Carlos was barely faster and more so not constantly throughout the race so an overtake wouldn't have likely happened unless some risk would be involved. I fully understand the team not letting Carlos by as he would have hardly gotten anything better out of the race and given the troublesome races they had, I fully understand them wanting to tell the drivers to not fight and slow each other down.Andres125sx wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 08:01BTW, there´s any precedent of a F1 team providing TOs to favour the driver with fewer points in the table?
Currently they haven't the luxury of a teammate battle, right to hold station whichever way round the two drivers were on track.Kyo wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 09:13Carlos was barely faster and more so not constantly throughout the race so an overtake wouldn't have likely happened unless some risk would be involved. I fully understand the team not letting Carlos by as he would have hardly gotten anything better out of the race and given the troublesome races they had, I fully understand them wanting to tell the drivers to not fight and slow each other down.Andres125sx wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 08:01BTW, there´s any precedent of a F1 team providing TOs to favour the driver with fewer points in the table?
Hold position orders are rather common, no? Their whole strategy on the first half of the race quite depended on them pulling away cleanly and likewise on the second part by keeping a gap from Perez.
Not to mention Ferrari also denied Leclerc privilege last year even when he was leading WCC and Sainz was way down in the standings - going so far to gift him the win at Silverstone.
Yes. Silverstone 2022 and Brazil 2022 at Ferrari to favor Sainz.Andres125sx wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 08:01BTW, there´s any precedent of a F1 team providing TOs to favour the driver with fewer points in the table?
What race did you watch at Silverstone in 2022?AR3-GP wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 12:07Yes. Silverstone 2022 and Brazil 2022 at Ferrari to favor Sainz.Andres125sx wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 08:01BTW, there´s any precedent of a F1 team providing TOs to favour the driver with fewer points in the table?
Leclerc wasted several laps of race time behind Sainz before he was released. This time loss likely created the situation where he was unable to pit at the final safety car which cost him the win.Andres125sx wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 12:30What race did you watch at Silverstone in 2022?AR3-GP wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 12:07Yes. Silverstone 2022 and Brazil 2022 at Ferrari to favor Sainz.Andres125sx wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 08:01BTW, there´s any precedent of a F1 team providing TOs to favour the driver with fewer points in the table?
The only TO was to let Lecrerc pass, not the other way around
Not several, full 20 laps. After passing Sainz, he opened up a 4.5s gap in around 5-6 laps. The wall then messed up the call not to pit him, even though there was an opportunity and they had enough time - thus gifting the win to Sainz. Leclerc then fought hard to keep at least P2 and blocked Perez and Hamilton from making progress for 3-4 laps, allowing Sainz to open up a safe enough gap and get his win.
Team told Leclerc to hold position, there was an order that was enforced for 20 laps which slowed Leclerc down and Sainz benefitted from it in the end (unlike Leclerc now in Canada who had the same pace as Sainz). Please stop inventing stories
Sorry, didn't notice the corrector was changing Leclerc with Lecrerc. No idea what kind of correction is that, but correctors do funny things sometimesspace wadet wrote: ↑20 Jun 2023, 14:47Can we at least all agree to spell the drivers' names correctly in this thread? It's "Leclerc" not "Lecrerc". There are only two drivers, why are there so many instances of misspellings? It shouldn't be this hard. (The other one is "Sainz", btw). It's hard to take anyone's opinion seriously if they can't/won't even get basic things like the team's own drivers' names right in the team thread.
Can you please prove it?