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Ferrari quickest car, but poorer reliability and poor / unlucky strategy calls.

With Merc joining the fight this weekend, Max should cherish his lead and just bag double digit points each weekend.

I think […]

Ferrari made the mistake already after lap1. It was quite clear that with a drying track you want Leclerc to be able to make a safe pitstop.

Sainz should have lowered the pace so that Lec would be 20+ sec […]

The real Ferrari strategy blunder was quite clear after just 3laps:
Why didn’t sainz slow down enough to give Lec a safe 25sec for a pitstop by lap 12 or so?

Lewis and Max have in common that they won 1 title in their first 7 years in F1.

Underlines again that you need to be lucky to get a dominant car and challenge the history books.

I enjoy your very balanced and informative posts generally. This one is uncharacteristically quite off the mark this time.

Turkey: Bottas had an easy drive and Max could never threaten him. Clearly the Merc had […]

COTD

So Williams was the 2nd quickest car in Spa because Russell ended 2nd?

Just looking at final result and make conclusions is not wrong (as you miss all context) but lazy too.

In 3 of the first 5 races, Merc […]

“ For example, the figures don’t always adequately reflect how competitive Red Bull were in qualifying. ”

The angle of looking at qualifying performance though is misleading this season. The Merc was bette […]

1) I suspect Merc moved more resources to the 2022 car earlier. vs RBR, who kept throwing everything at it towards the end of 2021 season. So that is advantage Merc.

2) Also they might continue and refine the […]

And Lewis in China 2007, while he could have sealed the championship by finishing.

Various posters mention that RB had the best car on avg in first half and Merc in the 2nd half from Silverstone onwards due to signifiant upgrade (and the Pirelli favour)

in a 22 race season do these posters […]

40pts for these 2 races? Lol.

If he didn’t crash (not bad luck) he would not be on pole as some drivers couldnt finish their lap. Max had purple in s1 and s2.
Probably he started 3th. Let’s assume 15pts, alt […]

I would rate Perez as high as Bottas.
This doesn’t imply btw that Lewis is much worse than Max.

I think Lewis has been cruising before 2021. With only Bottas to beat he could choose to have some offweekends. Y […]

“Basically I had to start from zero,” he said. “Learn new techniques of setting up the car, of driving the car. It’s been a great challenge.”

Losers have excuses.
Max jumped into a redbull at midseason […]

My take on all this:
A biased Lewis fan.

Haha. Good laugh.

“It’s really impossible to beat Lewis in terms of ability.”
Merc was the better car measured over full season. Lewis dropped quite a few balls.
As his bigger mistakes are well covered (imol […]

Hamilton fans should ask themselves: why did Lewis qualify behind Russell in Spa. A supposed qualifying goat and rainmaster should have put in on pole, not?

It’s one of quite a few times that Lewis dropped a b […]

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Well spoken.
Of course it’s heartbreaking for Lewis how it went. But putting this last race in the perspective of the full season you can’t conclude Max was luckiest.

Incoming call from Stuttgart to Toto? Not good for the Merc AMG brand to proceed I’d say

indeed. and they still have constructors anyway , which is the more important one for Merc.