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  1. SS454

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    #1 SS454, Jul 3, 2022
    The 2022 British Grand Prix, brought to us by Tom Cruise. Seriously though, what a race. The opening lap was horrific, thankfully all drivers walked away okay. I still do not agree with F1's red flag rules, allowing teams to change tires and fix their cars. I also do not understand why the positions were reset, making lap 1 like it didn't happen. However it played out, the racing after the Safety Car was EPIC!

    Ferrari gets the win when they didn't appear to have the car to do it. Huge congratulations to Sainz with his first victory. For awhile it didn't appear possible, as not only did he not have the pace to keep up with Verstappen, but was slow than his teammate who had a damaged car. I did feel he earned the right to fight and keep his lead in the first stint, but once he was given fresh hard tires and still didn't have the pace, I believe Ferrari should have made the swap even sooner than they did. But things changed when he was pitted under the SC for soft tires. I felt bad for him the team tried to use him as a road block for Leclerc, but hats off to Sainz for going for the win without hurting his teammates race. Leclerc has every right to be frustrated, though his race might have been better if he didn't make the clumbsy lunge on Perez which damaged his front wing. He drove a brilliant race to be faster than Carlos with a damaged wing, and sadly Ferrari left him out to dry on used Hard tires and despite his best efforts, he was a sitting duck. I think his re-pass on Hamilton around Copse was unbelievable.

    Red Bull probably had the car good enough to dominate the race. Perez got damage and the team seemed to make the right call to pit him early and give him the entire race to recover. That made up a lot of time in clean air, but he made his share of passes, though it wasn't shown on TV. The SC came out at the perfect time for him, and he drove like a wild man to earn that 2nd place position. Verstappen was in control until a very strange debris moment destroyed his floor. It was damage limitation from that point, and a 7th place position is pretty good. However, penalties perhaps should be given for his blocking and driving Mick Schumacher off the track multiple times in the final laps.

    Mercedes came with some updates and it's almost miraculous how they went from about 1 second slower, to the fastest car on track. Just in time for Lewis to perform at his home Grand Prix. Toto Wolff might be right in thinking they could have won the race had the SC not came out. Hamilton did a much better job than the Ferrari's on the medium tires, and had fresher Hard tires that he could punish as much as he wanted in an attempt to pass. The team should still be very happy with a podium. George Russell in complete honesty, caused the big wreck. Careless drift to his left which touched Gasly and then speared into Zhou. Racing incident sure, but hopefully something he doesn't make a habit of, considering he did do similar drift on Bottas in 2020 which also resulted in a scary crash.

    Alpine P5 with Alonso. It's reasonable to say they are the 4th best team on their best day, so anything above P7 or P8 is a remarkable result. Alonso says Leclerc was weaving on the straight and should be penalized as he was in Canada. I didn't see the footage of this, but he could have a fair point. Hard to say. Not sure what caused Ocon's DNF, but he looked to be on his way to scoring good points as well.

    McLaren didn't have a particularly slow car, they were just beat by Alpine. Norris ran his race and scored solid points for the team. Ricciardo failed again and was 21 seconds behind Norris after a short closing stint.

    Haas finally get a bit of luck and performed really well. Didn't expect that after a horrible qualifying result. Mick Schumacher finally gets points and kudos to him for putting the attack on the world champ, hungry for every point possible. Magnussen right there in P10.

    Aston Martin had a good day after also starting from the back. Things could have been much worse since Vettel had a hard collision with Albon on the opening lap, and Stroll managed to not get collected go through the carnage. Despite all their upgrades, just scoring points is a satisfactory day for them.

    Williams might have had a shot at one of their better results. Latifi gets some big credit for outqualifying Albon, starting a very impressive P10. He was never going to finish there since his car just doesn't have that pace. He held his own in the opening stint, but his lack of talent was eventually going to drop him back. Was really looking forward to see Albon's pace with their upgrades. I think people will underestimate how hard his impact into the wall was. Glad he is okay.

    Alpha Tauri had a rough day to say the least. It's a particularly bad day when their drivers trip over each other, get investigated together, and Yuki even was given a penalty. Come on guys, you gotta do better than that.

    Alfa Romeo probably lost out the most. A strong qualifying, especially by Zhou once again. So sad to see his day ruined by such a scary crash. I'm sure he will be sore for awhile. Not sure what forced Bottas into a DNF, but today was lined up for good points, only to walk away with a double DNF and a destroyed chassis.

    Driver of the Day: Sergio Perez. Tough break put him to back and beyond. He kept his head down, fought his way back up through the pack and once good fortunate came his way, he made the absolute most of it with some brilliant and clean racing. Honorable mentions to Leclerc and Hamilton.
     
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  2. JJ

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    #2 JJ, Jul 3, 2022
    Thanks for that, as always. I disagree that Sainz did not hurt Charles' race.
     
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    #3 355TDI, Jul 3, 2022
    Great write up but that should’ve been a Ferrari 1-2, Binotto showed that he is a great technical manager but not a great tactician. Charles should’ve passed Sainz during the first stint, he had the pace even with damage. Then they compounded the incompetence by not double stacking the drivers. Ferrari must offer Horner any amount he wants to come to Italy. Ferrari will win WDC with a sharper sporting mind making decisions. Imho
     
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  4. enzom

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    #4 enzom, Jul 3, 2022
    Ferrari throws away optimal results race after race. It’s quite sad
     
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    #5 DGS, Jul 3, 2022
    Is it me, or does Silverstone seem to have a lot of first lap crashes?

    For a while, I was thinking Ferrari was determined to lose to SOMEONE .... if not RB, then to Ham.

    I can't figure out whether Charles got hosed by Ferrari hesitating, or by how slow the officials were to call a SC.

    Good for Carlos, but he wasn't doing fast laps all day until he got clear track on new softs.
    And Chuck really helped out by holding up Perez and Ham for an amazing amount of time, given the tire disadvantage. That gave Carlos too much lead for the others to make up.
    And Sainz still didn't get fast lap of the race.

    Methinks Chuck is none too happy with the pit wall.
    You could see him getting the "party line" lecture after the race.
    ("Trying to cheer me up". Euphemism for "don't speak your mind". :p)

    Liberty owes Chuck a bonus. :D
     
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  6. SS454

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    #6 SS454, Jul 3, 2022
    I just mean when he made the pass. He didn't spend 2 laps pushing Leclerc off the track or any dirty tactics. He wanted to win, went for the pass, got after it, and moved on.

    Over the entire race, I agree Carlos hindered Leclerc's race, but I still think he earned the right to fight for his leading position, up to a point.
     
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    #7 watt, Jul 3, 2022
    That last bit post SC, was ineffably wonderful!!! I'll watch that over and over!!!

    Checo did a great race, consummated by shredding Lewee both times Image Unavailable, Please Login . And fun to see TWO Ferraris racing each other. Chuck's pass on Lewee. in Copse was superb, and Chuck should be glad his damage was less than Max's.
     
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    #8 spirot, Jul 5, 2022
    All in all Silverstone was a mess for Ferrari.

    1. Sainz wins - great.
    2. Leclerc was / should have / could have won easily were it not for terrible strategy
    3. The yellow flag / safety car should not have been an issue - the problem for Leclerc was way back on laps 20 - 30 undercut territory.
    4. Verstappen having a problem = could have really boosted Leclerc's championship with a win vs.4th... Sainz is in there but not likely for Championship - Ferrari need to get priority right.
    5. Ferrari's strategy is terrible - slow, and confused. THIS is Binotto's fault / Responsibility, in my book he gets one more race to figure it out or then change has to happen.
     
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    #9 jgonzalesm6, Jul 5, 2022
    You don't leave Leclerc out with a broken front wing 98% of the race. He lost valuable time in a high speed track.

    Why didn't Ferrari bring him in when the front wing broke and put Leclerc on hards--->to play the long game???

    I mean, how does a team like Ferrari leave a driver in the race with a broken front wing to fend for himself with 98% of the race to go.....UNBELIEVABLE!!!

    As Santino said in the Godfather, Leclerc came out with his [censored] in his hand.
     
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    #10 spirot, Jul 5, 2022
    yes. To me it seemed reasonable to bring him in earlier for the undercut while Verstappen and Sainz were fighting. get clear and then come in later for softs.... given how he was driving ... BUT there may be some other reasons we dont know - Engine preservation mode etc... but from how the race played out - that seems pretty far-fetched. Ferrari just HAVE to start making much better and FASTER strategic decisions. they have to read the race much better. that is what Brawn did so well... they have nobody like that now.
     
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    #11 rmani, Jul 5, 2022
    I'm glad Sainz won. He put the car on pole and drove so determined to win. Shame about Charles but I doubt Ferrari can really challenge RB this year they've fallen too far behind and Max is just so consistently quick.
     
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    #12 FatMike, Jul 5, 2022
    Why not? He was would have won the race if they just pitted him on the safety car.

    He was faster with a broken wing than any other car in the race except maybe the Red Bulls.

    I would have pitted him on the safety car. If the Mercedes stayed out, then you put on softs and fix the wing. You come out in 3rd with the car at 100% and the Mercedes in front of you on old tires. There was a big time gap back to 4th. If the Mercedes also comes in then maybe just softs and keep track position. LeClerc with softs and a broken wing would have won that race from the front.

    There is no scenario that LeClerc staying on the track makes sense.

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    #13 jgonzalesm6, Jul 5, 2022
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    You realize Perez had a broken front wing at the beginning of the race as well??? You realize they pitted Perez to fix the rear wing immediately at the beginning of the race??? How did that work out for Perez over the course of the race.

    But we are talking about Ferrari strategy over the course of this race.....which was lacking in a number of fronts.
     
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    #14 FatMike, Jul 5, 2022
    why all the question marks???

    Perez was 30 seconds behind LeC and his broken wing when the safety car came out. Plenty of time to pit for tires and a new front wing.

    LeC was on the right strategy up until the epic fail to not pit.

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    #15 steved033, Jul 5, 2022
    My take away is:

    On a billiard table smooth track where the porpoising isn't a big deal leads to some pretty mighty racing when you take the two fastest cars out of the equation....

    sjd
     
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  16. Bas

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    #16 Bas, Jul 7, 2022
    I get Ferrari not pitting Charles when he broke his wing. His pace was really strong, and could've gone faster but Ferrari was too busy trying to figure out what to do (for an insane amount of time). When they pitted Sainz it showed that Leclerc really could go even faster. He came out close behind Sainz after his own stop some 10 laps later...so despite Sainz being on new tyres vs charles on old, and on a broken wing, and having used the tyres harder due to being behind, Leclerc showed no time loss...when he finally got passed Sainz via team order, his pace was much higher...it didn't last long as the SC happened.

    To then not pit him and change the wing is utterly beyond me:

    Had neither Sainz or Hamilton pitted, Leclerc would be 3rd at worst. Even if they both pitted, Charles would be 3rd at worst. This is assuming they'd do a wing change as well btw. With the pace Charles had in the race with a broken wing, a win would've been easy. Even just giving him new softs would put him in serious contention to win (as at this point he'd be in the lead with new tyres, yet still with a broken wing).

    It was utterly inexcusable to not swap earlier. To not pit him during the SC at all? I am genuinely surprised heads haven't started rolling, or will do in the very near future. Monaco was one thing, among the chaos and the many cars you have to watch for, I can almost understand the confusion, to a point. This? It was totally inexcusable.
     
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