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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.
The truth is we don't know.
Maybe he’s just cruising?
When he is comfortable with the car, he always does this. Look at Spa for instance: one of the only races last year when they achieved the balance he liked, and he bullied everyone in FP. Was the same for most of 2021 apart from the races where the balance wasn't good. When the car balance is worse he struggles more in free practices like in Bahrain last week.
Max is ofc always doing something wrong.
Ferrari will be right there in Qualy so you need to practice during this free practice. I don't think we heard a radio message all session from Max (not to the Sky stream at least).organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:42When he is comfortable with the car, he always does this. Look at Spa for instance: one of the only races last year when they achieved the balance he liked, and he bullied everyone in FP. Was the same for most of 2021 apart from the races where the balance wasn't good. When the car balance is worse he struggles more in free practices like in Bahrain last week.
Or it could be intimidation tactic yes. Make the opposition doubt if they're close enough to challenge, so they start looking over their shoulder rather than attempting to beat RB
.No matter how smooth the surface, it will still cause some bumping obviously.101FlyingDutchman wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:34What do you mean “due track conditions”? Track is silky smooth
Yeah a bit. I had the team radio on. He complained about a little understeer into 22 on the hard tyres at the start of the session and then when he wasn't warned about Norris on a hotlap behind he got a bit annoyed with GP (which GP apologized for). Couple of other minor things like asking for more aggressive tools for t22 and saying he didn't want more front wing flapAR3-GP wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:45I don't think we heard a radio message all session from Max (not to the Sky stream at least).organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:42When he is comfortable with the car, he always does this. Look at Spa for instance: one of the only races last year when they achieved the balance he liked, and he bullied everyone in FP. Was the same for most of 2021 apart from the races where the balance wasn't good. When the car balance is worse he struggles more in free practices like in Bahrain last week.
Or it could be intimidation tactic yes. Make the opposition doubt if they're close enough to challenge, so they start looking over their shoulder rather than attempting to beat RB
Did he say ANYTHING?
Only heard the battery wasn't being charged enough on F1TV stream other than the Lando impeding incidentAR3-GP wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:45I don't think we heard a radio message all session from Max (not to the Sky stream at least).organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:42When he is comfortable with the car, he always does this. Look at Spa for instance: one of the only races last year when they achieved the balance he liked, and he bullied everyone in FP. Was the same for most of 2021 apart from the races where the balance wasn't good. When the car balance is worse he struggles more in free practices like in Bahrain last week.
Or it could be intimidation tactic yes. Make the opposition doubt if they're close enough to challenge, so they start looking over their shoulder rather than attempting to beat RB
Did he say ANYTHING?
Thanks Now that you mention it, I recall the Norris radio comment on Sky.organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:47Yeah quite a lot. I had the team radio on. He complained about a little understeer into 22 on the hard tyres at the start of the session and then when he wasn't warned about Norris on a hotlap behind he got a bit annoyed with GP (which GP apologized for). Couple of other minor things like asking for more aggressive tools for t22 and saying he didn't want more front wing flapAR3-GP wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:45I don't think we heard a radio message all session from Max (not to the Sky stream at least).organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 16:42
When he is comfortable with the car, he always does this. Look at Spa for instance: one of the only races last year when they achieved the balance he liked, and he bullied everyone in FP. Was the same for most of 2021 apart from the races where the balance wasn't good. When the car balance is worse he struggles more in free practices like in Bahrain last week.
Or it could be intimidation tactic yes. Make the opposition doubt if they're close enough to challenge, so they start looking over their shoulder rather than attempting to beat RB
Did he say ANYTHING?
