in the braking zone?

 

yes.

 

Ham's reliability hasn't been so good this year, but Nico has had some start-to-finish wins this year that (to me) give his season some credibility if the outcome falls his way.

 

Britney Recap:

Straya: Beats Ham in straight fight in the opening lap. HAM runs wide and must fight back. +1 Brit
Bahrain: Ham get's punted by Bo77as. No kudos awarded.
Chiner: No qualy time for Ham, but Brit is sort of a Chiner specialist, so make hay while the sun shines. +1 Brit
MotherRussia: Ham can't take part in Q3 with turbo booboo, but Brit was .5s faster in Q2 soooooooo +1 Brit
Baku: Brit owned the weekend start to finish. +1
hot tub: Ham had a ton of engine penalties in Qualy. Nico cruised.
Italia: Ham **** start. Beat Ham. Done. +1
Singapore: start to finish winner winner chicken dinner. +1
Malaysia: so Brit didn't win it and Ham lost 25 points, but Brit was DFL after being punted by Seb on lap juan t juan. Rallied back and brought down the gap to Ham (if Ham finished). No point but a special effort gold star.
Japan: Fastest guy all weekend, and doesn't go to the maak webbah school of F1 starts. +1

So that's 7 +1's for Brit. A worthy season if there ever was juan.

 

Good morning from Laguna Seca gents. PWC finale today.

 

este are you saying if he gets away clean and doesn't have to go wheel-to-wheel then he can run the table?

like Button 2009 or MAL in that one race in Catalunya

 

Precisely.

Ham > Brit. Duh. But every now and then lesser dudes get the right breaks go their way, and they're fast enough often enough to make a gap to win the thing.

 

ham did himself no favors this year despite reliability issues. #shithappens

 

agree.

 

Calling my shot. Brit and HAM collision turn 1 Austin if both are on the front row Sun afternoon. Brit is at the point where he doesn't need to take any of HAM's forcing moves.

 

oooh good call. it's senna vs prost but not really

 

Chocolate Senna vs The Hairdresser

 

Britney better make sure he takes Ham out, coz with his luck he'll be SOL and Ham will win. Love taps don't win championships.

 

Oh I'm sure he would. Brit is not as good a driver as Ham but I think he's smarter.

If he's in front and HAM tries barging through I can see him turning in so his rear wheel hits HAM's front, ala ROS/VET in Malaysia. Not that that's what happened there but it's an example of how fragile the front suspension is compared to the rear.

 

Brit's smarts get in the way IMO when it's time to go elbows out. IMO.

Brit would get a cut tire and Ham would continue on his merry way. If Brit wants to win, he needs to drive off the front some more, or just settle for second from here on out. Getting caught up with Ham doesnt seem to work for him often.


favorite part of the race: https://streamable.com/cni1

1) sweet move
2) smug AF
3) always looking for a reason to **** on Williams (since they dumped him a while back)

 

In the Merc dominance era Nico has out qualified HAM at the next 4 tracks. Not by a small margin either. It's 7-0 in favor of Nico. If HAM's start issues continue Nico won't have to worry about turn 1.

 

Some Laguna Seca PWC highlights that I caught on the video.

 

nice vid. turn 5 is a tricky bitch. turn 6 is a deceptive *******. are these first lap heroes?

How did HAMs laptimes look compared to ROS? I'm still curious if he's adapting to the new front suspension setup or if that has handed overall pace advantage to ROS.

qualy laps looked too close to call.

 

The PWC Mclarens crashed on the last green lap of the times race. It was a yellow the previous lap. The races are timed so someone was trying to make something happen.

 

I don't know about race but I recall reading something the other day where HAM said he was lost after FP and they made some changes to just try and get him set for the race and somehow that got him surprisingly close to Brit. Lemme see if I can find


http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ha...ng-836045/?s=1

 

Sky mentioned post race that Mercedes was not allowing the drivers to use the qualifying engine map this weekend due to Lewis' engine failure. Depressing because I thought we were finally getting close to parity.
Did you camp? Where at and how was it?

 

Camped in my car outside Seaside Police Dept. I wouldn't have made it in time before the gate closed. It was uncomfortable and cold (47F). Got free breakfast buffet at Embassy Suites when I picked up my PWC hot pass though.

 

That's a perfect spot to pick up ladies of the night. PoPo would never think to look for that kind of stuff outside their own front door.

 

Brundle was saying Ham wasn't using the whole of the track over the course of the weekend.

Ham just looks a little off to me. I would never expect him to be trailing Britney in these driver tracks like Singapore and Suzuka, yet here he is. Odd.