dialtone wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 20:24
Wouter wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 20:18
Dunlay wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 19:07
A comfortable 3rd, regardless of the strategy, was on cards, until Max exploded. The car had comfortable pace for overtaking the Ferrari and Mercedes. Max messed up an overtake in the previous lap and ran wide and blamed the brake bias. He ignored the instructions from GP to go easy on the tyres for the first couple of laps on, but he used his own anger to invalidate it and take life out of tyres. Extremely poor racing skills for the day.
The strategy gamble was to see how to win against two McLarens. Simply following McLarens strategy or to cover Lewis wouldn't have given any better result.
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I fully disagree and so did Horner and Marko!!
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Marko admits mistake Red Bull: 'We completely underestimated that'
Marko admits Red Bull mistake at Hungary Grand Prix
At the German branch of Sky Sports, Marko admits that Red Bull's update package has not had the desired effect. The 81-year-old Austrian stresses that the updates did produce better lap times, but not as many as expected and certainly not as many as Max Verstappen had expected.
" We completely underestimated how difficult overtaking is here," he explains.
"We thought our speed advantage would be enough, but we couldn't overtake. That's why our strategy was wrong."
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Hannah and the team and the updates let Max down this time. His anger was justified.
Lol no it was not. He was in a fight of 4 v 1, all trying to beat RBR while he's leading the WDC and has no team mate to help.
The strategy team is supposed to come up with a magic rabbit out of the hat strategy to allow him to win while he's racing alone? If he wants to get angry at someone it should be at his team mate, who he defended just a few days ago.
His team didn't magically become mediocre while he's the only one pushing out there. He raced with little maturity and even some mediocrity in his wheel to wheel racing. He's alone and needs to take what he's given, yelling at the team that is actively trying to help him is asinine.
The team is at fault, not Max.
The team had only one job to do today, secure a third place. And they have been unable to do that.
If Max had not been undercut twice by Hamilton and once by Leclerc, Max would have easily drove the car in the third place.
Red Bull strategy team and Hannah came up with a fantasist strategy based on giving their opponents 6-7 seconds advantage in addition of the position, in one of the hardest track on the calendar for overtaking.
This was criminally bad and incompetent and they should apologize to Max for this bad show. Max was too vocal about it, but I understand perfectly a driver who is extracting the most performance from what has become an average car being angry about losing positions due to extremely bad strategy calls.
It wasn't just bad, it was terrible. Their bet made no sense at all. It's like giving position at Monaco. A disaster.