2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku, June 10 - 12

[GrizzleBoy]

I can see Ferrari letting Checo by tomorrow to pincer Max between their drivers.

What!?! Ideally you want as many cars as possible in between you and your main rival, not to have him on your tail so he could overtake you with his superior straight line speed...

For sure, but if 5he Bulls are fast and Charles has Checo on his tail, I'm wondering if it is better for Ferrari to let Checo isolate himself and try to use both their cars to keep Max from also being able to freely attack and hamper him strategy wise.

[Incognito]

Great drives by Leclerc and Perez. Disappointing from Verstappen and Sainz.

Sad to hear two World Champions whining about not getting a tow when the guys on the front row didn't need them.

I expect Perez to let Verstappen by at T1 which should mean a spicy battle between the two WDC contenders, right from the first lap! And, if Hamilton did drop below delta, it's a slam dunk.

Why is Stroll in F1? And was Alonso deliberately screwing the field?

[f1jcw]

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I expect Perez to let Verstappen by at T1 which should mean a spicy battle between the two WDC contenders,

What happened to let them fight for it especially as Perez is a contender, he has already given over 1 win.

[Zynerji]

Great
I expect Perez to let Verstappen by at T1 which should mean a spicy battle between the two WDC contenders,

What happened to let them fight for it especially as Perez is a contender, he has already given over 1 win.

Max's radio message in Q3 says it all. He felt entitled to the tow, so I'm guessing there some contractual obligations to be extrapolated from that message.

[Silent Storm]

Great
I expect Perez to let Verstappen by at T1 which should mean a spicy battle between the two WDC contenders,

What happened to let them fight for it especially as Perez is a contender, he has already given over 1 win.

Max's radio message in Q3 says it all. He felt entitled to the tow, so I'm guessing there some contractual obligations to be extrapolated from that message.

Redbull and Mercedes have a similar alternating strategy for leading Qualifying, Max will give Checo a tow in Canada.

[bosyber]

Well, with Mercedes, Russell gave HAM a tow to get into Q3, but RUS had a tow from HAM to get to his final Q3 time (though he was a bit faster even so, it seemed).

[siskue2005]

Great
I expect Perez to let Verstappen by at T1 which should mean a spicy battle between the two WDC contenders,

What happened to let them fight for it especially as Perez is a contender, he has already given over 1 win.

Well redbull is basically max and his dad's team... I guess their fans also know it.. there will be some convoluted strategy tomorrow for Perez, especially after last race when Papa Verstappen was not happy

[GrizzleBoy]

Great
I expect Perez to let Verstappen by at T1 which should mean a spicy battle between the two WDC contenders,

What happened to let them fight for it especially as Perez is a contender, he has already given over 1 win.

Max's radio message in Q3 says it all. He felt entitled to the tow, so I'm guessing there some contractual obligations to be extrapolated from that message.

I wondered immediately after hearing that message if there was politics going on there as if Max ended up P2 from the tow after Checo had been clearly the faster man all the way since Monaco, there would be a lot of PR work to do.

But then you ask yourself if they really care about that over winning?

Unless they are extremely confident they are going to smash Ferrari on race pace tomorrow.

[dialtone]

Should be interesting come the first few laps tomorrow given the stronger straight line speed of the RB.

Might it be another pole where Charles loses a win after starting on pole.

You keep repeating this story about straight line speed advantage... It's not there man, I'm not sure what is your source for it but it's just not there.

Guess you didnt watch Miami? Could a Ferrari with DRS pass the RB with no DRS?

You crack me up man .

[DChemTech]

between the Redb ferrari and the rest is 1.5 s its huge the new regulation is joke or the rest of teams are so bad

Was of different with any other regulation set? Blaming the gap on the new regs is bollocks. Actually, having 2 teams competing from the start and a gap of only ca. 1 s to the rest (and all teams having points already) is not too bad at all in the first year of a regulation set.

[214270]

Anyone with driver tracker info on Q3 runs pls. Who got a tow from who?

[chrisc90]

You keep repeating this story about straight line speed advantage... It's not there man, I'm not sure what is your source for it but it's just not there.

Guess you didnt watch Miami? Could a Ferrari with DRS pass the RB with no DRS?

You crack me up man .

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Read what YOU wrote about lap 49 and answer the question. With a faster car, by up to 15kmh as YOU said, could Charles pass Verstappen? (charles having had DRS)

[Mogster]

Anyone with driver tracker info on Q3 runs pls. Who got a tow from who?

For Merc George towed Lewis into Q3, Lewis towed George on his final Q3 run it seemed.

[Ryar]

Mercedes over a second away, despite their massive upgrades in Spain! Well, if it was not for George, then we could said, 1.5 seconds away. George is wiping the floor with Lewis. He even bailed Lewis out of Q2.

[Incognito]

Redbull and Mercedes have a similar alternating strategy for leading Qualifying, Max will give Checo a tow in Canada.

Do you have a team source for that?*

It certainly didn't seem to be the case in Monaco, where Verstappen got the prime slot with the most rubbered in track. Frankly, I don't understand why teams bother with this rotational nonsense. Give your fastest driver the best position, unless there are intrinsic and clear benefits to the WCC.

*Preferably not Helmut Marko.