Wild they gave up Sainz for him given the good he gave performance the last 2 years. Hamilton has been slowly slipping.
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Curious to see in time if Yuki can tame the front end of the RB. I think they made a mistake getting rid of Perez honestly. He performed well in that car until Emilia-Romagna last year. Then he took a dump. Might as well just park the second car every race if they prefer to design the car 100% around Max.
It was a money grab, Ferrari merchandise sales exploded something crazy like 40%. That is a lot of money. lewis will ride out his 2-3 years and ride off into the sunset with a couple hundred million more.
IMO the only possibility is if Ferrari nails the rules changes for next year, then he may have #8.
I was thinking about doing Vegas too but I have too many big money plans this year so I will probably plan on next year. Used to go to Indy races as a kid. My dad always got Long Beach and Fontana pit and suite tickets for those through his work. Its what got me into racing.
Yea that's understandable but from a pure race and performance aspect it was a poor choice. Can't really blame the car when George routinely was out performing him. Seeing the same with leclerc now.
What i really want to see is piastri destroy Norris. Next to George he's my least favorite driver by a large margin.
I'm not saying Otmar wasn't without faults...but dude was made a scapegoat for decisions made by Papa Renault.
Same. I don't get too wrapped up in the personalities of drivers, but Norris really does seem like a whiny bitch. That and since all F1 media seems to be British and they are overly biased, I enjoy seeing the British drivers get beat.
Norris doesn't have the kill instinct in him. He is just not the dude. While being in the fastest car by a long shot, Piastri is a better driver. And I'm not even a fan of Piastri on how the whole loyalty to Alpine thing went down.
When there are lots of driver changing seats you need 4-5 races compared to 20 years ago it was 1-2 races maximum.
The budget restriction on sims, wind tunnel, track time makes it impossible to get the driver, crew, and car on the same page.
They just can’t get enough hours to set up cars differently, so by default they have to make both cars match the primary driver in the beginning of the season. Especially if he’s a carryover. They need both cars data.
That hamstrings the second driver immensely with a new team.
The budget restriction on sims, wind tunnel, track time makes it impossible to get the driver, crew, and car on the same page.
They just can’t get enough hours to set up cars differently, so by default they have to make both cars match the primary driver in the beginning of the season. Especially if he’s a carryover. They need both cars data.
That hamstrings the second driver immensely with a new team.
I don't know what it is, but I have never liked Hamilton. Going back to his entry into F1 with Mclaren under Ron Dennis. Something about him.....totally unlikable.
I agree...Hamilton comes off as that fake nice and team spirit you just want to punch in the face. He might be sincere but he's got an undertone of smugness to it and I can't stand it.
While I agree with you, I was hoping to see a much better showing from Sainz at Williams. Especially with how pre-season testing went. He has been there long enough, with enough time logged on the vehicle and in sims that I wouldn't have expected such a poor showing the first three races. Especially since Albon is collecting points so the car is a midpack competitive car. I was really hoping he would have a good showing at Williams since Ferrari booted him to pick up Hamilton.
Everyone curses and makes fun of Ferrari..because they are a shit show lol
But they rarely get rid of good drivers. They don’t develop well (although it could be like the cowboys in football, your expected to be better than you are), but after driving for Ferrari they usually don’t jump up the grid.
Agree, as some one else mentioned his name helped with merch sales. IDK about all that, I don't follow F1 that close
Since my childhood have alway rooted Ferrari. While Hamilton was and still is a damn good driver, I never cared for him so hate to see Ferrari pick him up, especially when he is on the back side of his prime.
I hope they keep swapping wins all the way through the season. Let's get back to the seasons like we had in the 80s, where we came to the last race with several drivers still in with a shout for the title. THAT would be fun!!
They need to either make the cars smaller or switch to bigger tracks. You look at the comparison from the v12/10/8 eras and it's a big difference. Make the size requirements smaller and open up regulation on the electric. I think that will give better racing and breed more innovation in the hybrid field.
Get rid of the turbo hybrid system all together, and make the cars smaller. So many tracks out there, it's impossible to pass with these huge cars.
Personally, i think some of the most entertaining racing to watch is the Goodwood when Mini’s go against Galaxies…
They need to find a way to create rules that make cars mis matched in certain aspects, but even over all. How to do this IDK. That way there is a difference in performance that makes it interesting.
Easily some of the most entertaining racing in existence.
who else is going?
OP81 is the dude...drives a perfect race and effortlessly slides in deadpan, smartass remarks on the radio.
The best part of the race was Norris' mopey interviews afterwards. Looked like he got kicked right in the dick after his teammate drove off into the sunset.
Good race… Ollie Bearman, and Haas in general is still showing promise. Good to see them scoring points.
I think if Ferrari would have stuck to the medium tires they would have done better too. Those hard tires sucked for everyone today.
I think if Ferrari would have stuck to the medium tires they would have done better too. Those hard tires sucked for everyone today.
Ferrari started on Medium, then did Medium again on the first stop...needed another compound.
On the last pit stop I was surprised Ferrari did not go to softs. Risky yes but they knew hards were not working. George made it on softs but George seems to be the tire whisperer.
Max was his usual colorful self on the radio............I just got passed by an 18 year old, Kimi.
Max was his usual colorful self on the radio............I just got passed by an 18 year old, Kimi.
the red car trashes red tires faster than anyone else so when the SC came in was simply too early for them and the whites were the only viable option left after two stints on mediums. Their original strategy was med-med-soft, poor choice anyway but after China they were desperate for points.
IMO, Verstappen got robbed. If there was a wall where the runout was, he would have been forced into it. I don't believe Piastri had enough overtake to justify the decision. But that's just me.
But other than that, not a very eventful race and bit boring.
But other than that, not a very eventful race and bit boring.
I respectfully disagree. Oscar had the first corner, and Max just kept his foot in it. I said the team should have told him to give it back right away, avoided the penalty entirely and tried to take it back later.
Charles did really well today actually.
My thoughts exactly…. only thing I’ll add is that Oscar’s showing the pace and drive to win a championship. He earned today’s win.
Right now the Driver’s Championship is a fight between Max and either of the McClaren drivers, but barring some serious upgrades or maybe Yuki getting a grip on the second RB car and actually scoring points, McClaren’s gonna lock up the Constructor title by the summer break.
IMO Oscar was right and he held on and stood up to Max. Most others would have backed off. As far as the penalty I was leaning towards taking the five seconds was better as Max was running in clean air and could have built up a lead as Oscar was running dirty and wearing his tires. Didn't work out., Max didn't run well in second.
Either way, their speeds from qualifying and race were within tenths of each other and the only place to make up time was during a pit stop.
RB management flipped the coin and they got second. Maybe/probably they still would have finished second if they gave the position back right after the incident. I'd wager that the decision was made taking into account that Max would have abused the car to gain the position back and then even a second place would/could be in jeopardy.
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