Those Sky guys look for any obscure reason to hype something as some sort milestone. Like “this is the first time he’s won a race from pole when on a one stop strategy during a race in which there were fewer than three safety car periods and there was no military flyover during the opening ceremonies. Martin? You still with us, Martin?” I guess they believe that viewers or attendees feel something special for having been witnesses to it. Most people couldn’t care less.
It’s just odd. After watching Piastri match LeClerc in Azerbaijan without his DRS open, then pass him pretty easily when it was, and watching Max earlier in the season, Ferrari has gotten better while RB and McC have slowed. COTA may be the best racing track on the circuit IMHO, lots of chances to pass and actually race one another. I watch NASCAR race there (oh, the horror…) and they have similar races; one or two dominant cars, lots of passing and trading paint. Once in front, LeC pulled away like max last year and Lando a few races ago, and Sainz also pulled away without too much pushing. Did addressing the mini-DRS slow McC and eliminating the variable braking for RB put them all back on an even plane, thus accounting for their fall and the Scuderia’s rise with only a small set of mods for this race? I had thought RB lost Newey and stopped improving their car, accounting for Max not winning. Now, not so sure…I know, I know, no one was doing anything wrong, and if they were, it didn’t matter, and someone somewhere fixed the problems that didn’t exist. I’m just using Occam’s Razor to look for rational explanations...
