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I think if max finishes 6th or better he has it won.
What was wrong with the discussion about Checo becoming a dad to a new baby girl?hollus wrote: ↑30 Sep 2023, 14:43So, for several pages now we have Mercedes fans saying that Bottas is better than Perez and Red Bull fans saying that Perez is better than Bottas. With, somehow, pretending to not be talking about MAX and HAM gaining some imaginary moral authority high ground.
It is 100% predictable, it adds zero information, it goes on and on in circles and everyone else gets to need to read through it to then realize that it is pure noise.
Seriously, if you want to discuss Max-hype, Max-boo, Ham-hype and Ham-boo... don't!
This is not F1drivers.net, you did not come here for driver talk, please don't flood the place with driver ying-yang.
All Max needs to do is win the sprint race and the title is sealed, as there won't be enough
In the recent interview, AN pretty much sums up what is going on between Perez and Max.ringo wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023, 03:12Perez should not feel good about keeping 2nd place against Hamilton in the RB19.
He really messed up this season. I was onw of those who felt he had a decent enough start to challenge Max this season but he imploded.
I am not sure what happened but i think he will learn from this year.
His weakness is qualifying. If he can fix that it would avoid him getting impatient in the midpack when trying to come back to the front.
He can only avoid the impatience because it seems it's part of his personality. He loves to play bumper cars.
I wonder if when Max wins the championship if he will feel like doing formula 1 in 2024.
Redbull would need to give him a good teammate to motivate him to stay in the sport.
Being champion with 6 races to go without any challenge...should be so boring.
If you're going to have two teammates, where one is exceptional and the other is brilliant, but not quite at that level, the other one needs to be somebody who will at some point accept that he certainly can't beat Max on pace.
The driver is absolutely key. Data on its own doesn't even begin to tell you the whole story, not least because the data obviously tells you what the car's doing, but a good driver will adapt his driving to whatever the limitation of the car is.
“The field has been moving around behind us. One week it's McLaren, next week it's Ferrari, the next week it's Mercedes.”
“We've been 90% consistent at the front of the field and we've been fairly limited in the amount of development that we've done on the car.”
“The regulations are stable, so we have the same gearbox on the car, we have the same chassis largely as last year so an awful lot of is carried over.”
"The team has done a great job in efficiently developing the car and reducing the weight, and to maintain this kind of performance across the variance of circuits that we've had.”
There's subtlety in that area of performance i believe. Many look at and state "headline" attributes of suspension design, but simple qualities like this wear characteristic are intrinsic to the overall performance. Look at the rears, they generally run much less camber than many competitors, presenting the tread area flatter to the track surface, then to keep the wear and rubber gauge at minimum throughout it's life, to give almost unparalleled (currently) performance longevity. Also one of the key vulnerability when it came to Singapore and its slow warmmup nuance that routed them in quali pace. These appear directly linked to me, with certain circumstances when it offers huge advantage but with the caveat of reduction in another area.organic wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023, 08:40Tipping point was Miami imo.
Perez felt he had good pace all weekend. Started on pole while max started p9. There were no safety cars, no vsc, both drivers used the same tyres (although inverted compounds). And despite all of this max came from p9 and won comfortably. He was setting times as fast as Perez on fresh hards with 40 lap old hards.
A win would've had Perez leading the championship. Instead it was the most comprehensive drubbing on a track that should suit him on paper
Literally no one wants him replaced cuz he's mexican (what a bunch of bs that is), and everyone because he's lost the plot completely. Alonso had similar treatment back in the days from british media, but that's the way it goes because f1 is by and large an English speaking sport.
Agreed. I’m actually disappointed if that is his exact quote. And clearly misreads the situation totally. He hasn’t performed off late and as such is 90% to blame for his own problems. I highly doubt anyone genuinely thinks, let’s get rid of him because he’s Mexican.Juzh wrote: ↑01 Oct 2023, 17:17Literally no one wants him replaced cuz he's mexican (what a bunch of bs that is), and everyone because he's lost the plot completely. Alonso had similar treatment back in the days from british media, but that's the way it goes because f1 is by and large an English speaking sport.
