The fact is several other drivers did a one stop without running into the weight issue and in the past, we have had drivers do almost the whole race distance on a set of tyres after switching to a hard after an early safety car(lap 2 or 3). Never in those cases has the car been underweight. This is a cock up by Mercedes and nobody else.
Well leclerc just didn't not have a fast enough car under him. Norris had his strategy fumbled while being a little slow. Perez also had a suboptimal strategy but he was too slow anyway.
Every team has strategists crunching the numbers to come up with the best strategy but the best one turned out be George whose job isn't even strategy. Absolutely brilliant by George.
This was always the case. If it was purely on merit basis, tsunoda would be in that car already. This is assuming they want promote from within because there are better options outside the red Bull family
Stroll caught up to Alonso with fresher tyres and Aston let him go to try and catch yuki. He caught yuki on the lap but couldn't pass him. Should have switched on the last corner but didn't. From what little team radio I heard, Aston too left it until too late to get him to swap by. Still pretty childish by Stroll for one point.
And how TF could a dive bomb with contact like that go unpunished?
So if Lewis avoided the contact, which believe me he could have easily, should there have been no pen¿?
Lando's 2nd divebomb in Austria was very similar(with both fronts locked up and coming in way too hot) , the difference just being that verstappen opened his steering and avoided Lando. There was not even a discussion if that was a dangerous move.
I find it very hypocritical that people's(including the stewards) opinion changes wildly depending on the outcome even though everybody preaches that the penalty shouldn't depend on the outcome
Today was by far the race with spiciest team radio. Norris and his team engineer, max and GP, Alex and his engineer, Alonso and Aston - DtS must rubbing their hands
Really disappointed by Max today. Yes the car was not the fastest and strategy was far from perfect but he did not maximise the race at all. This was almost like a pre 2020 max
Great how everybody in McLaren is feeling shitty even though they have a 1-2. Oscar potentially feeling the win was underserved, Lando feeling that the team isn't backing him and engineers, strategists all feeling unnecessarily stressed and having to go through a heated debrief
Well the first two stints were brilliant from him. Yeah there will always be this argument that he was not fast enough but who knows what would have happened if he pitted 1st
The car has a more understeery nature at the moment as we saw in Hungary so I don't think Ricciardo will enjoy the car.