The Williams family will no longer be involved with the team’s activity. The team remains with the Williams name for now.
oooooooooooook now that was a fucking race holy shit. I am still pinging from it. lmao.
What is everyones thoughts on the reverse grid idea that has been banded about? The commentators discussed it a little bit today.
Personally, I’m all for anything that helps make for Sundays like today.
They should implement it for 2021, if not permanently. They effectively eliminated all development so we know nothing will change from here to November 2021. May as well have double race weekends like in Formula 3 and 2. Hopefully the FIA looks at this race and takes inspiration from it like it happened with Canada 2010, which encouraged the FIA to have tyres that degrade quicker. Now that the Pirelli tyres once again comfortably lasting entire races, that diffusers and engine mapping rules means there’s barely any overtakes, and the 2020 changes effectively having killed any chances for Red Bull and Ferrari to compete… might as well do this. Because nothing they’ve done since 2014 helped the spectacle in any meaningful way. Hence the same team winning all titles, hence the same 3 teams winning all races prior to this one of the entire era, hence the overtakes and lead changes drastically decreasing from the 2009-2013 stint, without even going into how incredible some of those title fights were compared to these.
Yup, I’ve never heard of Alpine. On the other hand the name Renault carries a lot in terms of the history of F1.
Sooooo, since the ban on party mode, MER hasn’t won a race. Hope you guys are happy now.
Wasn’t Bottas complaining about his engine mode in the race?
He was basically complaining, that he can’t use the ‘overtake button’ anymore. He definitely needs to change his driving style - and I’m very curious how he’ll be able to do it.
His engine was overheating, probably down to following in traffic. Apparently his water temp levels were really high that’s why he had to pull out of the tow on the straights.
The upside of the fixed engine mapping is that if the frontrunners fuck up the start, they don’t just climb up back to the podium as if nothing happened. Think of Germany last year with Vettel climbing to the podium, Hamilton getting 2nd after getting torpedo’d by Kimi at the start, or the various times Verstappen comfortably picked up a top 4 position despite starting in the back for engine penalties or something. Things shouldn’t be too easy for the leaders who fuck up.
On the other hand, all battles took the backseat. Most people following a car that isn’t 2 seconds slower got simply stuck, on a track like Monza where this should not be happening at all with the lengthy straights, the power of tows and so on. Bottas may be bad at battles and Hamilton overtook more, but if you looked at Bottas’ onboards you saw that his top speed peaks around 325kph even with DRS and tow, that he reaches that speed by the middle of the straight and it no longer increases. He can not overtake if he has no chance to catch the car in front, short of a divebomb that risks taking 2 cars out. And that’s a issue that needs to be looked at.
Engine mapping changes, so far, did not improve the spectacle at all. The fact Mercedes happened to lose with it has nothing to do with the rule, as Hamilton put up some 17 seconds in 11 laps prior to entering a closed pitlane and destroying his weekend.
I don’t think Monza is a good indicator. Everyone is using a very low mech grip setup, so DRS hasn’t really a tangible effect. I think we need to wait for a more ‘normal’ track to see how the change really plays out. In the end I expect especially WIL to be able to get points of their own account.
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This would be so good.
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Sinking ship or the right course of actions to have a truly new and more effective management? Time will tell.
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This is good news imo, at least bloody give it a shot and not just scream no. What happens if it does really gives us some excitement. I do agree with the theory that wins like what Gasly just had wouldn’t be as rare / exciting and blow up like it did but if that means we’ll get way more exciting races then I’m ok with that.
Shared from BBC Sport:
Sergio Perez to leave Racing Point at end of year with Sebastian Vettel expected replacement - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/54095848
Please replace Grosjean at Haas. Perez deserves a seat.
Knew this was happening why would you keep Perez over someone like vettel, I don’t really care what happens to Perez tbh he has always rubbed me the wrong way. It would be nice for him to stay for his fans though.
VET in a MER next year, with cars comparable to this season, will spice up next year.
Here we go, it’s official now. Everything is starting to fall into place now.