How’s that’s like, when he came in to Mercedes he didn’t come close to overshadowing George…in fact George was way ahead 2 win and 9 podiums to 3 for Kimi..we are 3 races in and in this race even toto acknowledged they fucked up George’s car.
I'm giving him a year pass because he was 18 and a debutant. Senna had a year in a Toleman first, Verstappen two in a Minardi, Hamilton was a true debutant but had had more years in the junior formulae than Antonelli.
There's absolutely no reason for Merc to change mid season. Max will be far too far behind by that point to challenge for the WDC
Probably hit the button to dive into the hairpin. Not a terrible idea.
I haven't said this before, but I did wonder if they'd be better off halving the electrical output so that it can deploy twice as often - if anything it could lower lap time, although also knock top speed back a touch.
Yep, totally fluked it. But that's F1 for you, it can happen any time.
Actually I think that's totally reasonable.
And potentially Russell follows the Hill route in joining a back marker with big ambitions in Aston Martin if Alonso gets fed up ?! Certainly can’t see Russell at Red Bull
Nah not mid season. Think they’ll announce 2027 seat change then if Russell is struggling v Kimi though.
And destroy the lads confidence mid title fight? Would be equally as insane
I''m thinking it might be a good idea to knock the split from 55/45 to 60/40 (i.e. a slightly low deployment limit, but for longer time per lap) - I imagine that's a fairly simple change that would be easy for everyone to implement and won't change too much, but would reduce some of the issues and risks we've seen.
Yes, the ICE engines won't have enough power. But my suggestions above could in theory be done - no manual deployment, only a press to overtake if you trigger the overtake mode. And no engine to battery charging at all.
Do the regs allow more wheel to wheel battles? It feels to me like most of the overtakes are just due to battery deployment and people are breezing past. It doesn't feel like the drivers are fighting for it to me.
Plenty will jump on the ‘he wouldn’t be saying that if he had the best car’ and I suspect success would lead to not being quite as vocal, but he has for a couple of years now been clear for him there is more to life than F1, seems to want more family time whilst trying out other things
2 ways of answering that I suppose. The cars are going past and re-past eachother, so I suppose that is wheel to wheel racing.
They can follow closely and the are passing and re-passing but it just feels cheap to me. I want to see drivers being brave and having to fight to overtake but at the moment it seems they just press a boost button and it's not a fight. And sometimes the person they passed does the same and takes it back. It just doesn't feel earned to me.
You could say the same with the DRS button. I really didn't like how you could press that 3 times every lap if you were coming through from the back of the pack. It was a huge bonus for failure.
