Race 6 - 2025 Miami Grand Prix [Miami International Autodrome]

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Originally Posted by Nitrodaze

Wow, professional drivers with several houndred races under their belt that look at these charts for a living are dumb by your statement above. We have to go with you the armchair expert l guess.

I find it hard to reconcile your view with others l have analysed,. When l add the fact that you have a strong anti-Hamilton stance over the years, then l am inclined to say it is what it is, let's move on. On to the next race and more to talk about. Onwards and upwards as they say.

A number of former professional F1 drivers don't agree with what Ferrari did, or how they did do it. Unlike your claims, I look at all the data rather than claim to be a fortune teller and predict the "what might have happened" scenarios. I'd assume that if former drivers, commentators, and fans have varied opinions then it's not a simple black and white matter, no matter which angle we look at it from.

As far as anti Hamilton... not even close. But I don't give him or any other driver bias when looking for facts. Facts can be proven, emotions from bias can't. Only one usually falls closer to reality. And the reality is that Hamilton never had faster laps times as compared to Charles once the overtake on Sainz took place, other than for a couple of laps spread out over the 15 laps after the first swap.

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Originally Posted by Used to be Starter

The Ferrari pit wall has screwed over Charles so much in the last couple seasons I'm sure he doesn't have much faith in it either. You rely on numbers a bit too much I think and not enough on the experience of those behind the wheel. Perhaps we should save a bunch of money and fire all the drivers, you know, just run the cars "fly by wire" from behind the pit wall.

No doubt Ferrari have made a lot of bad calls, but this time Charles didn't blink and complied. To top that off when they asked if he thought he had pace (after the first swap) he said he wasn't sure due to his tires being hot. He also tried to suggest against the swap back, saying it would just waste more time.

As for numbers..... data doesn't lie when used properly. Not to say that data shows the entire picture by any stretch. Had the same lap to lap gaps existed when they crossed the line, but Lewis was having a hard sniff at an on track pass lap after lap, it might have been safe to say that he had greater pace. But he never got close to even attempting a move on track. After the initial timing of 1/4 second right after the pass was made on Sainz, the closest he got was around 4/10ths at the end of the DRS zones. Even Ferrari stated the delay was due to trying to factor the actual pace advantage if it existed, since we all know DRS improves lap times.

And as I said above, former drivers don't all agree that Lewis had pace on Leclerc. So I could easily claim that anyone saying he did is disregarding the expert opinions of drivers as well. And though I haven't really raced anything near the capability as an F1 car, even on the (much slower) bikes I raced back in the day 4/10th at the end of a braking zone is a long, long, long way from being able to complete a pass.