2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Imola, April 22 - 24

[Vanja #66]

Good race for RB, just what they and Championship battles needed. Max quicker, Perez defending P2 just shows how good he is and just how hard it still is to overtake.

Leclerc can be happy he lost only 7 points with that mistake, same as losing P1 to P2. P3 was Ferrari maximum this weekend, the car is slightly too gentle on tyres and cold races like this will be harder for them. Sainz, unbelievable, rotten luck just keeps going. Ferrari as a team can't be happy about the weekend.

Great race by Norris. Russel keeps fighting, Hamilton doesn't believe the car at all. Vettel kept himslef clean this time, much better than Melbourne.

[cplchanb]

honestly this race overall was a shitshow... DRS came too late and there was hardly any notable passing attempts from the leaders. Just goes to show the flaw in these cars that while they can stay close, they dont have the slipstream capabilities as last years cars to actually make the pass. Looks like DRS is going to stay ..... and man that albon train was just pure frustration... his car was garbage... but not garbage enough for gasly to get through

[etusch]

Leclerc was really flying this race

[cplchanb]

Race control is doing a terrible job today.

Should have VSC'd immediately with debris like that on track. Don’t need another Massa accident.

Bring back Michael M.

on the contrary i think they were terrible today because they took too long to turn on DRS.....

[etusch]

Great drives from Verstappen, Perez, Norris, Russell and Albon too!

Fingers crossed that Red Bull reliability problems are fixed.

That was a fun race overall IMO, even if there wasn't a huge amount of overtaking.

I guess Tifosi will be disappointed but oh well. Just a couple of those things, not much that could be done about that. The car still has the pace I think, perhaps the damp conditions suited Red Bull a little better, but it was only one race ago that Leclerc was driving off into the distance!

Is there a record for most laps spent sub 1s behind the same car? This race must be a contender for Hamilton

This very track saw Michael Schumacher behind Alonso for a good chunk of the race in 2005.

We forget it was actually a different layout then, with an extra chicane. I had forgotten all about the extra chicane to be honest!

I think tsunoda was also good this race

[dialtone]

honestly this race overall was a shitshow... DRS came too late and there was hardly any notable passing attempts from the leaders. Just goes to show the flaw in these cars that while they can stay close, they dont have the slipstream capabilities as last years cars to actually make the pass. Looks like DRS is going to stay ..... and man that albon train was just pure frustration... his car was garbage... but not garbage enough for gasly to get through

Pretty hard to be able to pass when one car nails the setup and the other doesn't even get close to it, after the sprint race basically the positions were solidified. Ferrari never had the ability pass with losing 0.4s in S1 then needing to make everything up in the rest of the lap, only to lose it again in 2 corners. Having crap setup isn't going to generate good racing.

[wogx]

Leclerc was really flying this race

Just like last year

[GrizzleBoy]

DRS being pointlessly disabled really ruined this race.

[chrisc90]

DRS being pointlessly disabled really ruined this race.

DRS was on for probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the race. Yet there was still only a handful of overtakes. Cant blame DRS not being active for ruining the race. Maybe drivers should actually have to fight to overtake and not rely on DRS. I think we probably saw more overtakes without it than with it.

[zeph]

To gain one point, Leclerc/Ferrari threw away seven, smh

[GrizzleBoy]

DRS being pointlessly disabled really ruined this race.

DRS was on for probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the race. Yet there was still only a handful of overtakes. Cant blame DRS not being active for ruining the race. Maybe drivers should actually have to fight to overtake and not rely on DRS. I think we probably saw more overtakes without it than with it.

By your calculations the cars were using DRS while they were still on inters and I think we all know the reality there.

And if you want drivers fighting for positions without DRS they need cars that can actually do so reliably. The lack of natural slipstreaming ability of the new regs cars means that just like before you aren't passing without a large speed delta to the car ahead.

[chrisc90]

DRS being pointlessly disabled really ruined this race.

DRS was on for probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the race. Yet there was still only a handful of overtakes. Cant blame DRS not being active for ruining the race. Maybe drivers should actually have to fight to overtake and not rely on DRS. I think we probably saw more overtakes without it than with it.

By your calculations the cars were using DRS while they were still on inters and I think we all know the reality there.

And if you want drivers fighting for positions without DRS they need cars that can actually do so reliably. The lack of natural slipstreaming ability of the new regs cars means that just like before you aren't passing without a large speed delta to the car ahead.

Lap 34 DRS so little over half the race done. Might have been a few laps out

[Big Tea]

DRS being pointlessly disabled really ruined this race.

DRS was on for probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the race. Yet there was still only a handful of overtakes. Cant blame DRS not being active for ruining the race. Maybe drivers should actually have to fight to overtake and not rely on DRS. I think we probably saw more overtakes without it than with it.

By your calculations the cars were using DRS while they were still on inters and I think we all know the reality there.

And if you want drivers fighting for positions without DRS they need cars that can actually do so reliably. The lack of natural slipstreaming ability of the new regs cars means that just like before you aren't passing without a large speed delta to the car ahead.

Typical DRS train. I am anti DRS, but if we must have it can we not just have it once for each car you approach?
If you can not pass on one lap, the guy behind gets a go at you, then you get DRS back so you take a chance or plan your overtake.

[JPower]

To gain one point, Leclerc/Ferrari threw away seven, smh

No, it was to gain 3 points(potentially 4). Almost worked too. If he had a decent pitstop P2 was in the cards. They knew Perez would react to him pitting to undercut as well.

[JPower]

As for Ferrari in general, just not a good day. Red Bull in comparison was spot on almost all weekend. Dominant performance from Max.

Sainz was very unlucky and Leclerc got greedy, which tends to happen for him occasionally. Can't accuse either of not giving it 100% though.

Given Miami's high speed layout, might not be too much different in terms of relative speed vs Red Bull next race so I expect RB to move into the constructor's lead in 2 weeks.

Good to see Yuki with a good race, same for Bottas and Lando.

One day we'll need to have a real discussion about Ricciardo...