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[venkyhere]

How many non offsett tyre overtakes did you see when both cars had drs? In the whole race.

With a car struggling for the first time of the season, difficult conditions in qualifications, a DRS train that made overtakes nearly impossible in Baku, Norris only finished 7th.

But he still dominated Piastri completely this week end. The main difference this year between these two has been the raw mechanical failure Norris suffered in Zandvort. Without that, Norris would be extremely close and probably the favourite to win it all.

I can't understand how people are bashing Norris after the week end Piastri had.

Guys, I'm not trying to diss Norris, or fight your opinion. Just throwing up the Q - 'is that all he could have done?', what about a check-dive into an inconspicuous corner to scare Tsunoda ? What about disturbing the rhythm of the guy ahead ? Tsunoda drove a lot of the race without DRS, it was only in 2nd stint that he wedged in between Lawson and Norris. Why wasn't Norris able to undercut Tsunoda, even if it meant draining his battery when he had clean air ? Things like this.

[venkyhere]

Despite not being the ‘dominant’ car this weekend, dispute being in traffic the whole race Lando still managed to be only 0.55 on average off Verstappen in race pace.

In my opinion the car was more than capable it just wasn’t ever really on the correct tyres. Look at Russel who did the hard/ medium combo, he was only 0.15 off the ‘crushing’ Verstappen

Remember, Verstappen never got to use DRS (which is worth about 2 tenths atleast) throughout the race (perhaps towards the end when lapping the Alpines, but Im not sure it was on the Caspian straight) while others in that list did. Verstappen was driving like how Norris was driving in Singapore last year - just cruising and to a target time.

[Trocola]

Currently, I am not 100% sure that McLaren will win the WDC.

The team is going in a down spiral quite obvious.

They event went from getting the fastest pit stop in history to slower-than-average pit stops. In Baku they only had to do one pit-stop and, not surprising, it was a mess

[Sergej]

Despite not being the ‘dominant’ car this weekend, dispute being in traffic the whole race Lando still managed to be only 0.55 on average off Verstappen in race pace.

In my opinion the car was more than capable it just wasn’t ever really on the correct tyres. Look at Russel who did the hard/ medium combo, he was only 0.15 off the ‘crushing’ Verstappen

Remember, Verstappen never got to use DRS (which is worth about 2 tenths atleast) throughout the race (perhaps towards the end when lapping the Alpines, but Im not sure it was on the Caspian straight) while others in that list did. Verstappen was driving like how Norris was driving in Singapore last year - just cruising and to a target time.

except he didn't risk putting the car in the wall twice