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3rd August 2020, 21:08 #51
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Stroll qualified well but his race pace was poor. That was due to the poor race setup of the car which suggests that Perez's inputs has been crucial to the team. Also that Stroll has not mastered the art of setting up an F1 car. But given a well setup car, he has performed really well in past races, with one podium last season and two solid forth to show that he certainly has talent, l think he just needs to build up his maturity around car setup.
I subscribe to the fact that Racing Point is not fully capitalizing on the true performance of their 2020 car. Can we fairly put Racing Point's poor showing at Silverstone down to Stroll per ce? I think this weekend exposes a gap in the engineer crew. In the absence of Perez, they ought to have enough engineers present to setup the car for its optimum performance. Lance is the one that stands out in this poor showing because he is the visible one in the car.
The racing point simply had poor race pace due to poor race setup. This may be because the team were knocked of balance due to Perez's COVID test failure since they had to scramble to find a replacement, hence were slightly distracted
I think Lance's poor race was due to the car rather than his personal afforts.Last edited by Nitrodaze; 3rd August 2020 at 21:14.
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3rd August 2020, 21:15 #52
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Holy crap , dude .
One mediocre race and he's firmly under the bus .
We have no idea at all why he was slower than we expected , and without the Hulk involved , we have nothing to compare him with .
And , to suggest they sabotaged the Hulk to make the boy look better somehow , is waaaaaaaay beyond the pale .
By the way , they get the engine and transmission from Merc , and it was apparently a bolt that broke inside , jamming the drive line , so it wouldn't start . Bad bolt , or bad torque setting , but it seems that it was on Merc's end , not theirs .
Perhaps you'd like to speculate that Merc doesn't want them too close , so gives them the cheap bolts ?
Your last words there : "I'm starting to revert back to my previous opinion of stroll, but would love to be proved wrong."
I don't believe you .
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3rd August 2020, 21:36 #53
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I have a hard time criticizing Pirelli at all , as they are still creating tires to a spec they were asked for .
Part of the game is changing tires when it is best to do so .
That would generally be before they go pop .
You might get a puncture from debris , which is unlucky , but all those tires that did pop were visibly ragged .
Bottas complained for quite a few laps of vibration before his tire went south , and nobody is suggesting he hit any debris .
But , it's not Pirelli's fault at all .
Teams and drivers make those calls .
And they went too far , literally .
Once they take delivery , the only thing the tire company has any say in is tire pressures , which the teams would also stretch the limits of , if they were allowed .
As it turned out , it should have been a two-stop race for Merc , and the next race will likely be three .
It will be interesting , and different from the last race because of the different compounds , but it won't be something to beat Pirelli up for .
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3rd August 2020, 23:54 #54
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4th August 2020, 13:39 #55
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Yes I think Kimi's wing was responsible for late race debris. Also Ocon brought up an interesting point:
There is a new thing out of Turn 13; Maggots, Becketts, Chapel, this combination of corners. At the right-hander, Turn 13 exit, now there is no kerb anymore. Which there was before. So you run in the dirt and then you go on to the kerb, and that could also damage your tyres.May the forza be with you
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4th August 2020, 13:50 #56
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In case there is any doubt as to the cause of Kvyat's crash:
https://streamable.com/pvsn5e
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Not at all.
I've praised him when he has performed well and if you go through some of my posts from earlier you would see that to be true.
Even his Baku podium was well deserved and i praised him highly for it.
Being able to understand your car and extract the best from it is also part of a driver ability.
I'm not saying to outdrive it or exceed it's abilities, but to at the very least allow it to perform at its baseline level, and i'm afraid that Stroll doesn't have that ability yet. Or better yet, never really had to work at it for a number of reasons. Absolutely true that not everything is down to his fault (and the hulk car mishap was more tongue and cheek) and as i've said, serious 2009 toyota vibes. It took the entire team underperforming for them to squander that season.you can't argue with results.
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4th August 2020, 14:36 #59
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It was a rotten race for Bottas, Vettel, Albon, Sainz, Kyvat and Magnussen
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