F1 2020: Hungarian GP

Brilliant F2 sprint race. Tyres dropping off forcing pit stops, and some chancing their arm to go to the end without stopping. Worth a watch if it's on replay later.

I wonder if the tyre Deg will be similar in F1 today.

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

That's famously not what red bull do.

I think max might be the fastest driver at the moment. He'd make anyone look slow. But that's Albon's problem as the team is looking at him losing a second a lap to max in the race and they know they can get loads more out of the car and ultimately more points than Albon can get

I haven't written off Seb moving to Red Bull.

Yeah fastest or not, that's not how modern F1 works - these guys are all at the top of their game. On the single lap, there simply CAN'T be 1 second difference between any two of them, unless we're talking some absolute trainwreck paydriver on the level of Rosset or Inoue.

What makes the difference is race pace and management - typical example, Bottas vs Hamilton. They're there on the single lap, sometimes Valterri is ahead even. In the span of a race however, unless Hamilton has "one of these days", it's usually not even a competition.

When you get guys like Gasly or Albon, who have accomplished lower formulae track records and have shown to be skilled drivers in other cars (Gasly got a 4th and a 2nd place with Toro Rosso), get into a competitive car and do worse than they used to in a midfield one, something is wrong with the team - be it a setup issue, a design problem (e.g. car too adapted to one of the drivers) or a support/political matter, something is not ideal.

Sure Albon needs to "pull his weight", but Red Bull aren't completely blameless. They risk burning a young driver after another if they keep these shenanigans.

Vettel rejoining them would be an interesting prospect - it's no mystery that a lot of people in the team still have a good relationship with Seb. I wonder how much his presence could upset the "Verstappen cart", especially after the hype factor of the "youngest WDC in history" in gone after this season.

skipper_G wrote: »

I wouldn't get your hopes up. They still use the old Pirelli compounds in F2, the F1 tyres are revised compounds that have less degradation

Also, adding, the F2 cars have the awful gigantic wheel rims, which tend to increase the stress on the tires quite a bit.

weisses wrote: »

Dunno .. tyre deg could be an issue if it stays dry

Just seen the weather there. Forget the one stop :pac:
Still think Lewis will win. Just seems to love this track.

Well that's embarrassing.

skipper_G wrote: »

Verstappen bins it on the way to the grid!

Hahahahahahahah!!!!!

Was he going off the racing line to find grip that he lost it?

Max has done the steering or the wishbone, game over I think.

If that happened before race start then this is going to be a very interesting race

The suggestion that RB are unable or unwilling to put out two evenly competing cars on the grid is ridiculous IMHO, sure they want max to be dwc but winning the constructors championship is almost equally as important, don't forget that a teammate who is just as quick as max would benefit him as well... Bottas and Hamilton push each other which results in both of them performing better

Are we gonna have this end racism nonsense every week ?

Tzardine wrote: »

Are we gonna have this end racism nonsense every week ?

The fact you think its nonsense shows its still needed

If Max gets going will he not be penalised for working on the car?

There will be a host of very early pit stops to change to the slicks.