2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Jeddah, March 17 - 19

[86legacy]

Besides Carlos, I think Charles is showing that Ferrari has a car that can be competitive if they can keep up development.

[harty71]

Embarrassing from Hamilton, maybe it's time to hang them up old boy, you no longer have it.

According to you he never had it

I'm even beginning to question that, we have one season against Alonso, one swallow does not make a summer.

[Mchamilton]

Piss poor from Lewis

[dialtone]

Can this thread not turn into Ham bashing? Create your own thread to do that.

[matt_b]

That lap from Charles was so good to be just over tenth off a RB, Ferrari must run that engine in its lowest mode through practice.

[Spoutnik]

The lap Charles put in was very impressive. Would love to see the onboard

[chrisc90]

Who actually managed to beat max's FP3 time in the end?

Luckily only a driveshaft reportedly

I still wouldn't write off a win or easy podium for him

[mkay]

Hamilton sleeping again??

This is unacceptable again at Jeddah like last year! Can’t understand why he can’t get the car to work at this track…

In 2021 he was rapid around here…

Last year at Jeddah he was on an experimental setup, where Merc decided to crank his rear tyre pressure to try to reduce porpoising which backfired massively.

Today, don't know what happened. He was just slow in the first sector. Never got below a 32.5

[Spoutnik]

Can this thread not turn into Ham bashing? Create your own thread to do that.

Usual... Alonso was almost lapped by Ocon out there in 2021 but I didn't read all these things

[f1316]

Leclerc relatively close to a Red Bull - albeit you’ve got to assume Max would have been several tenths down the road.

I hope, based on all their FP prep, Charles is actually set up for the race (given he knew he had the grid pen) but still not quite the pace we expected from Ferrari this year (and Sainz is nowhere).

Charles doesn’t seem very confident about race pace tbh so probably not gonna hold out too much hope for him having a race setup.

[chrisc90]

Even Max’s FP3 time would have him starting on the front row….

That’s how fast his car is.

[Sevach]

With verstappen at the wheel the gap to other teams would've been over 5 tenths

I don't think we'll ever know... Perez was on pole here last year as well, to be able to tell he'd have been over 5 tenths in front seems pretty mathematical .

Just going by the average gap to perez last season in a car that Max wasn't suited to - 3.5 tenths. Gap in every session including Q1 was about 5 tenths this weekend if not more between max and perez

Of course it's hard to gage since Perez made a lot of progress with his Q3 lap.
But Max had Checo well under control in every session this year, and Checo smashed everyone with his first attempt, didn't complete the second.

Still great job for Charles, Alonso and Russel.

Can't wait for the Charles vs Perez vs Alonso onboard/telemetry.

[vorticism]

motorsport.com: "Mixed feelings for Leclerc as he describes Red Bull as being on "a different planet" but he's still happy with the lap time he was able to produce. Will be fascinating to see him fighting through from 12th, with Verstappen three places back."

[mendis]

Can this thread not turn into Ham bashing? Create your own thread to do that.

The whole weekend was very poor for him so far. Either George has got a hold of him or that he is simply not happy with the car.

[zeph]

Yeah, I expect VER to be in the mix tomorrow. At least a podium, possibly a win.