Commissario
Wow, Sato hits the wall and still goes twelfth. He won’t keep it but that was pretty good.
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Soldato
Well, you say that... The session was stopped due to lightning a few runs later (nobody beat his time), then resumed with a couple more runs (no faster), then more lightning and rain came, and last I saw there was no chance of any more running as the track was soaking, so incredibly he will go into the fastest 12 running tomorrow.
Still, he shouldn't have needed to. He only had to do that second run because he made a stupid mistake holding up Andretti by not entering the pits on the backstraight. This is his 13th Indy 500, so he knows the drill.
Commissario
Aye, we’ve had it on all evening. Was very surprised at his mistake earlier. It must have just been a brain fart.
Interesting take on the differences between Hamilton and Russell, and how their respective seasons have started this year, from Ross Brawn.
Will always listen to what Ross says, and with his connections to the teams, you have to consider his words to have a massive amount of truth behind them.
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Will always listen to what Ross says, and with his connections to the teams, you have to consider his words to have a massive amount of truth behind them.
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Caporegime
Interesting. Thanks.
Or George gets exactly the same car every race so gets used to how it drives.
While Hamilton gets new parts and setup changes every race, so has to learn the differences and changes every time.
Always two sides to, and two ways to view, every situation.
To be fair if I was Lewis I’d be thinking along the same lines. It’d be very hard to win this year, seen as nothing is changing next year why not spend the whole year improving the car and testing for all eventualities. Mind you, weren’t they supposed to be concentrating on this car all last season as well 
Caporegime
To be fair if I was Lewis I’d be thinking along the same lines. It’d be very hard to win this year, seen as nothing is changing next year why not spend the whole year improving the car and testing for all eventualities. Mind you, weren’t they supposed to be concentrating on this car all last season as well
Porpoising caught them all by surprise. Judging by last race, the car is pretty solid once they've got on top of that.
Still it is way to early to judge if Mercs are on top of the porpoiseing.
They had very little at Barcelona pre season testing, then loads at Bahrain in the pre season test.
So Barcelona might just suit their car better.
Will have to wait and see at other tracks, as no one will learn anything at Monaco, as they don't go fast enough for it to occur.
Caporegime
Indeed. But my point is that when the porpoising is under control the car is good. The failure of not predicting the level of porpoising is not Merc's alone; it caught the whole grid out.
Soldato
Agreed, one race, where they still are experiencing porposing in the corners, does not represent a fix. Let's see how the car performs on longer straights when the ambient temperature is cooler, thus the air more dense..
Man of Honour
No, that isn't what the Ross Brawn quote infers, at all.
How could you reach that conclusion from reading that?
Call me a cynic but even though Ross Brawn is no longer a part of the team, it's well within his interest talk very positively about the most decelerated driver in the field who is currently struggling with their car and getting beaten by his team mate. Particularly in the context of the rumours of him leaving F1 given how valuable he is as a brand to the sport.
Given the quotes were "Brawn, though, understands" and "He’s probably sacrificing the races" is all rather vague. There is a party line in F1 and Ross was very much sticking to it. Forgive me for not taking what the PR machine says as gospel when there is serious money on the line for the sport.
Given the quotes were "Brawn, though, understands" and "He’s probably sacrificing the races" is all rather vague. There is a party line in F1 and Ross was very much sticking to it. Forgive me for not taking what the PR machine says as gospel when there is serious money on the line for the sport.
Soldato
So solid that they had to crawl to finish line
They certainly looked better and are now easily the best of the rest but still quite far behind the Ferrri and RB.
Caporegime
So solid that they had to crawl to finish line
To be fair, of the top three teams, Merc are the only one to get all their cars to the end of all the races so far.
I think they're pretty close now. Still 3rd but within biting distance, and with the best driver line-up of the three teams.
Soldato
True though until the last race they couldn't really run their cars at their full performance and in the first race they were able to put more stress on the car they both suffered technical issues.
Commissario
Oh, Bernie.
www.bbc.co.uk
Ecclestone arrested in Brazil for gun offence
Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is arrested in Brazil for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland.
www.bbc.co.uk
Soldato
Looks like Kimi is doing a one off race on a NASCAR road course, will be interesting to see how he compares to the regulars. Would expect him to do well with the next gen car equating a bit more closely to a modern race car than the previous cars plus Trackhouse in general have been going well this season
