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Paolo_Lasardi

Well, Williams "young" driver roster now consists of:
- Aitken, a F2 midfielder (to be nice) who was on Latifi's level in Sakhir 2020 (which says more about Latifi than about Aitken).
- Nissany, a pay driver of even less talent than Latifi.
- Chadwick.

No prospect whatsoever; talent-wise a waste.

Paolo_Lasardi

Tsunoda seemed to have fairly dismal race pace compared to Gasly. He went from a Pit stop clear of Gasly to being far enough behind for Gasly to have a free stop. Did he have damage? I think he backed off annoyed. Because they don't the switch and then he said he can go faster but he's stuck in Gas...

Paolo_Lasardi

So a 16 point swing for Hamilton after today's gp. Where are we upto in regards of the radio communication incidents on the 2nd formation lap. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/wolff-stands-by-decision-to-not-pit-hamilton-before-standing-restart-/6640674/ While teams are not allowed to tell drivers...

Paolo_Lasardi

So a 16 point swing for Hamilton after today's gp. Where are we upto in regards of the radio communication incidents on the 2nd formation lap. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/wolff-stands-by-decision-to-not-pit-hamilton-before-standing-restart-/6640674/ While teams are not allowed to tell drivers...

Paolo_Lasardi

Alonso Hamilton Ocon Vettel, Gasly Stroll gifted Ocon and Vettel P2 and 3 with his most stupid crashing into Leclerc, Mercedes gifted them the lead at the re-start, and Alonso saved them from getting caught by Hamilton. Still, Ocon held on to it with a fine drive! How came that Russell was briefly ...

Paolo_Lasardi

Vettel, Bottas, Sainz and Stroll reprimanded for wearing the wrong t-shirt :D :D If any of them already had 2 reprimands, it would be hilarious if a t-shirt earned them a grid drop.... What a stupid outcome... :thumbup: Plus, it shows how important FIA thinks that matters of equal rights actually a...

Paolo_Lasardi

On the disappointing side, the obvious choices are Bottas and Stroll. However, I want to add Tsunoda: after the two start chaos, he was so much ahead of Gasly and still he ended up being clearly beaten again. He is not really fast (on top of making too many errors and permanently shouting at his tea...

Paolo_Lasardi

Alonso Hamilton Ocon Vettel, Gasly Stroll gifted Ocon and Vettel P2 and 3 with his most stupid crashing into Leclerc, Mercedes gifted them the lead at the re-start, and Alonso saved them from getting caught by Hamilton. Still, Ocon held on to it with a fine drive! How came that Russell was briefly s...

Paolo_Lasardi

Realistically Max should still finish second if he's fit to restart and they've had time to repair the car. 2nd hardest track on the calendar to overtake.... It would take a hell of a drive. I doubt that the Haas, Williams and Alfa will be difficult to overtake for a Red Bull. Tsunoda and Gasly wil...

Paolo_Lasardi

F1_Ernie wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 01, 2021 1:17 pm
Surely the debris is all picked up by now

Yeah, but car repair time not yet long enough ...

Paolo_Lasardi

Bottas and Stroll - unbelievable.

Paolo_Lasardi

Lewis was stopped in the pits and couldn't get away. There was absolutely nothing stopping Max and Perez overtaking Lewis. You surely see the difference? Lewis was flooring it on straights where the RB cars might pass him. Then almost stopping where they couldn't. Think about what you are saying, H...

Paolo_Lasardi

How much slower was Hamilton compared to his previous out-laps?

Paolo_Lasardi

I think Mikey is right here. It is difficult to think about a greater driver (different to better) that never had a championship contending car. I find it difficult to come up with names. Maybe, Hans-Joachim Stuck could be a candidate and I may need to check the cars that Chris Amon was driving. Whe...

Paolo_Lasardi

The thing is though Max is very aggressive in all scenarios. I don't see how you can compete with that except for backing out when the risk is too high (which Hamilton has done on multiple occasions) and matching the aggression at the right moments - easier said than done. In this case Hamilton was...

Paolo_Lasardi

During the last ten/twelve years how many drivers got a "championship contending car" ? Some happy years four, or else only two. If you don't take into account the obvious subservient n° 2 drivers, it reduces the number to 1 or 2. Such is the state of F1 that I wouldn't bet on any of the current "b...

Paolo_Lasardi

I do share a lot of the frustrations with FE that many others do. For one thing, the power overuse penalties. The cars are limited on how much power can be sent to the wheels at any given moment, but hitting a bump and taking off for a fraction of a second is deemed worthy of punishment, because th...

Paolo_Lasardi

Is there any way Red Bull could claim some money back or get a budget increase for the season if they can prove that Lewis should have received a larger penalty? They are saying that it's something like £1.8million worth of damage which is quite a bit for one crash! Plus, if they have issues with t...

Paolo_Lasardi

Williams is an an interesting ones for the reasons above. It's always interesting to see teams approaches to driver choice in relation to car performance/budget. Now that there isn't the financial pressure, surely Latifi is on borrowed time. He's not bad , but there must be bet better prospects ava...

Paolo_Lasardi

Good points. If it's possible to extract him from his Merc contract would Russell take a Red Bull drive in 2022 or would he wait for Merc to see if they came back in 2023. On one hand the Merc drive is the better option. On the other there is no guarantee Merc won't pass on him again. RB are a 1 dr...

Paolo_Lasardi

The Redbull is a better car simples, even Perez has had decent weekends after messing up qualifying. Perez's record against Bottas is a losing one, 7-3 in qualifying and 6-2 in races where both finished. Is Perez worse than Bottas, or is Verstappen simply better than Hamilton which gives us the ill...

Paolo_Lasardi

You're allowed to come back across as long as you leave a cars width of space in the direction of your second move. That's before the braking zone. In the braking zone you aren't permitted to make any defensive moves. In this instance Verstappen is allowed to close the gap down to the inside wall p...

Paolo_Lasardi

LOL that's one way to conduct an discussion, "any point contrary to my belief is simply a lie" So what about the drivers and other f1 personnel across the grid who thought it was a racing incident? They are all just being "intellectually dishonest" and lying too? They are all in cahoots, hahahaha T...

Paolo_Lasardi

Did max move twice into the corner in defense. One movement putting him on a right trajectory to cover the inside then another adjustment to put the right trajectory more immediate. In effect moved twice. The second movement is what made lewis close against the wall and meant that max couldnt get b...

Paolo_Lasardi

Didn't Mazepin crash into Schumacher and spun after the first start? Or was that after the Saturday start?

Paolo_Lasardi

LOL that's one way to conduct an discussion, "any point contrary to my belief is simply a lie" So what about the drivers and other f1 personnel across the grid who thought it was a racing incident? They are all just being "intellectually dishonest" and lying too? They are all in cahoots, hahahaha T...

Paolo_Lasardi

So which set of fans would post racist abuse towards Lewis Hamilton then I wonder? . If ever you wanted to motivate someone that would be the way, I'd suggest. My thought was that it was Hamilton drawing a line in the sand. Surprised at the whinging and suggestions of a race ban by RB and others. V...

Paolo_Lasardi

Yeboah24 wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:19 am
Did anyone follow russells race? Mr saturday again or is that unfair?

Yeah, Russell, Vettel and especially Perez ( him all weekend) were quite disappointing.

Paolo_Lasardi

Max turned right. In a right-handed corner. He left more than a car's width, which Lewis drifted wide in and hit him. Max turned right whilst Lewis was alongside him. He had plenty of room to take a slightly wider line but he chose to turn more sharply, which caused the incident. Max has only himse...

Paolo_Lasardi

Racing incident for me -- 60/40 with Verstappen taking the 60 in my view. It's a racing incident because both drivers were partially at fault. Verstappen turned into the corner with Hamilton mostly alongside him, and didn't leave enough space for the car that was up his inside. He also failed to pr...

Paolo_Lasardi

Racing incident for me - both drivers could have done more to avoid it though. Verstappen was being very aggressive leading up to that squeezing Hamilton a few times the only surprise for me is it didn't happen earlier! I am a Ferrari fan so no bias, and those suggesting it was done deliberately ne...

Paolo_Lasardi

Amazing performance from Charles. Sadly the overtaking was very limited here. I was expecting more. Had Max been on this race I think it would have more exciting race. But I guess it is good for WC as RBR scored 0 points today. True, Perez was really, really bad this weekend - on all three occasion...

Paolo_Lasardi

That line he took with Leclerc was a perfect exemplification of how he SHOULD've done in the first instance with Max. Hamilton winning this one with his main rival out of the race, due mainly to his mistake, doesn't do justice to F1. Did Hamilton take a different line or did Leclerc take a differen...

Paolo_Lasardi

Leclerc and Alonso

Paolo_Lasardi

Is the Williams among the top 5 cars? I've heard some people say (and it is often obvious) that williams focus more on qualifying and and very often struggle much more on race pace (though Russell was excellent on race day last time out). I don't think they will be in the top 5, but certainly close...

Paolo_Lasardi

One interesting thought is that a team/driver can perhaps take a bit more of a gamble towards race set-up than qualy in this format. Perez is out of position for Sprint Qualy tomorrow, but he can use the sprint race to get back into position, and certainly the target should be to clear the Ferrari....

Paolo_Lasardi

One interesting thought is that a team/driver can perhaps take a bit more of a gamble towards race set-up than qualy in this format. Perez is out of position for Sprint Qualy tomorrow, but he can use the sprint race to get back into position, and certainly the target should be to clear the Ferrari....

Paolo_Lasardi

Deledda is a bad joke, really. Is he some billionaire son and that's why he is on the grid?

Paolo_Lasardi

JN23 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:51 pm

Alienturnedhuman wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:44 pm

Hamilton GOAT confirmed.

Paolo_Lasardi

It is an excellent report of high quality.

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