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Norris “didn’t take enough risk” at the start

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In the round-up: Lando Norris says his Spanish Grand Prix was spoiled by an overly cautious start.

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Norris qualified eighth but fell to 10th at the first corner, where he finished:

It’s just a risk into turn one, it’s always a risk. Maybe I should’ve taken more risk. I know it’s a very difficult track to overtake on and race on. So every little position is really going to help in the race. So maybe I really should have risked more.

But it’s not something I’ve always been struggling with, it’s something that I improved a lot since last year and I’ve been taking the right amount of risk. And this one I just didn’t take quite enough and it backfired on me. So sometimes you win from it, sometimes you lose from it. That’s just the way it is. And this weekend didn’t work out.

Quotes: Dieter Rencken

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Could the FIA’s plan to ban ‘quali modes’ bring an unintended consequence?

FIA need to put their thinking cap on. The unintended consequence will be that Mercedes work hard on reliability and make race mode party mode too. It’s obvious Mercedes have one second per lap power in hand and are de-tuning race mode to keep reliability up.

But getting that reliability is easier than getting the power. They will force Mercedes to push their race mode even further out of reach of the rest (which is within their power as we see from qualifying), while the rest cannot – otherwise they would already by qualifying faster.
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6 comments on “Norris “didn’t take enough risk” at the start”

  1. Andrew Shovlin: “(Bottas) was able to follow Max closely and we may conclude that there was a small window where we could have gone for an undercut in that middle stint, but Red Bull covered the situation well.”

    He means ‘Max covered the situation well’. RB was busy looking at Racing Point

    1. F1oSaurus (@)
      18th August 2020, 8:22

      No Red Bull covered it well. If they had listend to Max he wold have ended up behind the RP’s and lost a lot of time, most likely letting Bottas ahead.

  2. Regarding the Mercedes-tweet: I like how things have changed – from 2014 to 2016, they barely even looked at each other when being in the cooldown rooms after the races, so good thing that they’ve got back to speaking-terms this long after those intense times of being teammates and fighting for wins and championships. Pre-2014, they were fine with talking to each other and looking into each other, and again post-2016.

    I see where the COTD is coming from, and that could prove to be an unintended consequence should the expected restrictions come into effect.

    1. it probably helps a lot that both of them got what they wanted: rosberg got to prove himself and win a title like his father, and hamilton got to emulate senna and go for records.

      besides, this past seasons only showed what a fantastic driver lewis is and what an amazing job nico did keeping him honest.

  3. Regarding the COTD, if Mercedes decides to have their engines on party mode by default, can drivers change their driving style to avoid the reliability problems such mode can carry? ie. like being gentle with the accelerator, going flat out only when needed, etc

  4. Alexandre Araujo
    17th August 2020, 19:59

    Keith do you have all information about section “On this day in F1” in just one place.

    Thank you.

    Alexandre Araujo

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