F1 2022: US GP - Miami (May 8)

[DrFerry]

Originally Posted by FrankMstein

Is this "woke" enough for you DrFerry?

"Vengeance is mine", sayeth The Lord. Much less woke but Bot still flaunting a 666 logo.
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[lens]

Originally Posted by F87source

It's not a big game changing innovation because it's been replicated. Merc didn't solve it because they weren't able to see it in CFD, if they did they would've. A game changing innovation is thinking outside the box and pushing the regulations to their breaking point, something that isn't easily done. If simulations showed porpoising then a fix is doable, not really thinking outside the box.


Yup Hamilton choked with brake magic, pressure does that it makes you forget to do things, not make you forget how things operate. The pit decisions weren't his call, Merc were afraid he'd get caught up in the pits. But max almost lost it because of his unwillingness to back down, he literally is unwilling to lose an inch and that's not going to be good for long term battles. But here's the other flaw with max, he gets emotional when things don't go his way. Getting time penalties when overtaking Lewis last year off track, repeating the over take on Charles on the first of two drs zones. And arguing with his engineers over not being allowed to push for tire and heating concerns. That's an intellectual short coming, not being able to think of the long game and letting emotions take over.

Lewis isn't perfect but he has 7 titles and the most F1 wins ever. Max still needs to get there and maybe he will but he needs to improve on his emotional side of things and control his agression to have the best chance of getting there. But first he still had to become the greatest redbull driver ever, because right now that's still Sebastian Vettel who in his prime who looked unstoppable.

Remember, Hamilton was only able to win 7 titles due to his car, Rosberg was able to win his, with the same exact car and good strategy before he retired.

As we can see, give him a inferior car and even George Russell can drive better than he can, minus this weekends Qualifying, but at no fault of his own.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

"Vengeance is mine", sayeth The Lord. Much less woke but Bot still flaunting a 666 logo.
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BOT doesn't know what he's dealing with.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I have a feeling Ben S should be doing something about that soon, as M-Power says that is evil stuff that wishes harm on some..then on who.,re the ''Damien'' films.

[Terry989]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

Do you know what these occult symbols mean? Everything woke turns to sh1t..
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Well DrFairy, he saved his back for the largest occult symbol of them all.
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[///M Power-Belgium]

The show must go on ...

[///M Power-Belgium]

*****

[DrFerry]

Originally Posted by Terry989

Well DrFairy, he saved his back for the largest occult symbol of them all.
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Well Terdy, I don't think that's him. Look at the hands. Do you have any other recent photos of him wearing a cross?

[gatorfast]

You Hamilton haters are too much. Give the guy a break.

[Killed by Death]

Originally Posted by gatorfast

You Hamilton haters are too much. Give the guy a break.

Never, he tortured us for far too long

[///M ARMY]

Few hours till start…. Hoping to see a good race.. maybe lewis can recover today.

[FrankMstein]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

Well Terdy, I don't think that's him. Look at the hands. Do you have any other recent photos of him wearing a cross?

A quick Google should help.

[///M Power-Belgium]

The drivers requested to clean the track..

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

The drivers requested to clean the track..

Car park tarmac doesn't really suit F1 cars to race on.

[3798j]

Paving the track required 24,000 tons of asphalt, which was laid out over 85,000 yards in echelon over three lanes for an average track of 50-feet width.
The limerock is unique because it has a very high silica content. Its texture is like little shards of glass, so as the limerock itself breaks down and degrades it exposes more of this silica and so you get an effect where it maintains a much higher tyre degradation than you’d usually get in with limerock elsewhere in the world.
Granite was brought by train from Georgia, and the mix is an innovative combination of granite and limerock that is all locally sourced.

[jkoral]

Originally Posted by chaungo

Rosberg was able to win his, with the same exact car and good strategy before he retired.

What strategy? Hamilton beat Rosberg in qualifying and number of wins. Hamilton had 1 more DNF than Rosberg when his engine failed on lap 41 of the Malaysian GP which he was comfortably leading.

And even then, Rosberg only won the championship by 5 points.

[Germanauto]

Hamilton reaffirming why he's a narcissistic douchebag. Hoping Bottas puts him in his place again.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Car park tarmac doesn't really suit F1 cars to race on.

The return of the 'Pink Panther ?

[F87source]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

Like the bending wing from RB last year.

BTW propoising is really easy to solve, just reduce the downforce.
But that's the trick, solving it with the car still being fast.
OF course mclaren and alpine solved it, but it's just that their cars arent fast. And the RB is. So looks like a pretty important innovation. Being fast. Because that's what it's all about.


Yes he had the best car for a long long time.
And it shows now.


This is not an example of emotions taking ove, it's an example that the driver was right and the engineers not.
If there's one point that both RB and MAx outclass MERC/HAM it's on the intellectual point.
MERC and HAM are notorious for constantly making the wrong decisions when they need to be made in the heat of the battle. Wrong tyres, not coming in for tyres, forgetting to set your car to the right parameters (brake magic) etc etc. They constantly make those mistakes and don't seem to learn from them. That is by far their weakest point. Strategic thinking in short timespans.
And that's pretty much RB's strongest point. Max has an uncanny predisposition to think ahead and feel what is the right decision to make. Knowing when to come in or not etc. Like last year in sochi for example, or of course last year abu dhabi.

It's not an innovation if it's able to be created by everyone given the tools to do so, it's an innovation if it's a never thought of concept. Here's the difference everyone knows about porpoising from the early ground effects cars and all were trying to stop it via design, so everyone knew about it nothing special. The fact that other teams were able to do actually stop it is very good design, it's not creating something new and never seen before. Even if you counted it, that's literally 1 innovation vs. the countless ones Mercedes debuts every year, showing Mercedes is indeed more innovative. If you have counter evidence please list innovation for innovation of every team and let's see which team is out doing Mercedes.


So he only won by having the best car? That logic applies to max last year too. The rb16b was the fastest car for the first half of the year, get Hamilton managed to hang on and keep it close during this first half. what does this say about max then? Also why wasn't max able to win before? I thought the car doesn't matter? I always said it's both, you can never win without a good car and you need to be a good driver to capitalize. Like I doubt Latifi could win even in the w11, he'd get beaten by his team mate or wouldn't be consistent enough when it's needed.


The not pitting for tires was only a relevant mistake when Lewis started on inters, on the final race lasted year mercedes expected those lapped cars to remain in place but Masi single handedly allowed them to lap - and this was deemed a wrong move in investigation. So max was literally handed the win. The button mistake was also a rare mistake under pressure. Mercedes haven't made as many mistakes as you'd like to believe...


If you want to see mistakes look at one example from last season portimao. Max had the fastest quali lap in Q3 but botched it by going wide off track limits. Then max botched a few corners in the race letting Lewis pass him on the 8th lap with drs. Then he decided to go out for new softs to get the fastest lap and messed up on one of the corners and lost that to Bottas.


Hamilton has also demonstrated intellectual talent as well, when he decided not to box in Turkey on the worn intermediates and won that race as they turned to slicks. Then the Mercedes double stop that allowed them to over take max last year in a slower car was also Incredible.


Max has also shown when he's flustered he makes idiotic decisions like weaving to defend and brake checks. Like when he and Riccardo bother DNF'ed because max weaved on the striaghts to defend against ric.



Like I said before max still has a long way to go before he can even approach the goat conversation, there is 6 more titles for him to win, and if you guys want to say it's not the car he's going to have to win every year regardless of the state of the redbull.

[irunalot]

This grid walk is killing me 😂

[TheBingoBalls]

Originally Posted by irunalot

This grid walk is killing me 😂

Very awkward. Interesting to see how unfamiliar athletes and celebrities are to people across the pond. That whole Patrick Mahomes bit was awkward AF. Ahhahah

[Blindside_137]

I have mad respect for martin doing these grid interviews. Man has no fear.