A smaller driver means the minimum car weight can be in the form of ballast put wherever is most advantageous for the car.
Poll: Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 16/17
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A smaller driver means the minimum car weight can be in the form of ballast put wherever is most advantageous for the car.
Soldato
You can't just stick it in the most advantageous position in F1 any more. Though probably still a small advantage, the ballast at least has to be in a set location close to the driver now.
Soldato
Caporegime
Twitter too. #F1 is a weird mix of some of the best and more sensible comment on F1 around, frothing fanboys, conspiracy nuts, never-ending hate, and a huge amount of thirsty comments for the drivers.
Caporegime
Why are they saying that. If anything it is just showing how overpowered the Mercedes is. Not how good GR is.
Soldato
Lets hope Merc sort out there stupid system.
"half of the tyre collectors didn’t get the message" so they had 2 of each drivers tires mixed up?
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...-led-to-sakhir-pit.3Gm01wYnJR56DWsrP1hwc.html
If that’s true, I think Merc need to stop doing D2S.
Wasn’t it their anniversary race in Germany when Netflix were with them and everything went wrong.
Maybe having the film crew around throws them off their game…
Caporegime
It's not true. Confirmed on their twitter account.
Soldato
The last thing Mercedes would do is make themselves look like sub-Ferrari muppets in terms of strategy and pit crew performance.
You can almost forgive the conspiracy nutters
I mean, when's the last time they had a race that b dad self imposed?
But it didn't work, that's the issue. It didn't save bottas embarrassment.
It probably hurt Hamiltons stock a bit too.
How much better would Hamilton have done than Russell? Not much I doubt.
Hamilton has often been out qualified by bottas only to inevitably overhaul him in race trim.
Russell did the same. As suspected, Hamilton is good, but is flattered by bottas.
I mean, when's the last time they had a race that b dad self imposed?
But it didn't work, that's the issue. It didn't save bottas embarrassment.
It probably hurt Hamiltons stock a bit too.
How much better would Hamilton have done than Russell? Not much I doubt.
Hamilton has often been out qualified by bottas only to inevitably overhaul him in race trim.
Russell did the same. As suspected, Hamilton is good, but is flattered by bottas.
Caporegime
I suspect Hamilton would have been further ahead of Bottas at the time the safety car came out and that would have fundamentally changed the situation, either he'd have missed the chance to pit under safety car or there would have been a vital bit of extra time for the crew to sort out the tyres between the two drivers.
But, if not, yeah, Russell got as much out of that race given what happened as I think it was possible to get. Being a second closer to Bottas at the end wouldn't have changed anything.
I hope that Bottas gets a half decent drive after Mercedes so we can assess his quality away from Hamilton. I think he's not top drawer, but neither is he in any way a bad driver, although better on Saturday than Sunday. He's up against, IMO, one of the best qualifiers on the grid and almost never embarrasses himself.
Ah ok, no Netflix curse then.
You do have to wonder though, a few teams seem to have suffered added drama when it's been their turn in the spotlight.
Agreed . He's not bad. But he's not stellar. Which is perfect for merc at the moment. Unfortunately merc don't need (or want!) two Hamiltons when the field is so far behind.
Bottas also has done better than any of the other RBR second drivers.. Unless verstappen is even better than Hamilton.
I really hoped Hamilton wouldn't be back for the finale. Not wishing harm. But would have been great for a re run
Caporegime
Nice video from Mercedes explaining what happened with the tyre balls up and other things about the GP
Mercedes F1 Instagram have now changed their bio too.
"It's just an instagram bio. Don't overthink it.
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Caporegime
Mercedes F1 Instagram have now changed their bio too.
"It's just an instagram bio. Don't overthink it.
How did F1 teams get so damn good at social media?
They hired expert people, the same as other businesses do. We call them racing teams, but really they are corporate entities who build cars and race them at the weekends.
Caporegime
Yeah, I intended that as a statement on the quality of their social media game, not an actual question
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It's nice to see an organisation that trusts their communications team to do something like that, without going through several layers of red tape meetings.