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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Badwheels
Ok, in response to the "luck" discussion. Uh........when did being lucky become a bad thing ? If you won the lottery for a bazillion (insert your currency here) would you give a sh!t if people called you lucky? The problem is misery loves company. Because Lewis or ( insert anyone else you hate here) wins, they are not allowed to be lucky too. Wrong answer. Go look up any the record holder of any sporting event and I bet you are going to find a few "lucky" performances in there somewhere.

Luck got him a second chance, driving got him on the podium. Quite frankly, Lando was lucky too.
 
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Damage Inc
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 the main reason I stopped watching F1 back in 2016...it's a farce.
 
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Badwheels said:
Ok, in response to the "luck" discussion. Uh........when did being lucky become a bad thing ? If you won the lottery for a bazillion (insert your currency here) would you give a sh!t if people called you lucky? The problem is misery loves company. Because Lewis or ( insert anyone else you hate here) wins, they are not allowed to be lucky too. Wrong answer. Go look up any the record holder of any sporting event and I bet you are going to find a few "lucky" performances in there somewhere.

Luck got him a second chance, driving got him on the podium. Quite frankly, Lando was lucky too.
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I think you don't see the big issue here. Lottery is a gambling game by definition, F1 isn't. Gambling can be part of it, but the focus is on performance, strategy and skill.

There is a big difference between getting a second chance and being gifted full laps and free repairs while the rest of the drivers who were in contention for the podium didn't get the same opportunity. The question is, should the premier class of motorsport, where the focus is on fairplay and high level competition really let play luck such a big role that it defines the outcome of a race leading to completely wonky results and shaping the outcome of a championship with lot's of money involved and jobs of real people being at risk? LH and Mercedes didn't do anything wrong here and it's not their fault that they are being lucky. But it's the job of the FIA to make it a fair game. But I don't have much hope considering that FIA also brought stuff like fanboost. I mean, how dumb can it get?
 
Damage Inc
dm3lions said:
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.
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Simpler to get out of gravel traps when it's wet.
 
thunderpop
In my opinion they had to calculate the gaps they had when the red flag came out, in the end they calculated the positions. Hamilton would never have finished second in this way, if the accident had happened a lap later Hamilton would have been lapped (more or less), so instead he could change the tires, the spoiled wing without losing even a second so he found himself in ninth position, it was a Christmas present (through no fault of his), the F1 regulations are so stupid that I think they do it on purpose otherwise it would be a deadly bore to watch the races. PC racing is more fun than F1
 
ZuneGuy
PickABetterUsername01 said:
Yea, with the most absurd car of all time against no competition. LMAO.
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Is it his fault that he is and was desired above all others at Mercedes? Hell they even sent an ex champion to talk him into coming to drive for them. Besides they knew that he was the only guy who could get them there. Anyway he already proved in the first race that his success has little to do with a car. Don't be so bitter...
 
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PickABetterUsername01
ZuneGuy said:
Is it his fault that he is and was desired above all others at Mercedes? Hell they even sent an ex champion to talk him into coming to drive for them. Besides they knew that he was the only guy who could get them there. Anyway he already proved in the first race that his success has little to do with a car. Don't be so bitter...
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He was not the only one, if it was not him, Rosberg would be 7 times world champion.

Not impressed.
 
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PickABetterUsername01 said:
He was not the only one, if it was not him, Rosberg would be 7 times world champion.

Not impressed.
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His sucess this year(so far)
ZuneGuy said:
Is it his fault that he is and was desired above all others at Mercedes? Hell they even sent an ex champion to talk him into coming to drive for them. Besides they knew that he was the only guy who could get them there. Anyway he already proved in the first race that his success has little to do with a car. Don't be so bitter...
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Two races this year, two races out of the last 5 years. No other car the past 5 years have even come close to the Mercedes. Ferrari at it's best had to be so over-driven that the 4 time world champ was making mistake after mistake as they tried to match cars. Lewis' team is superior, no denying, his TALENT is immense, but to continually argue that the car does not contribute to Hamilton's sucess is being blind to the facts. Imagine if Schumacher did not have Ross Brawn to rebuild Ferrari during his 7 years of sucess there. Shcu would never have been able to match Hakkinen's Mclaren with the direction Ferrari had been traveling prior to Brawn taking control. During 'most' of Schu's run at Ferrari, the car was, at best equal to the Mclaren, but for several of those years the Mclaren was just that little bit better. For the 2nd half of Hamilton's career, there has been no car, til now, that could demonstrate equality with the Mercs. (and that equality seems to have come from rules directly pointed at low-rake cars like the Mercs and Astons.)
 
muzikant
most importantly, the races are more fun now. tension and drama..with more as it seems now competition. outside of politics and what you're a fanboy of .. Lewis and Max are a joy to watch the speed in dry and wet weather exceptional talents from both with lots of young guns to come.
 
goffred
ltcars said:
Lando Norris.
Hamilton luckiest guy ever, Vettel unluckiest guy ever.
I would say Vettel had the worst race possible without actually crashing
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Yes, Hamilton was very lucky, so too Norris, he drove well but was gifted the position via the free pitstop.
 
ZuneGuy
PickABetterUsername01 said:
He was not the only one, if it was not him, Rosberg would be 7 times world champion.

Not impressed.
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Rosberg couldn't last. He knew that he absolutely could not go another year with Lewis, for one he lacked the talent that Lewis possesses - hell he's even admitted exactly that. Wolff himself admitted that the only reason Lewis didn't win in 2016 was because he was given bad engines. Some (myself included) wonder why Mercedes was losing engines only that year. It's interesting the way that he won and suddenly up and quit the sport.
 
PickABetterUsername01
ZuneGuy said:
Rosberg couldn't last. He knew that he absolutely could not go another year with Lewis, for one he lacked the talent that Lewis possesses - hell he's even admitted exactly that. Wolff himself admitted that the only reason Lewis didn't win in 2016 was because he was given bad engines. Some (myself included) wonder why Mercedes was losing engines only that year. It's interesting the way that he won and suddenly up and quit the sport.
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That's not my point. If it was Rosberg without Lewis, he would have been 7 times world champion, Bottas would stand no chance against him since he isn't champ material. Of course Lewis x Rosberg Lewis is better and would win almost everytime.

The real MVP here is the car, Mercedes. Hamilton is of course pretty good, but not this unbeatable beast that some people think he is just because of the numbers.
 
ZuneGuy
davehenrie said:
His sucess this year(so far)

Two races this year, two races out of the last 5 years. No other car the past 5 years have even come close to the Mercedes. Ferrari at it's best had to be so over-driven that the 4 time world champ was making mistake after mistake as they tried to match cars. Lewis' team is superior, no denying, his TALENT is immense, but to continually argue that the car does not contribute to Hamilton's sucess is being blind to the facts. Imagine if Schumacher did not have Ross Brawn to rebuild Ferrari during his 7 years of sucess there. Shcu would never have been able to match Hakkinen's Mclaren with the direction Ferrari had been traveling prior to Brawn taking control. During 'most' of Schu's run at Ferrari, the car was, at best equal to the Mclaren, but for several of those years the Mclaren was just that little bit better. For the 2nd half of Hamilton's career, there has been no car, til now, that could demonstrate equality with the Mercs. (and that equality seems to have come from rules directly pointed at low-rake cars like the Mercs and Astons.)
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Why is the car that he has driven even a subject..... for some anyway. Every driver who has ever won a championship had the best or one of the best cars. The sport is predicated on the fact that the best drivers driver the best cars period. That has always been the way the sport goes. Blame the game, not the playa. P.S. Ferrari had their chance to win in 2017. The problem for them is that Lewis has always had Vettel in his back pocket, that's why Ferrari couldn't beat Mercedes.
 
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Badwheels
tr1v1um said:
I think you don't see the big issue here. Lottery is a gambling game by definition, F1 isn't. Gambling can be part of it, but the focus is on performance, strategy and skill.

There is a big difference between getting a second chance and being gifted full laps and free repairs while the rest of the drivers who were in contention for the podium didn't get the same opportunity. The question is, should the premier class of motorsport, where the focus is on fairplay and high level competition really let play luck such a big role that it defines the outcome of a race leading to completely wonky results and shaping the outcome of a championship with lot's of money involved and jobs of real people being at risk? LH and Mercedes didn't do anything wrong here and it's not their fault that they are being lucky. But it's the job of the FIA to make it a fair game. But I don't have much hope considering that FIA also brought stuff like fanboost. I mean, how dumb can it get?
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Would that rule not have applied to anyone in the grid at that point in the race if it happened to them ? What is your point ? When Checko was "lucky" in Bahrain, why wasn't there this type of response? Just say you hate the dude and call it that. This has nothing to do with the FIA.
 
ZuneGuy
PickABetterUsername01 said:
That's not my point. If it was Rosberg without Lewis, he would have been 7 times world champion, Bottas would stand no chance against him since he isn't champ material. Of course Lewis x Rosberg Lewis is better and would win almost everytime.

The real MVP here is the car, Mercedes. Hamilton is of course pretty good, but not this unbeatable beast that some people think he is just because of the numbers.
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Your a guy with an opinion, don't ever forget that. Everything that you said is just your opinion and that;s it. Now let's look at what fact, Lewis has an Hamilton has had an incredible career, he was the most talked about and anticipated rookie in the history of the sport, and the most successful. He holds more records than any driver, and in a sport where no one has ever looked like him. He is the only driver to directly suffer from racism in the sport. The fact that it was done in Europe is no surprise though.

He is the first in many categories of this sport, and they aren't just about records. You know, Mercedes could have chosen from many other drivers before Hamilton, but that wasn't going to happen - it just wasn't. The man has used his gift to the fullest, and he has amassed a great career because of it.
 

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