Vanja #66 wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 18:02
KimiRai wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 17:39
That's irrelevant. Leclerc is faster overall but that's not the point, this weekend Sainz was more comfortable and that was obvious for everyone to see. Prohibiting him from overtaking when he was up to 0.2 tenths behind is ridiculous no matter what.
Not being fast enough to overtake even with DRS is not the same as being prohibitted to overtake, it's worth knowing the difference. Ferrari was a better car than Mercedes and McLaren today and Sainz was able to overtake them easily, didn't he?
Yes he did. Moreover, not only a Mercedes and McLaren, even a RBR!
First stop, Ferrari mess at double pitstop means Sainz had to wait for a slow pistop for Lecrerc (4.4 seconds), and also for a slow pitstop for himself (4.5 seconds), so he lost around 4 seconds on the pitlane. He went into the pits 3rd, and went out of the pitlane 6th on lap 16 behind Perez, Hamilton and Norris
On lap 17 he did pass Norris.
On lap 19 he did pass Hamilton
On lap 20 he did pass Perez!!
So he did recover 3rd position
If he was able to pass RBR, I guess he could pass Ferrari... if he was allowed, but that was not the case, he received TOs to not try a pass on Lecrerc, despite he was leading the table, and actually he still leads
Even so he made some mistakes and Lecrerc deserves his final position, but at that point in the race, there was no reason to provide TOs and deprive theirselves from a small but real chance to fight for victory. I don´t think they had any real chance, but it´s first time I see a F1 team ignoring the chance for victory when they start the race 2nd and 3rd, as that provides a huge advantage to push the leader, split strategies, and force the leader to make a perfect race. Wich btw he didn´t, as not pitting under VSC was a huge mistake for RBR, but Ferrari deprived theirselves from any chance to victory