Head of the GPDA as well.chrisc90 wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 13:04https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFAmb1k4/
Apologies for the tiktok link.
It was a terrible thing to say, expect better from him and the team on that perspective.
Ham won Brazil last year. By a landslide. The sprint Max won.atanatizante wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:07Some stats:
Austin 2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, then 2022 results: 1. VER and 2. HAM
Mexico2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, then 2022 results: 1. VER and 2. HAM
Brasil 2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, maybe 2022 results:1.HAM and 2.VER ... wishful thinking or not?
I think he should not be the head of the GPDA. It needs to be a seasoned driver that does not have a top seat. Grosjean was perfect, Vettel would have been, maybe now Alonso?AR3-GP wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:16Head of the GPDA as well.chrisc90 wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 13:04https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFAmb1k4/
Apologies for the tiktok link.
It was a terrible thing to say, expect better from him and the team on that perspective.
I don't think Alonso is responsible enoughSieper wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:22I think he should not be the head of the GPDA. It needs to be a seasoned driver that does not have a top seat. Grosjean was perfect, Vettel would have been, maybe now Alonso?AR3-GP wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:16Head of the GPDA as well.chrisc90 wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 13:04
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFAmb1k4/
Apologies for the tiktok link.
It was a terrible thing to say, expect better from him and the team on that perspective.
Bottas won the Brazil Sprint race in 2021.Sieper wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:20Ham won Brazil last year. By a landslide. The sprint Max won.atanatizante wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:07Some stats:
Austin 2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, then 2022 results: 1. VER and 2. HAM
Mexico2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, then 2022 results: 1. VER and 2. HAM
Brasil 2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, maybe 2022 results:1.HAM and 2.VER ... wishful thinking or not?
Haha, so far for my correction!AR3-GP wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:50Bottas won the Brazil Sprint race in 2021.Sieper wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:20Ham won Brazil last year. By a landslide. The sprint Max won.atanatizante wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 14:07Some stats:
Austin 2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, then 2022 results: 1. VER and 2. HAM
Mexico2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, then 2022 results: 1. VER and 2. HAM
Brasil 2021 race results: 1. VER and 2. HAM, maybe 2022 results:1.HAM and 2.VER ... wishful thinking or not?
I didn't say they were sandbagging. They were driving to a controlled pace because that suited them. But it also means the car had pace to spare rather than having to be driven hard to maintain the gaps.DChemTech wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 11:30Doesn't mean they're sandbagging. They had a choice:MadMax wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 11:22Max's lap times were so consistent that it was obvious he was driving just fast enough to control Hamilton. The car had pace to spare. It's a shame for Sergio that the car has been developed in line with Max's preferences, but that's the problem you face when you are Rubens to Max's Michael.fourmula1 wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 03:55Thinking RB is sandbagging and doing a better job hiding it than Merc did. They are performing nearly flawlessly aside from some recent pit errors. They have not been truly pushed since the first few races. I bet Max had tons of time in hand. Onto next season. Will we eventually see more parity with the tiered wind tunnel time plus the cost cap penalty? This is just boring.
A) control pace and tyre deg to make a 1-stop on S/M work out.
B) running a higher pace to increase the gap over Ham, but taking an extra stop.
If the car had pace to spare, that doesn't mean they were artificially keeping the gap small - it was perhaps a matter of strategic requirement, and using the extra pace may in the end have reduced the gap if they required an extra stop.
I guess that depends on what is meant by 'pace to spare'. In a race, I personally would not use it to imply they could drive faster over a lap (in that case, most cars have pace to spare) - I would use it to indicate that they could have won by a sizably larger gap had they wanted to but chose not to do so because they did not need to.MadMax wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 15:45
I didn't say they were sandbagging. They were driving to a controlled pace because that suited them. But it also means the car had pace to spare rather than having to be driven hard to maintain the gaps.
Whatever term you prefer to use to describe it, the RB18 had pace to spare in Mexico during the race.
It isn't about a specific driver - Mercedes have pretty consistently taken the line that the driver ahead on track gets to play the ball first (to mix sporting metaphors). They rarely do things that go against that - although they have this season to George's benefit. If George had wanted to go properly long - as he was suggesting on the radio - then he should have just stayed out and gone long, thus forcing the team to switch strategy. Ultimately, the driver is the one that drives in to the pits and there's nothing the team can do to force him to do so at a particular moment. Do, in effect, what Hamilton did in Silverstone 2019 (Hamilton stayed out and then benefitted from a safety car). George could have stayed out but followed the team's call.
Russell and Sainz are two peas in a podEl_KaPpa wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 18:17Russel: “I knew I wouldn't have been able to overtake Max on the outside, but having Lewis on the inside I didn't want to be too aggressive. And ultimately that that cost me and caused me to lose two positions. So ultimately if I had managed to maintain position, I probably would have finished second today.”
It's unbelievable how many excuses and scenarios this guy has been coming up with for some time now. This new descendant of Thales and Pythagoras making some theorem-level statements as allways. Probably with a little more imagination he would have won this championship up to this moment.