Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said after the bittersweet Monaco GP that his team won’t give up on this year’s championship as the season is still in its early phase. The team is preparing developments for the forthcoming race in Canada.
Slower yes, how much slower is debatable. I think Nico's real problem is he's not a feel driver, and that is always going to hurt you in varying conditions.GrayGreat wrote: Do you really think Rosberg is 'that' slow as compared to Hamilton?
Yes, but he wasn't even fast when the circuit was dry, something was different on Nico's car than on Hamilton's. (and not the driver)siskue2005 wrote:In this circuit and the conditions he was slow. The lap after Lewis passed Nico, Lewis was 5 sec fast!!GrayGreat wrote:Do you really think Rosberg is 'that' slow as compared to Hamilton?siskue2005 wrote:Well the other car won, and the team has not confirmed any tchnical problem .... so it could be the driver? No?
Haha and also a meteor should have fallen on his carAnthonyG wrote:Hamilton should have gotten a penalty for trackcutting.
It is debatable. Riccardo was alongside just like what happened between Lewis and Rosberg in Spain. Let's keep the fanboyism and taunting each other out of this and discuss it seriously.siskue2005 wrote:Haha and also a meteor should have fallen on his carAnthonyG wrote:Hamilton should have gotten a penalty for trackcutting.
Yes, but like AnthonyG said, even in dry conditions, he was hardly keeping the Force India behind, which eventually passed.dans79 wrote:Slower yes, how much slower is debatable. I think Nico's real problem is he's not a feel driver, and that is always going to hurt you in varying conditions.GrayGreat wrote: Do you really think Rosberg is 'that' slow as compared to Hamilton?
He might not have been driving fast enough to heat the brakes for the cooling he had. Lewis having much more feel was probably braking later and harder and getting his brakes up to temp and keeping them there.ripper wrote:On Italian television they said that ROS had temperature problems with brakes
Oh absolutely it's a really good car fundamentally. It will devastate most of the rest of the field with its speed. It's just not a championship car, or team, this year. Yet againf1316 wrote:Oh I think in the last few races you can see they have strong pace, it's a good race car and at both races they were on the pace right up until quali and then got slower - so it's not that the car is not fast, it's that they're having real trouble setting up the car to manage the tyres over a single lap.wickedz50 wrote:Did not Alonso say what Ferrari was capable when he left Ferrari...justmoi wrote:Wow season is getting worse for Ferrari. They were supposed to challenge this year
I think they'll get that sooner rather than later and when they do we'll see it's fundamentally a good car.
I was watching the race on the F1 app because I'm out of the country and if anything it wouldn't surprise me if Nico had eaten up his front tires because he spent long periods of time well within a half second of Alonso.GrayGreat wrote: Yes, but like AnthonyG said, even in dry conditions, he was hardly keeping the Force India behind, which eventually passed.
We all know that Lewis is faster than Nico under rain, only an ignorant would refuse this. But that slow??? he was still super slow with dry tyres. There must be a reason, and we should listen to Nico and the team before we judge him. But I guess its easier to despise Nico as some people love to do.siskue2005 wrote:In this circuit and the conditions he was slow. The lap after Lewis passed Nico, Lewis was 5 sec fast!!GrayGreat wrote:Do you really think Rosberg is 'that' slow as compared to Hamilton?siskue2005 wrote:Well the other car won, and the team has not confirmed any tchnical problem .... so it could be the driver? No?
I do. Daniel has held his end up behind the wheel, if other teams arent looking at him right now they damn well should be. In Spain the team went with a strategy to favour Max and now, at the worst circuit for overtaking, they screw up his pit stop while he is leading. He stuck that car on pole, that was a helluva achievment and for the team to screw up like that is downright amateurish. I like to see drivers being human and emotional instead of this "We win and lose together" PR friendly party line. Red Bull arent shy about laying into drivers when they screw up are they ??, go ask Danny Kyvat about that.godlameroso wrote:I don't like how salty Riccardo is being, he still drove a hell of a race, and he shouldn't take it out on the team like that. Yeah they cost themselves the win, but they also built the car that has the potential to win. It's a team sport they win and lose together.
The question is whose call was it Lewis's or the teams!Pierce89 wrote: I surely wouldn't have guessed that his first win would come because of strategy rather than pace.
