Poll: Official 2024 Australian Grand Prix Race Thread - Albert Park, Melbourne - Race 3/24

[Stu999]

I just find Lewis to be incredibly boring, and at the end of the day, the titles are relatively meaningless when it comes to actually enjoying the sport.

I’d rather experience Charles or Carlos winning their first title.

Imagine if Carlos won it and then got binned off by Ferrari.

 

[Mesai]

Imagine if Carlos won it and then got binned off by Ferrari.

That would be the most Ferrari thing to happen to Ferrari.

Unless something crazy happens, I can't see Max not winning the WDC, but Carlos getting 2nd would be brilliant.

 

[Mr Jack]

Imagine if Carlos won it and then got binned off by Ferrari.

Isn't that called "doing a Damon"?

 

[Feek]

Imagine if Carlos won it and then got binned off by Ferrari.

Williams have a history of this.

 

[SKILL]

Calm down, I said he was a rookie. It was just an example where a driver made a mistake even in a basic manoeuvre at slow(ish) speed. We're all humans and will make mistakes from time to time. Yeah, crashing on the way to pits it's not something that people forget or stopping in a wrong garage during the race for that matter.

Are you talking about China? Where his tyres were so worn you could see the canvas? On a wet pit-entrance? That incident you dredged up to compare the multiple mistakes under pressure Russell and Leclerc have made?

I'd give you a 3/10 for that. Which is exceptionally generous, I'm in a good mood today.

 

[CSMonkeh]

Isn't that called "doing a Damon"?

Damon got binned off before the ‘96 season started

Given the ‘95 car was a massive dog, and Williams still annoyed he didn’t deliver….

 

[JRS]

Given the ‘95 car was a massive dog, and Williams still annoyed he didn’t deliver….

12 poles, 6 fastest laps, 5 wins for the FW17 and FW17B. Some "massive dog"

 

[Psymonkee]

If memory serves (and by that I mean youtube bingeing ) it was more to do with Damon wanting a big fat stack of cash and Frank Williams told him to jog on.

 

[CSMonkeh]

12 poles, 6 fastest laps, 5 wins for the FW17 and FW17B. Some "massive dog"

So 7 poles that didn’t get converted

Ok DC at Monza skews the stats a little

 

[JRS]

Ok DC at Monza skews the stats a little

About the best that can be said about that moment in Italy is that at least it wasn't as embarrassing as his Aussie GP exit

 

[Jono8]

Yup. Lewis beaching it on the way to pits springs to mind. Sure he was a rookie that season but that wasn't even such a high pressure situation.

Every driver makes mistakes. None of them are infallible and will inevitably end up in the wall due to their own mistake on occasion.

It's all about the frequency of it happening. Make a silly mistake/have a crash which is your fault once in a season? Pretty normal.

Do it repeatedly and make multiple errors all season, every season? Bit of a problem.

 

[Feek]

Do it repeatedly and make multiple errors all season, every season? Bit of a problem.

*Latifi and Grosjean have entered the conversation*

 

[Feek]

Australia race highlights.

 

[SS-89]

Australia race highlights.

That is absolutely brilliant.

 

[CSMonkeh]

About the best that can be said about that moment in Italy is that at least it wasn't as embarrassing as his Aussie GP exit

Dunno entrance to that pit lane was really dusty

Least he had another chance when everyone else binned it at Ascari

 

[chrismscotland]

This is pretty good as well

 

[JRS]

Seems like the Aussie GP weekend 'revealed' something that we pretty much already knew - the Merc is hot garbage. Again.

The car appears to be especially susceptible to changes in temperature. Lewis Hamilton was pleased with its balance in final practice at Albert Park, then failed to reach Q3 a few hours later.

“After FP3… he said that the car is the best in three years,” said Wolff. “He had so much rear downforce and he feels confident.

“We didn’t change the car a lot. The track temperature changed by five degrees, believe it or not, so that’s nothing, and the car transformed from something that was the best in three years to something that is undriveable.”

“We are looking at everything and there’s something which our technology is not showing us because this window of performance is so narrow where the aero works or it doesn’t,” he added. “The wind picked up in the afternoon, that plays a role but we haven’t really been able to pinpoint it.”

Wolff said Mercedes will have to sacrifice more of their race weekends in order to understand what they need to do to improve their car.

“We are coming to a point now that we probably need to experiment every single race, not only on Friday, because our performance seems to get worse throughout the weekend,” he said. “We are good on Friday and we are good in some of the sessions on Saturday but the more grip we have, the faster it goes, the more we reach the performance ceiling of the car. And our data shows us it’s not the ceiling.”

 

[Scam]

I’d give it another race with a “performance” like last weeks and I wouldn’t be surprised if more aren’t going to start questioning Toto’s position.
I don’t think they’d do better without him, but something in that team seems very wrong. As much as I hate these regulation of cars, you can’t blame the regs for 3 years.

 

[Mr Jack]

Merc have come 3rd and 2nd since the rules changes - hardly a total disaster, except by their own standards of the decade before. Their problem, I think, is adapting from being a massively funded outfit able to flat outspend everyone else to the new spending cap era.

Ditching Toto is about the dumbest response to that they could possibly have.

 

[JRS]

Merc have come 3rd and 2nd since the rules changes - hardly a total disaster, except by their own standards of the decade before. Their problem, I think, is adapting from being a massively funded outfit able to flat outspend everyone else to the new spending cap era.

Ditching Toto is about the dumbest response to that they could possibly have.

Doesn't really help matters when Red Bull just ignores the cap and gets barely any punishment for it