Matthijs

Giovinazzi missed a massive opportunity here, if the displayed tyre strategies are indeed correct. He pitted in the warmup lap for slicks, but apparently decided to switch to inters after the first lap. Seconds […]

@asleepatthewheel So that’s what happened, I didn’t know what happened to him after the restart. Thanks.

I meant lap 49, not 38 actually.

Patrick, Russell wasn’t soundly beaten by Latifi. He overcame a 18 seconds deficit in lap 38 to 1 second at the finish as you can see here […]

@Frans. No, but think about what @shrieker is saying. Since Mercedes are champion, they use the very first pitbox. When Hamilton would have been ready with his tyre change, it would have been very difficult to […]

@f1-plossl I hadn’t thought of that but indeed. The curse of the first pitbox.

@johnrkh Exactly! When you use weaving to break the draft I think it is a smart and rather innocent way of defending. Once you carry this behaviour to the braking zone or when someone is almost level with you, yes […]

@f1-plossl No that is not what I said. Max wasn’t smart taking so much risk, but he clearly didn’t ‘take the line like no one was there’. I believe he gave Hamilton just enough room, had Lewis taken the corner […]

It is a well written article but I don’t see see how this explains why Hamilton is only predominantly to blame and not wholly.

First of all, I think it was a racing incident and that there should be no p […]

It would be fair that there is a parc ferme rule during red flag. Of course you are allowed to repair your car when damaged, but then you must start from the pit lane at the restart.

@robbie I do think if this carries over to next year the sprint qualifying will be even more exciting than whatever this weekend’s event shows, with cars far less likely to be stuck in dirty air next year o […]

I feel that Red Bull now has the better car, but not by much. The dominance is exaggerated by the fact that we had 2 straight races at the Red Bull Ring, a track where Red Bull normally excels. Apart from these […]

I really don’t mind two races per weekend. F1 is in the minority compared to other race classes. But I think the reward for scoring well in the qualifying race is too little compared to the risks of falling back, […]

I agree with him. The rewards are low (in terms of points and places on the grid) compared to the risks of falling back after a contact or spin. So you sit tight and wait for others to mess up.

@jerejj Not if that means that you get knocked out of Q2 I guess

Well it worked for Jaguar and Lotus/Caterham, so it is possible to have a clear British Green colour on television.

@jelle-van-der-meer I don’t see it as sandbagging when a team uses the Friday training for setup and information gathering rather than getting fast laps.

Most frontrunners qualified on the medium tyre last week. Now with the softer compounds, last week’s medium tyres are this week’s hards. However, I think that (almost) nobody will try to qualify on the hards, […]

Compared to 2020, sorry

@ju88sy Indeed. Red Bull is performing well compared to 2021, but nothing special. Alpha Tauri and Williams made bigger gains. It is Mercedes who has fallen back (probably because of rule changes), therefore it […]