Have stopped watching now. Its like even if max (obviously with that car) starts from his hotels parking lot he will still enter the race and win it without any sweat. .
Good podium by lac16
Piastri went to the inside giving no space to anyone and hitted Sainz when he was ahead of him.
Make that 51 points with today's door slamming over Piastri, and a DNF mistake. Unbelievable... P4 was very much possible and P5 was easily in the bag.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2023, 15:30The reality is Carlos is simply not delivering. He lost 39 points in races so far this season, all on his own. The only improvement from last year is that he's not making DNF mistakes, at least not yet. There hadn't been a driver in Ferrari that made so many mistakes in the last 25 years, at least.
We can't talk about luck anymore, he gets overwhelmed on the start and makes mistakes so often. He slammed the door on Russell in Texas last year and he did it again today. If he didn't lock up there could have been some debate. He had a lot of room on the outside to Hamilton on entry to give space to Piastri who was closing in and did not make any mistake on braking, so we really can't say it was Piastri dive bombing. By the apex, Hamilton took the room on the inside he was given and Sainz was already taking the tight line and completely ignored Piastri. It was unlucky for Piastri, not Sainz.
These tires from Silverstone onwards don't degrade as much, they are fairly consistent, Ferrari just has in their mindset to be scared of deg.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑30 Jul 2023, 16:48Make that 51 points with today's door slamming over Piastri, and a DNF mistake. Unbelievable... I'm not gonna comment anything more since there is nothing nice to say, a P4 was very much possible and P5 was easily in the bag.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2023, 15:30The reality is Carlos is simply not delivering. He lost 39 points in races so far this season, all on his own. The only improvement from last year is that he's not making DNF mistakes, at least not yet. There hadn't been a driver in Ferrari that made so many mistakes in the last 25 years, at least.
Solid pace from Leclerc, unexpected after Q for me, I was sure they will be eating the tyres sooner than Merc and not to mention RB. I still think they could have gotten P4 in Hungary without that horrid pit stop for Leclerc, but the gap would have been huge in any case. Not sure what's going on with the tyres, maybe they made a better setup than Merc with no dry practice basically. 3rd podium for Leclerc, it's gonna be hard to get to P3 in WDC but if his wall makes no mistakes in the next 10 races they can recover the gap to Hamilton and I believe Alonso will be a sitting duck with AMR23 going steadily backwards on pace.
It doesn't matter that Sainz was ahead - Piastri just has to be far enough along to be entitled to space. Which he was. Also Sainz locked up.
On french TV he said "they" have to be careful every lap, every corner, with the tyres while the RBs dooesn't need to.SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑30 Jul 2023, 17:17Charles said after the race there is still something they don't understand about the car. That worries me a bit.
RB was in another league in quali trim as well this weekend.Spoutnik wrote: ↑30 Jul 2023, 17:39On french TV he said "they" have to be careful every lap, every corner, with the tyres while the RBs dooesn't need to.SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑30 Jul 2023, 17:17Charles said after the race there is still something they don't understand about the car. That worries me a bit.
He stated "we don't understand, they have something we don't understand with the tyres".