Toto Wolff: “Lewis, good to make it to the end. It was a horror race. I can so relate to it, we can all relate to it. At least we have taken the penalty now. Let’s move forward.”
Bono: “Lewis well done mate. That was P9, but yea, understand the frustration.”
Toto Wolff: “George the second part of the race was really well driven. There’s so much to learn here.”
George Russell: “Yea thanks Toto. Tyres tyres tyres. Thanks everybody, and especially everyone in the garage.”
Mercedes did not drive very well in the first stint of the race, in the second part of the race Russell was one of the fastest after Norris, so I don’t understand that Mercedes has been having problems lately in the first stages
Curving the corners, instead of sharp v’s. Which around Baku, is like eating soup with a fork
ah that makes sense and yea the Merc has been very inconsistent since the summer breakj_ste wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 14:49Curving the corners, instead of sharp v’s. Which around Baku, is like eating soup with a fork
In terms of performance, it’s back to square one.
Thanks for the correction mate, thats what i meant to say in my analysis. Yeah its a unorthodox way of driving a f1 carj_ste wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 14:49Curving the corners, instead of sharp v’s. Which around Baku, is like eating soup with a fork
In terms of performance, it’s back to square one.
The Mercedes car with the optimal tire position is one of the fastest, in the second part of the race Russell was one of the fastest on hard, unfortunately they have not yet understood the reason why the tires sometimes do not work correctly, but as I said, the Mercedes car is quite goodSKYnRacing24 wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 14:57Knew Lewis would have a absolute mare with that suspension change. Car was unsteering and overheating front and rear axel on Lewis's car. It was grim to watch, He had to drive in a unorthodox way so he had no inherent pace. A C shape is where you can't use a linear line into a corner phase. You can't race when you drive like that but that style kept the tyres from overheating consistently through corners. Russell's radio at the end " Tyres Tyres Tyres " was a insight on how this car was not setup properly to utilise the tyres. I dont know where the team go from here and they have all this data and configurations but nothing is working atm. I expect Singapore to be a shitshow for Lewis again as he has no confidence in qualy trim. Russell will drive the wheels off it but overall the car in low speed hasn't been that great.
Leading the entire race and then someone being disqualified for an illegality. Not quite the same thing…but sure
They thought they could set the car up better and he would still get in the points. And then took advantage of that by taking new PU components.
