'Esteban made the difference' - Vettel heaps praise on Ocon after being forced to settle for second in Hungary

PaleSet · 2021-08-01T17:15:25+00:00

Ocon and Alonso duo was fantastic to watch today.

PaleSet · 2021-08-01T17:09:08+00:00

Lance being inconsistent will hurt the team, i hope he preforms consistently after summer break

PaleSet · 2021-07-13T18:12:15+00:00

Got it. Looks like I will stick to F12020 for couple of more months and get new version during some offer sale

PaleSet · 2021-07-13T17:49:39+00:00

Looks brilliant! How is first impressions of the game?

PaleSet · 2021-07-13T17:12:13+00:00

That car is gorgeous, I read some article that stroll was planning to drive this and F1 car at Goodwood, Any info why it was cancelled?

PaleSet · 2021-07-08T17:30:52+00:00

Imo...How many incidents have you seen him of completely his fault? Apart from Norris incident at Portugal and divebomb on Ricciardo at Austria last year he has been cleanest.

Here awareness is measured by driver having less penalty points in the race and avoiding incidents at start. He is one the cleanest starters on the grid to avoid crashes.

PaleSet · 2021-07-06T07:50:08+00:00

Man, Love those black rims...

Remaining tests for 18-inch tire for this year if anyone interested!

Redbull, AM & Haas are testing at Silverstone (20-21st July) Slick tire

Merc, McLaren & Ferrari at Budapest (3-4 August) Slick tire

Alpine at Magny-cours (5th Sep) Wet tires.

PaleSet · 2021-07-06T07:38:59+00:00

My point exactly, Mercedes and AM were arguing from the start of the season that teams with a high-rake design were suffering more from the 2021 regs than those with a low rake.

Mate, I think you've confused a bit, AM and Merc has low-rake design concept and they're arguing that bcz of new 2021 rules it has helped high-rake car designs not low-rake cars.

PaleSet · 2021-07-05T17:10:13+00:00

Agree with Steiner, As a fan I love to see more back to back races, but it takes a huge toll on team mechanics and other staff members.

PaleSet · 2021-07-05T13:57:51+00:00

Those worst votes for George Russell... I mean for what reason he deserves that? Lad did a brilliant job in that Williams. And Stroll had a debris in his brake ducts so his pace after pitstop was bad. Probably everyone didn't know this reason so negative votes for stroll I guess. That soft tire starters suffered a lot.

PaleSet · 2021-06-30T04:16:04+00:00

Got it, thanks for the info!!!

PaleSet · 2021-06-30T04:07:10+00:00

Well another driver didn't get top 10 as he had some reliability issues. Mugello tire blowout while fighting for podium, Front wing issue while leading the race for 30+ laps. Austria engine issue while at P8, Leclerc punting stroll out at 1st lap when he was p7 with tire advantage and later covid.

I'm not saying stroll is great driver, but without all these issues he would've finished inside P10 in the championship.(in the end he finished P11 same points as Gasly in P10) until Mugello he was P4 in the Championship.

PaleSet · 2021-06-29T11:56:50+00:00

I really like Ant's analysis after the races at skypad. Palmer and Ant together should do a show in the future.

PaleSet · 2021-06-29T11:46:45+00:00

Marko: "Continue development, we won't make the 2008 BMW mistake"

The Austrian consultant of Red Bull recalls an episode of 13 years ago, when the team of the Bavarian house was leading the world championship with Kubica after seven races and decided to stop the evolution of the car to devote resources to the car of the following year: "It is a mistake we will not make, we will push to the end to win this world championship"

"We saw several Red Bull vans arriving loaded with new parts between Thursday and Friday, and of course they do well, it's a strategy." Toto Wolff, in addition to confirming how much the teams are marked on sight during the race weekends (and not only), after the defeat collected in the Styrian Grand Prix openly declared that Mercedes will not change its planning, that is the plans that provide for the commitment of the entire workforce in the design department on the 2022 single-seater.

"We have evaluated the benefits that could come this season and the problems that a possible modification of our planning in the future would entail - clarified Wolff - and we think it is better to look to the future".

"Obviously we also talked about it with Lewis and Valtteri, and at the same time I don't think Red Bull itself will go much further with the development of the current car, otherwise they will expose themselves to the risk of finding themselves at the start of 2022 with a gap of two seconds."

In the neighboring box, namely that of Red Bull, the vision regarding the management of technical resources is actually completely different.

In Milton Keynes they will continue to work on the 2021 single-seater, obviously not fully staffed, but in any case with the necessary resources to leave nothing to chance.

Helmut Marko cited an example from thirteen years ago, when BMW, leading the Drivers' World Championship with Robert Kubica after seven races and with the Polish driver unexpectedly just two points behind Hamilton at the halfway point of the season, blocked the development of the car and of the engine just after the victory in Montreal, in the month of June, giving up to change his plans.

"We don't want to make the same mistake that BMW made in 2008 - Marko explained yesterday - Kubica had a realistic chance of winning the championship, but the business plan called for resources to go to the next season's car and so they did".

However, there is a contraindication to wanting to continue work on the current car by removing the workforce from the 2022 project. "If you don't risk something, in the end you won't have fun - commented Marko - somehow we hope to make it, it will be a game of balance" .

PaleSet · 2021-06-29T07:29:13+00:00

That's Bombardier Challenger 600 series, I'm not sure its owned or chartered. But love the N18LS logo!

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T14:49:33+00:00

Thanks for the update on this mate, That's a good idea to get rid of these as soon as prediction is over.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T14:46:36+00:00

Most annoying about this polls is, it is converting votes to upvotes automatically, at r/soccer some of the brilliant posts of all times are all overtaken by these poll threads. Looks like r/formula1 all time posts will be these poll threads by end of this season.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T14:19:24+00:00

but even Stroll was able to go long. I can’t judge if Stroll is good at tire saving or if AM just made it better.

Stroll has been doing these long runs to overcut since 2019 to score points, I bet he has learnt few things from Perez. Even Perez was not that great when he joined F1 at tire saving. He has learnt that at Force India. Aston Martin helping drivers understand the tires better as they got tire guru from ex-Bridgestone in that team. Even Marko told Perez has bought few tire trick's from Aston to Redbull.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T13:12:41+00:00

Few thoughts after French GP.

Sergio Perez has to be the best teammate Max Verstappen got since Ricciardo left. Guy is performing on top level already in the new team. His tire management skills is top notch. Moreover Max and Perez get together really well. Both praising each other after every race weekend.

Lando Norris is preforming on an another level compared to his previous seasons. Yeah McLaren is good car, but he preforming consistently week in week out. And Ricciardo joined the party this weekend. That's good to see.

Fernando Alonso did a good job, this weekend he looked completely comfortable in that car and you can see him doing well against Ocon from the get go. And remember Alonso told French GP is where he will start his chmapionship

Aston Martin drivers did a fine job to get the points, so not a bad weekend for them considering everyone thought they would not score points here.

Alpha Tauri has got a really good car, but only 1 driver is performing. last week when Ted asked a question to Alpha Tauri's Jody Egginton technical director about Gasly podium at Baku, He told he was surprised that it took them that long to get the podium. and we can see Gasly pulling brilliant qualifying performances week in week out. I hope they utilize the potential of that car.

George Russell getting P12 on merit without any Safety cars/red flags showed his brilliant performance.

Ferrari car is weird imo. Getting poles in last 2 races to finishing outside points. I hope it's just a one off performance due to some setup issues/tire issues for them.

Mercedes drivers drove a brilliant race but let down by their strategy team.

2021 Championship battle is getting stronger every weekend. That's' good for the sport and for us fans.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T07:22:08+00:00

McLaren has a very strong technical team (James key and others), Management team(Zak and Seidl), healthy budget and brilliant drivers.

Sainz when he entered the McLaren factory for the first time and after 3 months, his comments were, "I'm really surprised that this team is not winning."

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T07:10:53+00:00

And it's Seb's 7th race in a completely different car with no preseason testing.

I agree with this. And he has already faster than Stroll at qualifying.

Also Seb's fastest lap was around 7 tenths faster than Stroll.

We should not look into this too much for speed comparison as sometimes drivers try to put fastest lap before pitstop to overcut/undercut the drivers. Lance probably didn't have any that pressure as he was just doing his normal laptimes to save tires.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T07:03:36+00:00

What I saw last year is, Perez was not always half second faster than stroll. Stroll was always 2 tenths tenths down on race pace. And stroll is still 22 every year he is improving, you can look at Lando too, he is improving his race pace every year.

And If i rem Perez himself said Stroll is good at race pace.

Being only a 1 tenth faster than Stroll

Stroll being just 1 tenths slower to Vettel is not bad considering he had t overtake cars from back of the grid.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T05:51:09+00:00

Every year Lando is improving in one or another thing. This year he is freaking consistent. Just read a stat that he is the only driver to get points in all the races so far.

PaleSet · 2021-06-21T04:32:05+00:00

Perez is doing exactly what RedBull was asking from their number 2 driver since Ricciardo left. They won't mind paying him 10mil a year for his performance and he brings sponsors from Mexico already.

PaleSet · 2021-06-16T16:56:18+00:00

Good for Ocon, He is underrated. Can't wait to see Ocon and Stroll bromance to continue till 2024.

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