The team got him out in front of Leclerc who was nowhere all weekend and he couldn't stay in front. What is it going to take to actually beat someone that matters?
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The team got him out in front of Leclerc who was nowhere all weekend and he couldn't stay in front. What is it going to take to actually beat someone that matters?
He's been smashing his steering wheel for two races straight now. And people say Max is a hot head.Rikhart wrote:Hadjar looks more and more like a nutter. His reaction in Miami, now almost punting Leclerc into the stratosphere, etc.
Just shows how much faster Ferrari was. In those conditions anyway.
Stop updating and RBR is a Contradiction in itself
How ? Verstappen finished ~16s behind the lead Mercedes over a 23 lap sprint. That's 7 tenths a lap. No difference.
I meant the sprint weekend as a whole since the GP is what people will remember. Yeah he got a podium but the gap was staggering when Mercs were actually pushing. This was a 2014-2016 level deficit.
A setup the driver didn't like, with an overweight car, and the factory PU team with massive PU+chassis advantage with a huge update to boot --> considering all this, 7 tenths over a 75second lap isn't a catastrophe, it's less than 1% deficit at the start of a new regulation set.AR3-GP wrote: ↑25 May 2026, 18:57I meant the sprint weekend as a whole since the GP is what people will remember. Yeah he got a podium but the gap was staggering when Mercs were actually pushing. This was a 2014-2016 level deficit.
This was nothing like 2014, remember Bahrain back then? Comparing current merc to the insane 2014 rocket is a stretch. I dont get the pessimism. In a few races time Merc could be 3rd/4th team.AR3-GP wrote: ↑25 May 2026, 18:57I meant the sprint weekend as a whole since the GP is what people will remember. Yeah he got a podium but the gap was staggering when Mercs were actually pushing. This was a 2014-2016 level deficit.
The only meaningful takeaway from this graph is who the two worst current F1 drivers are.
Alonso retired on lap 23, yet Stroll still couldn't match that. https://t.co/41GtnSNG8Y"I certainly see that the steps we took in Miami are being confirmed here once again. Moreover, I think we found a bit more here than in Miami, in the sense that I believe we managed to extract a bit more performance from the top teams.
"If you look at the lap time, there was a difference of three tenths in qualifying on Saturday, and I think on Sunday we were a bit closer than the half-second deficit we had in Miami. In Miami we finished 40 seconds behind the winner, here it was less.
"There are probably no reasons to get too enthusiastic yet, in the sense that you could also be dealing with a certain effect of the circuit layout or with a circuit that can be forgiving for certain aspects of the car.
"But the steps from Miami are thus confirmed here, and I also think that the guys managed to find something extra. When you also consider that the competition had another stream of updates this weekend, I think we can conclude that we are heading in the right direction with our updates."
Without correcting for overtake mode laps you cannot draw too many conclusions.
