Ah yes, the sandbag years. I remember well lol. But wow, '22 compared to '21 is a lot less drastic than '14 to '13.
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Ah yes, the sandbag years. I remember well lol. But wow, '22 compared to '21 is a lot less drastic than '14 to '13.
Bahrain 2014, after the Esteban Gutierrez barrel roll... courtesy of our lord and savior, Pastor Maldonado. Safety car out/in, both Mercs drop the sandbags and proceed to pull away by 24 seconds in 10 laps.
It's less dramatic between '21-'22, as the there was aero and powertrain reg changes between '13-'14.
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As happy as it was to hear about RB's penalties, Alonso getting that P7 finish back is the bee's knees. He literally had his front wheels up ready for take off, hit a wall, pit to fix what they could and he still finished 7th. Reminds me of 2018 Baku in the Mclaren; he had 2 good tires and no front wing after a first lap incident, makes it back to the pits and continues in the race.... Finishing 7th.
Seb's recovery drive from that shit pitstop and his last lap scrap with Mag was awesome.
dtfd
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Jeez, when you see it typed out... it's a very Alonso-like season. Between his bad luck and questionable career moves, makes you wonder what kind of records he could have had.
HAM - "Guys, are sure this is the right tire?"
Bono - "It'll come to us later, keep pushing."
Meanwhile, Max laughs with consistent 1:22s the whole medium stint.
HAM - "Guys, are sure this is the right tire?"
Bono - "It'll come to us later, keep pushing."
Meanwhile, Max laughs with consistent 1:22s the whole medium stint.
dtfd
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The hards seem to be the wrong choice this whole season.Jeez, when you see it typed out... it's a very Alonso-like season. Between his bad luck and questionable career moves, makes you wonder what kind of records he could have had.
HAM - "Guys, are sure this is the right tire?"
Bono - "It'll come to us later, keep pushing."
Meanwhile, Max laughs with consistent 1:22s the whole medium stint.
Hamilton figured it out fairly quickly but the team seemed insistent that the mediums would degrade by the end.
I'm still not sure why both mercedes did the exact same strategy.
Agreed, they really are quite useless. Although I have a feeling Pirelli played it safe this year with the move the 18" tires and the new regs. I'd expect them to make adjustments for next year.
The fact that Ricciardo ended up 7th proved that the Med -> Soft could have worked for either of the Mercs. The issue was Perez and RB's strat; his change to mediums basically forced Ham to pit earlier than he really should have to make the one stop to softs work. Perez would have easily ate into Ham's gap/passed him if he got the fresh mediums into their working zone and Ham was stretching out overly aged mediums.
I appreciate Merc trying to do different things to capitalize on recent opportunities, but what they are doing just isn't the right move when the checkered flag drops. Merc needs to step their strategy game up, they don't have a car that pulls away from the field anymore and they can't dump boat loads of money at the car to make it faster; Plus, RB has a bunch of practice from recent seasons of getting a non-WCC car on the podium, with their strategy calls.
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Alonso QT'd it on the bird app, it's fair game.