NathanOlder wrote: ↑02 Aug 2021, 11:10
JPower wrote: ↑02 Aug 2021, 05:25
Manoah2u wrote: ↑02 Aug 2021, 03:11
It was especially revealing how fantastic and heavyweight fighter of a driver Alonso still is, looking at how swiftly Hamilton then got up to Sainz and 'easily' passed Sainz.
Sainz was saving fuel as early as 10 laps out and was on much older tires than any of the cars in the top 5. There was no way he was playing defense against Lewis at that point. I'm surprised he kept Alonso behind to be honest. The pace delta between he and Alonso was growing by the lap towards the end.
Yeah Sainz had tyres that were 7 laps older than Fernando's. If Sainz had tyres 7 laps newer, he too would have been able to keep Hamilton at bay for much longer. Fernando was able to pull out to 8 tenths in sector 3 to stop Lewis passing as he had the tyres to do so, Sainz did not.
Also Alonso is supremely experienced and a fabulous racer. However, we are lucky it was the Hungaroring or we wouldn't have to to witness anything like the long battle, and Hamilton would have been up the road and winning the race. You also have to be glad Raikkonen(?) happened to be right there at the start of the battle or again it looked like Hamilton would be straight through.
It was a superb few laps though. I wonder if Hamilton will look at what Alonso said about how he raced it and look at how he can make adjustments himself in the future? It was FASCINATING that Alonso said that afterwards. Great insight into it.