WEll, congrats Oscar, your a star in the making....too bad we lost a few points to Merc, but today they just had a better car, nonetheless, good race from Charles.
Three stops mandatory for this race perfectly demonstrated Formula one drivers aren’t no more sprint racers. They are all exhausted at the end ! Huge downforce cars are too easy to drive it seems ..
Hats off to Leclerc for having a clean race and the team for maximizing the result out of the SF23, which proves itself to be a diva of a car. McLaren have since last year been moved towards the Red Bull sidepod concept, and now they've struck gold in making it work. Ferrari and Mercedes look like fools for clinging onto their unique design babies, and wasting so much development time. It's good that with Mattia and Sanchez out, Ferrari will move to the RB concept next year, or so we're told.
Exactly, even said in the interview, they went 100% due to not having to manage how long the tires needed to last.... sjd
Nothing could have been done this year anymore, SF-23 was just so fundamentally different than red bull
Anyone else notice that Norris is starting to feel the heat? That radio conversation at the end part...tensions rising at McLaren?
Charles gave it his all but damn……the car is only 4th best, and barely faster than the Aston. Here’s to next year. On another note……can we get rid of that old snowflake Croft…….please? The rest of the Sky team is amazing, Martin, Karoon (sp), Anthony, Rachel, even Nico and Jenson when they sub in. #firecrofty
On McLaren, yes the sidepod aka RedBull design but also Stella, both drivers(Piastri is really impressive), pit stops and tire strategy have worked out the 2nd half of the season. They will definitely be a contender to RedBull next year. Perez better up his game in that RB20.