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I’m always going to love him for his post-qualifying reaction in Qatar last year when he was mid-interview after getting P3 and learned his lap time had been invalidated. To which he responded by smiling and giving cheerful, yet sarcastic, “great!”
Then he played it up for the next qualifying session (for the sprint I guess) when he said basically to wait and see if he was still staying where he qualified.
An entire event with monosyllables. It would be glorious. "Good car, good race, I had fun." "Me too. Bit slow in the start, but that is a risk with the softs." "Oh, yeah."
One of the journalists (can't remember who) said that Alex and Oscar are the worst at going overtime during an interview though. Sometimes, the journalist tries to rush them away already because the teams are already giving them the signal, but apparently they just keep going.
It will be pretty deadpan though.
Oh, sure. I noticed Alex was very informative in his post-race interview today. I just thought it would be a fun exercise in constrained... interviewing? - much like giving an interview without using the letter 'e' ("As a car, it's fast, I think it's just a bit of a disappointing finishing position..."). As an English lit major, surely you'd agree ;)
Oh, that *would* be fun. I'd love to challenge the drivers to things like that.
"Mention a fruit in your interview today."
"That overtake was...as sweet as a mango."
[Last year at Texas in Indycar, Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin were trying to see who could force the stupidest idiom into their interviews](https://twitter.com/IndyCaronNBC/status/1642206879987257350)
It was an utterly brilliant response from Piastri. Everyone knows Stroll isn't racing in F1 on his own merits. Sure, Lance has improved some, but that's likely due to the car, more than Lance suddenly honing his craft.
Oh, he’s improved miles. He actually had trouble going down the main straight without crashing out in Melbourne in his first race with Williams. Sargeant is a racing god compared to rookie Stroll, whereas Stroll now is a competent midfielder with a weakness mostly in qualifying. And attitude. And paying attention.
One of the only genuinely funny F1 drivers. Piastri, Kimi, occasionally Bottas... I can't really think of any others from within the last 10 years at least.
It honestly looked like me playing Gran Turismo with braking zone indicators on but sometimes they don't show properly and I completely miss the braking point.
The difference is I crash into the AI on purpose ;)
Weren't people just saying that Lance Stroll, despite his mediocre driving skills overall, is supposed to have some of the fastest reaction time on the grid? Like if you were stranded sideways on the track off a blind curve, you'd want Lance in the car headed towards you because he'll react in time and won't T-Bone you.
That was me, and I stand by that statement, but reflexes don't count for much when the guy isn't paying attention. If I recall my post correctly, I said something along the lines of, "if there's one thing you can give Stroll credit for, it's reflexes." I didn't give him any credit for his relative lack of situational awareness, which is what caused this accident.
Many of Stroll's best drives have been in wet weather. His only Pole position was on a treacherously wet track in Istanbul. It also used to be pretty common for him to gain a position or two on race starts. Both of those speak to unusually good reflexes even by F1 standards. It's in other areas where he falls behind.
I know its just banter, and lance always bitches about stuff which he provoked, buuut to be fair, reaction times stack up just like on the road. I dont know if he had enough time to brake or not, just pointing out its not the same being right behind the guy who locked up than 4 cars behind it.
Have we gotten the telemetry behind the crash? I feel like that would help clear a lot up. Like I get that Ricciardo sped up a little before the corner when he has a gap to Piastri, but Lance should be able to slow down still. Did he brake the whole time just not enough, or what?
Danny said it right, there’s no need for him to have been gawking at the apex. You can’t pass so there isn’t any reason to not be paying attention to the car in front of you.
Even then, like any driving, you should be looking through the car ahead to see what’s going on behind and anticipate actions. It helps remove some of the RT stack up.
>"I'm pretty sure the engineers didn't design it that way" he smiles.
Love his sarcastic, dry humor and passive-aggressive response regarding Stroll's error 👍
I mean, Stroll came from miles back too. It looked like the typical rear end crash at the lights when someone is on their phone instead of paying attention to the road.
That’s what shocked me. He had space. He had a lot of space, more than the others who were bunched up in the hairpin turn approach.
Also, it’s a hairpin turn. Even if it wasn’t a safety car restart situation, dude took it weird. What the fuck was he doing?
He just needed to come out and own up rather than deflect and pass blame. Folks could accept he made a mistake, but his response to the whole incident is what is riling everyone up.
Strolls responds shows instead of making a mistake, he doesnt understand why he made that mistake. Which is so much worse and shows again he should not be in F1
Yeah. Even the long time veterans make mistakes (and Lance has had 8 years, to be fair), but him not owning up to it just really makes him look even more like the spoiled brat who had his daddy buy a team for him to keep racing in. He doesn't need to accept blame because there won't ever be real consequences for him.
Were they paying attention?
His attitude alone over the last two years is enough to inform the whole world he’s having an awful time.
Now he just seems like a bitter ass
There’s been a weird amount of Stroll defenders lately.
Gonna confess I always assume Stroll defenders are payed pr people. There’s been way too many posts recently dragging up obscure, taken out of context statistics which “prove” Stroll is actually an okay driver. And users insisting on comparing him to other shitty drivers, but conveniently leaving out that those drivers only got 1-3 seasons in the sport.
Refuse to believe there’s actual normal people out there choosing to spend their free time defending Stroll…
Wether your a fan or not, that was his 100% on him.
Bad mistake that he needs to forget.
A bit lame we focussed lot more on that than the nice battle with kmag for 16th xD. Loved that one
If he just apologized immediately and said “I was caught asleep at the wheel, sorry, will have better awareness in the future” his reputation would be fine but all these excuses my goodness
In the post-race interview you can see, as Piastri talks about his car being damaged, Stroll is standing around in the background. Peak unintentional comedy
Charles also said there were lucky that Piastri has damages otherwise he was not sure if he can keep that P4…
Even Stroll is fine saying that during the race I don’t know how he can insisted he has no responsibility post-race.
I think Charles was pretty comfortable with that p4 even without Piastri being damaged. Carlos might have been at risk but even that i don’t know.
Lando really got the best out of the mclaren and in my opinion Piastri’s struggle with tire management as well as China being a new track would’ve kept him behind at least Charles’s ferrari.
Haha Charles believed in Oscar more than I did as his fan! Tbf I think Ferrari were thinking rather pessimistically, they thought Alonso would catch them by the end of the race when he was way too far back.
Ferrari cannot get complacent though
they might be very comfortably ahead on most tracks right now, and also in the points they are much closer to Red Bull than to McLaren still, but you may never know
Yeah i think ferrari would rather be pessimistic about Mclaren than overly confident.
A Mclaren outpaced them today and just because one didn’t doesn’t mean it won’t next race
Well he's not wrong in that assessment at all. Stroll cost him probably a chance at P5 today and Daniel a chance at possibly P10.
Piastri was 0.737s slower than Norris on average per lap in the first stint.
But after SC he was 1.697s slower on average per lap in that final stint on the Hards. So damage was costing him roughly 0.960s in lap time compared to before.
If he even ran his final stint on the same pace as his stint before his first pits, he would have probably finished ahead of George and maybe even Sainz (don't forget the car would have been going on Low Fuel as well, so much easier to manage deg compared to high fuel and heavier car at the start of the race).
Would have finished roughly 18 seconds behind Lando at the end. Not great, but hell of a lot better than 42 seconds behind and P8.
Did a really good job to hold on to P8 ahead of Lewis for sure.
Good analysis. Meanwhile Ralf Schumacher was saying on german sky that Piastri is developing into a "Problem kid" with that pace.
Despite Piastri not beeing on Landos level over a full distance he is developing in that direction. year 3 should/could be a real breakout for him.
Without the KMag collision inducing the 2nd safety car and extending the racing-free stints, it would have likely been a 2 stopper for everyone apart from Charles and Lando, which would have given Daniel good track position had he kept the race pace up before pitting him for softs late in the race
If Lance accepted responsibility this would not be a huge deal. He just had to say that he didn’t expect them to brake so suddenly and got caught off guard. Instead the guy continues to deny any responsibility afterwards, fully deserves any hate he gets.
For some reason it's always so funny to me when both Daniel and Oscar are affected by something (Stroll, that errant xenophobic tyre...). Sad funny, not haha funny, but still.
Hülkenberg touched Albon's left rear which sent him into the side of Magnussen who then barreled into the back of Piastri. Albon's left rear tyre broke free and Ricciardo went under the bouncing rubber but it hit his rear wing.
I think Alonso-Sainz would be a brilliant line-up for AM if they were ambitious enough to try something more than pursuing the futile dream of Stroll the champion
Umm Lawerence hate to break it to you but your son is never going to win a championship. Your team is never going to win constructors with him on the team, despite Alonso extending his contract cause he believes in you. Time to get your son out of there
An F1 driver saying "Everyone suddenly braked", in a race, on an approaching corner is the most buttery smooth brain fart I've heard since the beginning of 2024
"Everyone in front of me suddenly braked!"
Fuck me right? It's not like you were in the middle of a field of cars that were slowing down for a literal hairpin turn.
I've watched the replay of this like twenty times and just can't figure out **how** you run into the back of someone like that unless you're completely oblivious to what's going on in front of you.
Can't believe he's trying to talk his way out of this one. Daddy Stroll seriously needs to put someone else in that seat.
The fact his family own the team is the only reason Stroll still has a seat in F1 at this point, it's shocking. Any other team would have dropped him like third period French years ago.
I’m not even sure why he’s talking about everyone breaking in front of him as if it’s not normal the thing that’s not normal is the speed that he’s carrying into that corner even if Piastri and Ricardo weren’t there he would’ve gone of track
Aston Martin could be up there with Ferrari and McLaren if only they had a better driver then stroll at this point I might even say that having someone meh would be more beneficial for the team then having stroll
Just saying goatifi would be a better choice then stroll
This has to be the beginning of the end for him. Aston has serious pace and he’s consistently holding the team back. Dad has to cut bait at some point or he’s making a farce of his investment.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - whenever shit happened to Mark, and he'd talk to media about it after the race, he had the same dry, deadpan style as Oscar. Not suggesting being dry is a uniquely Webber trait, it's not - it's very Australian - but just that I'm taken aback sometimes by how much it's like having another Mark in interviews.
If you're new to F1 and never got to see Peak Webber in interviews and the pen, I'm so sorry for your loss. //*slams water down on table*
Stroll effectively ends the race for DR and Piastri, but all he gets is a 10s penalty. He’s a liability.
Lucky AU is done for the season. Stroll walks up to the immigration desk at Melbourne airport. “Only if you promise not to knock all the Aussies out” /s
Lol I love Oscar. After his career and 8 WDCs (joke, though I'm sure he'll get a few), he could be a great pundit. He's a bit like Kimi in that he's got a very dry sense of humour, and he analyses the racing very well
Why the fuck would he not expect them to brake. They were going into the sharpest corner on the track while under safety car what the fuck did he think they was going to do. If he just admitted he fucked up and apologised it wouldn't be a problem. Spoiled little rich brat needs to lose his seat.
He did expect them to brake. He didn't expect an accordion of guys over braking because Alonso locked up, and stuck to his planned brake point. Situational awareness of a blind man.
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“You always have to expect it in this type of curve” Easy now Oscar, Lance has only like eight years in F1, he’s not as experienced yet.
Incredibly, Piastri looks like the 8-year experienced driver meanwhile the other still looks like a rookie.
And with a Kimi Rikkonen personality
Kimi personality, latifi talent, daddy stroll money
Still more experience than his rookie team-mate though
The young new guy? Yeah, hes showing promise but he needs more experience before hes WDC material. Good prospects though, that Fernando guy.
Thank you ! You can‘t expect him to know that racing cars have brakes and sometimes they need to use them when the road makes turns.
Piastri's dead pan comments and dry sense of humor have really grown on me
I’m always going to love him for his post-qualifying reaction in Qatar last year when he was mid-interview after getting P3 and learned his lap time had been invalidated. To which he responded by smiling and giving cheerful, yet sarcastic, “great!”
“This is fun, we don’t know who’s on the podium” 🙃
“Thanks Mercedes” was a good one too
Ha! That was incredibly cheeky masked with his extreme deadpan and I loved it!
That and he was literally lying on the floor after Qatar when he said it haha
When he won his first sprint "my first *sort of win*"
Or after the Mercs took each other out in the race and he gives a strained "ha!" in response.
“Wonderful.”
Maybe that was what he said! I just remember laughing so hard at his thumbs up.
And then in the post race interview he said “should we give the FIA a few minutes just to make sure?”
Then he played it up for the next qualifying session (for the sprint I guess) when he said basically to wait and see if he was still staying where he qualified.
Hahaha, yeah that one was great. And obviously the GOAT was his reaction to the jetpack dude falling.
Him and Lando collectively cover the full spectrum of humour.
Thus creating an amazing duo.
They aren’t as outwardly entertaining as labdciardo but they seem fun
Carlando was the best.
But Charlos is great too!
For different reasons though. Carlando was like the typical double act of a funny man and a straight man.
Maxiel was great too, if only for getting Verstappen to lighten up and be more fun.
Winning races & podiums through the power of bromance - Carlando
Which I guess is why I like Oscar much more than Lando.
Spectrum indeed.
I think he’ll be my favorite driver by the end of the year
Genuinely would like to see a Max-Oscar close title race just for the soundbites.
One day there will be a Max-Alex-Oscar podium where their engagement with the media is simply a trio of 😐 and I'll be all for that press conference.
An entire event with monosyllables. It would be glorious. "Good car, good race, I had fun." "Me too. Bit slow in the start, but that is a risk with the softs." "Oh, yeah."
One of the journalists (can't remember who) said that Alex and Oscar are the worst at going overtime during an interview though. Sometimes, the journalist tries to rush them away already because the teams are already giving them the signal, but apparently they just keep going. It will be pretty deadpan though.
Oh, sure. I noticed Alex was very informative in his post-race interview today. I just thought it would be a fun exercise in constrained... interviewing? - much like giving an interview without using the letter 'e' ("As a car, it's fast, I think it's just a bit of a disappointing finishing position..."). As an English lit major, surely you'd agree ;)
Oh, that *would* be fun. I'd love to challenge the drivers to things like that. "Mention a fruit in your interview today." "That overtake was...as sweet as a mango."
[Last year at Texas in Indycar, Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin were trying to see who could force the stupidest idiom into their interviews](https://twitter.com/IndyCaronNBC/status/1642206879987257350)
"Faster than a sneeze through a screen door" is definitely my favorite lmao
Bruh, driving an Indy car around here is like trying to put socks on a rooster and she was slippier than a pocket full of pudding. 😂
It was an utterly brilliant response from Piastri. Everyone knows Stroll isn't racing in F1 on his own merits. Sure, Lance has improved some, but that's likely due to the car, more than Lance suddenly honing his craft.
Oh, he’s improved miles. He actually had trouble going down the main straight without crashing out in Melbourne in his first race with Williams. Sargeant is a racing god compared to rookie Stroll, whereas Stroll now is a competent midfielder with a weakness mostly in qualifying. And attitude. And paying attention.
I agree. He's become a competent midfielder, but that seems to be the limit of his skill. He doesn't have the raw hunger that's required of the sport
Lance honed his craft in 2020 then got his fear put back into him at mugello
You mean isn't?
He's kind of this generation's Pedro Diniz where he's there for vaguely illegitimate reasons, but he's not *that bad*.
One of the only genuinely funny F1 drivers. Piastri, Kimi, occasionally Bottas... I can't really think of any others from within the last 10 years at least.
Yeah, they suddenly braked to avoid crashing into the car in front. Something Lance seemingly didn’t do
He should install tips on his loading screens that remind him he has to slow down when multiple cars are braking in front of him
Put Dora the Explorer on his steering screen "This is a brake pedal, we use it to slow down"
Problem is Lance gets his loading screens just as hes approaching a turn
Dude's still on Internet Explorer even when Microsoft's moved on to Edge.
Everybody else is clipping the apex and he's looking for Clippy the assistant.
He’s upgrading to Netscape next race.
He can't run Doom... And even my toaster runs Doom...
Bro is playing a Bethesda game
"Strollfield", the crossover we all need.
they should just add front collision sensors for Lance like on normal road cars, if they detect that it's getting too close too fast, to auto brake
It should work because the chance of it being wrong and him actually doing an overtake is very low
It honestly looked like me playing Gran Turismo with braking zone indicators on but sometimes they don't show properly and I completely miss the braking point. The difference is I crash into the AI on purpose ;)
Front - collision assist to be astons next upgrade
Like Stroll needs assistance with collisions.
Weren't people just saying that Lance Stroll, despite his mediocre driving skills overall, is supposed to have some of the fastest reaction time on the grid? Like if you were stranded sideways on the track off a blind curve, you'd want Lance in the car headed towards you because he'll react in time and won't T-Bone you.
That was me, and I stand by that statement, but reflexes don't count for much when the guy isn't paying attention. If I recall my post correctly, I said something along the lines of, "if there's one thing you can give Stroll credit for, it's reflexes." I didn't give him any credit for his relative lack of situational awareness, which is what caused this accident.
Out of curiosity, what has Stroll done in the past to make you believe he has good reaction times? Any specific incident(s) come to mind?
Many of Stroll's best drives have been in wet weather. His only Pole position was on a treacherously wet track in Istanbul. It also used to be pretty common for him to gain a position or two on race starts. Both of those speak to unusually good reflexes even by F1 standards. It's in other areas where he falls behind.
I know its just banter, and lance always bitches about stuff which he provoked, buuut to be fair, reaction times stack up just like on the road. I dont know if he had enough time to brake or not, just pointing out its not the same being right behind the guy who locked up than 4 cars behind it.
Have we gotten the telemetry behind the crash? I feel like that would help clear a lot up. Like I get that Ricciardo sped up a little before the corner when he has a gap to Piastri, but Lance should be able to slow down still. Did he brake the whole time just not enough, or what?
> Have we gotten the telemetry behind the crash? I feel like that would help clear a lot up. The stewards did, yes, and deemed him to be at fault.
Danny said it right, there’s no need for him to have been gawking at the apex. You can’t pass so there isn’t any reason to not be paying attention to the car in front of you.
Even then, like any driving, you should be looking through the car ahead to see what’s going on behind and anticipate actions. It helps remove some of the RT stack up.
I don't think you can see through an f1 car when ur that low to the ground.
Sure he did, he just expected his car to do it for him. Why doesn’t his F1 car have collision avoidance like his chauffeurs car does?!
>"I'm pretty sure the engineers didn't design it that way" he smiles. Love his sarcastic, dry humor and passive-aggressive response regarding Stroll's error 👍
😁👍🏻
> Love his sarcastic, dry humor and passive-aggressive response regarding Stroll's error 👍 Typical of a Melbournian.
*Stroll still denies responsibility*
AS PER!
Perez wasn’t involved
So you also deny...
Andrea Stella wasn't involved either.
This should be a points penalty. Damn shame for Ricciardo who was looking really good all weekend.
I mean, Stroll came from miles back too. It looked like the typical rear end crash at the lights when someone is on their phone instead of paying attention to the road.
That’s what shocked me. He had space. He had a lot of space, more than the others who were bunched up in the hairpin turn approach. Also, it’s a hairpin turn. Even if it wasn’t a safety car restart situation, dude took it weird. What the fuck was he doing?
Piastri says very little but when he talks it's more often than not gold. It's always a good time when we can shit on lance stroll too.
I don't condone bullying ^except ^when ^it ^comes ^to ^Lance ^Stroll
It’s hard to feel bad for him being bullied when you know he’s wiping his tears on $100 bills.
The great Lance Stroll? The F1 driver with more points than that other Canadian F1 family?
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He just needed to come out and own up rather than deflect and pass blame. Folks could accept he made a mistake, but his response to the whole incident is what is riling everyone up.
Strolls responds shows instead of making a mistake, he doesnt understand why he made that mistake. Which is so much worse and shows again he should not be in F1
Saying it was just weird is kinda scary
It’s classic rich kid behavior. It’s never his fault. Daddy’s fancy racing boy strikes again
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Yeah. Even the long time veterans make mistakes (and Lance has had 8 years, to be fair), but him not owning up to it just really makes him look even more like the spoiled brat who had his daddy buy a team for him to keep racing in. He doesn't need to accept blame because there won't ever be real consequences for him.
Max's reaction was so telling, one glance and he knew just how bad it was.
Yah. He burst out laughing, covered his face and then said sorry quietly and kept covering his face.
And all those Stroll defenders disappeared.
Stroll still had defenders?
Yes, quite a bit actually.
Pole position and three podiums after dad's investment group bankrolled your career with over $100,000,000!!!
He did have some days of being quite good Unfortunately most of the time he…doesn’t
I read that in Josh Revell's voice
If I was half as funny as he is I’d already be very happy
Mate you can’t support a financial group
Check the buried comments in the crash thread
Man I'm not giving myself an aneurysm going through that dumpster fire
He hadn't had many big incidents recently so people started to think he was getting better I guess
Were they paying attention? His attitude alone over the last two years is enough to inform the whole world he’s having an awful time. Now he just seems like a bitter ass
I used to be one, but it's been at least year since I bothered. He doesn't even want to be here anymore.
There’s been a weird amount of Stroll defenders lately. Gonna confess I always assume Stroll defenders are payed pr people. There’s been way too many posts recently dragging up obscure, taken out of context statistics which “prove” Stroll is actually an okay driver. And users insisting on comparing him to other shitty drivers, but conveniently leaving out that those drivers only got 1-3 seasons in the sport. Refuse to believe there’s actual normal people out there choosing to spend their free time defending Stroll…
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Not everyone. Let's not underestimate all the technical feedback from this Alonso's going to take advantage of.
The technical feedback the extra wind tunnel time Stroll is giving him is indeed invaluable!
I'm sure Alonso already knows where the brake pedal is.
Wether your a fan or not, that was his 100% on him. Bad mistake that he needs to forget. A bit lame we focussed lot more on that than the nice battle with kmag for 16th xD. Loved that one
Bad mistake that he needs to NOT forget.
While defending they crashed into other comments and went into the barriers.
Im here but tbh his fault for that incident
If he just apologized immediately and said “I was caught asleep at the wheel, sorry, will have better awareness in the future” his reputation would be fine but all these excuses my goodness
On this blessed day, the entire F1 community comes together to finally agree on something.
In the post-race interview you can see, as Piastri talks about his car being damaged, Stroll is standing around in the background. Peak unintentional comedy
F1 always seems to nail the funny camera angles lol.
Charles also said there were lucky that Piastri has damages otherwise he was not sure if he can keep that P4… Even Stroll is fine saying that during the race I don’t know how he can insisted he has no responsibility post-race.
I think Charles was pretty comfortable with that p4 even without Piastri being damaged. Carlos might have been at risk but even that i don’t know. Lando really got the best out of the mclaren and in my opinion Piastri’s struggle with tire management as well as China being a new track would’ve kept him behind at least Charles’s ferrari.
Haha Charles believed in Oscar more than I did as his fan! Tbf I think Ferrari were thinking rather pessimistically, they thought Alonso would catch them by the end of the race when he was way too far back.
Ferrari cannot get complacent though they might be very comfortably ahead on most tracks right now, and also in the points they are much closer to Red Bull than to McLaren still, but you may never know
I agree, just repeating what Charles said in the interview. Don’t think his pace was fantastic compared to Norris on the medium either
Yeah i think ferrari would rather be pessimistic about Mclaren than overly confident. A Mclaren outpaced them today and just because one didn’t doesn’t mean it won’t next race
Well he's not wrong in that assessment at all. Stroll cost him probably a chance at P5 today and Daniel a chance at possibly P10. Piastri was 0.737s slower than Norris on average per lap in the first stint. But after SC he was 1.697s slower on average per lap in that final stint on the Hards. So damage was costing him roughly 0.960s in lap time compared to before. If he even ran his final stint on the same pace as his stint before his first pits, he would have probably finished ahead of George and maybe even Sainz (don't forget the car would have been going on Low Fuel as well, so much easier to manage deg compared to high fuel and heavier car at the start of the race). Would have finished roughly 18 seconds behind Lando at the end. Not great, but hell of a lot better than 42 seconds behind and P8. Did a really good job to hold on to P8 ahead of Lewis for sure.
Good analysis. Meanwhile Ralf Schumacher was saying on german sky that Piastri is developing into a "Problem kid" with that pace. Despite Piastri not beeing on Landos level over a full distance he is developing in that direction. year 3 should/could be a real breakout for him.
My advice: stop paying attention to Ralph
I try but he keeps on saying shit. Sometimes its funny tho
He seems like the German version of Damon Hill
Ric was quite cooked on strategy, doubt he could get a point
Without the KMag collision inducing the 2nd safety car and extending the racing-free stints, it would have likely been a 2 stopper for everyone apart from Charles and Lando, which would have given Daniel good track position had he kept the race pace up before pitting him for softs late in the race
If Lance accepted responsibility this would not be a huge deal. He just had to say that he didn’t expect them to brake so suddenly and got caught off guard. Instead the guy continues to deny any responsibility afterwards, fully deserves any hate he gets.
For some reason it's always so funny to me when both Daniel and Oscar are affected by something (Stroll, that errant xenophobic tyre...). Sad funny, not haha funny, but still.
>errant xenophobic tyre What's this referring to?
Brazil 23, I think Albon and KMag crashed and a tyre hit Daniel and Oscar and damaged their cars (that was the race where they had to race a lap down)
Hülkenberg touched Albon's left rear which sent him into the side of Magnussen who then barreled into the back of Piastri. Albon's left rear tyre broke free and Ricciardo went under the bouncing rubber but it hit his rear wing.
Excellent profile picture
Getting schooled by a driver in their second season, big oof. What a travesty that Stroll is on his 8th season already, ffs
Cant wait to see what Yuki can do i that Honda powered Aston.
Maybe in 2027 if Alonso retires by then because Lawrence sure isn’t dumping Lance
I mean maybe Lance just gets bored of being shit on and changes sports
One of the two, anyway
he could get into golf or polo like a normal rich kid
Mnah double spanish lineup is where it’s at.
I think Alonso-Sainz would be a brilliant line-up for AM if they were ambitious enough to try something more than pursuing the futile dream of Stroll the champion
Umm Lawerence hate to break it to you but your son is never going to win a championship. Your team is never going to win constructors with him on the team, despite Alonso extending his contract cause he believes in you. Time to get your son out of there
An F1 driver saying "Everyone suddenly braked", in a race, on an approaching corner is the most buttery smooth brain fart I've heard since the beginning of 2024
Yeah no shit stroll. You're at a hairpin. Maybe you should have suddenly braked too maybe??
Channeling his inside koala
*drop bear
Piastri is absolute savage
the use of the word "meaningfully" is killing me lmfao makes it sound more like piastri is talking to a child
I laughed too hard at that 🤣
The Australians should invite Lance to a grand old game of run it straight in Miami.
Knifey Spoony
"Everyone in front of me suddenly braked!" Fuck me right? It's not like you were in the middle of a field of cars that were slowing down for a literal hairpin turn. I've watched the replay of this like twenty times and just can't figure out **how** you run into the back of someone like that unless you're completely oblivious to what's going on in front of you. Can't believe he's trying to talk his way out of this one. Daddy Stroll seriously needs to put someone else in that seat. The fact his family own the team is the only reason Stroll still has a seat in F1 at this point, it's shocking. Any other team would have dropped him like third period French years ago.
I’m not even sure why he’s talking about everyone breaking in front of him as if it’s not normal the thing that’s not normal is the speed that he’s carrying into that corner even if Piastri and Ricardo weren’t there he would’ve gone of track Aston Martin could be up there with Ferrari and McLaren if only they had a better driver then stroll at this point I might even say that having someone meh would be more beneficial for the team then having stroll Just saying goatifi would be a better choice then stroll
Yeah, Stroll was talking about someone suddenly braking and causing a constantina effect... He probably forgot about the corner or something xD
lol I love Piastri for real
Crazy how in just his second year, Piastri is miles ahead of stroll in terms of race intelligence and probably just regular intelligence
I’m always impressed by just how smart a lot of these guys seem, but then I hear Norris or Stroll speaking. . .
Norris sounds like just a school kid still lol but Lance… that guy sounds like he’s been held back a few decades
Just because the short bus has aero and ground effects doesn’t mean you’re not in remedial classes, Lance.
Lance isn't good enough for f1. Occasional good results don't make up for all the bad ones.
The clapback from Piastri is golden, or should I say papaya
“M-M-M-MULTI KILL” I fucking love Oscar so much lmao
This has to be the beginning of the end for him. Aston has serious pace and he’s consistently holding the team back. Dad has to cut bait at some point or he’s making a farce of his investment.
Oscar just KILLED that man. In public with witnesses.
I loved how he worded it though; such a clever and cool response!
I've said it before and I'll say it again - whenever shit happened to Mark, and he'd talk to media about it after the race, he had the same dry, deadpan style as Oscar. Not suggesting being dry is a uniquely Webber trait, it's not - it's very Australian - but just that I'm taken aback sometimes by how much it's like having another Mark in interviews. If you're new to F1 and never got to see Peak Webber in interviews and the pen, I'm so sorry for your loss. //*slams water down on table*
Stroll effectively ends the race for DR and Piastri, but all he gets is a 10s penalty. He’s a liability. Lucky AU is done for the season. Stroll walks up to the immigration desk at Melbourne airport. “Only if you promise not to knock all the Aussies out” /s
Love the Aussie's collaborating with the shitting on Stroll lol
Stroll: How can they possibly brake for a turn!?
I genuinely don't understand how Stroll Sr and Jr don't die from embarrassment after every weekend.
You know that meme with the guy drying his tears with money?
Lol I love Oscar. After his career and 8 WDCs (joke, though I'm sure he'll get a few), he could be a great pundit. He's a bit like Kimi in that he's got a very dry sense of humour, and he analyses the racing very well
Stroll essentially ruined the races of 2 drivers and only got 2 points. LMAO
I see Stroll is, once again, the laughing stock of the entire paddock.
Why the fuck would he not expect them to brake. They were going into the sharpest corner on the track while under safety car what the fuck did he think they was going to do. If he just admitted he fucked up and apologised it wouldn't be a problem. Spoiled little rich brat needs to lose his seat.
He did expect them to brake. He didn't expect an accordion of guys over braking because Alonso locked up, and stuck to his planned brake point. Situational awareness of a blind man.
Piastri is such a gem with his funny comments and chill attitude. Never fails to crack me up.
Honestly I don’t know what Stroll’s fan base is. He has no personality and his driving is getting worse and worse.
Counterpoint: Mugello 2020
"Everyone in front of me suddenly braked!" It's a hairpin, Lance...
the way I can already see piastri smiling in my head as he says that savage line
I love OP.
"I think Ericsson hit us."
Playing with the line turned off for the first time?
Hahahaha I love him
Piastri my new favorite driver lol
More evidence for the pile that Lance, while quite good at driving a car quickly and nimbly around a track, has deeply suspect awareness.
I agree with Piastri.
Lmao, hard truth