organic wrote: ↑28 Aug 2023, 10:45
It is on the team to be ready even if the driver doesn't call to pit... Ferrari should have been ready for one of their drivers to want inters given we knew this shower was happening for a long time prior to its arrival.. didn't come out of nowhere.
Leclerc made the right call, unlike many other drivers so credit for that despite not a great Sunday overall
The car is in complete disarray. The team is in disarray. Like organic, I am baffled how with rain falling during the formation lap, and more rain on the radar, the pit wall isn't at least preparing to bring a car in. Restart and a full lap and they are all still sitting around.
darkpino wrote: ↑28 Aug 2023, 08:27
I've looked back some onboards yesterday from Leclerc (and others) and can't help but think that Leclerc is at least part of the problem. He is massively talented but can't maximise, kind of a all or nothing driver at this moment. At the same time it seems to me that he's really trying to over perform. Example is the first pit stop where he called boxing on pit entrance; hence his team wasn't ready for it as he made the call way too late. Perez for example already made the call to box in turn 13.
In my opinion the bottom line is that Leclerc while having loads of talent seems like being too young or inexperienced to build a team around. He doesn't have the experience to take with him from other teams to help SF nor does SF have the ability to hire experience from other top teams to help them forward. To say it's only the car: I think Sainz showed (and shows week in week out) that the car may not be a championship contender but in the mix to be either 2nd or 3rd in the constructor championship, it's just Leclerc who keeps throwing away money and points
It has nothing to do with experience. Some drivers are more aggressive than others. Some aren't driving around just playing it "safe". The ones who are are not going to get on the podium, and definitely not going to win any races without an immense amount of luck. I absolutely prefer Leclerc's driving style to others on the track. I don't know any other Ferrari fans who think otherwise. If not then just let Charles go and bring in another safe driver to run alongside of Sainz. We wont have any "costly" accidents or mistakes, but we also wont score higher than 5th in any race. I prefer the moments of excitement.
The fact is that the car is not a very difficult car to drive. It's easy to say a driver is making mistakes or comes across as inexperienced, or sloppy when you compare with drivers in other cars. But the RB is very stable. The Aston is stable. The Mercedes is stable (slow... but stable). You can't compare.