AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly has won the Italian Grand Prix, fending off a charging Carlos Sainz in the final few laps. After the order was reversed in two safety car periods, Gasly held on and underlined an already impressive season with his first win.
I didn't know Toto Wolff is here on the forums.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 18:48The RB16 is a strong car. It arguably is stronger than Mercedes in some conditions. Once Max learns to extract 100% from it he will there.
I went to a lot of short-speedway, modified/super modified races with my father as a small child. He was always very careful about the hearing protection. I guess i just have a base concept that racecars=loud, and ear protection was part of the experience.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 09:31I found the V10s of the mid 90s to be loud enough with the exhaust basically shielded by blowing out between the gearbox and the rear wheels. The V8s blowing across the top of the floor were just too loud for me as the sound was direct from the pipe to the ear. I have hearing problems anyway and I found the unfiltered sound just physically uncomfortable after a short period. I remember plenty of people wearing some hearing protection of one kind or another - even just a bit of cotton wool in the ears - whilst all the children I saw had ear defenders on (quite right too).
The sound is great but there's no need to risk hearing damage for it. Much like people who go shooting (clay pigeons or game birds) and don't have ear protection. Eventually it catches up with you.
Having been in the garage when one of the Cosworth V10s fired up, I can tell you they're damaging-loud from 6 ft away!
The last time the FW14B was at Monza it only came 5th in the hands of Patrese. Mansell's car retired. Going to guess that's a bad omen for Seb this weekend...
Which conditions?PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 18:48The RB16 is a strong car. It arguably is stronger than Mercedes in some conditions. Once Max learns to extract 100% from it he will there.
Apart from laps 16 annd 17? The screenshot you used shows the gaps at 1.695 and 1.898?
Verstappen's four fastest laps were laps 26, 27, 28 and 29. Bottas extended his lead by 1.3 seconds over those laps.
Definitely a strong car, but I fear the conditions it might be stronger than the Mercedes in would be relatively rare. I expect Verstappen to win another couple of races on merit this season (maybe more with good strategy gambles), but (unless the mode change really shakes things up) I think he'll struggle to do more than that in the RB16.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 18:48The RB16 is a strong car. It arguably is stronger than Mercedes in some conditions. Once Max learns to extract 100% from it he will there.
Balloon Tires.LM10 wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 23:11Which conditions?PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 18:48The RB16 is a strong car. It arguably is stronger than Mercedes in some conditions. Once Max learns to extract 100% from it he will there.
Absolutely. And you could see that the Mercs were just taking it easy on the straights. The gap opened (not unexpected) in the second sector and then across S3 Max came closer again...but never close enough to get into DRS. T1 already spoiled to a big degree what he gained in S3.
