Savage_Baboon

I’d think Paul Ricard and Spain was more of a procession than Austria, Canada can also join the list as well. The only reason Paul Ricard was interesting was because of Vettel and Bottas crashing. The midfields a […]

Don’t quite understand the lack of overtaking/racing in this race. If anything we’ve had a fair bit of overtakes in this race, especially in the front end. Ric/kimi both ways then vet/ham. Very rarely do we see […]

Lol.. That’s a whole another level of team order. But yeah, if Hamilton would’ve been stuck behind Ocon for a few laps then Kimi might have been able to overcut him.

It is smarter. It’s about pushing the boundaries to gain just a bit of advantage. I’m glad Ferrari are on top of this. Even if the gain is 0.001 sec it’s worth it. That’s what F1 is all about.

Engineers, […]

Step in the right direction I suppose. As usual teams that have made the most efficient front wings will be opposed to it and vice versa. But let’s hope that they all agree that closer racing will bring more a […]

I don’t know about that strategy being silly. The difference in performance between the Softs and Mediums were significant. RIC had no issue passing RAI in the back straight. Sure, if SC happened just before RAI […]

As stated in the article Merc did the same with BOT in Spain last year, and BOT himself admitted that if Merc were facing the situation they would have done the exact same thing. If you think about it if VET came […]

In all honesty I think Ferrari threw away a RAI victory in China. RAI not only had a fresh set of softs (HAM had a used set of softs – probably the likely reason Merc didn’t want to pit him), but also had eno […]

Yeah the top 3 teams have enough pace to go to Q3 on softs. Question is will all 3 chose softs or will someone gamble starting with the ultras? Or maybe even split between drivers?
Interesting race ahead. The […]

Lol

Out of curiosity, which races in the past do you rate 10?

“Mercedes kept Bottas well back of Vettel for quite some time, even up to 7 seconds at one point around L44 and the gap was still over 5 seconds on L50”

Bottas was having to control his tyre temps during tha […]

Any truth to reports suggesting that Mercedes brought this issue to Pirelli?

“So Ferrari in space of one year lost roughly 0.8s of relative competitivness.”

How? Are you suggesting Ferrari were 0.6 sec ahead of Mercedes at this point last year?

0.4 sec. That’s actually not that bad considering that Ferrari have made some radical changes to their overall design. If they can bag another couple of lucky wins before the summer break things could get […]

Great stuff Max.

Thanks man. Yeah that whole VSC/Safety car debacle was hilarious and infuriating at the same time. It’s like the F1 Sky team has witnessed a VSC and safety car for the very first time in their life.

But yes to […]

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I think in some sense the F1 marketing and the media really missed a great opportunity to showcase F1 in this hybrid era. In terms of engineering and complexity what all the manufacturers have achieved is […]

There are some analysis suggesting that the Ferrari engine is quite thirsty. Hopefully that’s not the case. I’ve also read on twitter that Ferrari didn’t bring the latest spec PU which may have contributed to […]

Correct. From Ted’s Notebook (according to Pirelli): Medium > Soft: 0.6 sec diff.. Soft > SS > US > HS: 0.3 sec diff.
So that puts Mag at 17.7 sec. I’m sure that Ferrari have more in hand, as does everyone […]