venkyhere wrote: ↑08 Jun 2024, 23:26
I can't believe how this thread goes from "wow best car, best team, best drivers" to "shitbox car, foolish team, terrible drivers" with one good weekend or one bad weekend. It's cartoonish, the swing factor I have seen in this thread. Jesus, guys. It's one bad weekend. Some car setup issue. Happens with any team.
Yeah, the fans are a bit reactionary. Ferrari has generally been pretty good operationally this year. I reckon they've been second best. The mistakes they have made this season have been pretty impactful, but they've rarely been the types of mistakes that leave you absolutely dumbfounded. They have rather been reasonable gambles in scenarios where the alternative choice wasn't obviously better, like pitting Leclerc somehwat early in Miami or going for the new softs early in Q2 because they believed there would be rain later in the session.
We haven't had any Monaco 2022 or Silverstone 2022 type disasterclasses, nor have we had the absolutely ridiculous qualifying brainfarts like putting Leclerc on inters in dry conditions like Q3 Brazil 2022. We haven't even had stupid radio messages like "If you keep Bottas behind, P1". Ferrari is far from the clown show of years prior. They aren't the incredible Ferrari of the 2000s, but they are pretty solid compared to even a year ago, let alone two.