Ok, just before starting lap 49 from P10 Nico radios that he has a puncture and thinks he hit the wall, the pitwall replies pretty quickly the pressures look ok. Right before he passes the pit entry he asks what to do and the pitwall quickly confirms the tire pressures are ok.

Out of turn 1 they again confirm good tire pressures and tell him after turn 2 mode push, which he says he is already in, and is almost immediately passed by Franco. They then radio about his Pit In button being on and he tells them he’s tried to turn it off but it’s not working, they tell him to press it again. About mid lap they radio that the car is all ok, 2 laps to go at the line.

The next radio comms are about the yellow/double yellow and he’s instructed to stay right. He does but hits a huge pile of debris and reports it. The next sign board shows green flags.

He continues on and says it’s going to be red flagged at almost the exact moment he’s overtaken by Lewis and Oliver. A few turns later he again reports he hit something big, the team says they are checking the front wing, and the VSC comes out.

He immediately starts beating the steering wheel and radios something I can’t make out back to the team. It’s something like “man how have they not like?.. No way…” And the team interrupts him with "Yeah, swell. "

From there the comms seemed to all be instructions from the team on where he needed to drive and updates about how long is left in the race. Until- about halfway through the final lap Nico maybe talks, but there is no audio from him through the F1TV replay, just the team saying “yeah copy that Nico” and then telling him to stay close to the delta time. The only team radio from then until the checkered flag is delta and gap updates from the team, nothing from Nico.

The cool down and in lap don’t seem to show anything, and the final audio is the team and Nico apologizing to each other and Nico commenting the irony being it was his best race there, etc.

I plan on watching the onboard shortly to see for myself but I’m assuming there will be talk about it if something happened.

Thanks for this!

Happy the mechanic was ok but maybe that release procedure needs to be looked at.

I missed this, I’ll have to check it out.

Another poor soul asswormed by Big Toilet. Sad.

He seems closer to Lando pretty much across the board this year. There’s certainly an argument to be made that they are the strongest driver pairing on the grid.

Team orders suck as far as competition is concerned. McLaren is also a hot mess when it comes to making decisions in real time during a race so maybe this will help them simplify things while they figure out how to run at the front again…

At the same time I hate it for Oscar. He’s been doing an excellent job this season and it sucks to have your progress stamped out mid season for the benefit of the team.

Cigarettes

Very cool. Good luck on the way to the finish!

How wonderful, thanks for sharing!

the userbase comes off as a walled garden

I’m smoking weed about it.

I agree it’s super weird with the most recent race on top

I’m smoking weed about it.

The whole sport is a human rights nightmare, yes. F1 is not beneficial to the world or its inhabitants, I’m well aware.

I’m not about to use a meme community for grandstanding about it, but you do you.

I don’t think being a reserve driver is unreasonable and they tend to hang around the paddock anyways.

I think Nico Hulkenberg is a perfect example of why it can pay to keep in contact with F1 teams when everyone else says your career is over. That isn’t a skill comparison, just an example of someone playing bench warmer after their career in F1 was “over” who still made a comeback.

F1 has certainly seen more ridiculous things.

Too late because of team errors, too soon because of team errors. McLaren has to get on top of the operational and strategical errors for either driver to have a shot at a WDC. The field is too close throughout the course of a season to squander away so many opportunities.

I’ve been a McLaren fan for a long, long time.

I understand what you’re saying and I respect that point of view.

Having said that.

You shut your mouth and let them have this. If it’s McLaren dominance into the new engine regs you all just need to hitch to the nearest Lando or Oscar bandwagon and hold the fuck on.

I’m smoking weed about it.

It’s been interesting to see the “shine” come off as his incredible run of success in F1 falters a little bit. I think Toto is a decent person and also a very emotional person. For a while all he really let us see was happiness or anger. After a few years of struggling to get back to the front Toto seems to be much more willing to show his feelings in real time instead of through carefully worded statements to the press.

It’s been a good thing imo. It’s cool to see team principles, owners, etc being a part of the team as fans and real people, not LinkedIn versions of people. Not that my opinion matters but it makes F1 more fun to watch when you see the people at the top just as hooked in as we are. Clumsy Zak Brown high fives make me laugh just as much as a Toto stink eye.

The same way they are covered now.

He isn’t wrong but at the same time that’s doing a disservice to not only Mick but also someone like Alex who has made his comeback run with Williams after being tossed around at Red Bull…

For all the calls to put Mick in the seat I’d ask why Toto, an often vocal supporter of getting Mick back on the grid, hasn’t filled the Mercedes vacancy with him? I think the truth many fans don’t want to accept is that the team principles just don’t rate him as highly as the fans do, even with his success in other series.

In a way it’s sad but it’s the nature of F1.