chicorytip wrote: » The reasons why he needs to be replaced were blatantly evident yesterday. Lack of speed overall and lack of energy in the latter stages of races. He was unable to open up more than a one second lead over Hamilton in the earlier stages and should have quickly overtaken Bottas in the latter stages and then driven on to victory. He is no longer capable of winning races as opposed to finishing second or third. Even Bottas chips in with the odd victory as do the Red Bull duo. If Seb has an off day his colleague needs to be of comparable standard to maximise the competitiveness of the team. In fairness to Raikkonen not many drivers on the grid seem to have this level of capability. Alonso, certainly, but he's leaving. Verstappen, certainly. Ricciardo, possibly. Hamilton, obviously. Leclerc would be a mistake. He's too inexperienced. Grosjean would be the best available choice.
pjohnson wrote: » Giovinazzi is guaranteed to replace Leclerc imo. Could see Kimi moving to the other Sauber if he want's to stay in F1. Or does Ericsson bring a lot of money with him?
vectra wrote: » Just a second. You are saying the Merc had to pace to keep withing a second of Kimi Kimi couldn't pass Bottas You seemed to forget that Bottas struggled big time to pass a much slower Red Bull. How did that happen?
Harika wrote: » McLaren re-hires Pat Fry, who worked before then with them and then Manor.https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-rehires-fry-to-bolster-technical-team/3170988/?nrt=54 The James Key saga is also ongoing with McLaren not willing to pay enough for himhttps://www.autosport.com/f1/news/138461/mclaren-not-interested-in-red-bull-key-terms Interesting bit from before Landos announcement, Marko said that Lando had to be signed by McLaren as race driver for 2019 by end of September, else he would have been free agent, free to join whatever team he wants.
skipper_G wrote: » They had to sign somebody to lead the work on the 2019 car with a few people having already been shown the door this season and the options are very limited when you're looking for a free agent with the required expertise. I wouldn't expect much for next year's car at this rate.
Harika wrote: » Next year will be another transition year. Sainz is not known to be a troublemaker within the team, (Yeah I know the Verstappen feud) and Norris will be happy to be in F1. Key will working for them, if no solution is found, in 2019 only.
vectra wrote: Just a second. You are saying the Merc had to pace to keep withing a second of Kimi Kimi couldn't pass Bottas You seemed to forget that Bottas struggled big time to pass a much slower Red Bull. How did that happen?
flexcon wrote: The weird thing though, is that there doesn't seem to have been another call from ferrari to Kimi after 4 laps to say " Ok cool off now, come down by 5% and let those types breath, you have a 4 second gap". Instead looking at the lap times he kept pushing very very hard right up against Bottas. Looking at the lap times, I don't think being stuck behind Bottas killed the tyres - It looks like those first 3 laps just caused blistering as the surface got to hot, and the core was still like jelly. Once he achieved this undesirable scenario, he was a goner.
flexcon wrote: I still ponder though if he had come off the gas a few laps previous to have a gap of maybe 2 seconds and slowly get on the tail of Bottas, his tyres may have hung on longer.Who knows.
chicorytip wrote: » Your comments only serve to bolster my argument. It was Kimi who lacked the pace and failed to extract the maximum performance from his car. The Mercs were racing flat out. If Vettel had ended up leading after the first lap he would have won by half a mile.
Inviere wrote: » I don't think Kimi could have done much differently than what he did. I think they stopped him too early, pushed him too hard on pit release, and put him straight behind Bottas on pit release too. All things being equal, Kimi would have blown both Mercs away in this race...Ferrari blew it this weekend, not Kimi.
vectra wrote: » Thank god you agree with me for once :pac::pac::pac:
Inviere wrote: » ^^ That said, I still see Seb lifting the WDC this year. I know 30 points behind isn't ideal for him, but that can be zapped by a reliability issue or somesuch. Lewis still can't afford 2nd places for the remaining races yet
vectra wrote: Kimi is ahead of Bottas in the standings Kimi has had 3 retirements this season to Bottas 1 Yet he is still ahead.
chicorytip wrote: » Yes, by a few points, but the most telling figures are sixty two (the number of points he trails Vettel by) and zero (the number of races he has won over the past five seasons).
Prisoner 6753 wrote: » The 2 main races that Kimi could have won were Monaco 2017 & Italy 2018, both victories taken away from him by Ferrari strategy. Monaco to give the win to Vettel & Monza they were dummied.
vectra wrote: » Don't forget spa 2018 where again the team let him down.
vectra wrote: » I dearly would love to see Lewis taking the wdc number 5 before Seb.
Jordan 199 wrote: » I agree Great to see you're a Lewis fan.
Jordan 199 wrote: » I agree Great to see you're a Kimi fan.
