JPower wrote: ↑11 Jul 2022, 16:49
Andres125sx wrote: ↑11 Jul 2022, 12:12
Repeating false info and nauseam will never make it true mate.
Sainz has always been a true team player, accepting TOs in every team he's been, even in STR at Max rookie season. Marko is just a moron who can't say a single sensible word
But when the team fails miserably on their strategy decision, he's smart enough to say it. Even Ferrari has repeated Sainz is a team player and in the only 2 occasions when he did not follow TOs, he was right and the team finally did agree with his decisions, as in both situations Ferrari scored more points thanks to Sainz
The correct takes.
Renault, McLaren, and Ferrari have left Sainz to make strategy calls repeatedly especially in inclement weather(the guys at Renault called him the "shepherd"
). Why? Because he's actually good at it. That's a skill he has. He'll do it again at some point this season.
For some people to act like its some affront to their sensibilities is hilarious but unsurprising.
No matter, Ferrari is happy with him and those who don't like it will have to deal with it for another two seasons.
I still think Ferrari has a top 2 pairing on the grid and hopefully the second half of this season will bare that out.
i seriously laugh at it when Team - Sainz tries to portray him as some real clever , intelligent thinker with a lot of inside of F1 car.. a sort of " El profesor " based on what ?
lets check with Silverstone Gp example.
lap 37 SC is deployed , Charles is leading by 9s ...a simple and straight forward strategy would have been bringing the leader in and so on. Ferrari who often gets criticized for being lame with strategy this time tried to think out of the box. for them, they couldn't pit both , had they did the needful they feared sainz would have dropped even behind 4th with much older tyres so to.. overcome this they came up with a unconventional (stupid ) plan. why not pit sainz and then ask him to hold up the pack ... least for 2-3 laps by then leclerc would bring his tyres in working range and would also have some gap...least on paper they saw a 1-2. also in this they were prioritizing none. leclerc was 1st before SC would end up 1st , Sainz who had alredy given up on the win and lead was 2nd . they would finish similarly so even though sainz was asked to execute a certain task...its not like he was 1st and was asked to give it away.
so ..they rolled the dice , asked leclerc to stay out sainz was put on fresh tyres.......in all this madness i dont see any effort or call or decision made by Sainz. only thing he did is... he was stupidly and unexpectedly got put into a advantagious position and he ran away with it.
also about the strategy though i was mad as hell seeing what unfolded.....when the dust settled i actually thought though the idea was stupid it was not something undoable. Ferrari had a speed advantage over the rest of the field ( except perez ) and we could see how much effort lewis had to make to beat leclerc with massive tyre advantage imagine Sainz on fresh tyres in same situation ...had he went away with the strategy he would still have had chance to overtake Leclerc in may be last 2 laps , and also providing him some gap and DRS to pull along. in multiple outcomes 2 Ferrari and 1 RB could have finished in any order . there was no chance that lewis would overtake sainz that easily and then also hunt down Charles.
anyways thats the benefit of hindsight , but still i can verywell conclude ...that in all this mess...i don't see any input from sainz other than trying to run away with it leaving Charles on his on.
im not trying to say Sainz is that bad ...he is good enough if not the best but this Narrative that he is something spl interms of strategy etc is all BS.