Spacepace wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 17:58
Seanspeed wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 17:52
Spacepace wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 17:36
He would have been p1. He was ahead of Verstappen but went too wide into the chicane compromising him through the right hander
You're very much mistaken here. Verstappen was literally purple in S1 and S2, while being the last guy of the front runners out there, meaning it's genuinely impossible for Lewis to have been faster than him up til S3.
P2 was the max possible for Lewis/Ferrari. Maybe P2+P3 if both Lewis and Charles had perfect laps, but I think only Mclaren could have touched Verstappen's time.
He was ahead on the onboards in the middle of the chicane by the reference of a scuffed part of asphalt. If Hamilton hadn't ran onto the dirt he wouldn't have created such a late entry into the chicane compromising the right hander. It doesn't matter if Verstappen was purple if he was only up by a few hundredths because he has been losing to the Ferrari in the final sector all weekend
What onboard did you see that demonstrated this?
If it's one of those 'overlay' things, they've already been shown to be quite inaccurate.
Verstappen was over a tenth ahead of where Lewis was heading into S3. Nobody was touching him. Lewis didn't lose three tenths+ in that last sector, it was just that little bit scruffy enough to lose out on P2 on what was a very tight qualifying between literally six different drivers.
Also if we're talking final sector, Ferrari had been missing out versus Mclaren there all weekend as well. If either Norris or Piastri had a great lap, they'd likely have been ahead of wherever Lewis would have ended up anyways. Genuinely four drivers were subpar to some degree. Verstappen and Russell were the only ones to put it all together, but Mclaren are still the fastest car.