In the round-up: Lando Norris says his Spanish Grand Prix was spoiled by an overly cautious start.
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What they say
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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We wish they’d stayed two metres apart here in 2016 😂 #SpanishGP pic.twitter.com/bmzyGEG8d7
— Mercedes-AMG F1 (@MercedesAMGF1) August 15, 2020
I STRONGLY believe that every series on this planet needs to assign a “photographer delegate” who can weigh in on matters like this & be trusted by the racing series. Suits who have NEVER been trackside for 1 millisecond make decisions on what is safe & not safe.
— Jamey Price (@jameypricephoto) August 14, 2020
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Links
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Sebastian with head and heart, a blackout stops Charles (Ferrari)
"We have dropped out of third spot in the constructors’ classification, even if by just a few points. We must always get all the potential out of our car if we want to achieve this goal and we must continue to work hard to close the gap to those who today were out of reach for us, namely the only three cars that completed all the laps of this grand prix."
"We’ve made some steps in the winter, but not enough to be on the leading side of the midfield here. It’s all very tight; two tenths yesterday in qualifying made a big difference and, again, it was tight today in the race. That’s not an excuse, though. We should be at a point where we could be doing better than that."
"In Belgium we will see what the change in the engine modes does. I don’t want to jump too much for joy, as I want to see first how it works out and what it does. I don’t think everything is the engine, I think we’ve got work to do on the car as well."
Lewis wins the Spanish GP, Valtteri third (Mercedes)
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."
Fighting display and mileage record in Spanish GP (Sauber)
"The car had a really good pace in the final stint, on the soft tyres, and I wish we had another set to use as they worked really well. Unfortunately we didn’t, so the end result is a bit disappointing as I felt we could have had a bit more."
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Comment of the day
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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Mayrton
17th August 2020, 7:55
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
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.
Jere (@jerejj)
17th August 2020, 8:16
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.
Arrows98 (@arrows98)
17th August 2020, 15:24
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.
Az
17th August 2020, 10:35
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
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