Formula 1

[jb108822]

I had a Club seat for race day. Now I understand why it's considered one of the best places to sit!

For Saturday I camped out at Becketts, because I'd heard it was a good place to watch the cars from, and because that grandstand has a roof!



LOL! As the oldest team in the Championship how the hell can Ferrari be so bad at race strategy??

One of the reasons we went for Club on the Saturday was because it was covered, not gonna lie.

 

[Bungle73]

One of the reasons we went for Club on the Saturday was because it was covered, not gonna lie.

Actually, I had wet weather gear with me, so if the worst came the the worst I might have sat there anyway, since it was the place that I'd decided that I wanted to sit. As a matter of fact I was at Brands Hatch for the BTCC a few months ago, with a grandstand seat, which of course has no roof, and it was on and off wet and windy all day. I just stuck it out. Funnily enough, despite the roof, the rain still came in, and I was glad to be kitted out.

Last time I was at the grand prix I sat at Stowe, which has no roof, but only for race day, and the weather was nice (2019)

 

[Pete_uk]

Oh Charles!

 

[GB]

Seb is retring after 2022 it has been announced.

 

[najaB]

Seb is retring after 2022 it has been announced.

Not entirely surprising, sad to see him going though.

 

[DarloRich]

Not entirely surprising, sad to see him going though.

Agree - he seems like a decent guy and was extraordinarily dominant at times during his F1 heyday

 

[Pete_uk]

I remember his first race

 

[Enthusiast]

I remember him best for the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix. Not the race, but his post-race rearrangements of the "1 - 2 - 3" placards . They should rename Turn 3 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in his honour.

A superb driver; a good and fair competitor, a worthy for-time champion.

 

[Bungle73]

George Russell on Pole!

 

[DarloRich]

and Red Bull nowhere!

 

[Domh245]

and Red Bull nowhere!

I'm looking forward to seeing how Ferrari utterly fail to capitalise on this!

 

[davehsug]

and Red Bull nowhere!

And with no easy overtaking and DRS largely ineffective, Verstappen won't find cruising through the field as easy as it usually is.

 

[DarloRich]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Ferrari utterly fail to capitalise on this!

that is a given!

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And with no easy overtaking and DRS largely ineffective, Verstappen won't find cruising through the field as easy as it usually is.

he will have to do it the old fashioned way: in the pits

 

[Domh245]

In answer to my question yesterday, it was (perhaps rather predictably) the strategy

 

[swt_passenger]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Ferrari utterly fail to capitalise on this!

My ‘prediction’ is tyre strategy.

 

[D365]

Any reason why Ferrari didn’t go for two sets of softs, instead of one hard and one soft on Leclerc.

 

[Domh245]

Any reason why Ferrari didn’t go for two sets of softs, instead of one hard and one soft on Leclerc.

They pitted leclerc for his second stop very early with the intention of going to the end, but the hards (as proven by everyone else who'd run them in the race) just weren't working. So they bailed for soft at the end to give him half a chance of recovering something

Or at least, that would be the theory - god only knows what the Ferrari strategists were thinking (perhaps they were leaving it all to him!)

At least there's plenty of other racing on to distract from the disasterclass

 

[DarloRich]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Ferrari utterly fail to capitalise on this!

Via massive strategy based incompetence. The big suprise was hiw early in the race it was!

 

[Domh245]

Via massive strategy based incompetence. The big suprise was hiw early in the race it was!

Seemingly from even before lights out - they were the only of the 'top 3' teams to start on mediums if I remember rightly, though this was compounded by pitting both cars onto a second set of mediums around lap 20.

I have to (begrudgingly) commend Red Bull and Verstappen for an excellent drive though

 

[DarloRich]

Seemingly from even before lights out - they were the only of the 'top 3' teams to start on mediums if I remember rightly, though this was compounded by pitting both cars onto a second set of mediums around lap 20.

I have to (begrudgingly) commend Red Bull and Verstappen for an excellent drive though

He has done well. He even had a spin!

 

[D365]

They pitted leclerc for his second stop very early with the intention of going to the end, but the hards (as proven by everyone else who'd run them in the race) just weren't working. So they bailed for soft at the end to give him half a chance of recovering something

Or at least, that would be the theory - god only knows what the Ferrari strategists were thinking (perhaps they were leaving it all to him!)

At least there's plenty of other racing on to distract from the disasterclass

Bit in bold - exactly my point!

 

[birchesgreen]

Champions drive from Verstappen, chumpions drive from the Ferraris.

 

[D365]

Champions drive from Verstappen, chumpions drive from the Ferraris.

The driving wasn’t the problem.

 

[JD2168]

Massive strategy mistake by Ferrari today, Charles should have been at least on the podium, if not winning the race. The hard was never going to work, the Alpine & Haas were struggling on them from early on. They should have done the same as Hamilton & extended the medium stint so they could put softs on at the end.

 

[D365]

Massive strategy mistake by Ferrari today, Charles should have been at least on the podium, if not winning the race. The hard was never going to work, the Alpine & Haas were struggling on them from early on. They should have done the same as Hamilton & extended the medium stint so they could put softs on at the end.

Wasn't Sainz trying to pull off the same strategy as Hamilton? Commentary today reported the Mercs as being the most effective of the top 3 teams for tyre life.

 

[SynthD]

Sainz may have had that aim, but Ferrari certainly didn’t.

 

[davehsug]

And with no easy overtaking and DRS largely ineffective, Verstappen won't find cruising through the field as easy as it usually is.

This is why I rarely make predictions and never bet on sport!

 

[Howardh]

Ferrari are the world champions of imploding from a race winning position for sure.

Ferrari...the Italian equivalent of the Scotland football team! (I write that as a fan of the Scots team....)

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and Red Bull nowhere!

....to be seen, so far ahead....!!

 

[D365]

Any reason why Ferrari didn’t go for two sets of softs, instead of one hard and one soft on Leclerc.

They pitted leclerc for his second stop very early with the intention of going to the end, but the hards (as proven by everyone else who'd run them in the race) just weren't working. So they bailed for soft at the end to give him half a chance of recovering something

Or at least, that would be the theory - god only knows what the Ferrari strategists were thinking (perhaps they were leaving it all to him!)

So I’ve just read that Ferrari only had x1 soft and x1 hard left for Leclerc. That explains a lot, but still doesn’t make up for the woeful showing.

 

[birchesgreen]

I wonder if Charles is now counting the days until a seat at Mercedes or Red Bull becomes available.