Formula 1 and MotoGP - Racing

Answers to questions from a few pages back in the thread:



Joe has just got to get alot of wins this year.

F1: I'm not exactly a strategist but even I could see that was a 4 stop race by lap 20, though the safety car changed it a bit. I was on sky commentary and none of them noticed the savage beating the cars were taking. Antonelli's car looked like being inside a dryer. No wonder they had so many electrical problems. Apparently Alonso's steering wheel fell off in FP2

Ouch, apparently Martin got hit by Diggi when he fell. I didn't see it. He's out for 3 months, ouch.

It amazes much how much Max gets out of that shit box Red Bull car. That five seconds came to bite him in the ass though. It's usually him who is pushing people off the track. It was nice to see someone do it to him for once.

Agreed. He’s the best, but I also think the car is really tough to find the window of peak operation; making his teammates gap a bit more misleading than something like the Racing Bull (a car with the reputation of being easier to find the sweet spot).

I don’t think the peak of the Red Bull is where lots of the pundits place it, which is below Mercedes and above Ferrari. I think it’s more like slightly above the Merc, but very setup dependent.

The Red Bull is clearly behind the Mcclaren, which illustrates how crazy he is to keep the Quali and race as competitive as he has.