F1 2021 Round 8 : Styrian GP

This is set up for a very interesting Q3.

Cracking lap by Max.

Hamilton blows it in sector one.

Even on that final sector of the final lap Lewis struggled with the car, is it a half mental thing at this stage?

Max nails it but Perez can't join him up there. Lando doing well to get 4th, but will start 3rd.

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Even on that final sector of the final lap Lewis struggled with the car, is it a half mental thing at this stage?

Max nails it but Perez can't join him up there. Lando doing well to get 4th, but will start 3rd.

Lewis has always been very poor under pressure, it’s how Rosberg beat him to the title and how he struggled at McLaren before his move to Merc. When you look at Perez and Bottas it’s clear that Merc still have the marginally better car, but Lewis just can’t live with Max currently.

Faugheen wrote: »

Is that Russell in P10 then?

Yup, will he still get a free tyre choice?

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Red bull split their strategy

Perez on soft
Max on mediums

Perez said in a post quali interview they decided this yesterday

With the threat of rain, it made sense for some teams to split their strategy. Perez was pretty far behind Max again so maybe he's gone for a setup that would be suited to the rain, more downforce, higher ride hight and so on.

He's over 3 tenths behind Max which is pretty substantial on a 64 second lap.

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Forecasts don't look like rain will impact the race but rain overnight will change the track characteristics.

Yeah the rain last week really made the tyres wear a lot quicker. Maybe running a little more downforce would reduce sliding and help the tyres last a bit longer - and then he needed soft tyres to get into q3. But he might just have been well off Max's pace in quali and needed the softs to get into 3 q.

AMKC wrote: »

Well that was a good quali session. Should be a good race here so we can forget about last weeks dull race. Go on Max the Dominator.

2011 wrote: »

It just goes to show thy once Max has a descent car he can consistently out drive Hamilton.

Was it the downhill sections Max was making up time on? I didn't notice that, good spot

I thought the cars were going far too slow on the out lap. I wouldn't be hanging about when they're that slow.

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Not sure if ots been mentioned yet. Hamiltonnbroke that "gentlemans' agreement" not to overtake other cars on the warm up lap for quali and certainly not in sector 3. It's the same thing Mazepin did in Bahrain, but without the outrage.

Not only did he do it, in a shocking turn of events, Sky even mentioned it as he was doing it! Although just casually with none of the outrage that would have accompanied someone like MAZ doing it lol

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

I think he is fairly rattled and this is going to be a big race for his confidence - but he could pull something out of the bag.

I do agree with this. He hasn't been in a good head space since the momentum swung back to Max at Monaco. If he doesn't close the gap this weekend, it will undoubtedly weigh on him, particularly as they're back here next weekend.

I don't think all the complaints about flexi-wings, pit stops, tyre pressures etc help him either. Need to focus on their own execution first and foremost.

Zookey123 wrote: »

Not a Hamilton fan but Geez this thread makes me want to root for him.

I wonder does he realise he angers grown men by just getting out of bed every morning :pac::pac::pac:

So it was McLaren who complained to the FIA about Red Bulls pit stops and because of them pit stops will be slower and changed from Hungary on.

Eurovision anthem here...

They're cutting it close with that last interview with Lando...

Hopefully Russell ends up in the points today, I think Danny Ric needs a good result here, his confidence must be taking a hammering so far. Lando out preforming him each week isn't a good look or maybe he just peaked at RedBull