... he drove into Gasly like a tit.
That was a grim watch.
Perez ‘could' have left more room and if the video is anything to go by, definitely saw him coming. Jensen opined that he would have backed off and I’m sure it was more K-Mag's fault, but they took the view that it wasn’t completely. Presumably they thought Ocon was more at fault.
DRS has included corners on some tracks but these are generally very shallow corners only. A couple of times they have been tried on faster corners such as at the 2018 Silverstone GP where a third zone running down the straight and through the very fast first two corners was included. However two big accidents at Abbey for Grosjean and Erisson followed in practice and the race and it has never been tried again. The cars generally need that downforce on entry to the corners hence why it does not work terribly well with sharper corners. The real problem at Monaco is the size of the cars now, but that said it's always been a difficult race to pass at... 1992 always comes to mind when Mansell's much faster Williams could not get past Senna's somewhat tardy McLaren albeit a sizeable portion of that was down to Senna's genius at positioning his car.
I wondered that myself as the Sky highlights never showed it, I saw it later on C4 while fast forwarding their show. It was a shocker of a move
A couple of compulsory tyre changes should make drivers go faster to try and get a gap to pit, thus taking away the ridiculously slow lapping to save tyres. This should, in turn, introduce an element of risk and excitement. Simple to implement as well.
There used to be a hump on the left side of the Hangar Straight at Silverstone, about half way along. I drove an advanced simulator years ago, and that’s when I discovered it: full power applied to those rear wheels changes everything. Sargent knew what he was doing, I should think. The throttle data would be interesting though.
They’re trying to reduce costs, not increase them. And in doing so, they’re realising that the so-called pinnacle of motorsport actually needs to be expensive.
SAR was 30 kph slower and had 30% less throttle opening than the likes of LEC when on the downhill straight between Casino Square and Mirabeau.
Yeah, I've longed questioned the point of continuing to race at Monaco.
Massive presumption. Don't know where you were watching the race but during the highlights the commentators clearly stated it isn't a place where drivers would expect someone to be attempting to get up the side of them, especially on the first lap. Most were of the opinion MAG should have backed off.
What is the reason for that hump? It's always been there, so I presume there's some underlying structure there that prevents the road from being flattened.
During the live 45m. restart break Davidson and Button were reviewing in incident and spotted Perez looking in his mirror to the right about 1 sec before the collision. Plenty of time for an F1 driver to adjust his line. Davidson asked Button if that changed his mind about blame: "yes". Although he still thought Magnusson could have backed out.
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