How useless Lewis would be to be beaten by a useless driver! Piastri is struggling to match Lando and once in a blue moon gets a decent result. The fact that Red Bull didn't choose Sainz shows how they rate him. Besides, Sainz does his own things abd doesn't care about team play. May be that's why he was passed by Marko.
Hamilton is over, he reminds me of how quick Vettel declined...Dunlay wrote: ↑20 Oct 2024, 11:04How useless Lewis would be to be beaten by a useless driver! Piastri is struggling to match Lando and once in a blue moon gets a decent result. The fact that Red Bull didn't choose Sainz shows how they rate him. Besides, Sainz does his own things abd doesn't care about team play. May be that's why he was passed by Marko.
As long as Max has a competitive car, he won't lose 50 points in 6 races, regardless of any random stuff or engine penalty.Sergej wrote: ↑20 Oct 2024, 10:59I would wait a bit before jumping on these conclusions, it's true that IF the pace seen yesterday is confirmed today AND in the next races then we don't need anymore to deep analyze every result and ipothesis
but that's a big if, for the moment we know that McLaren is beatable this weekend and it would be vital that Max can grab this opportunity now that it is available, to put into perspective if he manages to outscore Lando this evening, then he can settle for third place every race/sprint and win the title, that would a big blow to Lando's title hopes
so I think that results are still quite important, at least for the time being; we also must don't forget that Max may be due another engine penalty in the next races.
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not that I don't agree, I just point out that grabbing as many points as possible, and hopefully outscoring Lando, is still important at this stage, because even if we leave Austin with the picture in which Max has things in his control, that's not guaranteed it will be the same in the next races, given how crazy this season has been; from my side these last races will be a continuous test for Red Bull, only one race is not enough for me.Paa wrote: ↑20 Oct 2024, 11:53As long as Max has a competitive car, he won't lose 50 points in 6 races, regardless of any random stuff or engine penalty.Sergej wrote: ↑20 Oct 2024, 10:59I would wait a bit before jumping on these conclusions, it's true that IF the pace seen yesterday is confirmed today AND in the next races then we don't need anymore to deep analyze every result and ipothesis
but that's a big if, for the moment we know that McLaren is beatable this weekend and it would be vital that Max can grab this opportunity now that it is available, to put into perspective if he manages to outscore Lando this evening, then he can settle for third place every race/sprint and win the title, that would a big blow to Lando's title hopes
so I think that results are still quite important, at least for the time being; we also must don't forget that Max may be due another engine penalty in the next races.
So not that actual result doesn't matter, but confirmation of solid car is way more important. Then the rest will come naturally.
Random events and stuff like that matter more if Red Bull are suffering, because then you kind of have to rely on those. As things are not in your control.
Establishing whether things are in his own hand is the most important thing from this weekend.
"It's been a long time since I felt so good in the car. To be honest, I don't even remember when that was. There are always things that can be improved, but we are certainly doing very well in the fast corners."
"The balance problems that prevented us from attacking the corners are now also a lot less. So far, this weekend shows that we have taken a very good step."
lol, that's massive ! would be quite an achievement to win this title"We understood a few things in Monza, which gave us a direction to work towards. That is now paying off. Everything that was planned in terms of upgrades before Monza, we could throw in the bin."
"I have been pointing out a lot of things for weeks or months, in terms of my feeling in the car and then it is up to the team to solve it. Now it all felt a lot better."
Especially when you think of the message a while ago that at an engineering meeting around Monza Max himself pointed towards specific points in the data where the instability was apparent.Sergej wrote: ↑20 Oct 2024, 15:03lol, that's massive ! would be quite an achievement to win this title"We understood a few things in Monza, which gave us a direction to work towards. That is now paying off. Everything that was planned in terms of upgrades before Monza, we could throw in the bin."
"I have been pointing out a lot of things for weeks or months, in terms of my feeling in the car and then it is up to the team to solve it. Now it all felt a lot better."
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