Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton enjoyed a sunny Sunday afternoon at Monza where he led the Italian Grand Prix from start to finish. Valtteri Bottas completed the party for Mercedes by finishing in second, a long way ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
Early forecast shows rain on both Friday and Saturday, so we might see some shuffles in the Quali order. If any of the top teams end up at the back of the grid, we should indeed have a nice race on our hands.
Oh well if that's the case it changes everything. We don't know which car is best in the rain this year but I suspect it's the Ferrari with the red bulls getting much closer to the ultimate pace, but then Monza's kind of a different thing.
Unfortunately that isnt a "race" according to my definition. I want to see the best 2-3 team battling each other, not one of the title contenders at the back of the grid severly handicapped and not "racing" with his true rivals...
I think it's the other way round, because on Monza, most of the downforce (percentage wise) comes from the floor and wings and bits are less important, following another car gives less problems then at Silverstone for instance. Combined with the greater drag because of the wider cars, slipstreaming gives a bigger advantage.TAG wrote: ↑29 Aug 2017, 03:09A win by Hamilton here will mean that he'd be leading the WDC for the first time in the season. I'm sure Ferrari will do everything they can to keep that from being the case. Hopefully it will be good race, but with the max trimmed out cars, following might be supremely difficult, Variante here is always fun.
It's a slippery slope because when there were two silver cars, some weren't calling that a race either even though it still perfectly fit the definition. In the end a chance to compete in earnest is what makes a race exciting. I think what Phil is implying is that having to come from behind due to adversity isn't racing, it's mitigating a disadvantage and we've seen lots of that. Not fun.ClarkBT11 wrote: ↑29 Aug 2017, 14:18You only need two cars for a race. Is a race and an entertaining race a different definition or just contradicting yourself Phil. I think you mean my preference rather than definition/ideal world.
I'm happy that we get to see some sort of battle at the front instead of the race decided at the first corner and a silver car leading by 30 seconds but that's my preference.
Don't get so excited, we don't even know what's what. In the end Ferrari would have done the same if they felt it was an advantage, one would think.
