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My vote went for DOW this time goes to Daniel Ricciardo. Great Job to qualify 4th (and less than 2 tenths away from 3rd), great drive in the race, keeping a Mercedes behind him for a quite a long while, and […]

I think that generally what makes the DRS effective (or not effective) is the length of the DRS zone, not so much how close you have to be to activate the DRS. If they increased the detection time from 1 second, […]

I think it’s worth noting that in every race so far this year, whoever is 2nd on the grid has had a significantly better getaway than whoever is 1st (In Baku it didn’t result in a pass, but it was quite close). […]

Agreed, and I think there are a lot of factors to consider but in Ferrari’s defense, they have to look to the future and promote the talent in their own programs or risk losing good drivers to rival teams (this […]

“Anything remotely similar”… In the Ferrari/Schumacher era.. this was every 5th victory for him. In the Alonso era, Massa was routinely given a sub-optimal strategy if it gave Alonso a better chance at victory. […]

Really? Then what would be the penalty for deliberately hitting another car during the safety car?

Remember that one? Where VET was having issues and RAI was clearly faster….but not allowed to pass him and told to hold off HAM?

Unnecessary pit stop..? HAM was something like 2 seconds faster than everyone else in damp conditions prior to the safety car. You really think BOT was going to be able to hold him on worn out soft tires? At that […]

Oh, and yeah…. it’s everyone else that needs to be impartial….lol

You’re seriously implying that Ferrari don’t use RAI’s strategies purely to benefit VET’s strategies…. This happens literally every week. Ferrari have only ever cared about their #1 driver winning the race. […]

Except that in the 02 Austrian GP, Rubens was FASTER, was quite a bit ahead, and was told to slow down to a crawl (went something like 8 seconds slower in that lap) to let Michael past.

It may very well be that cars can be side by side, but I wonder how they would handle collisions on the bridge. There may not be enough room for safety crew / equipment to retrieve cars. Will they bring out a […]

+1

3rd DRS didn’t really change anything…

I think what we are seeing with Max is a driver that is very talented and is trying to really push for any extra performance he can find. Lately he’s been pushing a bit too much which has resulted in crashes. I […]

It is less clear whether Ferrari and Red Bull, who tend to find a greater performance gain when they turn their engines up on Saturdays, will be able to use the same tactics.

I think you mean Mercedes here.

Pace looks close so far. It would be great to have a close fight at the front Throughout the race. If Red Bull are better on tire wear (like they were in Spain, totally different track I know), they have a good […]

It seemed to be such a strange race from Daniel. His pace was really inconsistent. He had fast lap a few times during the race, but even without traffic in front of him, he was on average losing out slightly to […]

He’s an excellent driver, but at the moment the car has a lot of issues that need to be addressed. Him being in the car wouldn’t immediately bring Williams back to form.

Max wouldn’t settle for a #2 role. I don’t think Daniel would either.