Well, fortunately, he doesn't really blame Perez (that would be utterly petty), he's just saying that Perez pulled over and Hamilton hit the switch when he reacted to that movement.Right Hambone is going for it being perez's fault for moving over defending his place at the 2nd start, you know like every other driver at every start.
I've shat on Stroll the Younger in the past, mainly because he appeared to be just another pay driver. I think I underestimated him. idk if he's WDC material (especially with the likes of Lando, George and Mick all showing future WDC potential), but he definitely won't disgrace himself.
The only thing stopping George from getting an M-B seat in 2022 is Hambone. I can't see George willing to be Hambone's bottom bitch, nor do I think M-B would trust him to do so.
That says as much about M-B as it does about Hambone.
If a driver completes over 90% race distance they classify as finishing the race, obviously however many laps down since the lead cars have gone past them (or at least where their car ended up) that number of times. In races with particularly high attrition drivers have scored points having crashed before.
The N24 is describable as an overgrown club race - they have a policy of almost outright 'run what you brung' with exception to anything smaller than 1.6 litres. And so you get that Manta I was talking about earlier in the thread which has run every year since Henry V was born, and sometimes you get these pure joke entries from people who know what they're doing and want to see how it'll go. One of the Dacia's drivers is Misha Charoudin (YouTube channel) and literally his entire existence is the Nurburgring Nordschleife so he knows what he's doing: so why not.
125 cars were on the original entry list, only 122 entered the race. And yes, I am saying 'only'.
There is only one way how this could work out: Give Russel a contract that will run (at most) as long as Hamilton's current one on the condition that he'll be Hambone's wingman and then, thereafter, he will replace Hamilton and get his own wingman. If he doesn't hold up his end of the bargain, he's out, if he does, he's pretty much guaranteed to become a star.
It's a great way to take measure of your own abilities, but it's also a great way to waste a small fortune after clipping the grass at a corner.
My old bike insurance for my 500cc thing here in the UK specifically wrote the Nordschleife as not included in my policy. Going rates for armco repair is about 1500 euros per girder - so if you hit anything that's instantly 4500 because of course they're triple stacked, and rarely do you only hit one thing.
It's actually quite fascinating to think that an insurance company from the UK specifies that. This would indicate that Touristenfahrten-related accidents did occur often enough to be important enough to named in this fashion.
I have no doubt the nordscheife was considered safe as fuck in the 1940s, with it's ample amounts of runoff area and kerbs. Especially compared to other tracks of the time (the suicide chicane on the spot of the modern nouvelle chicane at monaco comes to mind)
