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Nice guy...Too soft I'm afraid...Think I'd rather have HAM...Never drove for Ferrari...No friendship worries...Winner who is still HUNGRY. But yet again, nice guy, don't know if he has any Toto or Steiner traits. Ferrari needs someone who can get f'ing ugly if needed.
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06-20-2021, 06:10 PM | #225 |
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Ferrari problem solved!!! Terry Tate office linebacker
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Great race, fantastic season so far. About time good grief.
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06-20-2021, 07:52 PM | #227 |
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Max 7 years in F1 - 0 titles Hammy 14 years in F1 - 7 titles ![]() Hammy averaging a title every other year…Max averaging 0 If things continue, Max may win his first this year, but mark my words - Russel will move to Merc and win more titles than Max.
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I agree with you that the Merc strategy team needs to step up, they underestimated Max’s outlap potential especially sector 3 where he posted fastest overall for the race. Maybe they got greedy and targeted a 1 & 2 finish and it didn’t pan out for them without a safety car. They Merc appeared to have better grip than the Redbull for most of the race, due to the low downforce setup RBR was running. It was wild watching Max pulling his right front wheel off the ground every lap in this turn.
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06-20-2021, 09:51 PM | #232 | |
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Do you really want to get into the same situation that we've been in, in the last 9 years or so? That even before the season begins it's pretty sure who'll win and if not, the other guy will be his teammate? That constructors championships are won with 300+ point differences? That's not good for the sport, as every race will be a dull race. The last really exciting season in F1 was 2012 where multiple drivers and teams were fighting for the title. Because that's what true fans of the sport want to see. Real battles on the track that last until the last round. I mean, up till half the race the top 3 was within 4 seconds, we had seen 2 leadership changes, and then the race leader takes a pitstop and the #2 and #3 don't and then an incredible hunt begins that lasts till the end. These are the kinds of races I want to see. And preferably that even more teams mix into the fight The lead MERC and RB now had over the other teams in this race (the gap was 50 sec or so) is still too big. That's why I'm also eager to see what effect the development budget restraints will have in 2-3 years. Will we see a top 4 within 100 points composed of drivers who all race in a different team and a top 4 constructors championship also within ~100 points? Like we had in 2012? Or will we see 1 team leading with over 300 points and 1 driver having a 100+ point lead on the runner up, racing for the same team? I'm a VER fan mainly for 2 reasons: 1. He's a spectacular driver that sometimes displays incredible moves on the track (drifting through corners to correct his own mistakes because he wants to go too fast etc) 2. He's currently the only one that breaks that pattern that makes F1 the dullest sport on earth in the last decade. That I hear the most beautiful and (arguably) oldest anthem in the world every time he wins ![]() But honestly if we get a race every time like the one we had now, the one who wins becomes less and less important.
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Maybe he cracks under pressure or something. He's not a good overtaker and not good at holding his challengers off. And VER is the opposite. That Bottas was pissed over the radio about this race being a 2 stop race shows that he really is the #2 in the team and only the #1 counts (in the end I think that's the way in most top teams). They probably didn't gave BOT a 2nd stop (and maybe get that FL) so he could serve as a barrier to VER gaining rapidly. Quote:
He gained 3 sec by that undercut pitstop. There was also an interesting analytic discussion about that and that had to do with the #1 pitbox (the merc box) on Paul Ricard. When coming in, the cars for the #1 pitbox have to make a sharp turn to the right and then to the left to get to the pad, and the #2 and further boxes can do that more gradually. So the #1 pitbox takes more distance to drive into. They believed (in that discussion) that that alone could take up 0,5sec, so that helped Max get that unexpected lead during the first pitstop. It's of course debatable how much that influenced the final results as Max gave away his lead (less than 2sec) again after ~20 laps to make his 2nd stop
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