Dunno where you take this from. Especially with Ham vs. Ros we had the strongest push between drivers ever.El Scorchio wrote: ↑27 Oct 2021, 13:48I think 'driver errors' (and to an extent reliability and strategy decisions) are absolutely indicative of where the cars stand against each other. It's flipped 180 simply because RBR and drivers were having to push harder and take more risks in all aspects (driver, engine, strategy) to keep pace with Mercedes for the last few years, but now they are the pacesetters (regardless of what some of the less enlightened or purposely provocative forum members keep suggesting) which means Mercedes and drivers are having to push harder and take more risks than they'd like in all aspects to keep pace with Red Bull and do all the things Red Bull were historically forced to. It's pretty simple really.atanatizante wrote: ↑27 Oct 2021, 13:26Is it me or it seems that this year they just swapped the teams, coz it resembles me with what RB did last year and a couple of years ago:
- correlation issues or underestimate of the 2021 regs (especially regarding the floor rule);
- unreliable engine/PU;
- lower top speed due to a weaker PU;
- forced and unforced driver errors;
- race strategic blunders;
and you could add here if you want ...
In return, the 2021 RB team seems like the Merc team from the last years: a conservative approach, having a reliable car, good strategic choices in the race, few drivers errors, powerful and reliable PU and other qualities that we`ve used to see over years ...
If you look at the Q, you nearly always see one Merc driver with a deciding fault, both Mercs with a clean Q3 lap is really hard to find.
But I generally do not agree to the overall nonsense or sense that is tried to be made out of singular events:
- Ham bottled the Q3 laps at US
- Ver bottled the first Q3 lap
- Redbull bottled the Q3 on strategic terms by sending the cars out too late into drizzle.
- I have not seen flames/oil out of an exhaust in a race or Q. So where is the proof for any reliability issue?
So what exactly can we state from this crazy singular events? We even do not know where the cars stand in a clean Q3 session.
From which number do you take a weaker engine? Over the whole grid I can not see a difference from Merc to Honda on average. If anything the Merc is still stronger.
There is so much nonsense story played by Toto and Horner....people should trust their eyes and not the gossip.