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Funny how Ferrari is now the clown show because they got disqualified. Yet Merc had cars disqualified for the same thing the last 2 years?
Oh and now some claim Hamilton should get his own team and make all the decision at Ferrari.
Let look at it. Hamilton was disqualified in 2023 in a Merc for skid board not in the limits. This year there was either in Aus or China problems with his skid board during practice or qualifying. And now he got disqualified for the same thing.
So surely its a Hamilton problem. He must ask them to set it up that low. Its never his teammate's car, just his?
 
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so I watched only the race.
no quali, no sprint, nothing else.

and to be fair I really should have slept before watching the race. got home around 5am, everyone else went to bed because they either drove or had work in a few hours.

so I unpacked the car on my own, and by the time I was done it was 2 mins from race start.

I am very suprised Bearman did not get DoD he was fantastic.

Ferrari were complete clowns. strategy calls swappiong drivers, putting Lh onto hards when he could have gone onto mediums and made the end of the race.

strange how Lh had his second DQ for plank wear. and the last time was also at a sprint race.

and for Gasly to have a DQ for being under weight is crazy. wiht Charles I can understand. I wont say its mitigating but the loss of the front wing end plate might cause additional fuel consumption that could have lead to being under weight.

granted I have not read up so much on either of those DQ's so not sure yet.
 

Red Bull considers immediate swap of Lawson and Tsunoda for Japanese GP​


Liam Lawson could be replaced at Red Bull by Yuki Tsunoda as early as the Japanese Grand Prix, Autosport understands.

Amid a difficult start to the season for Lawson, Red Bull is already considering changing its driver line-up ahead of Suzuka, with Tsunoda named by paddock sources as a potential replacement.

Although no final decision has been taken, discussions about such a scenario have begun – and the possibility of a driver swap between the two teams is understood to be likely.
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imaskidaddle said:
do it
do it
do it
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I honestly don't understand RB's reasoning on how they picked Lawson in the first place. Lawson should theoretically have gotten 1-2 years with the junior team alongside Hadjar to learn the tracks and setup. Yuki might also struggle a bit with the RB21, but at least has driven and tested the previous versions of the RB as well as having in depth knowledge of all the tracks. It should be easier for him to get a hang of things and at least end up in the points ahead of the Alpine's and Haas teams.
 
dotdan said:
I honestly don't understand RB's reasoning on how they picked Lawson in the first place. Lawson should theoretically have gotten 1-2 years with the junior team alongside Hadjar to learn the tracks and setup. Yuki might also struggle a bit with the RB21, but at least has driven and tested the previous versions of the RB as well as having in depth knowledge of all the tracks. It should be easier for him to get a hang of things and at least end up in the points ahead of the Alpine's and Haas teams.
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There appears to have been a weakness in his representation/management team.

Honda openly critcised Tsunoda's inability to represent himself adequately and his over-reliance on them, and with the relationship with Red Bull ending, Honda had little power to persuade Red Bull to take him anyway.

“He [Tsunoda] needs to take action himself,” Honda Racing Corporation president Koji Watanabe said in an interview with Japanese Motorsport.com. “I want him to make the best choices for himself.

“He’s now in his fifth year, has the ability, and understands the world of F1 well.

“There’s not much more we can do for him. He needs to solidify his support team, including his manager, and secure the necessary seat. He is a professional, after all.

“Drivers can’t rely on Honda forever. Someone of Tsunoda’s career level needs to think for himself.”
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This came shortly after Tsunoda had changed his management team after losing out to Lawson in the ''shootout'' for the second Red Bull seat, perhaps himself realising that he needed a stronger team behind him, or at least a change in approach.

Helmut Marko discussed the flaws he saw in Tsunoda during the past weekend, but he also acknowledged that he had addressed them, and again his representation and management was brought up.

Asked about Tsunoda's performance earlier in the weekend, Marko told Autosport: "Yuki is a different Yuki from the years before. He is in the form of his life. Obviously he changed his management. He has a different approach. He's more mature. It took a while, but now it looks like it's working."
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In short: Tsunoda appears to not have been doing himself favours in terms of how he represented himself (lack of maturity); his previous management team not doing any better here in terms of promoting their client and according to Honda he relied too much on them, and they were not willing make a case for him anymore. The ending of the Red Bull-Honda partnership also giving Red Bull even less of a reason to promote him.
 
ferrari really went from so much fun to so much sadness
but damn those mclarens are fast

piastri deserves this title more for me he has worked so hard and is a good quiet racer
 
it does not matter who is in the second red bull car.

Max is driving a car set up the way he likes to drive. and unless someone has the same driving style, they will not do as well.
add in that comparing anyone else to what max does is not really fair in the first at least 15 races.

then you add in that max is driving past the ability of the car because he is actually very good.
its all fine and well that when a mid field team gets points we praise the driver. I did that myself saying both Albon and Gasly drove the cars to better positions than the car was able to get.
should we not be doing the same for the redbull now? it is looking like Max is placing the car quite a few positions above where the car should be. everyone knows I do not like Max, but a good drive in a bad car is something we should talk about.

now to come back to lawson. he was performing better than Tsunoda all the time last year. now he is in the red bull and the racing bulls are doing better than he is. does that mean the red bull is bad, or that lawson is bad? how do we even begin to know that?

I think the red bull is currently a mid field car. the Mclaren is faster. the Merc is faster. and the ferrari is faster. and Max is putting it in a position where we cant say if the redbull is better than the Williams or the Alpine or not. if say Max was injured, and say Tsunoda had to race the redbull for 2 races along with lawson, where would they be in terms of pace? would lawson out perform Tsunoda?
would we say the Williams or Alpine is faster if we remove the max factor?


once we can establish where the redbull is in terms of true pecking order without the max factor, then we can evaluate Lawson.

two last place finishes are not a good look.
but he finished both races. that is better than both Sains and Alonso...


Lawson should at the very least be allowed to race in Japan. he raced Super formula so he knows the track well. if he is still performing worse than Stroll is then maybe swap him for Tsunoda....
 
Something which I noticed, and which someone has mentioned, Ferrari put hards on LH for his second stop. They could have gone with mediums. I've seen Macca do this as well before.

Could the reason be so that the car is not under weight at the end. IE, mediums wear down quicker, so they would be lighter?
 
Willie Trombone said:
The trouble is it looks like even Max is limited by the car and unless they switch out their current philosophy, he's not going to get any further. Maybe next year with new rules? Dunno.
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Yeah I agree, Max has been very open about the difficulties of driving this and last year's version. It really is just because he is that damn good that it masks the car's drivability issues.

Should not promote a lot of confidence that they can give him a championship contending car next year imo. I think we might have a surprise exit at the end of the year if that car does not change drastically over the next few months.
 
bone_thug said:
Something which I noticed, and which someone has mentioned, Ferrari put hards on LH for his second stop. They could have gone with mediums. I've seen Macca do this as well before.

Could the reason be so that the car is not under weight at the end. IE, mediums wear down quicker, so they would be lighter?
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hmmmm........cos he did pit around lap 35 i think it was

and the meidum in the sprint lasted over 20 laps
 
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