Romain Grosjean, Haas, Suzuka, 2019

Grosjean has “no idea” how competitive Haas will be in remaining races

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In the round-up: Haas’s variable performance this year leaves Romain Grosjean unsure how competitive they will be over the remaining races.

What they say

Grosjean was asked whether the pace the team showed in Russia had been encouraging:

I think it was a morale booster for everyone and good to have. Is it going to repeat this weekend, next weekend, the next five races? We’ve got no idea.

Russia worked pretty well, I think we did a good job but is it going to be same thing here? I think first we need to go on track and see how the tyres are and then see where we are.

Quotes: Dieter Rencken

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Comment of the day

@Hobo doesn’t agree with Lewis Hamilton’s analysis of the state of play at Ferrari:

A few things that bother me about these comments by Lewis.

1. I don’t think Ferrari have chosen Leclerc over Vettel at all. Singapore shows that they didn’t favour Leclerc. Sochi may show that they are more open to a race-by-race team leader.

2. While he may have been talking about how Mercedes theoretically allows there to be a race leader rather than a team leader, the quote, “We don’t complain because we have a good philosophy, it works really well here and we don’t plan on changing it any time soon,” could also easily apply to having a number one and number two driver since Bottas joined.

3. Mercedes does have a team leader and the other car moves out of the way for him or slows down for him.

I get that Hamilton is just answering questions, so I don’t hold it against him. But it’s a bit rich for him to say that Mercedes’s system is great without acknowledging that it is great because it benefits him specifically.
@Hobo

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9 comments on “Grosjean has “no idea” how competitive Haas will be in remaining races”

  1. When they had the chance to preserve a nice track among an Olympic complex, something Sochi totally lacks, they chose to wipe it out, only to come building another disgusting borefest. Sometimes I just hate these times.

    1. Well dropping Sao Paolo is like dropping Suzuka. Even though Interlagos and its surroundings has it’s own problems but like Japan Brazil has its heritage in the sport. Maybe now when Massa has been away couple of years Brazil needs to refresh itself. Like when the race was moved from Jacarepagua back to newly desinged Interlagos

  2. I’m like cotd am perplex by Ham’s perception of reality. I can only conclude that being delusional is a pivotal characteristic of top drivers

    1. I agree with k-mag. I thought this when the words from the driver’s briefing were published too, the writ explicitly talks about “any driver passing completely to the left of the orange sausage kerbs”. Magnussen clearly drove over the orange kerbs thus making the incident not something addressed by the directive. I don’t love the guy but he got screwed.

      For the millionth time, either enforce all the track limits or leave it alone. Everyone was going right off the track between turn 2 and 3 but nobody cares. Same with half the corners at the last race. I really hope the reports were true that we’ll be seeing the back of Sochi.

    2. It’s all mind games to destabilise Ferrari / Seb, people take these things too literally

  3. Kev’s got the point there.

    1. That’s what I thought initially, but on reading the instructions it seems that Mag was mistaken. @jerejj
      The ‘first element’ runs parallel to the track (after T1), and Mag went completely onto the left side (away from the track).
      He thinks that he was safe because he wasn’t on the left of ‘the complete length’ of the element, but that is not what the instructions said.

      The only problem I have is that (from memory) there were other drivers who did the same during the race but were not punished.

      1. @coldfly The other driver (Gasly) who went off there as well didn’t get a penalty because he rejoined the track the right way.

  4. What a shame there isn’t space for Nyck De Vries’ in F1 in 2020. What a waste that he has to go to Formula E.

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