GPR-A wrote: ↑18 Oct 2017, 06:41
George-Jung wrote: ↑18 Oct 2017, 05:48
Zynerji wrote: ↑18 Oct 2017, 02:46
With the win Talley, is safe to say COTA is Lewis' living room.
No.
Then you should call it a Mercedes living room.
Lewis managed to win in COTA with two different teams and in two different era of cars (pre-2014/2014 and beyond). Two of his team mates in those two different teams (both champions), having same equipment, did not manage to win it even once. So, it would be safe to say, it is a track where Lewis performs very well. If he wins this year, then he would have won in three different configurations of cars, matching so many other circuits where he has achieved it.
I always think back to 2012 Fp1. I remember crofty and someone else, forget who talking about how much everyone went off in that 2nd last corner as it was fast but people weren't getting it right. Everyone was going off, everyone was losing a lot of time, the times were slowly improving over time.
Hamilton came out and absolutely destroyed his first timed lap, got that corner perfect and jumped a second or two clear. I think Alonso did similarly but was slower by a margin and I think more cautious in that corner.
It just always stood out, first fast laps at a completely new track and how Hamilton and Alonso made a corner the commentators were rightly pointing out that everyone else was screwing up lap after lap, just showed for me the different level those two were above everyone else in ability to read conditions and a brand new corner, but also how Hamilton was able to be that fast on his very first lap. This has been a Hamilton track from day one, only slightly tempered by Rosberg outqualifying him a couple of times but for me that is largely down to Rosberg being one to set up for qualifying, he beat Rosberg in both races he started behind and relatively comfortably, with the fairly usual gain, pass cleanly then just control the race against a Rosberg he did so often in the past 3 years.
