slow stops from ferrari, guess what ferrari screwing themself lol

slow stops from ferrari, guess what ferrari screwing themself lol

In McLaren case, I think it's also largely due to arrogance of McLaren team, typical of a team which was so successful in the past. They just didn't want to accept that they are not as good anymore in developing the chassis so try to put Honda as the scape goat which partly true also (nobody denies that Honda that time was also very underpowered). It's simply Honda did not design well to begin with and develop fast enough while McLaren (and also Alonso) do not have enough patient to wait for more than 3 years for Honda to come good. McLaren is partially to blame also for not having a better chassis. I think Alonso's capability to outdrive a racing car to some extent masked McLaren chassis weaknesses. It's just not meant to be I guess, and it can be RB's luck if they win races next year as they bear the fruit of Honda's and McLaren's pain & sacrifices.

To me it's just a pity that a team as glorious as McLaren and a racer as outstanding as Alonso are languishing at the back, therefore risking to loose Alonso to other racing series.

Driver do provide input for car development. That's why senna is still regarded as best driver since he can help engineers designed better car. Also, driver needs to boost team morale, which alonso cannot do.

Driver input is important. They do tweak the car while driving...much more than the olden days.

Even when you compared vettel and kimi steering wheel, vettel got extra lever to change more settings.

Also, when you as a driver keep emphasising on how 'good' the chassis is... That is a bad input

Ricardo is too old to wait for RB+Honda to develop a winning car. Renault is just the only option he has.

I vote for Gasly.

They gonna kick sainz out from renault?

Ham signed a contract extension until 2020. Also he (theoretically) can race until late 30s (depends on his physical fitness).

I'm more worried with Ocon status at force india.... stay or booted to accomodate new owner's son?

Hmm quite surprised that Kimi still wants to go back to Sauber.    So apparently his desire to still race in F1 is still quite strong after all even just to drive for Sauber, or is there anything not yet disclosed behind this swap?? Maybe there's a clause in the contracts that if Leclerc failed to perform as expected, they would put back Kimi? 

So now, all the current champs on the grid had one way or another been gifted at least 1 win in their career. Kimi in Brazil (which he repaid the next year), Alonso in Germany, Seb in Monaco (cannot recall if he got more during his RB time), and now Ham also got 1 blemish already.

Well well, that's a nice race wasn't it? Aydee must be jumping up and down already! Anyway I'm sure everyone are happy to finally see the Iceman collected his long overdue win with a closely fought battle, a perfect drive, and finally a well executed strategy from Ferrari!

As for Seb, well again another lost opportunity to win due to his mistake. Because he impeded another driver and get grid penalty plus spun again during duel he only finished 4th and loosing another 13 potential points plus a 3 point swing off Lewis. So if he had not being doing all those mistakes, he would have been leading by 11 points now from Lewis. Anyway glad that he screwed up so Kimi finally can win.