Mercedes suffered a massively disappointing Sunday at Spielberg, Austria after practice and qualifying had been so promising for the Mercedes AMG F1 team. But two car failures along with a big strategical error made it a day to forget for the world champions.
https://www.racefans.net/2018/07/01/mer ... e-upgrade/“We had a hydraulic leak that was linked to the steering on Valtteri. And we had a drop in fuel pressure on Lewis’s car which was linked to the fuel system. This is the current understanding. So no regrets on introducing the engine.”
It wasn't a ram, just a slight bump; Kimi was going to lose the place regardless because he was nearly fishtailing.
Max didn't ram Kimi. Their wheels touched lightly at one point when Max was still behind, but that was it.
Pathetic excuse of evil set up of the quickest car.
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Prior to that, Kimi came violently back on track after having out braked himself trying to overtake Hamilton, pushing Max slightly out of track. That evens it out.
Change what?
If you are going down that road, how about Hamilton not saving the car or tyres?iotar__ wrote: ↑01 Jul 2018, 18:24Pathetic excuse of evil set up of the quickest car.
"The weather and tarmac temperature was significantly higher today than yesterday or Friday."
- For everyone, who else was affected? No one. Weather forecasts don't exist?
- Not the first time it happened either way (lower, higher). It's still an excuse.
How about:
- Hamilton after losing the lead, lost the plot, could not respond, lost motivation half way through and instead of racing Vettel preferred to race his team on the radio
- What's the problem with the later stop if you can't make tyres last (very weird BTW) anyway?
Overall an odd albeit boring race, I would be sceptical if I cared.
Yes, Merc should change them before they get to that state or make them last...
No matter it was debunked. I believe what I see myself and the thing I saw was that Ferrari had no problems with the tyres which means they did a good job building and setting up the car. However, they are not being rewarded for their work on 3 tracks this season as special tyres are used there. "For safety reasons" Pirelli told, but I didn't see any tyre related danger today. It spiced things up. And my opinion is that if Mercedes does a good job with their car and others need to close the gap then it can be the other way around and Mercedes can try to close the gap regarding tyre use.
We've already had one explosive delamination this year. The Ferrari tyre in the pic has a particularly angry blister on the inside shoulder, its possible the Merc one has those on the shoulder too. Its just a matter of time before an accident.
The Ferrari tyres look to have a better wear pattern than the blistered mercedes one. So i guess even if it was a straight fight it looks like a matter of when not if Ferarri would come out on top..
