That car still has a full tank or bag of gas and it spun upside down over the length of a American football field(100yrds) The fuel cell held and didn't spill out while upside down.
It's going to be real fun counting up all of the points that were left on the table at the end of the season like at the end of 2019.
IMO this accident too me showed 2 things: 1)need a higher catch fencing for grandstands 2) some sort of cover up thing between the tire wall and the catch fence, or just a wider area, so that a car can't get wedged like Zhou was today. IF it did catch fire with Zhou wedged as he was, it would've been a VERY nasty way to go. His impact speed overall was very low so he'd have been conscious the whole way.
Yes it wasn't a necessity I agree, given his very good pace. There certainly was time for it though had they only pitted him and not needed to stack. Given the time, certainly they'd have been easily able to pit both at least. IF the championship goes to the wire this day will be looked on sharply. Leclerc caused the damage himself BUT he also had the skill to drive incredibly competitive with it. The pitwall was atrocious.
Just seen the race after being out all day. What an action packed GP! This one had everything - from brilliant to pathetic. Obviously the highlight of the event is Zhou still being with us. Miraculous. I totally detest Halo but there is no denying it’s value in saving lives - together with all the other engineering master pieces that worked as a system (bag tanks, carbon chassis, crush structures, teathers, fencing, helmets, etc etc). The racing itself was also very hard but fair. Brilliant battles all race long. And obviously nice to see a Ferrari victory despite the complete total and utter incompetence of the Ferrari strategists yet again. They clearly have no clue. It’s a comedy of errors every single race. Well done Carlos - win number 1 delivered by your own strategy call, and showing the paid strategists how it should be done. And well done Mick Schu for scoring his first points.
I do. Somebody needs to ask the 3 Spaniards—the strategy guy, Charles’ engineer and the other strategist, Sainz, why they did what they did and why Sainz can pick and choose what team directives to obey. The fact that Sainz pushes back on strategy calls and team directives should be an indication to Binotto and his crew that couldn’t shoot straight that their strategy guys have no credibility. There’s no confidence in anything they do and the drivers will always be second-guessing them.
I do respect Sainz for having done what he did by the end of the race after the SC. I don't think he was particularly wrong, either. Earlier on in the GP though, when Sainz just had no pace even with Leclerc's damage. That was just stupid. Ferrari was doing a pathetic job negotiating as well. The moment Lec was released (first by pitstop then by passing him after his own stop, when again they where negotiating for a painfully long time, he got through), the pace difference was painfully obvious. After the SC when Ferrari stupidly asked Sainz to drop back 10 places to give Leclerc the edge...I mean why didn't they pit Lec if they wanted him to win? Sainz was completely right as without DRS he'd be a sitting duck. Ferrari pitwall was infuriating today, once again. They had a much needed gift with Max picking up serious damage and they threw away 15+ points
There's always friction between what the drivers want and the team strategy - if there wasn't it would be strange. If CL had won would you care?
Normally celebrates the gladiator drivers and team strategists. But today I think we should take a moment to thank the back room engineers and the FIA for a quite remarkable role in making these cars resistant to these incidents. Remarkable everyone is safe and now going home.
After the team's strategy idiocy we very nearly didn't get the win and have that Merc win it instead. I'm genuinely ecstatic that Sainz won. Didn't have his best race really but he deserves a win finally.
Why nobody at Red Bull bothered to take a look under the car to remove whatever was stuck there? It seems that these days they can´t do anything without computers. Anyway, they could have skipped the first tyre change, looking at the telemetry they should be able to see that the problem was not in the tyres.
Need to jack the car pretty high up I think. Costly and if it there was a load of damage, even more time wasted.
I guess. Still, they overreacted with the first pit stop: just because the driver says that it´s the wheels doesn´t mean that it´s the wheels.
everyone wants to know... we were hijacking the thread about indycar at the time...try to keep up. sjd
