alonsofan wrote: ↑20 Apr 2024, 10:19
The bane of Alo's career has been that most of the time, he's always had a car 0.5s slower than the fastest car.
That's true for all drivers for most their careers.
Alonso ofen talks about driving from a risk perspective. To put it in more generic terms, The slower the Driver/Car/setup is, more risk the driver needs to take to keep up with the other cars. The higher the risk, lower the chance of consistant success. So when Max goes faster in his final run, it's just that the potential was there. The way Max is seting up and driving the RBR car just leaves him with more potential, means he has to take fewer risks to acheive the goal. The same could be said for Hamilton in his golden era. When Alonso doesn't go faster, it's likely cause he's trying something that is less likely to succeed(thread the needle). Just because you're braking 10 Meters close to the corner, doesn't guareentee you can still make the APEX.
Alonso said "When the car is faster than everyone else. all strategies are possible". Meaning, when it's not that fast, you're dependent on less likely scenarios.
