Lewis Hamilton has taken another massive step towards winning this year's World Championship by dominating the Japanese Grand Prix while Bottas completes the Mercedes 1-2. Max Verstappen finished a close third. Championship contender Sebastian Vettel was 6th at the finish line.
Both Ferrari drivers still had the opportunity to put in a good run but both made mistakes.
I was talking about the performance of the actual personnel on racedays not about the internal talent and engineering side. That's a whole different approach and clearly Ferrari have little to no issue there. But try it out, manage a sportsperson and say something to destroy his/her confidence and the results will show how that works out.f1316 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:43Completely disagree.Sierra117 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:39The only real way is if the culture changes at Ferrari. I don't like to talk about a man who is no longer in this world, but speaking ill of your drivers the way Marchionne and Arrivabene did will never motivate anyone. At the end of the day, your drivers and team personnel are who carry out the actual operations, so making sure they are as motivated as possible is what it comes down to. Same way Firas Zahabi, trainer of George St. Pierre talks about making sure GSP feels on top of the world even if some of the training partners have been whispered to take it easy at the end of camp. All to make sure the confidence is high. We saw how sometime back James came on and apologised to Lewis for the strategy blunder. And today we saw Toto tell him "masterstroke". Humans are emotional at the every end and if they are happy with their environment and they see and hear that their bosses have faith in them, then that's what allows them to think and perform clearly.f1316 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:29I think what we’re seeing this year - and tbh the previous two - is that Ferrari’s revamped structure under Marchionne unlocked some great engineering talent in Maranello that had previously been overlooked by the influx of ‘name’ talent (Pat Fry, James Allison etc.) but that their track operations is still quite poor. Since 2016 - in which they should have won a couple of races - they’ve squandered countless chances and much more rarely capitalised on Mercedes off days.
I personally don’t think it’s a coincidence that this lines up exactly with the onboarding of Jock Clear - who is an example of the previous administrations’ strategy of poaching staff from other big teams and who has never previously occupied a position as senior as he has at Maranello - but whatever the reason, whilst they’ve now caught up in terms of building good cars/engines, there’s still a ways to go in the ops department.
Ferrari’s upsurge in form is a direct result of Marchionne’s approach - in which he recognised and nurtured internal talent - and to me there’s just an extra step they still need to make specifically in terms of strategy and track operations.
Haha
. Who saw that coming for 4 seasons in a row.On Kimi's lap the rear stepped out very badly, he controlled it and completed the lap. Hence the bad laptime.iotar__ wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 12:074 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:29.521
5 Romain Grosjean Haas Ferrari 1:29.761
A. Driver's circuit
B. Give the man a better car.
C. Softs in Q2
D. Formula 1 audience is not very knowledgeable. Nevermind the salesmen posing as journalists.
Oh yeah, Vettel and Ferrari
Ever since Ruth Buscombe left the team at the end of 2015, Ferrari's strategy has been very bad.f1316 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:29I think what we’re seeing this year - and tbh the previous two - is that Ferrari’s revamped structure under Marchionne unlocked some great engineering talent in Maranello that had previously been overlooked by the influx of ‘name’ talent (Pat Fry, James Allison etc.) but that their track operations is still quite poor. Since 2016 - in which they should have won a couple of races - they’ve squandered countless chances and much more rarely capitalised on Mercedes off days.
I personally don’t think it’s a coincidence that this lines up exactly with the onboarding of Jock Clear - who is an example of the previous administrations’ strategy of poaching staff from other big teams and who has never previously occupied a position as senior as he has at Maranello - but whatever the reason, whilst they’ve now caught up in terms of building good cars/engines, there’s still a ways to go in the ops department.
Even two DNF’s of Hamilton with 2 wins of Vettel at the same time would bring them both to equal points. With Hamilton in such a good form and Mercedes having the clearly dominant car right now, Hamilton and Mercedes would still end up winning both WDC and WCC.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:42Er, no, but if it helps you feel like a victim, then ok.LM10 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:17It was a totally dumb and needless question. 50 points of a gap. Verstappen can do whatever he wants. It won’t change anything in the current dynamics.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑06 Oct 2018, 10:11
It was a perfectly valid question. If any baiting was intended, it was probably looking for Max to say something like "I'm going for the win, their battle is not my problem".
If Max gets in to Lewis in T1/2 and they end up in the gravel, then Seb gains massively - potentially enough to get close enough in the points to put pressure on Lewis again.
That's what the "baiting question" was inferring. Max saw that coming and batted it away with his reply.
Because they weren’t sure about the track conditions and wanted to gamble. Which turned out to be the wrong decision, yet again.
In more marginal conditions though.
They would not go into the race with a smoking engine which should not smoke normally. So I guess it’s a controlled smoking. Whatever the reason is.
