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Surely you mean just as everyone was used to a 1-2 for Lewis and Rosberg and a 1-2 for Lewis and Bottas,
year after year after year after year after ......?!
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Sergio Perez briefly lost the lead to Fernando Alonso at the start but soon recovered and led the remaining laps to easily win the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen recovered from 15th to 2nd. Fernando Alonso finished third despite a post-race penalty that was reversed later in the evening.
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I think we had a decent mix of HAM VET and VET HAM in ‘17 and ‘18. Vettel led the championship after Hungary in ‘17 and after the British GP in ‘18. The 2014 title was between 2 drivers at least, and went down to the last race. ‘15 was decided at COTA (shorter calendar). And ROS won ‘16.
What’s the reasoning behind your prediction of the gap being similar or even bigger?
Just a feeling really. RB were very fast in S2 in Bahrain, and I think Jeddah is also very much a confidence track. The RB19 looks lovely to drive so Max and Checo will find more pace just having an easier car to run with.
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I think Ferrari will be closer here, and probably better than Aston.
You know it's funny. When the announcement was made about the Saudi GP in 2020, people were quick to thrash it. When it's simulated videos came out, a lot of folks here were of the usual opinion about a new track outside of europe, which is, the track is going to be a death ring. Walls are close and drivers' carcass would be hanging on there (a bit exaggeration) and what not. But as it happened with Baku, Jeddah has become another exiciting race track, which drivers absolutely love for the speed and challenges it poses.
Why not enough? The two cars were literally equally fast over a single lap in Bahrain. Ferrari clearly have slight engine power advantage again this year, which will be even bigger factor in Jeddah likely. Drag isn't an issue for them anymore. Can't see any reason they won't compete at least, especially with Aston Martin potentially somewhere in the mix as well. All these people who expect to see the same race as in Bahrain are hopeless pessimists.Sevach wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 14:14I think Ferrari will be closer here, and probably better than Aston.
Rear degradation much less of a factor, the SF23 has good straight line speed and high speed corner performance.
But not enough to truly trouble Red Bull, their car seems to have no cracks in their armor.
Well right up until about lap 2 on Sunday we thought Ferrari would compete as well given how close they were in qualifying.avantman wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 14:21Why not enough? The two cars were literally equally fast over a single lap in Bahrain. Ferrari clearly have slight engine power advantage again this year, which will be even bigger factor in Jeddah likely. Drag isn't an issue for them anymore. Can't see any reason they won't compete at least, especially with Aston Martin potentially somewhere in the mix as well. All these people who expect to see the same race as in Bahrain are hopeless pessimists.
With the old cars, following/overtaking was tricky at Jeddah, and the close concrete walls with blind corners have already caused some large, scary accidentsmendis wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 14:16You know it's funny. When the announcement was made about the Saudi GP in 2020, people were quick to thrash it. When it's simulated videos came out, a lot of folks here were of the usual opinion about a new track outside of europe, which is, the track is going to be a death ring. Walls are close and drivers' carcass would be hanging on there (a bit exaggeration) and what not. But as it happened with Baku, Jeddah has become another exiciting race track, which drivers absolutely love for the speed and challenges it poses.
