F1 2022 Season

[BusbyMalone]

Crazy as it seems, all it would take is a dnf for max and leclerc and a win for russell and he'd be only be 10 points behind max in the standings and 4 points behind leclerc.

Yeah, he's gone under the radar a little. Obviously the focus has been on Charles and Max, and in regards to Merc it's all been about Hamilton, but Russell is having a great season. It would be nice to have three drivers going for the title.

Checo ain't a million miles off either.

 

[dinostar77]

Ted Kravitz Notebook:

Apparently according to Binotto, Sainz cant cope with the aggressive but fast balance of the ferrari that charles can. Carlos driving style cant deal with such a nervous car but leclerc can make it dance.

Alonso and his agent pushing for a drive at Ferrari or RedBull. However neither team will give him a drive as he's too good to be a no2, wont accept being a no2 and will probably upset their no1 drivers.

Max's DRS issues maybe self inflicted by RB. They are trying to reduce weight on the RB, primarily Max's car and have been trying to lighten the drs system.

Lewis might not be allowed out into fp1 at monaco if he doesn't remove his nose piercing, which would require an operation to remove. FP1 on Thursday will be a showdown between lewis and fia.

Williams looking at replacing latifi with nic de vries. They are checking to see if they can get by without latifi's sponsorship as they'd tather have a good driver alongside albion.

 

[dinostar77]

 

[dinostar77]

Hamilton fastest in Barcelona in sector 1 and 3.

 

[dinostar77]

Totto not giving up on this years championship:

Team principal Toto Wolff went one step further.

"I've seen a race car that reminded me of the race cars of previous season when you are 30-plus seconds behind the whole field and come all the way to the front and get a podium," he said.

"It is very encouraging and shows we've made another stop.

"Can we fight for the world championship? We bet we can, but we just need a car that can finish first and second and we have reasons to believe we can get there.

"The odds are against us but motor racing is a different ball game. We saw Ferrari didn't score a lot of points although they should. We are absolutely pushing flat out to bring us back into the game."

 

[Kanu]

Not the kinda poster you want to associate with...

I checked his post history. You may be right

 

[redshaw]

Very impressed with Russell again, not the defending really which was still nice but the pace he set throughout.

Sainz nowhere in lap time, forget the spin. He should be a lot closer to Leclerc, he's not even a good wingman at this pace regardless of his errors. Real shame about Leclerc's car, he was out in front driving very well.

 

[ChaddyP]

Yeah, without the issue at the end, Hamilton finishes 5-10 seconds clear of Sainz. Absolute stinker of a drive in a Ferrari, considering the speed of that car.

Funny you say that. Mercedes race pace was better than ferrari in practice. Still no reason for Hamilton to pass u after having to pass literally the whole field

 

[ArjenIsM3]

Yeah let's be clear, Sainz was absolutely terrible today.

 

[hobbers]

Feel for Sainz because it's probably going to eventually crush him being in this Ferrari team, but it'll be a slow death to his ambitions.

 

[ZIDANE]

Yes though merc put in some good times in the slow.corner sectors which could bode well for them at Monaco as well

Could be a very good race but as its Monaco I expect it won't be

Yes and Monaco reduces the spread of the field but I'm not reading too much into these cars for odd circuits just yet because of the way teams have set up their cars so far. Red Bull until recently ran a very skinny rear wing so they could beat the Ferrari on the straights in recent races - learnt from the Merc battle.

I've never seen an Adrian Newey Red Bull not do well around Monaco but Ferrari seem to pull out a fast lap in qualifying in any conditions so could lead the grid and we know there will be no overtaking with these massive cars.

Russell the only driver to score points at every race so far this season. Also finished in the top five in every race. I know Merc are having their troubles, but he's having a very good season all things considered. Hopefully it continues.

Mercedes reliability has been spot on picking up points from other teams failures however they've been racing themselves or stuck behind a DRS train, we've only seen them push today and we saw they had cooling issues more than others.

Hamilton fastest in Barcelona in sector 1 and 3.

The top 3 drivers there all had soft tyres on low fuel at the end with Hamilton and Perez going for the fastest lap. No Leclerc and Max on old tyres by then.

Mercedes sorted their issues and I knew they would similar to Red Bull in the second test, they are just behind in development. They were still 6-7 tenths away in qualifying and when Perez is able to pull away from Russell you know you still have a little bit to do.

I expect Hamilton to be fighting for wins soon enough but will be interesting how much the teams can continue developing within the budget.

 

[sglowrider]

Ted Kravitz Notebook:

Lewis might not be allowed out into fp1 at monaco if he doesn't remove his nose piercing, which would require an operation to remove. FP1 on Thursday will be a showdown between lewis and fia.

That would be dumb. Its like Lewis is back in shcool.

 

[Jerch]

I love how Red Bulls are not completely happy with 1 2 when Merc is delighted with 3 and 5. Keep it coming.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

OK this maybe a daft question , but does that temp of the fuel make a huge difference and if so what.

 

[The Firestarter]

I love how Red Bulls are not completely happy with 1 2 when Merc is delighted with 3 and 5. Keep it coming.

What do you mean? They had technical issues again, otherwise I have no idea what you refer to not "completely" happy.

 

[The Firestarter]

OK this maybe a daft question , but does that temp of the fuel make a huge difference and if so what.

It could cause cavitation in the fuel no?

 

[pauldyson1uk]

It could cause cavitation in the fuel no?

I have no idea to be honest, I know what cavitation is, you could be right.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

I love how Red Bulls are not completely happy with 1 2 when Merc is delighted with 3 and 5. Keep it coming.

They still had problems, Max's DRS for one, so I can see why they are not happy.
Merc will be over the moon with a podium and Lewis's run from 16th to get 5th, shows that what they are doing, is taking the car in the right direction.

 

[The Firestarter]

At the end of the day, three competitive cars is the best we could hope for in terms of entertainment. It would have helped if Sainz stopped bottling it though.

 

[F-Red]

OK this maybe a daft question , but does that temp of the fuel make a huge difference and if so what.

Massive difference, the cooler it is the more that can be injected into the engine combustion chambers and essentially gives more power. Reason for the 10 degrees below ambient temp rule is to make sure you don't get scenarios like we had in the 80s where fuel was being chilled aggressively before putting into the car. Given the extremely hot air temperatures in Spain yesterday, it probably caused more of an issue for some teams than what we've seen in other races.

 

[senorgregster]

I wonder if Sainz's undercarriage was damaged?

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Massive difference, the cooler it is the more that can be injected into the engine combustion chambers and essentially gives more power. Reason for the 10 degrees below ambient temp rule is to make sure you don't get scenarios like we had in the 80s where fuel was being chilled aggressively before putting into the car. Given the extremely hot air temperatures in Spain yesterday, it probably caused more of an issue for some teams than what we've seen in other races.

Cheers.

 

[Adam-Utd]

I wonder if Sainz's undercarriage was damaged?

Possibly, but then so should Max's have been also. He didn't seem to be suffering apart from the DRS issues.

Sainz is just struggling with the car in general as admitted by himself. I suspect he was a little under driving just to make sure he finished in a semi decent position.

 

[Leg-End]

Would have been interesting to see what pace Hamilton had in a normal race, the contact and puncture must have done some floor damage. Bit of a shame the Monaco lottery is next, we won't really know the normal order for a while longer.

 

[sun_tzu]

Would have been interesting to see what pace Hamilton had in a normal race, the contact and puncture must have done some floor damage. Bit of a shame the Monaco lottery is next, we won't really know the normal order for a while longer.

Baku after that?
Another street circuit with some slow corners .... and a big flat out section

Then Canada which will be a proper test for merc I think

 

[ArjenIsM3]

Would have been interesting to see what pace Hamilton had in a normal race, the contact and puncture must have done some floor damage. Bit of a shame the Monaco lottery is next, we won't really know the normal order for a while longer.

Why? Don't think Hamilton or Mercedes mentioned any damage and his lap times were fine. Better than Russell. The car seemed fine.

 

[Dan_F]

Why? Don't think Hamilton or Mercedes mentioned any damage and his lap times were fine. Better than Russell. The car seemed fine.

They mentioned damage on the radio, either just before or after he got back to the pits. There’s no way he had any with those lap times though, the impact was pretty small as well, just unlucky to pick up a puncture.

 

[ArjenIsM3]

They mentioned damage on the radio, either just before or after he got back to the pits. There’s no way he had any with those lap times though, the impact was pretty small as well, just unlucky to pick up a puncture.

Yeah hard to believe Hamilton with damage is better than Russell without damage considering Russell has been better overall this season. Was a good drive from Hamilton though and he deserved to be driver of the day. Hopefully it'll lift his spirits and motivate him to keep his head down and work hard. When he got the puncture he was ready to throw in the towel telling the team they should retire the car to save this engine. The team really had to convince him to stay out. Tells me he still isn't in the best place mentally.

 

[rimaldo]

Yeah hard to believe Hamilton with damage is better than Russell without damage considering Russell has been better overall this season. Was a good drive from Hamilton though and he deserved to be driver of the day. Hopefully it'll lift his spirits and motivate him to keep his head down and work hard. When he got the puncture he was ready to throw in the towel telling the team they should retire the car to save this engine. The team really had to convince him to stay out. Tells me he still isn't in the best place mentally.

he’s always gone through these kinds of periods in the past. i think max helped push him to the next level as he couldn’t afford slow starts to the season. his team mate regularly out performs him at australia at the start of the season. he’s always tended to need a spark to get him going. he’s not had the car yet but looked closer to having one this weekend. if the car’s competitive i’d expect to see a different hamilton over the next couple of races.

 

[Dan_F]

Yeah hard to believe Hamilton with damage is better than Russell without damage considering Russell has been better overall this season. Was a good drive from Hamilton though and he deserved to be driver of the day. Hopefully it'll lift his spirits and motivate him to keep his head down and work hard. When he got the puncture he was ready to throw in the towel telling the team they should retire the car to save this engine. The team really had to convince him to stay out. Tells me he still isn't in the best place mentally.

My view was that people read into that radio message too much. I completely understood why in that split second he’d want to save the engine.

Think about the context of the car struggling to overtake in previous races and him being 35 seconds behind the car ahead. And then the expectation that the car could be much better in the second half of the season, where the engine life from yesterdays race could have been used.

That’s what the team is there for with the all data. I didn’t think there was any way back into the points at first and assumed the they’d make him continue to get more data on the car. As soon as they said he could get points, he got his head down and you didn’t hear another word.

 

[Charrockero]

They still had problems, Max's DRS for one, so I can see why they are not happy.
Merc will be over the moon with a podium and Lewis's run from 16th to get 5th, shows that what they are doing, is taking the car in the right direction.

What he meant also was Perez disgust from being reminded of his role within the RB team. Specially at half race when Max was battling the DRS and was trying to take ahead of Russell.

As Mexican and obviously fan of Perez, the best he can do is keep himself at top places if he really aims to battle Max, Leclerc or even Russell. Some people content he should be happy being 2nd seat but - at least for this race - it's OK for him playing that role. He worked hard to get his place in a car like he has, he hasn't extended his contract with RB and has to keep the good relationship with Max in order to continue with the results. It doesn't matter if he didn't win this race or battled those last 15 laps with Max because it was nearly impossible. The season is long and he will have other races where he can level the score.

Just look at Mercedes, they are slowly picking up the results and that's great, adds excitement to the sport.

 

[Leg-End]

Why? Don't think Hamilton or Mercedes mentioned any damage and his lap times were fine. Better than Russell. The car seemed fine.

It was fine but a car doesn't scrape the floor for half a lap and not sustain some sort of damage, small margins and all that.

 

[dinostar77]

It was fine but a car doesn't scrape the floor for half a lap and not sustain some sort of damage, small margins and all that.

The damage if there would have been on or behind the front left axle. Seeing as all the fast corners at spain are right handers and all the slow ones left handers, he may have got away because the aero underneath the car on the left side was less affected by the low speed left hand corners.

Ted Kravitz had a look at the car in parc fermme and couldn't see any obvious damage, so any damage that might have occured would have been underneath. As he had the fastest sectors of the day for sectors 1 and 3, i doubt there was any significant damage.

 

[Gringo]

What he meant also was Perez disgust from being reminded of his role within the RB team. Specially at half race when Max was battling the DRS and was trying to take ahead of Russell.

As Mexican and obviously fan of Perez, the best he can do is keep himself at top places if he really aims to battle Max, Leclerc or even Russell. Some people content he should be happy being 2nd seat but - at least for this race - it's OK for him playing that role. He worked hard to get his place in a car like he has, he hasn't extended his contract with RB and has to keep the good relationship with Max in order to continue with the results. It doesn't matter if he didn't win this race or battled those last 15 laps with Max because it was nearly impossible. The season is long and he will have other races where he can level the score.

Just look at Mercedes, they are slowly picking up the results and that's great, adds excitement to the sport.

Seemed out of character for Checo I thought, especially in that race of all races. Can't remember the race but a few races ago he was ahead of Max in the championship and he played second fiddle in strategy giving up track position when the team came on the radio and instructed him. Then was the time to say no and fight it out on track, not Barcelona.

 

[Doracle]

Checo’s only valid complaint was not being allowed to go past Max when he was on a different strategy and being held up by Russell. However, as it happened that was only a lap or so.

If you join RB, even more than other teams, you know you are going to be told to get out of the way of the number 1 driver. No point joining and expecting something different. He was always going to be ordered out of the way immediately when Max caught him.

 

[Edgar Allan Pillow]

Sainz has been very underwhelming!

 

[pauldyson1uk]

Kevin Magnussen admits that his accusatory comment made over the radio in the wake of his opening lap clash with Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona was a "heat of the moment" reaction.

Hamilton was battling wheel to wheel with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz through Turn 3 on the opening lap of the Spanish GP when he lost out to the Spaniard and Magnussen attacked the Mercedes driver on the outside of Turn 4.

The two cars briefly touched but both drivers picked up a puncture that forced them to pit.


"Lewis just rammed me, he knew what he was doing!" an angry Magnussen said to his team over the radio, a comment that unequivocally suggested that Hamilton was at fault, although the stewards eventually thought nothing of the incident.

After the race, which Magnussen finished a distant P17, the Dane explained that the frustration of seeing his race ruined at the outset triggered his heated comment.

"Of course, you’re always pissed off in the heat of the moment," he said. "I’ll go and watch it again, see what happens and then move on.

"You say whatever you say, and then you go and look at it and it’s often a different story."

Fair play to him , admit it was wrong.

Magnussen downplays 'heat of the moment' reaction to Hamilton clash (f1i.com)

 

[Adam-Utd]

Kevin Magnussen admits that his accusatory comment made over the radio in the wake of his opening lap clash with Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona was a "heat of the moment" reaction.

Hamilton was battling wheel to wheel with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz through Turn 3 on the opening lap of the Spanish GP when he lost out to the Spaniard and Magnussen attacked the Mercedes driver on the outside of Turn 4.

The two cars briefly touched but both drivers picked up a puncture that forced them to pit.


"Lewis just rammed me, he knew what he was doing!" an angry Magnussen said to his team over the radio, a comment that unequivocally suggested that Hamilton was at fault, although the stewards eventually thought nothing of the incident.

After the race, which Magnussen finished a distant P17, the Dane explained that the frustration of seeing his race ruined at the outset triggered his heated comment.

"Of course, you’re always pissed off in the heat of the moment," he said. "I’ll go and watch it again, see what happens and then move on.

"You say whatever you say, and then you go and look at it and it’s often a different story."

Fair play to him , admit it was wrong.

Magnussen downplays 'heat of the moment' reaction to Hamilton clash (f1i.com)

Almost like immediate radio chatter should be taken with a pinch of salt. Ive seen loads of people taking Hamilton's comment seriously about parking the car up.

Imagine if footballers were mic'd up after conceding a goal?

 

[fishfingers15]

What he meant also was Perez disgust from being reminded of his role within the RB team. Specially at half race when Max was battling the DRS and was trying to take ahead of Russell.

As Mexican and obviously fan of Perez, the best he can do is keep himself at top places if he really aims to battle Max, Leclerc or even Russell. Some people content he should be happy being 2nd seat but - at least for this race - it's OK for him playing that role. He worked hard to get his place in a car like he has, he hasn't extended his contract with RB and has to keep the good relationship with Max in order to continue with the results. It doesn't matter if he didn't win this race or battled those last 15 laps with Max because it was nearly impossible. The season is long and he will have other races where he can level the score.

Just look at Mercedes, they are slowly picking up the results and that's great, adds excitement to the sport.

Think Perez is a great driver, his defensive driving in the last race of last season was a big part in helping Verstappen win it. However, he's definitely a shade lower than the top 2 or 3 drivers in the F1 circuit today. No reason he can't develop to be a great driver. Good, likeable guy too.

It bodes well that Mercedes are picking it up and I hope Hamiton and his team are in a better place. I'm more disappointed with the luck of Leclerc though. Hopefully we can have 3 top teams going for it for the remaining of the season.

 

[Mike Smalling]

Kevin Magnussen admits that his accusatory comment made over the radio in the wake of his opening lap clash with Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona was a "heat of the moment" reaction.

Hamilton was battling wheel to wheel with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz through Turn 3 on the opening lap of the Spanish GP when he lost out to the Spaniard and Magnussen attacked the Mercedes driver on the outside of Turn 4.

The two cars briefly touched but both drivers picked up a puncture that forced them to pit.


"Lewis just rammed me, he knew what he was doing!" an angry Magnussen said to his team over the radio, a comment that unequivocally suggested that Hamilton was at fault, although the stewards eventually thought nothing of the incident.

After the race, which Magnussen finished a distant P17, the Dane explained that the frustration of seeing his race ruined at the outset triggered his heated comment.

"Of course, you’re always pissed off in the heat of the moment," he said. "I’ll go and watch it again, see what happens and then move on.

"You say whatever you say, and then you go and look at it and it’s often a different story."

Fair play to him , admit it was wrong.

Magnussen downplays 'heat of the moment' reaction to Hamilton clash (f1i.com)

Can't really fault drivers too much for what they say. Adrenalin is pumping, things happen extremely quickly and their sport is among the most dangerous out there. It is also pretty unique that they are mic'd up for the full race, every race. It's bound to happen.

Now, if someone were to slap another driver after causing a crash that would be a different story, and would definitively make that driver a cnut for the rest of his career.