I don’t agree with the last race on Sunday.
It’s smart to see the danger and uncertainty created through Pirelli’s more flexible compounds around Silverstone’s brutally long, high-speed curves, but at the same time the tires opened and blistered in a few laps and less than 40 miles, and were surely the deciding factor. The race thing is, to say the least, satisfying.
It was hardly Senna and Mansell who shone looking after appearance in Barcelona in 1991, and in fact it was not Villeneuve and Arnoux who were fighting in Dijon in 1979, when a driving force simply cannot push their car close to the limit for fear of breaking their tires.
At the same time, as for example on an incredibly rainy day, it is a challenge for drivers and groups to paint and triumph over major disorders than their rivals, that’s precisely what Max Verstappen and Red Bull have done.
Basically, only one of the 3 tire compounds you had could be run at any distance, a resolution taken deliberately to bring the action to life and avoid a dry run of “copy and paste” seven days at the same site.
It is a bet for Red Bull to adapt the hard rubber tyres (slower but more durable) on the Q2, thus discovering its initial tyre, hoping to do anything else from Mercedes.
Max crackled the 10 most sensible about the consequences in less than a quarter of a second.
The scene was set, and not far from the race, he kept the Mercedes in sight, enough to see how ugly his tires were.
And, critically, he sought to pressure them, which is essential for the final results of the race.
Mercedes obviously has a more competitive suspension geometry and more than Red Bull, because first its foreheads opened with blisters, then the 4 tires.
It’s hard for us to know that using its dual-axis guidance formula bothered tire bursts in the first race at Silverstone and the soft bulbs in the second.
As well as they stepped on, Hamilton and Bottas were unable to keep their tires intact, and Red Bull had them covered in all instructions with Verstappen, who is in the championship at 30 points, the same amount botta dragged Hamilton to before the race. . Training
It can’t help yet to think that without his mechanical failure in the first race, and even without winning the race last weekend at Silverstone without the past due to the most sensible for the tires and the fastest lap, Max could be right there or in the most sensible championship.
It’s an intriguing idea as we head to Barcelona for a race in August. But a lot of “if only, ” of course.
It was exasperating for Bottas. Opposing the 32nd lap to the Verstappen canopy, this allowed the team to take a look at his tires and allow Hamilton to run 10 more laps and beat him for the moment.
He was not a satisfied Finn when I interviewed him in the enclosed park.
Charles Leclerc once overcame his Ferrari by avoiding a hit and completing the fourth part, a minute ago.
Seb Vettel came out of trouble after cutting the pavement and spinning on the first corner, and then became absolutely dissatisfied with his team’s strategy.
He accused them on the radio of “spoiling,” supposedly forgetting that his pirouette had made him last, the moment he thought he had been hit by the back.
If this is a general-length season, I would say that your messy divorce with Ferrari would never make it to the final races, and that can still be a challenge.
He has never seen himself among the 10 most sensitive runners on either occasion at Silverstone and lately ranks 13th in the championship.
Daniel Ricciardo was very fast throughout the weekend but had a difficult run with a “Turn of Seb” (ae …) and ended for no reason.
Racing Points finished a little disappointing sixth and seventh even though Nico Hulkenberg started a very impressive third.
He is said to have a vibration and needed a third prevention on lap 44, hitting teammate Lance Stroll.
Hulkenberg has polished his reputation over the more than 10 days and that can catapult him to the grid in 2021, Sergio Perez is probably back in the car for Barcelona, if Covid-19 allows it.
Alex Albon made some very brave shots out of the corners at top speed, winning a big fifth place, albeit 39 seconds his winning partner.
It will be a seasoning of confidence for Alex, even if the team needs him to fall into the 11-second hole between Verstappen and Hamilton until the end of the season, to be in a position for a team challenge in 2021.
Lando Norris was back in shape for ninth place to make sure McLaren has scored problems in each and every race so far this season.
With Kevin Magnussen’s retirement, we had 19 finalists, suggesting that the groups are now well aware of reliability issues, which bodes well for the fast calendar that remains to come.
F1 off-track line decoding
I winced to communicate about the Racing Point rear brake ducts and the “listed parts” on our pre-race screen when we celebrated the 70th anniversary of our wonderful sport.
Most enthusiasts don’t wear caps and T-shirts with brake ducts or worry too much about the 81-page sports regulation or the 111-page technical regulation…
Of course, this type of shock and policy is an integral component of the F1’s success, and this story will last some time, as we need to know if the same cars in ‘B teams’ are a viable and desirable way, and also whether it is right to allow one team to copy the car from another team in detail.
It deserves to be, first of all, copying the other new cars from 2022 (in fact, it will be embarrassing for someone else), but Racing Point can continue with this fast car until 2021 becoming Aston Martin.
The only team that is not dissatisfied is Mercedes, whose intellectual assets have been brabably plagiarized through some other team, but which also spends a lot of cash for valid sales of key and expensive items.
It is attractive to hear Toto Wolff say that “really the goal” that Racing Point among the first.
Very useful if you have the cars to combine with Ferrari and Red Bull.
The only Ranger teams, such as Renault, McLaren and Williams in particular, will be willing to break this relationship between Mercedes and Racing Point.
Racing Point insists that they have carried out an engineering opposite to the Merc 2019 concept from photographs and other valid information, and the brake duct drama is due to a replacement in winter regulations.
Other prominent figures in the paddock guarantee me that it is not imaginable, as I should copy the main critical points of the car that are not fluent.
Courts may have to decide, but it can be nauseating, even if it’s instructive. And expensive.
Jenson, Johnny and I laughed driving three of Sir Stirling Moss’s cars on the track early Friday.
It’s attractive to note that they were all visiting cars that the groups controlled to win GP, an applicable point for talking about Formula 1 DNA and the direction we can take for the future.
The Racing Point at the front of the harvester is much more attractive than the Alfa Romeo, Haas and Williams being filmed.
There is a common sense solution to close the package, reduce prices and open the door to new brands and groups to make sure we can celebrate another 70 years.
Without just being locked in 3 main and lots of clones, give me, no matter how they were created.
Hopefully, 2022 will generate this, but it’s not unusual for the sense to be lost in all barking, egos and counting money.
This article was first published on Sky Sports and reproduced with permission.
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