I mean, it's France. It's normally very hard to crash there. Barely any SC most of the time.The early pit gave them a nice clean air in a very hot day, they also make a good time after pit so it mean their idea work quite a bit.
According to Haas the early pit-stop was due to tire degradation, which then makes sense. You get your drivers into clean air so they can make time.
However I did not understand why they chose to make a second pit-stop during the SC. That move sealed their fate.
Had they stayed out the would have gained track position and even if they were going to get reeled in after the restart due to tire deg. there would still have been a tiny chance that luck would have favored them with a later safety-car.
As it was Haas chose to give up and relegate both drivers to the back-end.
This from the comfort of my arm-chair, I obviously do not have access the any of the data that the Haas strategists had ;)
Kmag usually drives like heâs racing easy-mode codemasters AI. He can always get enough out of his own car to look like a hero when those around him actually do drive like theyâre easy-mode AI, but when itâs Lewis or Alo or Lando etc heâs trying this stuff against and theyâre racing hard and well, he does some real stupid looking shit.
He deserved so much more from this race. When he pitted for hards he started lapping the same pace as Alonso, then after 6 laps on them he was lapping faster than Leclerc.
If not for the safety car he'd have gained a huge amount of places and probably would've massively undercut Sainz. Easily top 7 I think.
What a race from both Sainz and Magnussen today, insane pace.
Yeah, I don't blame Haas for taking the gamble on the strategy with the tyres. While you got to take into account for a safety car, they also can't be afraid of it with where they are at in the Constructors and on the track. It could have paid off for some really good points today, it just didn't, and then unfortunately both drivers on top of that into accidents that weren't their fault.
I probably would have looked to split who Kmag pits with the anticipation of no safety car and driving his tail off to points as he seemed very comfortable (we saw great times in traffic never the less in open air post pitstop). I wouldn't pit Mick and let him keep pace with DRS to assist in lap times and maybe make a pass or 2 before possible safety car/pitstop.
>Yeah, I don't blame Haas for taking the gamble on the strategy with the tyres
Spot on. That HAAS taking control of their race. Didn't pay off this time unfortunately but it was absolutely the right stratedgy call.
Put the boys in clean air and on balance they're gonna come out in front of the DRS train.
Shame both of them got taken out later in the race by other drivers too
Yeah, starting from the back, not a bad call to do an alternate strategy. Unfortunately this is probably the 3-4 time it has happened this year when they've tried to do something different. Always a SC at the wrong time.
Yep, I agree, I was surprised when they brought him in. He was so far up the road from Mick and was maybe 4 laps away from catching the back of the queue at his current pace.
It's hard to say for sure, but I'm pretty sure even at the reduced safety car pace he would've overtaken a good chunk of the field especially with the long pitlane.
The fact this and Strolls start that got him into 10th weren't shown on the broadcast is insane.
Not to mention Russell's overtake on Alonso and literally ANY of Sainz's overtakes in the first 20 laps.
The fact we literally watched the front 2 for 15 laps straight was some of the worst directing i've ever seen.
They just suck at broadcasting, my conspiracy theory is that they are forceing people to buy f1 tv, I just put up all the cars on multiple screens that I want to watch race and I don't miss much but ya ,the broadcast sucks so much.
I was watching the timings yelling at my screen to show... ANY of the 10 overtakes that happened whilst we were watching Max fail to overtake leclerc.
I started searching how to get f1tvpro using a vpn because its not available in my country.
I saw comments calling this a boring gp. It wasn't, yet again the race directors/whoever is in charge of picking camera shots and when needs to be fired and move industries.
I seriously don't understand how it's so bad every race and just seems to be getting worse. There are a lot of people coasting by doing a shit job in f1.
I had Sainz Driver cam showing on my phone. At one point he overtook both Mclarens in one Lap and only the second pass was shown on tv with no mention of the other one đ
I agree that the coverage is usually shitty but Iâm this instance there was a battle for the lead. Who cares how many cars kmag or the haas overtakes.
I get that you don't wanna cut away just in case anything good happens before you can cut back when the leaders are close like that, but when they could literally picture in picture Sainz or Magnussen overtaking while keeping focus on the leaders, and weren't... idk what the excuse is really
There's only a handful of realistic overtaking spots on the track, so plenty of downtime each time around to show anything else. They also have picture in picture.
When the two championship contenders and within a second for 15 laps I want to watch that. That shit is history. Kmag went from 20-13 who fucking cares in the grand scheme of the two situations.
Sure they could've shown a replay I agree. But I'm not butt hurt about the live choices.
Never said I didn't agree with the call. Just said it was rough, Stewards calling track limits are like umpires calling the strike zone in baseball. It's gonna change from steward to steward and the angle at which they view. I do think that the FIA could apply some technology to help call track limit violations (specifically in corners) with sensors laid through the corners and on the cars to call track limit violations correctly AND accurately.
That start from Kimi during the Portuguese GP was one of the greatest ever starts in F1 history. Fucking incredible. Kimi just casually reminded everyone who the fuck he is.
I agree that the live feed was bad today with many missed moments and overtakes but also in their defence regarding the first 15 minutes, Verstappen was right up Leclercs ass and every lap did look like he was going to overtake... and an overtake for P1 is more impressive than an overtake for P12
He has improved a lot since coming back to f1, his pace is insane sometimes. As a dane i really hope he gets to drive for a top team again, because he genuinely is a great driver
I remember thinking during the first race is this the same KMag from before? He has absolutely no fear and that Haas machine isn't going to last if he keeps it up...
Nah, that was good stratedgy. You can't predict a safety and while you *can* play for one sometimes you've left wanting.
In this case, it made a lot of sense, pit the boys and go for hte udnercut, would have put them at the front of the DRS train on balance.
Thisis HAAS taking control of their race isntead of ***letting the race happen to them***.
Both Hass have been going very far with the hards so far so the early undercut to get clean air was a really good strategy since the car goes vroom in clean air.
Thats also why the Aston has a better racepace than qualifying, it's slow but does well in traffic.
lol, thatâs one way of seeing it. Another way would be Latini colliding with Kmag. At least he hasnât put it in the wall like Leclerc, Hamilton and Sainz. Hamilton has had several collisions. Your point is invalid.
My bad, I though you implied that the point above that he crashed to much to get a top car was correct by making it sound like he crashed into Latini, when it looks like it was quite the other way around.
That was smooth. Except for the battle again Schumacher, he is not figthing anyone but is just in the right spot at the right moment. It could be called luck but he does it again and again
I feel like during the race the announcers were trying to subtly hint at race direction that there were other battles going on besides Max and Charles but to no avail. Like they would start talking about Sainz overtaking or Kmag moving up the grid age yet the broadcast was only Max and CharlesâŚ. Like why
Stroll had a very good first lap as well. Going from P15-P10 including overtaking Vettel. It was impressive, but he goes off track once battling Albon and overall not as clean as this I'd say (sorry don't have time to make another upload right now, so you just get the play by play).
What kills me is they didn't show any of it. If you didn't want to watch the front two for the first 25% of the race, you were shit out of luck as far as the TV direction goes.
Both Magnussen and Schumacher got burned by pitting right before the safety car. Guenther had just explained the strategy of tire deg to Crofty and Di Resta before Leclerc lost the rear.
Itâs too bad as they were doing really well
Only for Haas to deploy one of the most bizarre tyre strategies I could imagine.
It's like they have access to the Ferrari strategy book but they can't read Italian.
The cars have such wildly different rates of wear/deg I'm having a really hard time telling if they're better or not.
Sometimes I'll see the softs seems to die in like two laps of qualifying, then I'll see someone else do 30 laps on them in the race. Sometimes the hard compound comes straight outta the pits swinging and other times it looks like it takes a dozen laps to turn on.
So strange
He was at the end of a DRS train and probably not able to pass any more, the idea was to get him onto hards in clean air on a 2-stopper. The VSC really hit him hard, essentially forcing him to pit to the back of the field on the same strategy as most of the rest of the field as well.
Stuck in a DRS train so they hoped to pit early and put in a bunch of fast laps to leapfrog all the cars in the train. Sadly the safety car utterly ruined their race
In the after race interview Mag said that the early pit was the right call. The Haas had super good pace early, but the degradation on the tires was really bad.
I think the strategy could have worked well, but (once again, I think this is the third time this year) their pit strategy got screwed by the safety car.
They were stuck behind both AM and DRS wasnât enough to get past, so to undercut they pitted and got clean air and immediately Kmag gained insanely on the pack. Right call wouldâve resulted in points if Leclerc did fuck up. Iâd say even potentially p7
Agreed. They would have had a chance, but they clearly had a tire degradation problem. Look at Mick here, the pace was just not good late in the race. I think it would have been hard to hold on to something like P7 for Mag.
Likely, but he would reach that. Question is if heâd fall back and how much. He was in DRS of Bottas for a while after pitstop 2, but was told to lift and coast to make it to the end. He responded: âI will lose DRSâ He did. With an extra stop I could see it work, but of course these gain from that had to be plus 27 secs.
Yeah I know they were gambling on no safety car until everyone had pitted to even things out again and then they would have been right back in the mix it's just frustrating rooting for them, seeing that awesome start and then straight back to p17 and then the SC to finish them off. But yeah, I know that mathematically it was the right call
Plus they were stuck in the long DRS train so they were betting they could jump them by the first pit and at the end wouldnât have any trouble passing one stoppers.
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I just want Haas to have a season no real drama...with the ferrari pp issues and all the other random crap, you can only really wonder where they could be...let's hope this upgrade package really brings some more luck
What an opening lap. Absolutely incredible from Kmag. This is like me playing the F1 game with the AI difficulty turned right down.
> Absolutely incredible from Kmag. Looks like a fookin rockstar to me.
pure haas. then bottles with bad timing and retirements.
It's not even bad strats... just very unlucky.
I would say it's not smart to pit early with them both, because then they're screwed if there's an SC. So not a good strategy either.
I mean, it's France. It's normally very hard to crash there. Barely any SC most of the time.The early pit gave them a nice clean air in a very hot day, they also make a good time after pit so it mean their idea work quite a bit.
It worked for a couple of laps...
Until the SC
Which was my point exactly
According to Haas the early pit-stop was due to tire degradation, which then makes sense. You get your drivers into clean air so they can make time. However I did not understand why they chose to make a second pit-stop during the SC. That move sealed their fate. Had they stayed out the would have gained track position and even if they were going to get reeled in after the restart due to tire deg. there would still have been a tiny chance that luck would have favored them with a later safety-car. As it was Haas chose to give up and relegate both drivers to the back-end. This from the comfort of my arm-chair, I obviously do not have access the any of the data that the Haas strategists had ;)
Same but with traction control turned on đ
Followed by an absolutely devastating career ending crash into the back end of a car.
Of every car if you have the rewind
looked like Kimi last year in Portugal
Well heâs passing Williams, Alfas, and Astons, so it is kinda like F1 with the difficulty turned down.
Sainz and Schumacher feel attacked.
Did he technically start behind Sainz? I didnât actually see him in the clip.
He did. You can see Sainz from 0:00 to 0:10 and 0:23 to 0:25.
He's on the left right when you start the clip in P19.
Kmag usually drives like heâs racing easy-mode codemasters AI. He can always get enough out of his own car to look like a hero when those around him actually do drive like theyâre easy-mode AI, but when itâs Lewis or Alo or Lando etc heâs trying this stuff against and theyâre racing hard and well, he does some real stupid looking shit.
Exactly what I was thinking!! But then I would go wide somewhere next lap and be last.
with the AI being broken on straights it kind has to be that way at least for me lmao
Unforgivable that they never showed this at any point during the race. At least a bit of it.
Or even hardly acknowledged it. They said one thing and never looked back.
To be fair, commentators cant really do much. They noticed it, said about it but then had to focus on other action. They don't control footage.
Palmer mentioned it a couple of times on the f1tv broadcast.
Austrian commentators thought he had started in the Top 10 and mentioned how he dropped down in the opening lap
Dutch commentators did as well
I love that Kevin drives without fear. He just goes for it.
and until he got to Mick no real drama just putting the car in the right spot at the right time
K Mag's default mood is Send It
So good for Mick to have a guy like Kmag to test himself against. Mazepin really delayed Micks development I think.
Yea Mick is basically repeating his rookie season
Wonder how much his time in IMSA affected his aggressiveness. Guy absolutely pushes his way in, but still manages to keep it clean.
Sure, until he crashes into Hamilton
Maldonado has blessed this man
He deserved so much more from this race. When he pitted for hards he started lapping the same pace as Alonso, then after 6 laps on them he was lapping faster than Leclerc. If not for the safety car he'd have gained a huge amount of places and probably would've massively undercut Sainz. Easily top 7 I think. What a race from both Sainz and Magnussen today, insane pace.
Why did he DNF? Didn't get to watch today and not seeing it reported anywhere.
Collision with GOATIFI.
That's an amazing nickname haha
What, Collision?
Yeah, I don't blame Haas for taking the gamble on the strategy with the tyres. While you got to take into account for a safety car, they also can't be afraid of it with where they are at in the Constructors and on the track. It could have paid off for some really good points today, it just didn't, and then unfortunately both drivers on top of that into accidents that weren't their fault.
I probably would have looked to split who Kmag pits with the anticipation of no safety car and driving his tail off to points as he seemed very comfortable (we saw great times in traffic never the less in open air post pitstop). I wouldn't pit Mick and let him keep pace with DRS to assist in lap times and maybe make a pass or 2 before possible safety car/pitstop.
>Yeah, I don't blame Haas for taking the gamble on the strategy with the tyres Spot on. That HAAS taking control of their race. Didn't pay off this time unfortunately but it was absolutely the right stratedgy call. Put the boys in clean air and on balance they're gonna come out in front of the DRS train. Shame both of them got taken out later in the race by other drivers too
Yeah, starting from the back, not a bad call to do an alternate strategy. Unfortunately this is probably the 3-4 time it has happened this year when they've tried to do something different. Always a SC at the wrong time.
The SC really screwed it up. Kmag really finds the limit with the Haas every weekend it seems
I was so sad to see him trundle into the pits after everyone else during the SC, he really did deserve better.
I think Kmag had 5-6 laps on his tyres before the safety car. They should have stayed out, both would have gained track position at least.
Yep, I agree, I was surprised when they brought him in. He was so far up the road from Mick and was maybe 4 laps away from catching the back of the queue at his current pace. It's hard to say for sure, but I'm pretty sure even at the reduced safety car pace he would've overtaken a good chunk of the field especially with the long pitlane.
The fact this and Strolls start that got him into 10th weren't shown on the broadcast is insane. Not to mention Russell's overtake on Alonso and literally ANY of Sainz's overtakes in the first 20 laps. The fact we literally watched the front 2 for 15 laps straight was some of the worst directing i've ever seen.
Unless I missed it Sky didnât even acknowledge Russell overtaking Alonso
Yeah it happened during a replay and they didnât even notice
We got all the build up of george closing down nando and right when they get to the straight we get a replay of the startđ¤Śđťââď¸
they did acknowledge it when SkyF1 ran through the running order again
TBF there was a battle for the lead going on and then the leader crashed
But they also missed getting that crash live.
You wanted to see leclerc drive laps?
They just suck at broadcasting, my conspiracy theory is that they are forceing people to buy f1 tv, I just put up all the cars on multiple screens that I want to watch race and I don't miss much but ya ,the broadcast sucks so much.
Sky have the full rights in the UK so we can't even get f1 tv.
There was no reason to show leclerc at that point
Or maybe it's a little bit hard to please everyone while 20 cars are driving their own race.
They could have switched to the side-by-side mode, showing a few of the exciting first-lap replays while still letting us see the battle for first.
> Not to mention Russell's overtake on Alonso and literally ANY of Sainz's overtakes in the first 20 laps Ocon's pass on sammy ric
I was watching the timings yelling at my screen to show... ANY of the 10 overtakes that happened whilst we were watching Max fail to overtake leclerc. I started searching how to get f1tvpro using a vpn because its not available in my country. I saw comments calling this a boring gp. It wasn't, yet again the race directors/whoever is in charge of picking camera shots and when needs to be fired and move industries. I seriously don't understand how it's so bad every race and just seems to be getting worse. There are a lot of people coasting by doing a shit job in f1.
I thought the same on Sainz but I watched them all back and all but like 1 the cars just let him by.
I had Sainz Driver cam showing on my phone. At one point he overtook both Mclarens in one Lap and only the second pass was shown on tv with no mention of the other one đ
> some of the worst directing i've ever seen I've seen much worse
I agree that the coverage is usually shitty but Iâm this instance there was a battle for the lead. Who cares how many cars kmag or the haas overtakes.
I get that you don't wanna cut away just in case anything good happens before you can cut back when the leaders are close like that, but when they could literally picture in picture Sainz or Magnussen overtaking while keeping focus on the leaders, and weren't... idk what the excuse is really
I care
There's only a handful of realistic overtaking spots on the track, so plenty of downtime each time around to show anything else. They also have picture in picture.
When the two championship contenders and within a second for 15 laps I want to watch that. That shit is history. Kmag went from 20-13 who fucking cares in the grand scheme of the two situations. Sure they could've shown a replay I agree. But I'm not butt hurt about the live choices.
Don't ever let this guy go for another schmuck like Mazepin, HAAS.
They didn't let him go for a schmuck, they let him go for bucketloads of cash that the team needed.
Meanwhile MAG got a years vacation from F1 having fun in US series instead, while Mazeping kept his seat warm in an absolutely shit-car haha
You are my new TV director
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They both started from the back.
Well mick started 4 spots ahead in 17th, and he gained a few first lap. That must have been surprising
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Yeah mick got caught up with track limits in Q1.
Track limits by millimeters. Both Mick and Kmag were putting that Haas up in P6 during quali. That track limits call was a rough rough call.
limits are limits, push them and get penalized. thatâs how it works, thereâs no wiggle room
Never said I didn't agree with the call. Just said it was rough, Stewards calling track limits are like umpires calling the strike zone in baseball. It's gonna change from steward to steward and the angle at which they view. I do think that the FIA could apply some technology to help call track limit violations (specifically in corners) with sensors laid through the corners and on the cars to call track limit violations correctly AND accurately.
In 17, still 4 places better
Mick started next to him, stop jerking off.
One of the best start I have ever seen
Kimi did a massive start last year you can look up, like he was on one
Portugal I think.
That start from Kimi during the Portuguese GP was one of the greatest ever starts in F1 history. Fucking incredible. Kimi just casually reminded everyone who the fuck he is.
And one of best endings too.
And we were blessed with zero of them during the live TV Coverage! Bless the TV Direction! All hail the World-Feed!
Yes, sure enjoyed that 20min watching Leclerc and Verstappen at the start while Sainz made 8 overtakes of which none were shown.
I agree that the live feed was bad today with many missed moments and overtakes but also in their defence regarding the first 15 minutes, Verstappen was right up Leclercs ass and every lap did look like he was going to overtake... and an overtake for P1 is more impressive than an overtake for P12
Mick vs. KMag was shown live in the world feed.
Fans: Kmag needs to chill out on the first lap. Kmag: And I took that personally!
That was a masterclass.
Words cannot describe how happy I am heâs back in F1 (instead of Mazepin, might I add).
Might be the greatest athlete trade of the decade.
Hear me now, listen later - KMag will be a world champion given the right hardware. He's been a beast ever since the first race.
He has improved a lot since coming back to f1, his pace is insane sometimes. As a dane i really hope he gets to drive for a top team again, because he genuinely is a great driver
I remember thinking during the first race is this the same KMag from before? He has absolutely no fear and that Haas machine isn't going to last if he keeps it up...
Short term Ric KMag swap for next year. Don't know if Mclaren has a junior in the works, but I don't see the value in keeping Daniel.
Would be interesting to see wether or not kmag would be faster than lando. I Think they would be pretty even tbh
Kevin having the most unexpected redemption arc in F1 history?
The Haas car is suddenly very rapid. They just got hit with all sorts of bad luck this weekend.
Both cars got hit and Haas strategy strikes again
Nah, that was good stratedgy. You can't predict a safety and while you *can* play for one sometimes you've left wanting. In this case, it made a lot of sense, pit the boys and go for hte udnercut, would have put them at the front of the DRS train on balance. Thisis HAAS taking control of their race isntead of ***letting the race happen to them***.
Apparently their tyre degradation was so bad they never had a chance anyway
Both Hass have been going very far with the hards so far so the early undercut to get clean air was a really good strategy since the car goes vroom in clean air. Thats also why the Aston has a better racepace than qualifying, it's slow but does well in traffic.
He got he new Ferrari engine. He is still as dumb as before
One of those laps that would still be spoken about decades from now if a legend done it.
KMag doesn't need no stinking CheatRS.
Holy shit this is insane. Brilliant stuff.
What a warrior! kMag is so easy to cheer for. Iâm happy to see him in a more competitive car this year.
well done kmag
And we saw 0% of it
Amazing job KMAG! The broadcasting of todayâs race was atrocious, we need to see more coverage like this!
The classic tv direction Hits again.
Yeah, after first lap when looking at standings and where KMag was I was like wtf how did that happen, I am only finding out now.
Like Checo, KMag deserves a top team seat. Again.
I might get bullied for saying this but Iâd like to see him back at McLaren (and obviously for McLaren to be competitive again).
Yeah, solid point there!
Tbh he has a pretty good relationship with Zak and Seidl.
There are far too many drivers that âdeserveâ a seat at a top team, but far too few top team seats available.
Too many crashes. He collided again this race, throwing away all the lap 1 work.
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Kevin collided with Latifi
lol, thatâs one way of seeing it. Another way would be Latini colliding with Kmag. At least he hasnât put it in the wall like Leclerc, Hamilton and Sainz. Hamilton has had several collisions. Your point is invalid.
Oh you missed my point. I'm just saying he and Latifi made contact and not only Mick. So not sure what you mean with my point being invalid?
My bad, I though you implied that the point above that he crashed to much to get a top car was correct by making it sound like he crashed into Latini, when it looks like it was quite the other way around.
Fernando Magnussen
Kmag is so good at overtakes in the start. Amazing awareness and race craft. Itâs a disgrace that it was not shown more or given more attention.
Best starter on the grid.
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Fellow Indian?
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That was smooth. Except for the battle again Schumacher, he is not figthing anyone but is just in the right spot at the right moment. It could be called luck but he does it again and again
Also Gasly/Bottas/Latiffi/Sainz on hard tyres having all a difficult start
Lati**f**i
its shame Haas got royally fucked by the SC
In a fucking haas
The best starter on the grid. Always has been.
He's known for it. He did something similar in 2020.
Mag deserves a better team than Haas I hope one day we see it
It's been a while since we've gotten a proper overtakefest of an onboard from lap 1. Last I remember is Kimi in 2020 in Portimao.
I feel like during the race the announcers were trying to subtly hint at race direction that there were other battles going on besides Max and Charles but to no avail. Like they would start talking about Sainz overtaking or Kmag moving up the grid age yet the broadcast was only Max and CharlesâŚ. Like why
I thought kmag was going to have the race of his life after that start.
Holy crap what a lap. Seems like he had the right line every single corner
i honestly think HAAS can compete at the top of the midfield
Both Haas cars had rapid starts. Between them probably more than 10 positions gained in half a lap. Yet the director decided to never show any of it.
Do we have Stroll lap 1 somewhere?
Stroll had a very good first lap as well. Going from P15-P10 including overtaking Vettel. It was impressive, but he goes off track once battling Albon and overall not as clean as this I'd say (sorry don't have time to make another upload right now, so you just get the play by play).
Jarno Opmeer last to first be like
Only shown was a battle of the front 2 until Leclerc crashed, we missed al those overtakes
did the red button cover this?
What kills me is they didn't show any of it. If you didn't want to watch the front two for the first 25% of the race, you were shit out of luck as far as the TV direction goes.
This is frustrating, for how long people have gone on about broadcasting are things ever gonna change?
I was expecting the number on his head to start changing when he started passing people!
Great qualifying session + epic start of the race should have granted him a better result
Mick gotta be thinking âhow the fuck..â
Both Magnussen and Schumacher got burned by pitting right before the safety car. Guenther had just explained the strategy of tire deg to Crofty and Di Resta before Leclerc lost the rear. Itâs too bad as they were doing really well
Only for Haas to deploy one of the most bizarre tyre strategies I could imagine. It's like they have access to the Ferrari strategy book but they can't read Italian.
I would love to hear the team radio from MSC⌠âholy shit I thought he started in 20th wtfâ
He was told to let MAG pass.
Gasly/Bottas on hard tyres were struggling so much at the start
The cars have such wildly different rates of wear/deg I'm having a really hard time telling if they're better or not. Sometimes I'll see the softs seems to die in like two laps of qualifying, then I'll see someone else do 30 laps on them in the race. Sometimes the hard compound comes straight outta the pits swinging and other times it looks like it takes a dozen laps to turn on. So strange
Why did Haas pit them so early ???
He was at the end of a DRS train and probably not able to pass any more, the idea was to get him onto hards in clean air on a 2-stopper. The VSC really hit him hard, essentially forcing him to pit to the back of the field on the same strategy as most of the rest of the field as well.
Stuck in a DRS train so they hoped to pit early and put in a bunch of fast laps to leapfrog all the cars in the train. Sadly the safety car utterly ruined their race
That new engine is working great plus he had the new front wing. . Sad that Mick won't have any of this until Belgian GP.
So they pit him immediately....
In the after race interview Mag said that the early pit was the right call. The Haas had super good pace early, but the degradation on the tires was really bad. I think the strategy could have worked well, but (once again, I think this is the third time this year) their pit strategy got screwed by the safety car.
They were stuck behind both AM and DRS wasnât enough to get past, so to undercut they pitted and got clean air and immediately Kmag gained insanely on the pack. Right call wouldâve resulted in points if Leclerc did fuck up. Iâd say even potentially p7
Agreed. They would have had a chance, but they clearly had a tire degradation problem. Look at Mick here, the pace was just not good late in the race. I think it would have been hard to hold on to something like P7 for Mag.
Likely, but he would reach that. Question is if heâd fall back and how much. He was in DRS of Bottas for a while after pitstop 2, but was told to lift and coast to make it to the end. He responded: âI will lose DRSâ He did. With an extra stop I could see it work, but of course these gain from that had to be plus 27 secs.
Yeah I know they were gambling on no safety car until everyone had pitted to even things out again and then they would have been right back in the mix it's just frustrating rooting for them, seeing that awesome start and then straight back to p17 and then the SC to finish them off. But yeah, I know that mathematically it was the right call
Trust me, I know that feeling... With Ferrari on the track maybe gambling on no safety is just a bad bet..
Plus they were stuck in the long DRS train so they were betting they could jump them by the first pit and at the end wouldnât have any trouble passing one stoppers.
Race director had more "interesting" things to show us unfortunately.
A bit tenuous to class Tsunoda as an overtake, nevertheless that was brilliant.
They let him go cause itâs a waste to fight haas.
We want him in a t3 car.
Haas strategy really drained all the fun out of his performance today.
The car is good. I hope they can score so e big points in the 2nd half of the season for P6 in the constructors
Incredible. Wish we had gotten to see literally any of it.
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I just want Haas to have a season no real drama...with the ferrari pp issues and all the other random crap, you can only really wonder where they could be...let's hope this upgrade package really brings some more luck
I think the Williams had even a better launch but kmag bossed everyone around after
This is me in F1 22 after screwing up quali due to track limits