2022 Saudi Arabian GP - Race Thread

[alfaromeo]

it's only a matter of time before they improve their acceleration out of the corners. PU is king. RB are going to sadly dominate till 2026

Do you think Ferrari will sleep during the season. Personally, I think that Ferrari will be the team that will upgrade the car the most during the season. They are the only team that did not bring a new upgrade from testing to 2 races.

[tifosi1993]

it's only a matter of time before they improve their acceleration out of the corners. PU is king. RB are going to sadly dominate till 2026

With such predictions, no wonder you end up as a troll.

[ntukza]

it's only a matter of time before they improve their acceleration out of the corners. PU is king. RB are going to sadly dominate till 2026

I'm blocking this guy. I don't need this.

[jgonzalesm6]

Come on everybody, I think our engine is slightly better than Honda. It's just that they've shown up with a dragster and us with a tank. Jeddah is the outlier of all outliers.

No, both cars are equal....it just boils down to downforce and of course the drivers. Both guys compliment each other and the wheel-to-wheel racing is what we've been missing.

[Cavallino]

i agree however that we should never have agreed to the freeze.

we should be a second clear per lap

[KingCharles]

and Ferrari, no chance to improve anywhere?

what?

Ferrari cant improve the PU - and that's all that matters. RB has a big PU advantage remember the 2009 - 2013 era? Well, this has the hallmarks of it. Only a matter of time before RB hit their stride - it's depressing because the writing is on the wall. Idiot Teams agreeing to the PU freeze! I hate them all!

[tifosi1993]

I hate this kind of comment two races into the season after a 1-2 and a 2-3. So stupid.

Ignore list is your friend.

[KimiBot]

No, both cars are equal....it just boils down to downforce and of course the drivers. Both guys compliment each other and the wheel-to-wheel racing is what we've been missing.

Yes, it is tight and awesome racing, this is what we have been missing so long time

[paneristi]

Deltas during vsc really need to investage.

Gap was around 1.8-1.9 and reduced to 1.1 after restart

Right

[patrese86]

Guys let's stay classy, we had a good day today and we should also be humble like Charles. Sometimes things go for you and sometimes against but this result won't define us, it's probably not a circuit which plays to our particular strengths yet we still did well.

[Tifoso Svedese]

I think our newfound Brazilian friend really has no idea what drag means and that Alfa and Haas are running circles around the other Honda team

[Cavallino]

Ferrari cant improve the PU - and that's all that matters. RB has a big PU advantage remember the 2009 - 2013 era? Well, this has the hallmarks of it. Only a matter of time before RB hit their stride - it's depressing because the writing is on the wall. Idiot Teams agreeing to the PU freeze! I ****ing hate them all!

so Red Bull is all PU?

did you look at the wing levels?

i gave your opinions a chance but clearly you're oblivious to what is actually happening

[Ferrarichamp]

so after 2 races, we got two double podiums including a win, a RB double DNF, and Mercedes not competitive.
I'd say that's a pretty good start.

[KingCharles]

I'm blocking this guy. I don't need this.

You can't handle the truth? We screwed up with the engine freeze! How do you let RB who was going to be without Honda pull off that masterstroke and get other teams stupidly to agree on a freeze?

Bunch of clowns!

[patrese86]

Ferrari cant improve the PU - and that's all that matters. RB has a big PU advantage remember the 2009 - 2013 era? Well, this has the hallmarks of it. Only a matter of time before RB hit their stride - it's depressing because the writing is on the wall. Idiot Teams agreeing to the PU freeze! I hate them all!

It's not all about engine, other things define straight line speed you know. And it's a trade off every weekend for every team up and down the grid.

[alfaromeo]

Ferrari cant improve the PU - and that's all that matters. RB has a big PU advantage remember the 2009 - 2013 era? Well, this has the hallmarks of it. Only a matter of time before RB hit their stride - it's depressing because the writing is on the wall. Idiot Teams agreeing to the PU freeze! I hate them all!

This is not true Ferrari can improve hybrids engine components

[Redfive]

What a superb race!! Yes I wish Charles had won but looking at the last few seasons, the last two races have been AMAZING for me, this is going to be a wonderful year for Ferrari!

also have you noticed the races are so much more enjoyable when Hamilton is not at the front. lol

[Tifoso Svedese]

It's interesting that once we have a fast car new users appear like this and know everything about aero, engines, batteries and set-ups

[Kyss4k]

Ferrari cant improve the PU - and that's all that matters. RB has a big PU advantage remember the 2009 - 2013 era? Well, this has the hallmarks of it. Only a matter of time before RB hit their stride - it's depressing because the writing is on the wall. Idiot Teams agreeing to the PU freeze! I ****ing hate them all!

Where are your data? Everyone directly from F1 says Ferrari is the team who probably has the strongest PU. Then emerges some unknown guy who tries to trash our team. Well I am sorry, your "opinion" has no weight compared to theirs. But I guess people feel better after vomiting...

[tifosi1993]

The chassis is incredible, the PU is incredible, the drivers are incredible, the pit crews are incredible and the race operation and the strategy are becoming top notch as well.

But now we need to bring some upgrades and leapfrog others.

[alfaromeo]

And Ferrari will bring at engine 2 hybrid upgrades

[Tifoso Svedese]

The chassis is incredible, the PU is incredible, the drivers are incredible, the pit crews are incredible and the race operation and the strategy are becoming top notch as well.

But now we need to bring some upgrades and leapfrog others.

... and we need twistier tracks which comes around in May and runs all the way until Spa.

[nani_s23]

The chassis is incredible, the PU is incredible, the drivers are incredible, the pit crews are incredible and the race operation and the strategy are becoming top notch as well.

But now we need to bring some upgrades and leapfrog others.

Can we improve PU ?? I think it will be freezed by September right?

[Tifoso Svedese]

Can we improve PU ?? I think it will be freezed by September right?

We can still upgrade the hybrid. I assume Red Bull can't since Honda aren't investing any money in it and they basically just maintain what they have.

[jgonzalesm6]

You can't handle the truth? We screwed up with the engine freeze! How do you let RB who was going to be without Honda pull off that masterstroke and get other teams stupidly to agree on a freeze?

Bunch of clowns!

Everyone agreed to the rules and regulations in this turbo-hybrid era 2014 thru 2021......EVERYONE got screwed with the exception of Mercedes and Lewis.

[SFTifoso]

RB definitely pushing their engine. Being 26 points down, it definitely made sense. I wonder if it will cost them reliability later on, or having to take up new engines. I hope Ferrari can get their PU up to full power by Monza. We only lost cause of the VSC; unlucky. We’ll get ‘em in Australia.

[tifosi1993]

Can we improve PU ?? I think it will be freezed by September right?

Don't worry. I don't think we need to improve the PU at all. Bahrain and Saudi are two power circuits where Ferrari ran with burn door RW. They have dominated Bahrain and almost won the Saudi.

But yes, the energy harvesting components can be upgraded this year, after that no more upgrades apart from reliability.

[patrese86]

We aren't even running the engine at full beans yet. We will bring updates (RB and Merc already brought a bunch) and we are happy to see the correlation with the simulator, you can't overstate the impact of that because it reinforces the belief in future updates and that they will bring the performance required.

[SFTifoso]

We can still upgrade the hybrid. I assume Red Bull can't since Honda aren't investing any money in it and they basically just maintain what they have.

Yeah what’s Honda deal in all of this? If they just simply developed the engine up to a point, and left, then we can definitely catch up, and surpass them. PUs aren’t frozen yet.

[KimiBot]

RB definitely pushing their engine. Being 26 points down, it definitely made sense. I wonder if it will cost them reliability later on, or having to take up new engines. I hope Ferrari can get their PU up to full power by Monza. We only lost cause of the VSC; unlucky. We’ll get ‘em in Australia.

TBH Pere also lost P1 because of safety car, so we are even with that. I did start to think that somehow Hamilton wins this because of his luck in past years.