2023 Singapore Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread

Circuit stats
First Grand Prix	2008
Number of laps	62
Lap record	N/A
2022 winner	Sergio Perez

Carlos Sainz's racing IQ is insane.
- I loved how he had to even spell it out for his team that he was doing it on purpose when they told him norris was .8s away.
- Yeah that was really something.
  Great fuckin' race.

Oh my god George! What the FUCK lmao
- Too bad for him, but that was really funny 🤣 he gonna be really pissed off
  
  Cricket! The wall came out of no where.
- George: I'll just take a slightly wider line in than Lando and take him on the corner exit Lando: hold my juice box!

Lawson POINTS
- So good! such a good result!

- Or sit them at the back with 1 tyre compound, just to watch them meddle with the middle of the pack

Hamilton got what he wanted.
Message that Russell needs to push, Russell pushes straight into a wall, Hamilton takes 3rd.
- Nothing to do with Hamilton. Russell was following Norris's line. Norris clipped the wall before the corner. Russell clipped it at the same place, just a bit harder and broke the car. If he didn't break the car he would have gone around the corner just fine.

"It doesn't just rain, it Singapores."
Can't stay mad at that
- Time for bernie's sprinklers.

WP Sainz what a boss drive
- common sainz W

Something new this season: Red Bulls being overtaken on track.
- And RB making pitstop strategy mistaken. Complacency from being on top too long.
  
  Just bad luck, really. They gambled and it didn't pay off, they probably knew that strategy was a big risk
  
  Don't think RB cared about points here. They risked it all to continue their first place streak with a reckless moonshot strategy, and it didn't happen. This was the most likely outcome, and they knew that.
  WDC and Constructors are still easily theirs.
  
  I wouldn't call it a mistake, the SC just came at a bad time for them.
  
  Yeah, that too.

Mercedes on point for this race. Leclerc got sacrificed by ferrari.
- They had to finnaly Ferrari has some darn strategy
- Ferrari tried to sacrifice Leclerc, but in the end it was just a double stack pit stop right ahead of them and then driving mistakes by Leclerc himself.
  Maybe the trick is they need to actively try to sabotage one of their drivers to have a strategically decent race.

Russell is not ready yet. Hamilton would have won if he was ahead
- That's an interesting take, would have been great. But reality is it is very hard to overtake on that track unless you have at least 10kph speed difference and the person ahead has difficult drive. Lando is a good driver and has kept Lewis at bay previously.
  
  2 things. Russell almost got by Lando and Lewis has much more experience than russell. The combination of these things leads me to believe that Lewis would have gotten past Lando. Once Lando would have been cleared, Sainz would have been a sitting duck.

Sucks for Ocon. He was on a roll today.
- It's also his birthday. What a terrible gift.

Bravo Sainz. Killer race.

Ocon died to give us this end
- May he do it again and again.

Piastri up 10 positions. Impressive

- Goatifi's prodigy

wow! What a race, what a drive from Carlos Sainz.

Liam Lawson in net points scoring positions when Max /Checo pit :)
He might get Alonso as well after the penalty
That would take him to 9th

Sainz tactical genius man

Wow, just saw the Perez move on Albon in the post-race discussion. Just dive-bombed him. Very clumsy. Hope he gets a penalty for that one.
- ICYMI: 5 sec penalty that didn't actually change his position...

I've never been so happy to hear the Spanish national anthem in my life.

Great race. Was a lot of fun joining everyone here online. Till the next.
- 🫡

Smooth operator!

Terrible camera work once again. We didn't see what really happened to Yuki, we didn't see HAM and RUS switching places, we didn't see VER overtaking HUL. The director is just frantically switching back and forth between cars.
- They finally caught up.

Lawson will score today if nothing shit happens to him

There goes the "will they, won't they?" of Red Bull taking all of the wins this year. Good work from Sainz, Norris and Hamilton; that was a bit embarrassing from Russell.

Dang, Ocon was doing so well.
Funny how the circumstances change just as drivers get comfortable with their positions.

Disastrous pitstop for Alonso. Did the rear jackman prematurely drop the car?
- They said during the broadcast that the car slipped off the new jack design and so one side was still on the ground. Likely had to wait for the left side to change tires before dropping and relifting the car so the right side could be taken off and replaced.
  
  Ah gotcha. Thanks for the update!
- Both right side tires got jammed. Very curious to find out what happened.

What a gamble for Merc. Wow.
- I can't wait to see whether this works for them.

Great fight from Ocon

Today, we all earned the Spanish National Anthem.

Here we go

Max is sliding so damn much. This is so fucking weird to see. That car really doesn’t like this track.

Ah Ferrari
- True
  
  It sucks for LEC but it totally helped SAI. When the SC came out LEC dropped back by more than 5 seconds so that nobody even entered the pit lane before SAI was serviced. That led to everyone being lined up right behind LEC.
  It was self inflicted but for the greater good.

A ferrari strategy fuckup is imminent.
- Death, taxes, and ferrari fuckups. Of these things we can be sure in life.
  
  Add Logan running into the wall to that list!

Hands down best race of the season. And all it took was for RedBull to not be around.

- I too wonder what happened.

Sainz actually has this race in his pocket at the moment. Unbelievably comfortable right now.

Every time I hear the Italian anthem I can't help but think 'stop it you're just encouraging them.'

OMG GEORGE NO

Are they racing on rails? Overtakes where?

Perez-Ocon-Alonso battle on a street circuit with close walls (👁 ͜ʖ👁)

Lmaoo Sargeant fucking the entire circuit

No! Esteban...

"Looking at the Aston Martin, Martin.."

Horner must be fuming.
- It was a poor strategy, IMO.
  RB should have started on mediums or even softs and assumed there would be a safety car.
  Then they could have pushed up and pitted for new tires with everyone else. Starting on the hard tires would have been a good strategy on a different track, but the hosts were saying on the preshow that there's been a safety in every previous race.
  Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and if there had not been a safety, it may have been one of the greatest wins ever for RB that we'd all be gobsmacked about for years, so who knows.

This is going be a great finish

Finally we hear the OG F1 Dominance Anthem again. 🥹

Anybody dislike the production today even if the race has a great end? It felt like it took so long to see replays of any significant incidents/moves, if we saw them at all.
Plus, it was great to watch the four racing at the end for so long, but why take away the time splits? They just showed like lap times between two drivers at a time for all of it.
- I didn't think it was too bad, but holy cow those overpasses kept getting in the way on the heli shots!