Your comparisons are flawed. There are a lot of rookie/young drivers that would be one second behind Bottas. Bottas is one of the best qualifiers on the grid and has been for years. No one should've expected Zhou to be close to driver that frequently pushed all-time pole winner Lewis Hamilton to the limit in the same car. I don't think Mick would fare much better at his current pace.Mr.S wrote: ↑06 Jun 2022, 18:58Mick will struggle but Zhou is Mazepin Part II, or maybe a better version. He is more than 1s behind Bottas in qualifying & honestly we don't know how good the Alfa is given Bottas isn't even as good as Russel. The qualifying gap is worse than Mazepin actually & Williams is suffering by having a pay driver like Latifi, the sport doesn't need anymore. If Haas doesn't have the finances, they should be kicked out - There are teams like Andretti waiting (By kicked out I mean fall to 10th or 11th place where pay is very low & keep falling & then get taken over).
Zhou is a better version of Mazepin but then you have people like Piastri waiting too. Mick has to improve or he will lose his seat but I find people's reaction genuinely ignorant & childish. Not even half the season has gone (We are like past the 25% mark & people are already passing judgements). These calls should come after 60-70% of the season has gone.
The other thing is that he can say that he might not be deserving of a seat but that has not stopped a team from hiring an underserving driver before. The relations with Ferrari are far from simple.JPower wrote: ↑06 Jun 2022, 20:38Your comparisons are flawed. There are a lot of rookie/young drivers that would be one second behind Bottas. Bottas is one of the best qualifiers on the grid and has been for years. No one should've expected Zhou to be close to driver that frequently pushed all-time pole winner Lewis Hamilton to the limit in the same car. I don't think Mick would fare much better at his current pace.Mr.S wrote: ↑06 Jun 2022, 18:58Mick will struggle but Zhou is Mazepin Part II, or maybe a better version. He is more than 1s behind Bottas in qualifying & honestly we don't know how good the Alfa is given Bottas isn't even as good as Russel. The qualifying gap is worse than Mazepin actually & Williams is suffering by having a pay driver like Latifi, the sport doesn't need anymore. If Haas doesn't have the finances, they should be kicked out - There are teams like Andretti waiting (By kicked out I mean fall to 10th or 11th place where pay is very low & keep falling & then get taken over).
Zhou is a better version of Mazepin but then you have people like Piastri waiting too. Mick has to improve or he will lose his seat but I find people's reaction genuinely ignorant & childish. Not even half the season has gone (We are like past the 25% mark & people are already passing judgements). These calls should come after 60-70% of the season has gone.
I don't see any comparison to Mazepin either. Zhou's been extremely unlucky but has shown himself to be capable fighting in the midfield when given the chance. There haven't been any questionable incidents and for the most part, keeps the car intact.
As for Mick, if he has 1-2 more bad incidents I don't see him returning to F1 next year. He needs to significantly close the gap to KMag post-summer break to make an impression.
I ran a guy in a Reynard F2000; we had issues with setup, roll bars, etc. and couldn't get the car to work well.... except in the rain. My suspicion was a flexing chassis or rocker arms, though there unfortunately wasn't money to do anything about it.continuum16 wrote: ↑24 Jun 2022, 19:27Two primarily wet quali sessions (Imola and Canada) and both times the car was top 6 material. I wonder why that is? Obviously they seem to have a good setup for it, but it’s kind of baffling to see this not translate to dry pace (usually).
I’m hoping the updated version (coming eventually? It worryingly keeps getting pushed back) is a clear step forward, and that we don’t have a repeat of the 2019 mess. The team could beat AlphaTauri and maybe Aston Martin if the upgrade delivers. They just need to stop shooting themselves in the foot.
In the rain the pace usually is slower and the tires are bigger. Maybe the Haas isn't as aerodynamically efficient as the other cars? In the rain you're slower, so the drag penalty doesn't hit as hard as in the dry. The second thought is that the bigger tires will result in a bit higher ride height. Maybe the Haas works quite well with it. And the third thought, as the speeds are a bit lower in the wet, the maximum downforcs is also lower. Maybe the Haas works better when the ride height difference (loaded vs. unloaded) is lower.continuum16 wrote: ↑24 Jun 2022, 19:27Two primarily wet quali sessions (Imola and Canada) and both times the car was top 6 material. I wonder why that is? Obviously they seem to have a good setup for it, but it’s kind of baffling to see this not translate to dry pace (usually).
I am surprised a bit by "Mazapin Part II" in the past few races since he outqualified Bottas for three races. Will be interesting to see what happens after the four races in July.Mr.S wrote: ↑06 Jun 2022, 18:58Mick will struggle but Zhou is Mazepin Part II, or maybe a better version. He is more than 1s behind Bottas in qualifying & honestly we don't know how good the Alfa is given Bottas isn't even as good as Russel. The qualifying gap is worse than Mazepin actually & Williams is suffering by having a pay driver like Latifi, the sport doesn't need anymore. If Haas doesn't have the finances, they should be kicked out - There are teams like Andretti waiting (By kicked out I mean fall to 10th or 11th place where pay is very low & keep falling & then get taken over).
Zhou is a better version of Mazepin but then you have people like Piastri waiting too. Mick has to improve or he will lose his seat but I find people's reaction genuinely ignorant & childish. Not even half the season has gone (We are like past the 25% mark & people are already passing judgements). These calls should come after 60-70% of the season has gone.
