Should be tough on tires too.

If this turns out true, F1 designers and engineers are truly magicians! The magic of the dissapearing skid plank! Lol

https://www.planetf1.com/news/ferrari-red-b...k-trick-report/

Hahaha yeah F1 is full of smart inventive people who are always able to find loopholes somewhere. Would be interesting if suddenly Mercs can match those 2 teams after this is enforced. It's just like Ferrari suddenly slowed down in 2nd half of 2019.

CS got engine penalty for 10 places. But both Ferraris look quick while SP in rhe 2nd RB seems still struggling. Mercs seems just the same, not as improved as many thought but still long way to go..

Ferrari is fast overall but RB is about 6-7kph faster in the straights so if they can stay close they can overtake, plus it's 1 vs 2 now. I hope LH can at least distract SP so CL can just concentrate on beating MV and capitalize a win.

Ya just hyping up stuff, still 9/10ths to a second down from the pole lap. They only brought 1 upgrade for this race so cannot expect much. Ferrari and RB also brought 1 or 2 upgrades themselves. McLaren brought the most upgrades at 7 items but still 1 sec or more down too but maybe can mess around Mercs now and leave Alpine behind.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Jul 23 2022, 11:42 PM

Well that's championship fight over at half season for us fans! I guess that's the difference between MV and CL at this point of their career, both about equally very fast but CL still makes big mistakes while MV already can churn out speeds consistently without such mistakes. So CL and Ferrari both shares the blame for losing the championships this year. Only a big miracle for them can turn this around.

Those 2 laps doesn't make much difference as his gap to SP & GR cannot be recovered in 2 laps. He was even questioning why he was pitted as he was still pulling away from those 2 when at that time. I think typical Ferrari, indecisive and not good thinking on their feet on race strategies as implied by NR during the race interview.

Now with 10 more races to go, MV only needs to win the next race and he can already afford to just finish 2nd in the final 9 races and still be champ even if CL wins all 9!

Nope, even constructor fight is already gone even sooner actually. Top 3 will remain as it is, only Mclaren vs Alpine still tight for 4th.

Yup, absolutely metronomic consistency from MV in the last 1.5 years.

Wow, quite a coincidence!

CL potentially has lost a total of over 100pts: 32 by his own mistakes, 50 by Ferrari engine dnf, and about 24-25 by Ferrari strategy calls. While MV has lost just around half of that, all by technical dnf/issues only.

Cannot take away anything from MV, he is absolutely on it every single race for the last 1.5-2 years, rain or shine. Ferrari must do perfect job, both from team and driver aspect, race after race to beat MV, which is apparently too tough.

MV deserves 21 title as NR for 16. They both capitalize well when LH did not do well enough. LH himself had his fair share of luck all this while including in 21 to get him a chance at the end.

As for this year, its like a clean slate which Mercs failed to do. The fact that RB can still design a winning car after such tough fight right to end of 21 shows how strong this team is.

Aside from the Massi stroke of luck on him, he was still 2nd in last 4 races. Finishing 2nd or podium on his worse days was what made him deserve the title.

Yeah rather desparate moves as he knew he wasn't quick enough and I think at the back of his mind he felt he needed to be all out to end LH domination and get his 1st title. The fact that they had clashed before especially Silverstone probably didn't help his mindset too. This year though his battles with CL still clean, maybe he is not as desperate anymore after becoming wdc.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Jul 27 2022, 06:19 PM

No surprise, most people have expected SV to retire. Hope he can do some good races by then.

LH is quick, the proof is he could match Alonso in his rookie season, and he is exceptional in the wet. Yes he is also the luckiest driver ever, even luckier than MS, as he was never in a lowly team but still the way he has been capitalizing year in year out cannot be underestimated. I think after being so many years pampered by Mercs advantage, he is having trouble dealing with a difficult car, but if you put GR against him when he was in his Mclaren years for example, I think he will beat GR.

Surprising pole by GR and even more surprising RB so far back. Ferrari needs to beat GR and capitalize to the max otherwise another lost opporrunity.

Ferrari becomes a joker team! Lol. CL drove well yet again let down by the team strategy, don't know how much he can take this blunder after blunder after blunder. Some heads are gonna roll in Ferrari mgmt, most likely starting from the top, MB.

Yeah true, the strategist can be the first to go. Bad strategy once is ok but 3-4 times in just half year is horrendeous.

Alpine is only offering 1 yr deal with reduced pay to FA, of course FA rejected. So it seems the carpet is scooped underneath them when FA easily switched to AM with 2 yr deal and even higher pay. Not sure what's going on with the Piastri case though.