Podium
Double pts finish. Extracted the most we could.
Bono told him to, on that second stint. I think they were a little delusional on what was achieveable at that stage.
Lewis really wanted to see the underside of that RB20 first hand and he got to see!
Good job Red Bull built a flexi wing too or it would have snapped off in that handstand!
Luscion wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 17:41According to these Ham was the second quickest car. Seems to me max was much quicker than lewis.
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No you can’t really make that case when RUS isn’t faster than PER. The better reading would be that VER got stuck & was unable to deploy his speed; such is the Hungaroring.Hammerfist wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 17:50Luscion wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 17:41According to these Ham was the second quickest car. Seems to me max was much quicker than lewis.
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In the first stint he appeared to be held up by Max. The second stint he had a tire age disadvantage. The third stint he had a tire age and tire compound disadvantage. So yeah you can make a case he had the second fastest car
I was impressed with Merc's pace actually. Not what the qualifying suggested.
IMO George Russell isn't a good barometer on Sundays. There were times he wasn't any faster than Latifi at Williams FFS. Verstappen always had newer tires than the rest of the field after stint 1. He wasn't being held up in stint 1 and could not keep up wit the Mclarens while also being hounded by hamilton.214270 wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 18:16No you can’t really make that case when RUS isn’t faster than PER. The better reading would be that VER got stuck & was unable to deploy his speed; such is the Hungaroring.Hammerfist wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 17:50Luscion wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 17:41According to these Ham was the second quickest car. Seems to me max was much quicker than lewis.
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In the first stint he appeared to be held up by Max. The second stint he had a tire age disadvantage. The third stint he had a tire age and tire compound disadvantage. So yeah you can make a case he had the second fastest car
I was impressed with Merc's pace actually. Not what the qualifying suggested.
I was actually glad Mercedes were a bit bold by going for the undercut, as I have a feeling that track position would be their best weapon to move forward. I don’t think a tyre offset the other way would work given the pace of Verstappen. Was a bit lucky Verstappen tripped over himself really, although you can almost start counting on it now when he is not running out front…Hammerfist wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 16:54Thet car wasn't as bad as I thought.. In the first stint Ham was shadowing Max and early in the second he was catching up to Norris until his tires seemed to fall off. I thought they should not have pitted that early. Give themselves a chance to have the freshest tires at the end. They're lucky Lewis put in such a good defensive drive otherwise both Leclerc and Max would have beaten him. 2 great races in a row by Lewis and the car is definitely looking up, even after a bad qualifying. Russell could have beaten Checo. I have no idea why he didn't.