Pironi the Provocateur

Let the venue rotate with Zandvoort then. Spa is a terrific track for drivers and is set in beautiful scenery, sometimes it’s quite hard for me to see the ruining of nature by pouring concrete in totally […]

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Agree with this. As far as I’ve heard from people close to Ferrari environment (former F2 driver from the neighbouring country, still driving for Ferrari in sports cars and now active on youtube), there’s a fierce […]

I think they’re even better than most people think, this season (filled with strategy mishaps, 3 botched races for Leclerc, Sainz’s constant questioning of strategy and pleads against bad decisions) proves it.

Speaking after the race, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto defended their strategy. “When we fitted the hard, our simulation was that it could have been a difficult couple of laps of warm-up, slower than the m […]

As a McLaren, I was quite disappointed when Piastri’s apparent future had been decided, but this really seems as if his transfer from Alpine’s hands was already cooked before Alonso’s decision.I really hope he joins McLaren.

Now Charles, do you want Mattia to scold you again? You are there for increasing the potential and learning, not for winning, for crying out loud.

I’m curious whether Ferrari can put Leclerc from 2nd down to 6th like in this race…maybe that’s the Masterplan all along.

If Binotto and the whole strategic leadership of Ferrari don’t step down after this season, they’ll beat the Scheckter – Schumacher titleless era. Such a gross incompetence was really hard to watch and ruined the […]

5, due to gross incompetence of Ferrari spoiling this race.

Should you be maybe reminded that 2020 was a walkover for Lewis and this season, despite Ferrari burrying it, is far more competitive in terms of championship battle?

You just didn’t have the pace, Checo. Honestly, it was interesting that the driver with such tire management couldn’t keep up and Verstappen did much better.

Safely asumed in the light of current situation. I wouldn’t underestimate Mercedes’ potential, and Russell is in my opinion better than Verstappen.

Agree.

Leclerc’s spin wasn’t a team fault and Sainz’s strategy could be handled better at some point, but there was no way he could keep the podium. But agree about Mercedes. One huge aspect to consider is – Mercedes has […]

Even despite their usual incompetence, I still appreciate there’s a strong non-British element in F1. It would be tedious if we got all the teams based around 50km radius in Britain and they were mostly rotating […]

Very decent race, nice overtakes, some battles sustained the tension over many laps. 7 from me, considering it’s the hated Paul Ricard.

I saw some opinions on Sainz’s strategy and I honestly think the ony thing Ferrari strategists could do better was to not let him fight with Perez for so long and do the pistop earlier. There was no way Sainz […]

“Oh, look! A self-reflection will make you a loser!”

I wish we could get back to pre-2020 levels in the amount of red flags we have these days. Around Monza/Mugello 2020, it proved a great way for Liberty to generate excitement, but sometimes it feels too artificial […]