And Albon might replace Rusell at Williams.

Nice looking track with a banking at the final corner

[quote=andrekua2,Sep 4 2021, 06:50 PM]
Just watched live FP3...

Is it me or the track barely wide enough for F1 cars? What is FIA doing with organizing races on such track? Boring race expected.

Yeah looks very tight, might only have overtaking opportunity in turn 1.


[quote=andrekua2,Sep 4 2021, 10:21 PM]
Max pole by just 0.038s

I think Lewis opt for top speed anticipating overtaking on the straight tomorrow.

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Great effort by LH to get that close after trailing by bigger margins before. Did he have higher top speed? I didn't pay attention.

[quote=whoopa,Sep 4 2021, 10:45 PM]
wtf with perez lol

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Ya, don't know what's going on with him. He hasn't repaid back his extension with good performances, just dissapointing.

Giovinazi though on the other hand suddenly comes alive after getting fired.

If RB lost the constructor title to Merc it's because of SP. Ironically he will still retain his seat while VB will lose his.

Cuz Seb said not really matter, he was not fast enough and the 2 Haas are at the back anyway so no point to penalize!

Is it just me who still think even Max is a bit overrated? Lol

SP strength is just clawing back places from behind by preserving tires but he is never really fast.

If he can gwt within 2-3ths of LH then he is very good. So far he has shown he has good 1 lap speeds.

LH is the luckiest F1 driver as he joined immediately into a winning team and always has a car that at least competitive enough to win some races if not titles. That makes it difficult to judge how he stands among the other greats, whom all had to endure some tough times in lesser teams. But his record breaking poles and wins are surely not a fluke, nobody can win so many for so long by just being lucky in the best car, just look at how far VB is behind him year after year.

Anyway comparing different cars is not easy cuz MV never drove the Merc and vice versa, so who can really tell which car is actually better. Probably look at the avg qualifying positions of the cars and the avg. gaps between 1st and 2nd driver in the same team. If the gaps are close then the car is more or less there. If the gaos are biggger then that's where the 1st driver has something extra there.

LH catching up.

Flawless race by MV and RB to return to top of driver standings, good effort by Mercs to extend constructor lead.

Good race also by FA to beat CS! That driver of the day to SP is a farce, FA deserves it much more than the underperforming SP.

To me it's actually surprisingly better than expected. Yes the 3 totally dominated and no change in position there but it actually got more overtaking opportunities than expected despite the narrow and twisty nature. This tracks seems to magnify cars handling strength where team mates finish rather close to each other aside from the odd ones like SP.

Yes I also don't think Honda is still lagging behing in power dept to Mercs because the RB has been proven fast everywhere. The ones that might still be lacking power a bit are probably Renault and Ferrari but Ferrari recently also said they will introduce a power upgrade soon, probably in Monza.

Aside from SP performance, what would be more of a concern for RB is exceeding the engine allocation due to those accidents in Silverstone and Hungary.

To be honest, in general RB should have the advantage, sometimes bigger in certain tracks, some a bit marginal but nobody can be sure by how much cuz noone can confirm who is the faster driver between MV vs LH. VB vs SP though I think VB is confirm faster driver. If we assume MV and LH about equal, then RB is faster. MV should have been far ahead in the points if not for the Baku, Silverstone, and Hungary incidents.

I hope GR can immediately give LH a run for his money because with a totally new car formula, by right LH should not have much car experience advantage if any. I'd expect GR to at least match closely to LH in qualifying.

The thing is about RB this year is that it can be fast in any tracks with MV while Mercs might lag slightly behind in some tracks. Again if things went normal in Baku, Silverstone, and Hungary, MV would have been like 70-80 points ahead by now and we won't be having any arguments by now who will win the title right?

No I don't forget that. That's largely why Merc is behind RB now, otherwise they'd be ahead again just like previous years.

Yup it will be interesting to see how Monza will end up but I have the feeling it's close again where RB will not be far behind if not ahead because they have been strong everywhere.

That looming RB engine penalty puts things into perspective of how the rules can be sometimes blatantly unfair. MV has been robed of at minimum 40pts if not 50 from the 2 incidents yet he'd still be penalized some more thru no fault of his. However all these provide a grand stand setup for the title fight to the end, so I am very happy for that! Lol If not for those it would have been another boring championship, just with MV far ahead.

But RB at least in MV's hands is more consisten performer across all tracks than LH in Mercs. Anyway this will never be fully assured because again we don't know exactly how MV compared to LH in terms of driver speed too, so cannot really say which car is truly faster and by how much. LH at least is more proven winner with various WDC level team mates before but MV never really has such level team mates.

Good for Albon, I Ihink he deserves a chance to prove himself again. Next he needs to destroy NL. If he can do almost like how GR does to NL, then everyone will take notice again, but if he cannot then he would not progress much anymore.

Mercs looking strong in FP1.

Mercs looking strong. Mclaren also, I hope they can mix it up with RB and Mercs.

Mercs much faster than RB and SP especially slow! Looks more like difficult for RB to win the constructor, so best chance for them just MV to win the title. Ferraris also quite dissapointing and good chance for McLaren to capitalize and catch back.

Btw Massa interviewing is bad, stuttering and like not sure what to say and ask.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Sep 11 2021, 01:14 AM