Sainz and Leclerc fighting all the way to the end had me sitting on the edge of my seat. And it was starting get pretty sloppy on the braking at times. I'd say it's a miracle that one or both of them didn't crash out, but it's really just driver skill. Having watched the chaos of the F2 feature race this morning, it's clearly driver skill. Props to Ferrari today, even if they were unable to bring it home.
We have two weeks til Singapore.
If you're looking for more racing, Indycar races today in Portland, and then their final race of the season - Grand Prix of Monterrey - is next weekend. And Laguna Seca is pretty awesome.
Sainz was a fucking machine today. Absolutely did the best he could with the car, a deserved podium and DoTD. I don't know if I've seen a better drive from him.
Beautiful racing today, great race. At the end, I was laying in my bed watching the race on my laptop, which was on my belly. When Leclerc locked up into turn 1, I legit almost dropped the poor computer on the floor! It was intense, exciting and pure F1. Loved it all. Williams keeps pissing me off with the "okay albono, we've pitted you early now please survive on these tyres for 50 laps". By the way, Ocon retired! I hadn't even noticed until I saw it on Twitter a few minutes ago. Also, poor Yuki :(
And @jcphoenix, great work getting these threads up every weekend. getting the result tables in was a great idea too
Tsunoda's early (early is still an understatement) retirement is something that I'd like to get more info on. The Honda engine has been working wonderfully for Red Bull all season long, but Tsunoda claimed he heard "cracking" sounds from the engine, and attributed the fault to an engine failure, but it's still a tad early to come to conclusions.
Alpha Tauri (in Zandvoort as well) has shown an awful lack of organisation this season. The car itself is underperforming, but they threw away points positions (either due to unreliability or strategy mistakes) more often than not. Yuki was poised to deliver some good points this weekend, given how close he was to the points in the starting grid, but it was all for nothing in the end.
What happened to Aston Martin? They've been my favourite team to watch this year and it feels like they've fell out of relevance. Stroll has had a pretty poor season and generally it feels like the car can't keep up.
Maybe it's just me but this track felt way too narrow for these modern formula 1 cars. Makes sense given that it's a century-old track and the cars back then were just way narrower. Pretty much all of the overtakes today took place either on the main straight drs zone or immediately after it. Makes it less exciting in my opinion. Easier for the tv crew to follow since all of the action is happening in the span of like 4-5 corners. But worse for the viewers since if a driver didn't make his move by the end of the drs zone, welp might as well wait a minute for them to come back around and try it in the exact same spot.
Seems to be a common problem with some of these historic tracks - e.g. Monaco. Still a fun race, but something really should be done about the lack of overtakes on these narrow tracks.
Sainz and Leclerc fighting all the way to the end had me sitting on the edge of my seat. And it was starting get pretty sloppy on the braking at times. I'd say it's a miracle that one or both of them didn't crash out, but it's really just driver skill. Having watched the chaos of the F2 feature race this morning, it's clearly driver skill. Props to Ferrari today, even if they were unable to bring it home.
We have two weeks til Singapore.
If you're looking for more racing, Indycar races today in Portland, and then their final race of the season - Grand Prix of Monterrey - is next weekend. And Laguna Seca is pretty awesome.
Sainz was a fucking machine today. Absolutely did the best he could with the car, a deserved podium and DoTD. I don't know if I've seen a better drive from him.
Beautiful racing today, great race. At the end, I was laying in my bed watching the race on my laptop, which was on my belly. When Leclerc locked up into turn 1, I legit almost dropped the poor computer on the floor! It was intense, exciting and pure F1. Loved it all. Williams keeps pissing me off with the "okay albono, we've pitted you early now please survive on these tyres for 50 laps". By the way, Ocon retired! I hadn't even noticed until I saw it on Twitter a few minutes ago. Also, poor Yuki :(
And @jcphoenix, great work getting these threads up every weekend. getting the result tables in was a great idea too
Tsunoda's early (early is still an understatement) retirement is something that I'd like to get more info on. The Honda engine has been working wonderfully for Red Bull all season long, but Tsunoda claimed he heard "cracking" sounds from the engine, and attributed the fault to an engine failure, but it's still a tad early to come to conclusions.
Alpha Tauri (in Zandvoort as well) has shown an awful lack of organisation this season. The car itself is underperforming, but they threw away points positions (either due to unreliability or strategy mistakes) more often than not. Yuki was poised to deliver some good points this weekend, given how close he was to the points in the starting grid, but it was all for nothing in the end.
What happened to Aston Martin? They've been my favourite team to watch this year and it feels like they've fell out of relevance. Stroll has had a pretty poor season and generally it feels like the car can't keep up.
Maybe it's just me but this track felt way too narrow for these modern formula 1 cars. Makes sense given that it's a century-old track and the cars back then were just way narrower. Pretty much all of the overtakes today took place either on the main straight drs zone or immediately after it. Makes it less exciting in my opinion. Easier for the tv crew to follow since all of the action is happening in the span of like 4-5 corners. But worse for the viewers since if a driver didn't make his move by the end of the drs zone, welp might as well wait a minute for them to come back around and try it in the exact same spot.
Seems to be a common problem with some of these historic tracks - e.g. Monaco. Still a fun race, but something really should be done about the lack of overtakes on these narrow tracks.