The 2022 MIAMI thinks its Monaco GP in the US of A

[White six]

Bottom post of the previous page:

bad race

Did you miss 'the Hamilton years'?

[Everso Biggyballies]

Well I got it wrong Leclerc leads by 19. Forgot the FL Point. George in 4th just ahead of Sainz, Lewis goes t 6th thanks to Norris DNF.

n Driver Points
1. Charles LECLERC 104
2. Max VERSTAPPEN 85
3. Sergio PEREZ 66
4. George RUSSELL 59
5. Carlos SAINZ 53
6. Lewis HAMILTON 36
7. Lando NORRIS 35
8. Valtteri BOTTAS 30
9. Esteban OCON 24
10. Kevin MAGNUSSEN 15
11. Daniel RICCIARDO 11
12. Yuki TSUNODA 10


In the constructors Red Bull close to within 6 of Ferrari Merc open a gap on a pointless McLaren. Two Alpines in the points and *TWO* for Albon who is getting the most out of the Williams.

NOTE CONSTRUCTORS POINTS ADJUSTED TO REFLECT ADDITIONAL 2nd PENALTY FOR ALONSO /ALPINE

Revised Results and details here: viewtopic.php?p=426345#p426345

n Constructor Points
1. Ferrari 157
2. Red Bull 151
3. Mercedes 95
4. McLaren Mercedes 46
5. Alfa Romeo Ferrari 31
6. Alpine Renault 26
7. AlphaTauri Red Bull 16
8. Haas Ferrari 15
9. Aston Martin Mercedes 6
10. Williams Mercedes 3

[Everso Biggyballies]

Eeeek Albpn has gone for the redhead look. Leave the fancy hair stuff to Lewis. Red is not your colour!

[Everso Biggyballies]

Lol Lewis complaining about his strategy and saying its not down to him to call the strategies, thats what strategists are there for...... guess what Lewis, your team leader was calling the shots on his strategy, told his strtaegist what he wanted and it worked coupled with a great drive. George now with a great drive is 23 points ahead of Lewis..

George made his own luck there.

[MonteCristo]

bad race

Did you miss 'the Hamilton years'?

They were great!

[erwin greven]

Lol Lewis complaining about his strategy and saying its not down to him to call the strategies, thats what strategists are there for...... guess what Lewis, your team leader was calling the shots on his strategy, told his strtaegist what he wanted and it worked coupled with a great drive. George now with a great drive is 23 points ahead of Lewis..

George made his own luck there.

George single handed defeated TEAM#44

[Vassago]

Mick Schumacher throws away another chance to score points. I wonder how long he stays at Haas at this rate as his name might not save him from the ugly truth.

Latifi was so far back you have to wonder if he has any future in F1 beyond 2022?

[Everso Biggyballies]

Sergio is losing power but no reason. Lost 7 seconds to Sainz in a couple of laps.

I thought I had posted about what the issue was, but cant find it in the thread....

Anyway, it turns out it was a faulty sensor in his energy recovery system.... initially he was said to have lost 30+bhp but a fix recovered a few hp. However it was still detrimental to his progress and even with his new mediums v old hards of Sainz (and Leclerc) plus DRS he was unable to keep with the Ferraris and was quickly out of their DRS zone.

[Ruslan]

Zak Brown has just promised Mario Andretti a drive of a modern F1 car at COTA. Mario was saying on the grid to drive one is on his bucket list and Zak said lets do it.

**Make it happen noises***


Lol at Martin Brundle. He just had to ask a celebrity who they were and what their name was, with an I have no idea who you are whats your name!.
*Celebrity ego deflated**

Lol Brundle on his grid walk asking if anyone has seen any racing people for him to interview.

Not Brundle's best grid walk. He did better with Meghan the Stallion.

[Ruslan]

General thought: Ferrari needs to come up with a response to Verstappen, otherwise they are going to lose this (again).

I gather Monaco will not favor Red Bull. Not sure about Barcelona. Mercedes still has a way to go before it competes for the wins. No one else looks competitive.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Results have been revised due to an additional 5 second penalty for Alonso, dropping him to 11th and out of the points

Full details of those affected, and a revised / adjusted result posted here as an edit to the original posted results: viewtopic.php?p=426345#p426345

[Ruslan]

Washington Post article on the Miami GP. Not sure if it is worth posting: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-s ... 487e10fd15

[Ruslan]

A couple of more notes:

1. It seems that Sainz really needed to keep Verstappen behind him on the first lap. Failed to do so.
2. Not sure why Ferrari did not pit one of their two cars during the safety car.

[Everso Biggyballies]

A couple of more notes:

1. It seems that Sainz really needed to keep Verstappen behind him on the first lap. Failed to do so.
2. Not sure why Ferrari did not pit one of their two cars during the safety car.

1) Agreed re Sainz
2) I think I heard Horner say that they couldnt pit Max because he was already at / past pit entry when the SC was called. I guess the two Ferraris might have been in a similar position. Sergio was half a dozen seconds behind Sainz because of his hybrid / recovery sensor fault so was in the right place at the right time, but had an big gap on Bottas behind him so it was a total freebie to him in terms of track position.

If the Ferraris were not past the pit entry then certainly they shot themselves in the foot, especially as initially it was only a VSC not full SC so under VSC you dont have the field compression factor. You just get the bonus of less lost time because the field is running at reduced speed but with original traffic gaps.

[Everso Biggyballies]

More penalties....

Ricciardo and KMag cop post-race penalties at Miami GP

I have already mentioned the 2 points affecting penalties given to Fernando, but now on top of that more post race penalties for the period after the Safety Car when Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly made contact.

It was during that period that two separate penalties were applied, one for Ricciardo and another for KMag

The pair were each awarded five second time penalties for separate offences.

Ricciardo had finished 11th but will be officially classified 13th after he was found to have left the track and gained a lasting advantage, Lance Stroll and Yuki Tsunoda each gaining one spot as a result.

Magnussen meanwhile picked up the same penalty for causing a collision with Lance Stroll, though given the Dane was not a classified finisher it does nothing to his ultimate race result.

[Everso Biggyballies]

A couple of more notes:

1. It seems that Sainz really needed to keep Verstappen behind him on the first lap. Failed to do so.
2. Not sure why Ferrari did not pit one of their two cars during the safety car.

1) Agreed re Sainz
2) I think I heard Horner say that they couldnt pit Max because he was already at / past pit entry when the SC was called. I guess the two Ferraris might have been in a similar position. Sergio was half a dozen seconds behind Sainz because of his hybrid / recovery sensor fault so was in the right place at the right time, but had an big gap on Bottas behind him so it was a total freebie to him in terms of track position.

If the Ferraris were not past the pit entry then certainly they shot themselves in the foot, especially as initially it was only a VSC not full SC so under VSC you dont have the field compression factor. You just get the bonus of less lost time because the field is running at reduced speed but with original traffic gaps.

OK Official word is out. Re the track position it has been confirmed Max was past the point of being able to commit to pitlane. Leclerc is dubious he could have made pit lane, maybe at a pinch, but Sainz could have.

Sainz said he was not stopped because they had no more available new medium compound tyres, only hard and soft. The soft had a very limited life and the new hard would have been no better than what they had on given their long warm up time and the fact the hards they had on had not degraded or lost lap time. Maintaining track position was deemed the way to go over stopping for unsuitable rubber..

It seems Red Bull had been more frugal in their pre race use of the medium and despite starting with new mediums still had another set of mediums at their disposal if needed. (Sergio took advantage of it. Ferrari had none. Perez was able to stop, lose no track position and fit new medium tyres.

Of course with the benefit of hindsight Ferrari are patting themselves on the back saying they made the right call given the finishing positions.

We of course know that Perez only stayed where he was behind the Ferraris due to his loss of engine power. Without that handicap he would have certainly finished 3rd and likely 2nd.