organic wrote: ↑29 Aug 2023, 20:05
Just_a_fan wrote: ↑29 Aug 2023, 20:03
organic wrote: ↑29 Aug 2023, 19:45
AMuS journalist Peter Schmidt on the Dutch GP
No driver is capable of lapping faster than the car is capable of lapping. Doesn't matter who it is, it's physically not possible. Fangio, Senna, Michael, Fernando, Max, whomever, can't make a car can't go faster than it's capable of going.
I think the implication is that the car performance between the teams is similar, but that max extracted closer to the maximum of what is available at Netherlands than other teams' drivers. Nobody's suggesting he's outdriving the car or whatever as that, everyone agrees I think, is not possible
Lewis himself said he thinks that the car was capable of at least being close to challenging max. But over the weekend things didn't go right on both team side and driver side that made it impossible to fully show this, for instance.
Well in terms of personal fastest laps, Fernando (lap 56) was quicker than Max (lap 58) by 0.052s and Lewis (lap 58) was slower than Max by 0.015s. Max was faster than Perez (lap59) by 0.342s (all within a lap or three of each other) but Fernando and Lewis were 1.3-1.2s faster than their respective team mates. So the guys getting more out of their cars appear to be "not Max", frankly, at least in comparison to their team mates.
https://www.formula1.com/en/results.htm ... -laps.html
So, to say that the car is 0.1-0.2s faster than the cars and Max was doing the rest would suggest that Max actually didn't do that good a job after all because his own fastest lap wasn't actually anything special compared to others in less good cars.
Of course, there are many factors at play and Max usually goes for his "hah, catch this you suckers!" fastest lap right at the end when, unfortunately, the track was not conducive to that in Holland. But these throw away lines by journalists don't do anyone any favours - other than garner clicks for their employer.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.