Matthijs

@todfod I don’t think your criticism is 100% fair. Yes, Ferrari had a terrible strategy, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

You say Ferrari had 3 choices to win the race. Soft-Medium-Medium, Medium-Soft-Medium […]

I am curious why Stroll was ahead of Vettel in the first place. He overtook Vettel on the first lap with surprising ease, as if Vettel was on cold tyres (which is unlikely with the high track temperature). Was […]

So what this article is explaining is that the Red Bull and Ferrari are quite evenly matched. But this is the case for the entire season so far. There has not been a single race that either Red Bull or Ferrari […]

With little friction I mean: in order to slow down you must have a big contact patch to scrub off speed. With a car upside down, it has a very small portion of the car touching the ground.

Russell was right, the gap between the fence and the tyre barrier should be investigated. It should be either bigger so that the driver can get out of the car, or smaller so that the car doesn’t get stuck behind […]

The car was upside down, so there was little friction to stop the car. Whether there was gravel or asphalt runoff, it had little effect. However, it is very striking how little the car slowed down between the […]

It also showed what a strong character he is inside the cockpit. For all Ferrari’s indecisions, Sainz comes across as very sure of himself inside the car. The way he talks to the team and a lot of the times d […]

@3dom I agree, the third race of the season would have ended under SC. But you say ‘he’ ruined it. But who is to say that the FIA and the teams didn’t argue beforehand that deciding the championship under SC […]

I think there should be a difference between weaving to break the tow and weaving to prevent an overtake. It sounds similar, but the first one is when there clearly is room between the two cars and the second one […]

Ah, it is reveiled that they didn’t have any mediums left. Otherwise it would have been a no-brainer.

But with the Saturday completely washed out, how could they have run out of mediums of Friday alone? Were […]

@bosyber I think after lap 20 the difference between Alonso’s old medium tyres versus the new hard tyres of the drivers around him are getting bigger and bigger. In hindsight it was a wrong call to leave Alonso […]

@johnrkh I thought I (also) saw the opposite. You are as good as you car is in the rain. Personally I never believed in ‘rain is the great equalizer’. When your car does not work in the rain you are nowhere. Tak […]

Quotes from Guenther Steiner from the Guenther Steiner article:
Yes, it’s a safety factor, but that could be approached as well. If it is too dangerous, just raise your ride height. But then you go slow. Who w […]

Observant viewers of the race found out that this deal was signed just before the race actually. We saw Christian Horner and Perez walking towards the podium, with Sergio joking ‘I signed too soon eh!’ :)

@marcusaurelius
Yes, but on the other hand they both were 3 seconds off the pace, quite big for Williams 2022. So I don’t think you can read too much into these times. I expect (expecially) Albon to go a lot quicker in FP2.

I do like the idea, but we all know that inexperienced drivers make mistakes and the risk of crashing the car that the main driver needs for the Sunday-race is too big I’m afraid. This could only work when there […]

The decision to run De Vries comes after Williams CEO Jost Capito admitted that he had been considered for a potential race seat for 2022, before the team instead opted to sign Alex Albon to the seat.
I think it […]

Drivers voiced concerns over the slow chicane and its surrounding barriers, where Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon suffered heavy crashes.
To be precise, Sainz and Ocon didn’t crash in the chicane but in the corner […]

@grapmg I am sorry if I wasn’t clear with my comment. I was indeed agreeing with you :) In the conversation with his engineer, you could almost hear Perez thinking “I don’t care that you think everything is fine, […]