Good to see Lando escape from the wreck and hope he's OK after his x-rays, it could easily have been one of our drivers. Saying that, both Charles and Carlos were sent out in the middle of Q2 while expecting more rain any minute, just to get a decent lap in, which they both did. The rain never came and the track improved, hence we ended up P11/13. Still down on power and at Spa this matters, as it will at Monza. Russell and Wiliiams timed their last quali lap perfectly on new inters, so circumstances went against us again, or strategy, or luck. I just hope that we can get both cars into the points tomorrow but if the weather stays like today, it's going to be a lottery.
Salvage as many points as possible and move on,at a power related circuit ferrari are naked and exposed they need more horsepower.Monza will be even worse.
Scroll down to the full wet tire (blue banded)
https://www.pirelli.com/tires/en-us/motorsport/f1/tires
It's not how start but how you finish.
It's not how start but how you finish.
agreed.
The wet exploits the weakness of the car and/or driver.
Mclaren, RedBull and Mercedesl have the best car set-up in the dry and wet given in the hands of the right driver
Ferrari has a somewhat okay car in the dry. Not so much in the wet. Ferrari, after so many years, still has alot of homework to do in adverse conditions. It's not always going to be dry and Ferrari needs to take that into account.
Last edited by jgonzalesm6; 28th August 2021 at 18:04.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Any chance we can steal Russell away from Williams/Merc? That man is talented.
Even though I wouldn't have called it a classic by any means, it makes me so grateful that Le Mans was last weekend makes me realise how bad F1 is.
ummmm.......no. So let's go by your hypothesis and Ferrari steals Russell. Do you honestly think Russell can do better than Leclerc in the SF21 at Spa given today's adverse conditions??
Ferrari has an exceptional driver and a good driver. The car.....not so much.....especially in the wet at Spa.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Yeah I don't buy any 'Russell better than Leclerc' narrative. After all, Charles utterly humiliated someone like Vettel who in turn had destroyed Kimi four years running. Vettel has also proved this year after a slow start that he's a lot sharper than Stroll and probably still is a better driver than Checo.
So, Charles is for real and Carlos is a very good driver to get within touching distance of him. The Williams car is a lot better this year than people realise, also powered by a Mercedes engine. Then my guess is that they're still fully developing the 2021 car to get as high in the WCC as possible (8th) and that means that they'll get quite frequent in Q3 towards the end of the year.
I think Charles could've done a bit better today in qualifying if he'd gotten a bit more luck with traffic on the outlap in Q2. He was faster than Ricciardo in Q1 and he ended P4 on the grid in the end. He's still a good wet-weather driver and regardless of conditions I think he can score a few points tomorrow.
There's a chance Ferrari gambled with a dry setup for the race.
Williams gambled with an extreme wet setup. See the onboard comparison with Lewis...clearly Russel's car is setup for rain. If it is mixed/drying track then it will be an interesting race...or else it should be an easy Ves victory.
I think Ferrari also went with Merc type lower DF setup and got punished for that. Let's see how the weather pans out.
It seams that by weather forecast, it'll be dry race
SV is just a GREAT person
https://youtu.be/RscfUd72H7s
Watching now F3 Live it is WET!
Not getting a race at this rate.
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