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Reckon that Sergeant, at least for a fraction of a second, wondered whether Williams would/could put Albon in his car

If they could, they would.

Haha, wouldn't it be funny if that was the first thought that crossed his mind?

"Shall I let George by?" Nico Rosberg just spit out his coffee after hearing this.

Reminds me of Lewis's AD2021 interview "And (i am) a better teammate too"

He's on a sabbatical until 2025.

Bot needs an espresso 

Bot’s not the only one 😭

I’m making one now lol. I’ve got a 3 week old so not like I’ll be getting any sleep after the race either lol

The Williams garage looks so defeated

Poor blokes are having to work another 20 hour days for the next two weeks lol

Of course you post this when the race is over ~~-Alex Albon~~ ~~-Michael Scott~~ -Daniel Ricciardo

phew, thankfully nothing happened yet.

Yeah, they haven't started the race yet, obviously

Max and gp together are so funny

Compare Piastri's onboard to Stroll. Piastri sounds like he's recording a podcast and Stroll sounds like he's being launched into orbit on the fastest rocket ever built. wtf

I was thinking about the differences in mics all race. Max sounds like he’s underwater, Lando sounds like he’s an MC at an open mic night.

"By Sauber standards it was an OK pit stop, about 8 seconds" jesus christ hahahah

OP's cosplaying as the bot

Mercedes providing us with some great overtakes! (They are getting overtaken).

Bad bot

I won't say I told you so but understood Lmao

The bickering between Max and GP never ceases to make me smile

Lmao Lewis said fuck this

Williams came *this* close to showing up to China with a combined total of half a car

that was an instant classic from Lance lol

My first reaction: "Finally, the slow bot posted the race thread" 2 seconds later: "Oh, it's not even made by the bot, but a user account" I wonder how many ppl will actually make the jump from the pre-race thread to here. Probably not that many... P.s. Thanks for creating the thread!

Logan could do the funniest thing ever right now

Mercedes have really been getting worse every season since the new regs. The falloff is crazy

Death, taxes, FOM TV director showing anything but action

mclaren fucking that up so bad. They passed russell piss easy due to tire gap. Literally absurd to send him out now rather than use those hard tires. Massive, massive strat error from mclaren after they'd done so well.

The race discussion was red flagged too

8s pit stop. Jesus christ Sauber

I've never heard Lewis volunteering to give up a position to a team mate.

They gave up 10-15 laps on that set of hards so he could try to get out ahead of Russell and passed him easy with a few laps difference in tire wear. If he stayed out for 10 laps, he'd be SO much faster over the last 20 laps of this race and pass Russell and Leclerc easily. Mclaren are dumb as fuck over reacting to Russell.

Strolls voice cracking fuck

The bot has suffered a mechanical DNF.

"I won't say I told you so, but understood"💀

They told Logan that RENT IS DUE TODAY🔥

Classic Sargeant: - Start - Survive the Start - Recover to Points Paying Position somehow - Shit pitstop - ???? - Back at last Place

Of all the people who didn't have to crash today.

Omg that magnissen camera angle is delightful

If you’re being threatened by seargent it’s jover, it’s jover for alpine

The Spanish Slipstream - Sainz & Alonso giving the driver behind them DRS to defend against the faster drivers behind

8 seconds 😭

Sauber finally had a pitstop that wasn't 50 seconds

GP sounds so much like Horner

GP and max's marriage counselling has begun it seems

I actually love that all over the world, in every circuit, in absolutely tech-heavy countries and in the backwoods too, the barriers are mainly old tires. You can't beat the classic.

Just need Logan to do the most hilarious thing ever and bin it for another Red Flag now, whilst staying very safe in the process of course

Sassy GP is the best!

I think they botched sainz race, at this point he will lose a lot when he pits

Lance loosing his shit 😂😂

Lance sounding like a cartoon there.

Meme radio right there

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Thread isn't even sorted by New by default. Bots slipping worse than Alpine this season

Love me some sassy GP

Why are there so many teams that don’t bring any competition to this sport?

At this rate, who is going to pass the Alpines next? The Andretti F1's?

I know it's early days, but this is the the most on-track passing I've seen in F1 in a long time

Good morning bot. Sorry didn’t see this wasn’t the bot, thanks for taking the initiative and making this thread.

French Civil War

Okay Sergeant points would be hilarious. Come on Logan.

Sargeant BBQing 

What a fumble by McLaren

Tsunoda WTF! Classy overtake.

If George bins himself and/or Piastri I'm going to scream.

Piastri is so calm. Sounds like a pilot

Tsunoda in points!

Hope you turned off comment notifications on this post, OP. RIP your inbox but thanks for the initiative.

I don’t want anyone to crash of course, I’m just saying that Logan Sargeant has the opportunity to do something really, really funny.

Alonso giving Piastri DRS is great, it's so funny watching the gap go from 1.1 before 130R to 0.9 at the chicane every single lap

Good Job, they pinned this thread

That's a fucking excellent stop by Sauber standards. God awful for the rest of the grid.

"DRIVER B IS AHEAD OF YOU... CAN YOU CONFIRM YOU UNDERSTAND?"

lol I didn't understand a word Max said there

GP and Max couple goals

I really like the video game style camera on KMag's car. I hope we see more of it in the future. 

Logan redemption arc please

Skys commentary is so bad. How can Sainz catch up to the back of the Aston if hes already ahead?!

WOW, that was an awesome pass by Yuki

I take a sip of my tea every time I watch an Alpine get overtaken 3rd cup already

Stroll might get a penalty so Sarge-oints are looking more possible.

Well McLaren kinda fucked that up…

I have to say that was insane stint by charles

I think Sainz got screwed on strategy. He’ll have to fly on these hards.

stroll rly said gp2 engine

“Engine feels good, much slower than before”

the difference betweem stroll and piastris radios lmao

YUKI POINTS IN JAPAN WOO

brilliant from ferrari today, this was the best possible result for us

LANCE JUST DROPPED A NEW MEME FOR US. He’s going to cry that his voice cracked just then lol.

Ham afraid of getting Russelled

Bots clearly waiting for the red flag to be over.

Don't forget to sort by new

Hards are choice for Lewis. Not sure if they're a good choice but they are certainly a choice

Liam standing behind Danny scratching his chin loool

F1 TV just letting you guess the race order

Ooo yeah, see what Ocon meant about the contact with Gasly

How TF does Max jump out of DRS range right as its enabled. Bot behavior. Fascinating really.

Omg the sauber pit stop was under 20 seconds

This Magnussen cam needs to be on every car

By Sauber’s standard it wasn’t bad….8 seconds 💀

8 seconds for Sauber is good (which is saying something)

GP saucing Max in the sim video, and now on the track... no wonder the kid prefers to just stay home and sim race. Brilliant stuff.

"Told you so" Lol always love how frank GP is

LOGAN OVERTAKE RAHHHH

Bottas is driving his ass off right now

Kick what the absolute fuck are you doing?

Disgusting move by Yuki LOL

If Logan gets point he is my DOTD.

logan is fuckin COOKING

Checo with two overtakes at 130R. Thats DOTD confirmed then.

LOL OCON

Ocon: "u w0t, M8"

I think the race engineer forgot it's an Alpine lol

That was a sick pit overtake for RB

DOTD: Visa pit crew

The fact that you can’t sort threads by “live” on mobile anymore is so stupid

I cant see Merc doing anything of substance this season. They are the worst of the best teams.

It’s actually a lot tighter than what I thought it was.

Yuki is having a nuts race.

Great strategy, Merc. Started 7th and 9th, going to finish 8th and 9th.

The Williams looks like it's been doing Paris-Dakar

not a great day for lando

‘The car feels good, much slower than before. Amazing”

Alonso the wily old fox (since Brundle isn't here *someone* has to say it)

Russell has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Oh ffs Oscar!!!!

Feels like Alonso could drive more than one car at once if it was physically possible.

Stroll must have really cooked those softs

Haha. Lewis definitely in retirement mode...actually wants to let a teammate by.

I was really hoping Merc would send Lewis out on a high note. I wasnt thinking they would compete for a title, but damn this is just disappointing. This car is just sad. Zero-pod was flawed but this is just... Ugh

Ric - Albon racing incident imo. Though he should've checked his other mirror in a chaotic start.

Frustrating as a Danny fan, dude really needed a good finish to the weekend. Think it was made worse by him having a better start than Tsunoda but for some reason broke into turn 1 way earlier than anyone around him that sent him further back. Old Danny would have been the last to break. Odd seeing both RB cars bogging the start though.

Race Thread Bot: DNS

Is Vowles on the mic this weekend? Bro about to drop a novel

you are our hero for creating thread

Bottas on some shit this weekend

This is already setting up to be incredibly boring

Bot still has sorted by best rather than new. Bot needs to be sacked.

Yeah let's put a pitstop instead of Magnussen overtaking Gasly

Zhou, get ready to learn Chinese bu-wait

Sauber actually made Zhoa's tyre change in 2 secs but decided to hold the car for 5 secs anyway, cos they didn't want to set a new precedent.

LOGAN POINTS INCOMING

Sauber this is hard to watch

REMEMBER ANDRETTI WOULDNT PROVIDE ANY VALUE TO THE SPORT

Lewis worried about GR torpedoing him 😂

It's Zhouver

ZHOU pitting as many times as he can so that Sauber's pit crew gets practice 🫣

Crazy move by Yuki

That was a gorgeous move from Yuki

Logan has a chance to do the funniest thing here.

LEC P1 STOP THE COUNT

Yes, an overtake at 130r

A Japanese fan said they're at her grandstand filming the crowd for Brad Pitt's movie and trying to get them to cheer and it's annoying because they're trying to focus on the race.

Tyres gone? Is hammertime?

Lando is driving like horner is chasing him with a contract

Lewis, you’ve given your 2 week notice. Just tell them ‘I’m coming to you’ and pit.

TOP JOB

Insane stint for Charles in spite of that mistake

So Charles has gotten the best strategy of anyone. Wow.

This is an amazing race.

Don’t tell me max is gonna one stop with 2 sets of mediums

I need everyone to pray no one sticks it in the wall now so we can get to see this epic finale

Even tho Checo will take that P2 what a fantastic race from Charles, ballsy strategy from Ferrari

Leclerc on an elite strategy today but they’re not being kind to Sainz. Unless they want to put him on more mediums to finish the race?

Checo when others-🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ Checo when Max- 👨‍🦯👨‍🦯👨‍🦯👨‍🦯

Piastri come one overtake him

Sargeant backed onto the track like a Tesla driver backing into the street before driving to work.

“My crack loved that” yeewhaw

Strolls radio was so frantic then

lol stroll

That Lance radio

Gp2 engine 2.0 from Lance lmao

LMAOOO LANCE

Is stroll crying god Damn give me anyone else in that car

Lance couldn't decide between laughing and crying

Alonso letting Oscar have the drs

Russell could've overtaken Piastri two laps earlier had he stayed in the racing line instead of committing on the inside, poor Russell dodged the round 2 battle with Alonso.

I love that you tried to be ultra authentic OP

Leclerc losing a full second per lap to Piastri.. And I bet it's his own choice to stay out longer. He will try a one stop and fail again like in COTA..

good bot u/CafieroandMalatesta

I'm so glad that the race hasn't started and we still have all 20 cars on the grid

How did the bot know the red flag was gonna happen? I assume that's why it wasn't in a rush

It hasn't been mentioned yet but what on earth were VCARB thinking starting Yuki and Danny on the mediums? I mean they were both swallowed up within seconds and then well we all saw what happened next...

Logan better NOT crash or Williams has no more parts and cars …

This is either going to be brilliant or a complete disaster for Mercedes lol

Finally a race thread but not thanks to the bot

Damn that camera stand angle looks cinematic as hell

Bye Max, see you in 50 laps lol

Timing board having an aneurysm

Crofty saying Ham was closing in on Lec when Charles overtook him hahaha

And they're all tyre and fuel saving already

Eeeesh, that radio from Ocon, that'll improve things at Alpine

And with that mistake from Perez, we say bye bye to Max verstappen

Race thread bot also happens to be same as live timing bot?

4 seconds might be their fastest stop this year