In the round-up: Carlos Sainz Jnr hopes Sergio Perez finds a way to remain in Formula 1 after his contract was cut short by Racing Point.
What they say
Sainz responded to Thursday’s confirmation that Sebastian Vettel will replace Perez at Racing Point next year, when the team becomes Aston Martin.
I think Sebastian is a great guy, great driver. To keep him in Formula 1 was definitely good news. I obviously feel for Checo. I get on very well with him and I think he deserves to be in Formula 1 as much as anyone else. Let’s hope Checo can also find a good drive next year.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and
Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
Same driver. Same venue. Same passion. 20 years of history written in between. 🥇
Kimi will celebrate two decades from his first ever @F1 test with Sauber tomorrow. #TuscanGP #Kimi7 pic.twitter.com/luFrFEGAYx
— Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN (@alfaromeoracing) September 11, 2020
|@MercedesAMGF1's red Safety Car for @ScuderiaFerrari's 1,000th world championship race weekend was not a guerilla marketing exercise, says team principal Toto Wolff.#F1 #TuscanGP pic.twitter.com/dA1pSvxNDU
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) September 11, 2020
Nail a lap of Mugello, pull over 5G's, and commentate all at the same time?
No worries for @GeorgeRussell63 😎#TuscanGP 🇮🇹 | #WeAreWilliams 💙pic.twitter.com/FLFb2lXnJJ
— Williams Racing (@WilliamsRacing) September 11, 2020
Luca Ghiotto joins the F2 rallycross club 👀#TuscanGP 🇮🇹 #F2 pic.twitter.com/acGpGaeLZ9
— Formula 2 (@FIA_F2) September 11, 2020
All six still in the fight 👊
Here's where our championship contenders will start on Saturday!#TuscanGP 🇮🇹 #F3 pic.twitter.com/AIFQk6ZdkN
— Formula 3 (@FIAFormula3) September 11, 2020
- Find more official F1 accounts to follow in the F1 Twitter Directory
Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Verstappen's advice to Gasly - Stay at AlphaTauri (Reuters)
"Anyone can come back and try again but they will not succeed."
Former Ferrari boss offers health update after visiting F1 legend (The Independent)
"I saw Michael (Schumacher) last week. He is fighting. My God, we know he had a terrible and unfortunate skiing accident which has caused him a lot of problems. But he has an amazing wife next to him, he has his kids, his nurses, and we can only wish him the best and to wish the family the best, too."
Binotto: Ferrari gave Vettel early warning to aid his 2021 chances (Racer)
"I think it is not a surprise,' Binotto said. 'We are very happy for that conclusion. I think the fact that we told him our decision for next year very early in the season was really to give him all the chances to find a seat for 2021, so finally I’m very happy for him as a person."
Dan Ticktum: "Yeah, a little bit. I was rather depressed for a while, let's say. The best way to get over it is to go straight into another race weekend. I'm just focused on this weekend now. You can't dwell on the past. I could look back at the Spa Sprint Race as well, and that was a disaster. There we go... I just need some good points tomorrow."
Zendeli seals second F3 pole in season finale at Mugello (FIA F3)
"Trident’s Lirim Zendeli clinched his second pole of the season in the final FIA Formula 3 Qualifying session of 2020. The German driver beat out Prema’s Logan Sargeant by 0.034s to finish on top, with HWA driver Jake Hughes another tenth of a second back in P3."
Tuscan Grand Prix 2020 - Free Practice (Scuderia Alpha Tauri)
"We’re at the third race of the triple-header which is hard on the team, although everyone received a massive boost with the fantastic result at the last event. The celebrations were fairly short-lived as we come to a new track in Formula 1 racing. We’ve never been to this track in this era of F1, so there was a lot of preparation to do in a short time between Monza and Mugello. We continued the AT01 development here, so compared to the car we had in Monza, we’ve got new components both on the aero and mechanical side."
"Both championships take a significantly different approach in terms of camera height. When analysing last year’s Moto GP race with today’s practice action, it is clear that throughout the 5.2km circuit, F1 have opted to position their cameras lower than Moto GP’s historical positioning."
We always endeavour to credit original sources. If you have a tip for a link to feature in the next RaceFans round-up please send it in via the contact form.
Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and
Comment of the day
Koddamn weighed in on the question of whether Racing Point had made a mistake in dropping what McLaren boss Zak Brown described as the ‘higher performing’ Perez.
History has shown F1 teams prioritise pay drivers over talent. Lance Stroll is a pay driver, and Racing Point could do much worse. I don’t see Williams getting any heat for hiring Latifi.
But I think a lot of commenters find something especially wrong with Stroll, because his father owns the team. Which is very interesting, to me, as I don’t consider Stroll any different than a traditional pay driver, in fact, I rate him higher because he is actually decent.
Koddamn
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Mark, Striay, Gex and Frieda!
If you want a birthday shout-out tell us when yours is via the contact form or adding to the list here.
mirko710
12th September 2020, 0:29
about the cameras… at one point production tried some ‘close-up’ shakey cam, bit late finding the car, delayed zooom. maybe trying to emulate ‘old feel’. please don’t try again. it was just distracting, amateurish, trying too hard to be aloof.
one bourne film was enough for that ‘action filming’ style
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
12th September 2020, 13:47
one of f1’s current lowpoints is the camera work. not new, anyone can go watch some old ish laps on youtube. this weekend any time lewis or max goes out the camera zooms so much you can end up not seeing a single wheel. like watching radio.
OOliver
12th September 2020, 2:03
When you watch those bikes go down that start finish straight at full speed, over the painted band by the pit lane it is one of the most exhilarating experience and the camera angles used convey that spectacle to the viewer. F1 has always had a different perspective on conveying the action to the viewer.
Chaitanya
12th September 2020, 10:00
Last years MotoGP race at this very track was insanely exciting with 3 riders fighting for the win to the line. Camera work from MotoGp certainly helps a lot unlike the boring coverage of F1.
Avro Anson (@avroanson)
12th September 2020, 2:36
I once had dinner with the TV producer of some of the Australian Grands Prix in Adelaide. He told me that every sponsor is guaranteed “X” number of minutes & seconds screen time under Bernie’s rules. This led to the rather boring head-on long shots where the cars hardly appear to be moving, but the banner ads are prominent and on-screen for quite a long time.
Having said that, this is a head-on shot to remember: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZFtIclOdYg at 3:35.
Kribana (@krichelle)
12th September 2020, 6:36
No wonder in the 2015 Japanese GP, the Mercedes had almost no screen time in qualifying. I remember that session, and Hamilton and Rosberg were closely matched in terms of pace, and in the final minutes, we only saw Bottas’ lap instead of the Mercedes battling it out. Here is more to that: https://www.racefans.net/2015/09/27/did-fom-give-mercedes-its-invisible-treatment-in-japan/
It appears that this has even been traced back to 2012. So, it’s no surprise that during and under Ecclestone, the sport did have some rules of selection of tv coverage.
Jere (@jerejj)
12th September 2020, 7:42
@krichelle I had forgotten this thing about the 2015 Japanese GP. Otherwise, I remember this race, just not that Mercedes would’ve received particularly less world feed coverage compared to the rest of the 2015 events.
ian dearing
12th September 2020, 8:34
I think Catalunya is the worst example. MotoGP has about 6 different camera views between turns 9 to 12. F1 had one basic view of turns 9 to 12 with the camera stationed at the exit of 12, The Rolex Bridge remaining in centre shot for the majority of that sequence.
praxis (@praxis)
12th September 2020, 3:29
The Kimi from the early 2000s, very, very fast driver.
H67
12th September 2020, 6:14
Perez is like many other drivers. There comes a point regardless of your success that you find there is no more place for you at this level. Even the best get screwed over. It happens. F1 sort of expects you to walk away often before your ready. Do it with dignity and maybe you’ll get picked up by another team and maybe you also have to accept being replaced. Nothings new here and there are far too many who want your seat and don’t really care if your loss is their gain. I was a fan of Piquet and as he faced his later years in the sport Senna showed up and like Perez, Nelson no longer had a place and chose to end his career at Indy.
But what is lousy is a good driver loses his seat in the big dollar game of acquiring sponsorship investment by rolling the dice what could be or what might come. Perez in the end will be nothing more than just a part of the puzzle that grew to become Alpine. It’s all about dollars.
Jere (@jerejj)
12th September 2020, 7:29
Regarding the Reuters-post, even though the link doesn’t work:
Unfortunately for Gasly, AT isn’t a team for a long-term stay, so if he doesn’t get a chance to rejoin RBR, he’s going to have to leave the RB camp altogether to remain in F1 as a regular race driver a la Sainz.
I like how Russell could manage the multitasking of focusing on both the driving and a lap explanation. Yes, he wasn’t doing a 100% push lap, but still. Similar to what Gasly did at Circuit Paul Ricard in 2018: https://youtu.be/DBWQLZPkIWc
SadF1fan
12th September 2020, 9:32
Well if a driver isn’t capable of talking someone through a lap, that driver wouldn’t become an F1 driver.
Jere (@jerejj)
12th September 2020, 10:09
@SadF1fan Talking for a few seconds on a straight is different from talking throughout a lap, though.
SadF1fan
12th September 2020, 11:30
Not at that skill level and especially when you are not driving flat out.
Hazel Southwell (@hazelsouthwell)
12th September 2020, 9:47
@jerejj apologies, that was me dropping a ” or something somewhere, the link works now
frood19 (@frood19)
12th September 2020, 7:41
Bumper round up today! Great stuff
SadF1fan
12th September 2020, 9:31
They could set up an F1 team for the all the old folks deservant of having a place in F1, even doh they have barely performed their entire career in F1.
ColdFly (@)
12th September 2020, 9:52
Why just a single team, you can set up a whole championship and call it Formula E or Indycar.
graham228221 (@graham228221)
12th September 2020, 10:12
I forgot MotoGP race at Mugello.
Hold on a minute, I thought bikes needed acres of all-tarmac run-offs?
ian dearing
12th September 2020, 11:05
They do, unless the barriers are to close, then gravel. So the occasional rider and bike do bounce over the barriers with gravel, as you can see on youtube.
ian dearing
12th September 2020, 11:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4otQI2blsus&ab_channel=PettaVagner
Euro Brun (@eurobrun)
12th September 2020, 10:43
Watching the F3, its crazy how much they are using the run off out of the last corner. The racing line appears to be first off track, then part of the pitlane entrance.
John
12th September 2020, 11:40
Kick out Bottas and get him in the Merc. At least he might challenge Ham, instead of letting him run away with these empty championships.
Adam (@rocketpanda)
12th September 2020, 12:31
Still not sold on Stroll. If anything last weekend made me even less keen on him considering he had arguably the best chance and best machine to take a victory and blew it at the first corner, and then further messed it up a few corners later. I’m sure you could argue inexperience but he’s not exactly ‘new’ to F1, and his experiences of the running at the very front are arguably a little higher than Gasly & Sainz who did fine.
He’s not bad, no. But he’s not good, either. He’s one of those drivers who if the machine allows, will score victories and poles and the like, but if next to someone even slightly better he’ll never see any of them. Opportunistic and semi-regular points scorer, but nothing more.
Dave
12th September 2020, 17:36
Would be fine if he stays in F1, but I wouldn’t mind an IndyCar switch…or WEC.