AR3-GP wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024, 16:35
They let Perez put up a DRS train from lap 13 to lap 22 which destroyed Max's race because he couldn't pass Russell since Russell was getting the DRS from Perez.
Those 10 laps took away Max's chance to win.
I was really surprised this didn't cause more noise, I was totally tilted to see that during the race. Max lost like 10 seconds of race time and the team gained exactly nothing. It was awful to see.
Perez should have moved away at around lap14.
Instead they were losing time from the front runners and Norris was making up 6 seconds on them.
What was even worse, that when Russell finally overtook Perez, he didn't move away from Max. Instead he created a 2s gap between George and Ver so essentially taking away the DRS from Max, while giving a DRS to Norris as he just closed in the from 2s to 1s during that time.Then they immediately boxed Perez, WTF was that? They didn't even try 1 more lap to hold Norris, giving some breathing space to Max. Like Checo was driving for McLaren or something.
He took away like 8-10s race time from Max, then take his DRS away from George and gave Norris a go on Ver. And for what? So Perez could conveniently sail in to 8th place with a pitstop gap? Perez was not in a fight for anything. Team would have lost exactly nothing, by 'sacrificing' Checo. This was a proper Leclerc-2022 treatment for Max.
Also Tsunoda cost like 2s for Max, fighting hard after his first stop, but that's much more understandable.
ps: sorry for the rant, I honestly couldn't believe what was happening. Barely noticed what happened in the race after this, I was so pissed.