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Pick-the-Podium- F-1 - Azerbaijain Grand Prix, Baku, Azerbaijain, 2018

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This race is probably going to be key for the winless Mercs to make some headway into this year's championship as we head into Azerbaijan amidst rumors about Ricciardo and Ferrari.

We shall see if Mercedes can get their stuff together because another win by Vettel is going to put some serious pressure on Hamilton for a repeat championship.
 

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Ricciardo is the top dog in practice so far. Vettel has yet to make an appearance. Bottas and Hamilton are down at 5tha dn 6th. We shall see.
 

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Curious as to how this race will pan out

last year's was the most wild of the season and perhaps the most crazy we've seen in years

the year before wasn't so much. Even an in-between race would be quite wild
 

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I will go
HAM
VET
RIC
BOT
 

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Vettel
Hamilton
Bottas
Verstappen
 

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I'll go with Vettel, Hamilton, Bottas, and Ricciardo.
 

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I am going to go "wild" here and change to Hamilton getting his first win followed by Vettel, Bottas, and then Ricciardo.
 

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Hamilton takes the race followed by Raikkonen's best finish of the year. Perez gets a podium finish in third and Vettel limps home in fourth. Bottas blows a tire when he ran over some debris and gave a sure win to Hamilton. Red Bull got into a complete mess and took a few folks out.

Hamilton wins and takes over the points championship. Wow, what a different race and championship points changer!
 

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Here is how we did:

BoiseStateFan27: 0 points- Skunked
forty_three: 6 points- Correctly selected Hamilton for the win
Hank Kingsley: 6 points- Correctly selected Hamilton for the win
Retroram52: 6 points- Correctly selected Hamilton for the win

Season totals:

BoiseStateFan27: 10 points
forty_three: 14 points
Hank Kingsley: 12 points
Retroram52: 18 points


Next up: Spanish Grand Prix, May 11-13.
 

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What a wild race, so many events and not often you see someone crash under a safety car

Crazy how it looked like I could have a perfect sweep of the finishing positions and suddenly a few late race events completely bankrupted me of my points and now I'm in last place
 

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Spain will be interesting for me as I'll be out of town

looks like I'll be making some pre-quali guesses

who knows maybe they'll prove to be better than my current ones!
 

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What a wild race, so many events and not often you see someone crash under a safety car

Crazy how it looked like I could have a perfect sweep of the finishing positions and suddenly a few late race events completely bankrupted me of my points and now I'm in last place

The thrill of victory and the agony of late-race events! That is what makes this competition so much fun BSF. You think you got your predictions aced and then, ah crap happens.

No worries on the pre-qual guesses, BSF. You also have until the time they start their engines to get your picks in if that helps.
 

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The thrill of victory and the agony of late-race events! That is what makes this competition so much fun BSF. You think you got your predictions aced and then, ah crap happens.

No worries on the pre-qual guesses, BSF. You also have until the time they start their engines to get your picks in if that helps.

Overall been a fun season so far, events happen every race that switches the order up

each race has been a thrill
 

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Haas off to a brutal start 8th in the constructors despite having a car that is better than that, they really haven't gotten everything they should have but haven't thanks to pit mistakes and driver errors
 

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Yea, BSF, I agree. And Haas started the season so promising until they had that lug nut gun problem in the pits in the first race that destroyed a really high-hopes, good run for both teams. It seems they have been really struggling ever since. Alot of bad mugumba has shown-up in that organization this year already!
 

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Yea, BSF, I agree. And Haas started the season so promising until they had that lug nut gun problem in the pits in the first race that destroyed a really high-hopes, good run for both teams. It seems they have been really struggling ever since. Alot of bad mugumba has shown-up in that organization this year already!

Looks like the F1 Gods don't like a "constructor" that is basically a dumpster diver of the Ferrari parts bin.

I literally laughed out loud when Grosjean binned it behind a safety car.
 
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