive performances in the midfield. Some chaos for the regular front runners also allowed for some drivers to finish further up the order than expected. Today's race reaffirmed that this year should provide some fantastic battles in both the drivers and constructors championships, in what has undoubtedly been one of the closest starts to a year in recent memory.

Make sure to cast your vote for your winner, and reflect on a thrilling few weeks for F1 in 2021.

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BrainsBush
Lando!!

Max and Lewis both had their 'mistakes' and also drove a solid race --> Max almost lost his car but managed it to control his RB16 (watch the replay to see he kept his head cool and while turning he pushed the clutch pedal in a 180 degree turned wheel :whistling:). Lewis also made mistakes, lost his car and managed it to bring the car home with a P2 podium place. Yep a solid fast car but still wet Imola is a track which is hard to overtake. He did it.

I was in doubt between Max and Lando. Voted for new kid on the podium Lando.
 
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Kimmo Kokkonen
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This is not racing, this is a "show bisnes"

Hamilton can do what ever he want's, it seems that he has lot of more power in the engine if he has to do a lot of overtaking, LOL

Hamilton's speed is not of this world, nobody cant overtake that easily if not have some extra Power. We saw Bottas cannot compete with others but this race was so easy for Lewis no matter about many of his mistakes???

And Kimi's 30 sec penalty was gift from Ferrari, Italy

F1 is so boring today
 
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Jan Larsen said:
@Keetchyboy @Ricoow Both of the arguments you two present are just unlucky situations from a stradegy point of view, there're millions of ways a race incident can screw your race up. But they still boil down to either pure luck or unluck.

Giving people their laps back because its 'inconvenient' to have them mix it up with the front runners is still just a gift and I'll stand by that opinion. Leave the backmarkers where they are and tell them to piss off the racing line as soon as the can, like in the old days. It'd also get the racing going again faster.

Hamilton earned his -1 lap from a sheer noobie mistake that everyone but him called out before he had even crashed, giving it back is unfair to the drivers who actually managed to keep their carbon fiber heap on the track.

And stop fixing cars and fitting new tires under red flags! Again, free gifts.
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I think we should stop "whining" about the rules that have been in place for years.

We have just witnessed a 2nd great race this season and we still find a way to moan about it. :rolleyes:


Max was brilliant.
Lewis made a rare mistake and then proved why he is the best in the business.
Lando has gone to another level since the arrival of Danny
Bottas shows the gulf in class between him and Lewis. His days are numbered.
Russell went for an overtake like many other drivers that day in the same place. Luck wasn't on his side but was happy to see him go for it.

Sainz is improving and could be a match for Charles










Mazaspin
 
dm3lions
My point is that I see a lot of people suggesting that people like Lewis Hamilton are just very lucky. I would suggest that you are more likely to find luck if you have some underlying talent/work ethic that helps put you in that situation in the first place. Like managing to get out of the gravel when others would have failed.
 
Celestiale
I think as long as it was rainy and wet on the track, it showed perfectly the current skills of the drivers:

Top drivers currently: Norris, Verstappen, LeClerc - hard to say who is the best due to the different cars, would be interesting to see two of them in the same team, probably won't happen though

Followed by: Hamilton, Russel and Gasly (who is a very quick driver but doesn't have the right mentality for higher honours)

The race also showed again that the Mercedes is by far and beyond the easiest car to overtake others and thus by far the most competent racing machine. I mean, Hamilton really hadn't anything to do but floor it to get past them. Can't see the title not falling to Mercedes/Hamilton again unless he is very unlucky.
 
Jim Layee
mopro said:
Hamilton is very lucky, but the way he over takes Sainz, Le Clerc and Lando on DRS is a real joke. In this case, DRS killed what could have been a hair raising battles between Lewis and the young drivers.
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The Don't Race System needs to be gone.
 
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Durge Driven said:
Some people don't seem to understand that every rule is the same for everybody
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That's to some extend right, but it shows quite often that some drivers are first of all more favored than others (see the track limit issues at Bahrain) with rules that aren't black and white or applied inconsistently, where one driver could expand the limits for 30 laps and the other guy looses the win due to one single infringement. Next to that, there are rules in place that lead to systematic imbalance. DRS is a perfect example for this and I am still in the camp of those people who think that this gimmicky crap has no place in F1. The other issue is, that gifting a full lap, no matter who get's it, is simply unfair in comparison to people who have to gain it under race conditions. It makes zero sense to have nonesense like lucky dog rules in a top level sport that has a overproduced clip about equality before the race start.
 
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LeSunTzu
Regarding luck, it is the same thing in every sport: the best players seem to be the luckiest because they are more able to seize and maximise every opportunity than others.

Current F1 cars are made for DRS. It is impossible to remove it without a major aero change. The DRS zone at Imola was stupidly long. But for sure watching the Indycar race yesterday was a reminder of how a "normal" race should be, they had to work for overtakes even with push-to-pass and fresher tyres.
 
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LeSunTzu said:
Regarding luck, it is the same thing in every sport: the best players seem to be the luckiest because they are more able to seize and maximise every opportunity than others.

Current F1 cars are made for DRS. It is impossible to remove it without a major aero change. The DRS zone at Imola was stupidly long. But for sure watching the Indycar race yesterday was a reminder of how a "normal" race should be, they had to work for overtakes even with push-to-pass and fresher tyres.
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There is a saying like if luck becomes routine it's called skill. The thing is you can't argue that luck is a part of the sport if it is enforced by the rules system. You don't gain a free lap in the 400 m hurdles for obvious reasons - in F1 you do.
 
Turk
mopro said:
Hamilton is very lucky, but the way he over takes Sainz, Le Clerc and Lando on DRS is a real joke. In this case, DRS killed what could have been a hair raising battles between Lewis and the young drivers.
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DRS is part of the tool set. It's not impossible to counter the effects of DRS, Lando did a great job of making Hamilton work for his DRS overtake. The fact pretty much every DRS over take ends with the car that over took driving off into the distance shows that F1 cars can be artificial road blocks if we didn't have something like DRS.

Without DRS we go back to the train where no one can over take.

Great race for Hamilton. I would have thought that the fights his had this year would put a stop to people dismissing him but I guess not.

I picked Lando though. It all seems to be coming together for him this year.
 
Jason Chamberlain
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Does anyone else think that the repairs under red flag are unfair? IMSA puts the cars under parc ferme during a red flag, which makes a lot more sense to me. LeClerc got a free pit stop. It's one thing to get a cheap pit stop under a fortuitous FCY, but it's another to get a completely free one under a red flag.
 
Kimmo Kokkonen
Premium
Jason Chamberlain said:
Does anyone else think that the repairs under red flag are unfair? IMSA puts the cars under parc ferme during a red flag, which makes a lot more sense to me. LeClerc got a free pit stop. It's one thing to get a cheap pit stop under a fortuitous FCY, but it's another to get a completely free one under a red flag.
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Filip Carlén
Lando. Manged to keep the Ferraris behind by mostly staying about a second in front of Charles, defended hard but fair against Lewis and was one of few that didn't make any mistake. Max almost crashed right before the restart, Lewis was off, Charles was quite clean but should've been able to catch Lando, Sainz was off etc. Lando drove fast and hard, and a very well-deserved P3.
 
mopro
Turk said:
DRS is part of the tool set. It's not impossible to counter the effects of DRS, Lando did a great job of making Hamilton work for his DRS overtake. The fact pretty much every DRS over take ends with the car that over took driving off into the distance shows that F1 cars can be artificial road blocks if we didn't have something like DRS.

Without DRS we go back to the train where no one can over take.

Great race for Hamilton. I would have thought that the fights his had this year would put a stop to people dismissing him but I guess not.

I picked Lando though. It all seems to be coming together for him this year.
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I understand that DRS is, like it or not, still needed at the moment.
At least until 2022, when F1 implemented the rules to reduce surface aerodynamics effects and compensate it with venturi tunnel under the car, and the introduction of new aerodynamic pieces above the front wheels to improve the air wake from a leading car.

Lewis is a fantastic driver, otherwise, coming back from that silly mistake won't be looked that easy. Probably the Merc enormous straight line speed, that makes the DRS feels like cheating on those particular moments.

I voted for Lando too btw.
 
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ZuneGuy said:
Hamilton skids off a wet track and finds a way to get his car out of a situation from which few could while finishing second and these fools calls it luck.
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Getting out of that "situation" was hardly difficult... he just had to reverse. I'm sure most drivers on the grid could have managed that in the same circumstances.

Nobody is saying he's a crap driver, but Hamilton's result yesterday was 75% luck. If there had not been a huge, race-stopping incident then the minute he spend trying to "find reverse" in the gravel trap, the slow 3/4's of a lap with damage, and the 45+ second pit stop required for a new front wing would have left him absolutely nowhere. He may have gotten back into the points, but he certainly wouldn't have made the podium and would not still be leading the championship. So yeah, he was lucky... again.
 

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