I understand why Alpine only offer 1 year extension to Alonso and it makes sense to me. But then Piastri just drop this bomb makes Alpine potentially losing 2 drivers within few days
1 yr deal still ok but at reduced salary? FA surely will spit on such offer!
QUOTE(whoopa @ Aug 3 2022, 11:53 AM)
ferrari hire anyone from this thread also can liao to be head strategist
Looking at such huge blunder in Hungary, I think even I cannot go even worse than that! Lol This plus Monaco, Silverstone (at least for CL), and I also still think Canada when they didn't dare to gamble softs on CS are strategy mistakes. I cannot recall any top teans in the last 30 years or so making 3-4 strategy blunders in just half year or for 25-30% of the races. Mclaren, Williams, Ferrari during MS, RB, and Mercs were all cunning and occasionally even came up with surprise strategies that stunned opponents.
W Series just cancelled Suzuka and they are going to race in SG for the first time.
SG knows how to promote the race by bringing in international performers. In sepang what you get? A bloody airport and a palm oil plantation. Not even a damn attraction nearby not to mention how difficult it is to get to the circuit from the city center. Organizer not creative.
It's a pity cuz the track layout is actually complete and one of the best so most drivers love it.
Sepang is borderline one of those boring circuit. I think it has been helped by the weather a lot and to some extent reliability issues since it was the 2nd or 3rd race of the calendar. At first, the race time was much earlier and there's less chances of downpour. The result was also much more predictable. It only started to change when it was scheduled later in the year and also a late race start.
The layout brings out the differences in cars performance cuz it has almost everything: fast straights, sweepers, medium corners with reducing radius, slow hairpins, on/off camber corners.
Daniel should go try other league, stay in F1 no benefit to him, current and previous team cannot give him a car which suit him driving sytle, except redbull but then there is MV, oil and fire.
Recently year i can see him lost confidence to drive, even more when Lando become favourite driver for Mclaren.
Yeah maybe try Indy.
QUOTE(PowerSlide @ Aug 8 2022, 10:13 AM)
well goodbye to a overrated driver
passing others just kamikaze dive into others and everyone call it very heroic
then got scared of max run off instead of prove himself well its better he go race in america as he is better in marketing than racing
His greatest achievement was beating SV when he joined RB. He was actually still quite good too when battling MV at the beginning but pity he chickened out.
Agree but it’s up to Alpine whether they want to make the offer or not. So many other drivers out there who’s willing to take a much lower pay if compared to Riccardo just to be in F1.
Yup DR surely has to take a massive pay cut in any options available be it in F1 or outside. McLaren has to pay him off to fire him so from a financial stand point he may do like Kimi in Ferrari, got paid even though not racing in F1, but may race in others.
need to be perfect in all aspect to win a championship, its easy to say but to get a team to work perfectly nobody on the outside know how hard it is..its not only battle on the track but off track as well
but RB have the best car overall, a driver that makes the car works..this combo is hard to beat like merc and lewis all these years in this era
max at least gonna win 3 or 4 championship in a row before a shift hahaha alonso is pissed but rightly so not his fault..but well lewis take himself out so nth much to say
that big thump i think surely broke the gearbox if not the chassis
one thing if you guys notice, ferrari strategist ask alot of question..i mean really alot haha
Yeah Ferrari is just truly so incompetent in terms of race strategy that it has became such a joke.
Not to say Lewis didn't do his part leading to the incident but you can see how some drivers (Max and Fernando in particular) behaved differently when racing side by side with Lewis vs other drivers.
MV maybe but I think not FA. FA together with KR to me have been the best wheel-to-wheel racers in F1 for the last 10-15 years cuz they race hard yet fair, FA probably even has an edge over KR and even better than LH who sometimes still makes clumsy moves like yesterday. I don't see FA races differently to LH as with other drivers. He raced hard with others too but gives space.
Yesterday was pure mistake by LH as FA was already half car inside the curb yet LH kept pressing inside. Approaching the corner both were about equal and FA didn't overshot or runwide so he did what he was supposed to as a proper racing driver protecting his position.
Yes, Lewis made a mistake but there's definitely a difference. Even though George had the inside (lewis was on the outside but slightly ahead with some late braking), Fernando seem to back off a lot easier against others. I don't mean Fernando isn't a good racer, it's just that some of them had personal grudges against Lewis at another level. The comment Fernando managed to deliver while driving at full speed is unbelievable.
You mean FA vs GR? I see those as different cases so cannot be compared. FA vs LH was 1st lap, FA was still 2nd and still got some tow effect from CS amd nobody has DRS yet, all still on new tires and same strategy, plus he managed to protect the inside without running wide, so all he did was correct. The fact that he can hold the inside line shows he was entitled to defend as such. With GR was they were already just 2 of them with different tire life (and different tires?) where GR got a good run on the inside WITH DRS too. I think FA was smart enough racer that he doesn't see much benefit in fighting too hard at that point, different than the 1st lap while he was still defending 2nd. You see how FA fought Ocon in Hungary, he also fought hard and successfully at it.
I think it's 50-50. The reason why I gave 50 to Lewis was he's on the racing line and being slightly ahead when they reached the apex. Of course he had to leave racing room, but cover too much. He probably thought Fernando should yield but he didn't.
It's not even close to 50-50 and even LH himself knew he had messed up. LH should've known better that any proper racer would not yield easily in such situation let alone FA. Heck he has battled with him so many times before, he should know how good FA is in wheel-to-wheel combat.
Boring f1, just need a good stratregy team and beast car, no need great skill, just open DRS potong other like peanuts, put Alex Yong also can win lol
Whrn competitions still close like early this season then it's interesting but when 1 driver already dominating like now then it's boring. Blame it on the incompetence of the red team.
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