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Great recovery Lewis.Russell was struggling but brought himself back into it. Good job by Merc.
“And that’s part of the game, is being able to be adaptive, and we’ve got this new car – I don’t know how it’s going to handle, hopefully she’s great.”
Looking forward to tomorrow when they are the 7th fastest car on track in the first stint and half a second faster than the leader at the end without knowing why.
But let’s see tomorrow. IF they get into the window, they might as well be contenders for victory.
Looking forward to tomorrow when they are the 7th fastest car on track in the first stint and half a second faster than the leader at the end without knowing why.
But let’s see tomorrow. IF they get into the window, they might as well be contenders for victory.
It’s Singers bud, no one will be close to max pace. They just need to keep it clean
Loving the comments from yesterday saying Lewis was gonna be stomped and whatnot lol Great recovery by the team, maybe it can capitalize from a tangle by the front 2
Looking forward to tomorrow when they are the 7th fastest car on track in the first stint and half a second faster than the leader at the end without knowing why.
But let’s see tomorrow. IF they get into the window, they might as well be contenders for victory.
Yeah, I am not keeping my fingers crossed but let's see. If the pace is decent, with a clean getaway they can put the top 2 under pressure having both cars in the fight.
Good recovery. Especially by Lewis who was nowhere yesterday. Should be an interesting race. Last year Sainz held up the pack the whole race but with the extra drs zone it might be hard to replicate that.
Looking forward to tomorrow when they are the 7th fastest car on track in the first stint and half a second faster than the leader at the end without knowing why.
But let’s see tomorrow. IF they get into the window, they might as well be contenders for victory.
It’s Singers bud, no one will be close to max pace. They just need to keep it clean
True… they have the possibility to try something strategically different now with two cars up there also.
Lewis has shown in the past that his Q performance in particular is highly dependent on his mental and emotional state. I think there is some "wear" that has got to him with age, because you can't avoid biology, but I also really think he just hasn't been on the best state mentally this season. Left Mercedes for Ferrari, that's got to trigger something within you. It's the team that gave you all the records and you're leaving them, but you also have to do this last season with them.
Then your teammate is flying, and you don't feel at your best. For a while there you could see Lewis was losing confidence in himself with some of the comments he is been making. Especially that one after Monza when he said they will probably be better with Kimi next year. Things like that are psychological indicators to me.
I think it's too early to discount Lewis just on the basis of this season. We have to see how will he perform next year at Ferrari, and if the run of disappointing performances continues, then all of this bad-mouthing he has received here, would be better justified.
