Actually, if you see, it's been a consistent thing : when the top 4 cars are closer to each other than ever before, probably in the entire history of the sport -> most skillfull driver in top 4 teams finishes 1st, least skillful driver in the top 4 teams finishes 8th. I think this is all Redbull want, they aren't interested in WCC, they just want WDC.
isn't there a hint of more deg for McLaren than Redbull ? or are my eyes tricking me ?organic wrote: ↑29 Jun 2024, 12:46Federico Albano on twitter
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agree completely. Honestly, I wasn't expecting VER to win the sprint. To drive the opening 10 laps without DRS, on a track with 3 DRS zones, with just 10 corners, with two McLarens behind gaining 0.3-0.4 every lap on straights, it meant that he had to 'create the gap that would be sacrificed to DRS' through the quick direction change high speed turns 6-7-8-9. Which he did.
Something which impressed me most was the reaction to NOR divebomb in 3. There was a moment VER had to stop the car momentarily, inorder to not hit the left rear of NOR because he too braked abruptly. It was not an over-under move, NOR guarded against over-under by placing his car in the middle of the corner (the upward slope at 3 helping massively). Still, from 3 to 4 VER drove in the slipstream of DRS-ing NOR and pounced on the door left open at 4. It was clean racing, but it was also a skill show.
VER is battle hardened with one-on-ones. Six more months of these two dogfighting, and NOR will hone his racecraft and become proper WDC material.
