AR3-GP wrote: ↑02 May 2023, 02:14
Aren't we splitting hairs here? There really wasn't much between them. For your reference, Verstappen and Perez driving identical cars had a gap that grew to at most 4 seconds between them.
Doesn't that give some context?
Neither car was overwhelmingly quicker than the other.
Yeah that's what I'm saying too. It's a bit different than saying that Alonso was going to pass had he not had to pass SAI at the 2nd corner of the restart that he couldn't pass LEC, which is laughable.
Saying that SAI was going to be the same as LEC for Alonso seems at minimum a simplification, especially considering SAI finished further behind LEC than LEC behind VER on the same car. Anyway at the end of the day what matters is LEC was 3rd, his engine didn't explode like last year, and in his hands the car is vastly better than in SAI's hands.