The race had its moments, especially in midfield, but can fit into the chaos and drama of the first race seven days earlier.
The rating, on the other hand, one of the most productive I have commented, writes F1 commentator Martin BrundleArray.
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Heavy rains were forecast and arrived on Saturday morning. Free practice 3 canceled and rating seemed unlikely. Then a weather window gave the impression and, after a delay, they left.
Michael Masi, the race director, played very well, situations were restricted but at full time and all 3 segments were played with incessant laps and a timing screen that was a blur of change.
It’s exciting and a little scary to see drivers recovering aquaplaning cars at maximum speeds while skillfully implementing a turbo and battery force of approximately 1000 horsepower. These moments were so vital that the pilots looked like absolute heroes.
So we see very quiet photographs of the camera on board drivers who supposedly just drive the steering wheel from side to side, or endless laps behind a protective car at the start of the rainy floor race before drivers promptly ask for intermediate tires, giving the impression that many can drive an F1 car. They can’t, only a handful of other people in the world can drive such cars to their absolute potential.
Lewis obviously on a mission. In the first race, he failed to achieve pole position or victory, not even the fastest podium or lap while in the fastest car. However, he collected 3 consequences from the commissioners and 4 penalty problems in his license. He put it all largely with world-class functionality to reach pole position for 1.2 seconds.
There were many clever performances to create an intriguing grid, adding Carlos Sainz to McLaren in the third, but he also saw Racing Point and Ferrari a little less than they would have been dry. And Max Verstappen and Lewis in the front row, which generates wonderful anticipation.
In the end, to the maximum of the drivers did well in the beginning and after some fights in their turn, we headed to the third corner, where Charles Leclerc, starting 14th after a locking penalty, inexplicably introduced his Ferrari into a corner that included his team-mate 3 in front with others.
Both cars were soon removed from the race with body pain, which gave us a concept of what the F1 would look like as a Ferrari.
This is a depressing moment for the horse team. Obviously, they have lost a significant amount of strength since the FIA hardened in some areas, and their chassis and aero are also not fast enough. To raise that, Leclerc and Vettel report that the car is quite well balanced, and that there is nothing worse than a race car that feels smart but slow. He prefers to have control disorders than hope. Let’s hope this track just doesn’t fit them.
In this compressed and defeated championship, it will be difficult to qualify the car and engine over the next season, let alone next weekend. A disgruntled Seb Vettel was already dropped by 2021, and the last thing they needed was a red build-up caused by their long-term youth hope.
While Hamilton controlled the speed, Verstappen did an admirable task of splitting the Mercs second, and with championship leader Valtteri Bottas, this trio left the box in their remote wake. However, we had an energetic action between Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris, Checo Pérez, Lance Stroll, Daniel Ricciardo and Esteban Ocon, with teammates looking for it.
Renault faced the stage where Ricciardo, connected to McLaren, deserves to have been relieved through his teammate, Ocon. Esteban is an impressive fighter, but as with his days in Force India, he will have to realize that running as a team is not a weakness, and indeed an adult age sought through the big teams. They faced off in what is likely to be a season-long clash with McLaren and Racing Point.
The post-Race protest of Renault in opposition to Racing Point’s very good Mercedes 2019 is heavy and also drags mercedes’ factory team into the dispute. Several groups were dissatisfied and suspected that one car may be as similar to another without transfer of wisdom. The FIA has already largely analyzed the processes, but now Renault has particularly challenged the remarkably similar brake cooling ducts that are included in the many “listed parts” and which must be created through each team by itself.
God only knows what will happen if the FIA discovers that they are the same as the 2019 Mercedes brake ducts that have also been commanded. Of course, RP would lose all its effects so far this year, but what would they do with the race in the future and to what extent would Mercedes be involved? Both groups firmly insist that nothing unfavorable or outdoors has been transferred to regulations.
I did the post-race interviews that, I will have to say, I felt terrible without many people watching and the interaction between the groups was limited between the drivers between the groups.
Lewis, of course, was very satisfied after a dominant performance, a little disappointed that he couldn’t get the extra point for the fastest lap with his very worn tires.
Valtteri Bottas at the time was baffled even though he still leads the championship. Although he was ashamed of the fourth position on the grid and had fierce fights with Verstappen, Lewis’ functionality had an all-too-familiar feeling.
Max Verstappen is only in a bad mood. Mercedes’ speed is too strong despite its remarkable performances, and you probably think it’s a new season to play the role of the walking person.
Once behind, Lando Norris showed a wonderful determination and dominance of the race to borrow fifth place, and the driving force of the day for the public Sergio Perez who did a smart task from position 17 in addition to cutting off his valuable backing of the forward Wing Alex Albon, who finished fourth but did not receive much comfort.
Alex wants a reassuring arm around his shoulder right now, as it is much greater than its effects shown so far for reasons, however, he is on the wrong team for such compassion.
I write this on a Sky Team bus between Austria and Hungary, where on arrival we are prohibited from leaving the hotel unless we pass the track, with a fine of 15,000 euros ($24,500 A) and /or prison if we do. After having an industrial-sized cotton swab in the back of my throat and pushing into my sinus cavities five times in the last two weeks for negative COVID-19 testing, it’s disappointing, but everything is fine at the end as long as we can keep the screen on the way.
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