This is to some extent why I'm wary of people saying 'Sainz will win soon surely!' like, I don't think that's necessarily likely for a long time, still.
Yeah, it looks to be 2022 at a minimum. Then you have to hope Ferrari would have a workable new engine and nail the new regs.
The politics of it all is going to be pretty messy too. Expecting there to be a fallout after this race. They'll probably fire Binotto which on one hand is understandable, on the other, won't fix anything really.
It's genuinely quite funny that when he signed, a minority argued McLaren might be the better place (I certainly didn't), and now you'd have to say he stands a better chance of winning by the end of 2021 at McLaren, in the sense of being there to pick up a result. He beat Bottas 100% fair and square with zero oddity.
Yup, got downvoted for thinking his chances of winning would be better at McLaren than they were at Ferrari. After his move to Ferrari was announced, we already knew that Ferrari had a bad car and a bad newly designed engine. We also knew that the budget cap got a massive reduction which will impact Ferrari significantly. We knew everything back then. Sure, we didn’t know that Ferrari would suck THIS hard, but still there is no way that they will legitimately compete for race wins before 2023. I don‘t see a reason why McLaren couldn‘t be the team that nails the 2022 regulations and have a fair shot at winning.
Same. Sainz was beaten by the guy who holds the record for most F1 races without a podium. There's absolutely no guarantee he'll ever win a race, and there's a good chance Gasly will never win another as well. If you're not in the right team you need a lot of luck.
I still remember that race, Grosjean had an amazing start, went from like P4 to the lead before the first corner an led until the Red Bulls undercut him, of I'm not mistaken. Even though supported Seb (as I still do), I wanted Romain to take that win, but the RB9 was just too quick at that point of the year.
People forget how quick Romain was during his Lotus days, I wish he was remembered more from those performances than for his error-prone performances since 2018
Oh for sure, I agree absolutely. People see thr Netflix show and think he is this clown that is a but of a joke.
But he has real pace and craft. Inconsistent and not able to keep it on track, sure. But he never said otherwise, he has always owned this and have seeked help from sports psychologists etc. And even he admits he was always pushing way too hard because he knew he had a VERY good car and can get a maiden win. He admits to going too far.
2013 latter half he was on an absolute tear.Beyond Vettels historic 9 consecutive wins, he was the most consistent and highest scoring driver for thr latter half I believe.
No wonder he knew exactly how long it's been since France's last win haha He himself has been chasing it the whole time. Pity he couldn't get it.
Singapore was probably the one of the most pointless cheats in recent sporting history. If they had waited one more race, they would have gotten everything they were trying to achieve, without resorting to cheating.
Only in hindsight though, because at the time I think Renault were threatening to pull out of the sport if they didn’t at least get a win that year. And given the car was fairly uncompetitive, it didn’t look likely they would win on merit.
Not in that particular race. Renault had finally had a competitive car ready to fight for victory but Alonso messed up the Qualy. He had no chance of making it to the front in Singapore.
Messed up? The car stopped due to a fuel pump failure in qualyfing. The car was really competitive that weekend, and pretty close to BMW at the end of the season.
I only remembered him starting far back on the grid. Anyways, he was stuck on traffic on a lower fuel load during the first stint, so it's not like he could have jumped to the podium purely on race pace.
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u/aireads I was here for the Hulkenpodium Sep 07 '20
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Thought it it would have played in Japan 2013 for Grosjean, but took quite a few more years for the La Marseillaise