Yeah, that was hard to watch. Lawson did a good job but the pace of that Ferrari is so bad.deadhead wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 15:06Looking forward to hearing how the car had more potential![]()
They weren't expecting to not be able to overtake LAW on trackAutobahn303 wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 14:20Wow, what an awful race week. Why did they bring in Leclerc so early? His tyres are dead.
The pace was a disaster.Emag wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 15:31These regulations have come to a point now where the cars are worse than the cars they replaced for overtaking. Add to that tires that don't care about degradation, this is undoubtedly one of the worst seasons we have had in F1 for a while. It's kind of pathetic to watch these DRS trains go on for the whole race. Track position is now more important than ever. If you have a bad quali, then god help you in the race, because it's unlikely you make progress.
In any case, from a pace perspective I guess Vasseur is right, but come on, this glass half-full kind of view is getting a bit old now. The entire weekend was just bad.
And cars big as cruise ships.Emag wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 15:31These regulations have come to a point now where the cars are worse than the cars they replaced for overtaking. Add to that tires that don't care about degradation, this is undoubtedly one of the worst seasons we have had in F1 for a while. It's kind of pathetic to watch these DRS trains go on for the whole race. Track position is now more important than ever. If you have a bad quali, then god help you in the race, because it's unlikely you make progress.
In any case, from a pace perspective I guess Vasseur is right, but come on, this glass half-full kind of view is getting a bit old now. The entire weekend was just bad.
Despite all of that, we've had some really great racing sine 2022.Autobahn303 wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 15:51And cars big as cruise ships.Emag wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 15:31These regulations have come to a point now where the cars are worse than the cars they replaced for overtaking. Add to that tires that don't care about degradation, this is undoubtedly one of the worst seasons we have had in F1 for a while. It's kind of pathetic to watch these DRS trains go on for the whole race. Track position is now more important than ever. If you have a bad quali, then god help you in the race, because it's unlikely you make progress.
In any case, from a pace perspective I guess Vasseur is right, but come on, this glass half-full kind of view is getting a bit old now. The entire weekend was just bad.
Nah doesn't feel so.Xyz22 wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 00:45In Q3 we were 0.8s off a Williams driven by Sainz who has been behind Leclerc from 0.4s to 0.9s in past quali session in Baku. That should tell you everything about the disaster of today.
Hamilton is having his worst season ever by a colossal margin as well.
This team is in a terrible, terrible state.
In terms of results.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 21:48Nah doesn't feel so.Xyz22 wrote: ↑21 Sep 2025, 00:45In Q3 we were 0.8s off a Williams driven by Sainz who has been behind Leclerc from 0.4s to 0.9s in past quali session in Baku. That should tell you everything about the disaster of today.
Hamilton is having his worst season ever by a colossal margin as well.
This team is in a terrible, terrible state.
I am satisfied for far. Not much disappointment all things considered. I feel he made up good ground in learning the Ferrari and hopefully his inputs will improve the Ferrari for 2026.
I think 2011 is still his worst season even though he had more poles and wins. He was totally distracted and had too many unneccessry run-ins with Massa.