To be fair, Di Resta was commenting from the start of the race that the Ferrari seemed quite unstable at the rear in the long corners.ringo wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:33Charles not ready to be champion. You cannot be making unforced errors like these.
He needs to be in full control of his car at all times if he wants to be considered a great contender.
Now he's just bleeding points and Max is having the easiest season of his career. Max is not bothered at all by Ferrari, he is just driving around in circles and collecting trophies.
Hamilton in P-2 in a slow mercedes looks more ominous than Charles right now. Max managed his gap carefully at 10 seconds to Hamilton. You could see redbull feels more threatened by mercedes and hamilton. Sad.
Yeah, it does look like that; though on the fearing Merc. ironically if HAM gets a race winning car, it is more likely to aid Verstappen by dividing the available points with Leclerc while VER can go like Rosberg in 2016, as the large gap in points he has protects his lead. He won't just slow down, but fighting a different competitor every weekend certainly, objectively would be good for him.ringo wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:33Charles not ready to be champion. You cannot be making unforced errors like these.
He needs to be in full control of his car at all times if he wants to be considered a great contender.
Now he's just bleeding points and Max is having the easiest season of his career. Max is not bothered at all by Ferrari, he is just driving around in circles and collecting trophies.
Hamilton in P-2 in a slow mercedes looks more ominous than Charles right now. Max managed his gap carefully at 10 seconds to Hamilton. You could see redbull feels more threatened by mercedes and hamilton. Sad.
It could also go the other way. If Ferrari keeps the upper hand in pace, and Mercedes starts to challenge red bull, you could be looking at a few P5-P6's. And then a 60 point lead evaporates quickly.bosyber wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:38Yeah, it does look like that; though on the fearing Merc. ironically if HAM gets a race winning car, it is more likely to aid Verstappen by dividing the available points with Leclerc while VER can go like Rosberg in 2016, as the large gap in points he has protects his lead. He won't just slow down, but fighting a different competitor every weekend certainly, objectively would be good for him.ringo wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:33Charles not ready to be champion. You cannot be making unforced errors like these.
He needs to be in full control of his car at all times if he wants to be considered a great contender.
Now he's just bleeding points and Max is having the easiest season of his career. Max is not bothered at all by Ferrari, he is just driving around in circles and collecting trophies.
Hamilton in P-2 in a slow mercedes looks more ominous than Charles right now. Max managed his gap carefully at 10 seconds to Hamilton. You could see redbull feels more threatened by mercedes and hamilton. Sad.
Max took Hamilton at the start there. Hamilton then simply tried to use the outside line as if Max hadn’t passed him yet. Imho he had full right to that corner and it has no bearing on todays race. Even less as the AD opening lap. But somehow some category always need to bring up Max. Drag him by the hair into the conversation.TimW wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:32Note that the rules (or interpretation of the rules) has changed this year. You have to leave spaces for the driver in the outside of you are not ahead. Moves like max did in Imola l to hamilton lap 1 last year are not allowed anymore. Russell let Perez no space, so Perez was perfectly entitled to keep position. Like the Mercedes pit wall told Russell.
Yes, he went left half way up the staight but did't go full defense line. I think that's what led Russel to go for the dive bomb. Daniel Avocado move.
There wasn't another line for Hamilton to use, because Max dive bombed and parked on the racing line.Sieper wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:56Max took Hamilton at the start there. Hamilton then simply tried to use the outside line as if Max hadn’t passed him yet. Imho he had full right to that corner and it has no bearing on todays race. Even less as the AD opening lap. But somehow some category always need to bring up Max. Drag him by the hair into the conversation.TimW wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:32Note that the rules (or interpretation of the rules) has changed this year. You have to leave spaces for the driver in the outside of you are not ahead. Moves like max did in Imola l to hamilton lap 1 last year are not allowed anymore. Russell let Perez no space, so Perez was perfectly entitled to keep position. Like the Mercedes pit wall told Russell.
I don't hear Russel complaining anymore. Pretty sure he stopped a while ago now.
He said it in the media interview tooGrizzleBoy wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 19:13I don't hear Russel complaining anymore. Pretty sure he stopped a while ago now.
He complained I think twice and then overtook Checo at the VSC restart and has been a happy boy ever since.
Last year Max' move was perfectly Ok(at least to me), hard but ok according to how things were judged then (and many years before). I don't even recall Hamilton complaining. It was just an example that came mind. However this year they judge things differently.Sieper wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:56Max took Hamilton at the start there. Hamilton then simply tried to use the outside line as if Max hadn’t passed him yet. Imho he had full right to that corner and it has no bearing on todays race. Even less as the AD opening lap. But somehow some category always need to bring up Max. Drag him by the hair into the conversation.TimW wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 18:32Note that the rules (or interpretation of the rules) has changed this year. You have to leave spaces for the driver in the outside of you are not ahead. Moves like max did in Imola l to hamilton lap 1 last year are not allowed anymore. Russell let Perez no space, so Perez was perfectly entitled to keep position. Like the Mercedes pit wall told Russell.
I guess you missed the cooldown room.GrizzleBoy wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022, 19:13I don't hear Russel complaining anymore. Pretty sure he stopped a while ago now.
He complained I think twice and then overtook Checo at the VSC restart and has been a happy boy ever since.