ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2019: QUALIFYING ***SPOILER***

https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11874485/ferrari-admit-they-screwed-up-end-to-abu-dhabi-gp-qualifying

 

Yes had the same feelings. Astonishing disappoint lol

 

Merc played their game to win. Ferrari - who knows what they play at all.

 

If the last two days are a picture of the state of the Ferrari F1 effort, they should withdraw from the sport.

 

'Last two days.......???? If only.........

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Piero LARDI... Ferrari. Don't fall for the Ferrari revisionists. He is NO Ferrari.

 

Whilst i agree with your point, i dont want Vettel to be in a Ferrari in 2020 purely for the reason i think he has now become toxic and disruptive. Add that to Italian temperament and you end up with chaos.

However where i differ from your POV, it is not up to SV to manage CL race, thats his race engineers responsibility and CL could have been much closer to SV in the final stint than hanging back. He has enough experience to manage his race and should have gone past SV. Sitting in the car and whingeing that he "slowed down to much" is a feeble excuse and one wonders if it wasnt done on purpose especially when he knew he was in the best grid position anyway.

Mind games goes both ways

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Tony

 

This seems to show a lack of understanding of F1 aerodynamics. Yep, CL could have closed up on Vettel and the result would have been a very slow lap for him or running into Vettel under braking due to lack of down force, being in Vettel's turbulence. And he certainly would have been able to pass Vettel and take the pole at the same time.

If you watched the final lap all the car kept about the same separation because it is necessary if you going to be is clear air.

 

First two sentences, all right......

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Please elaborate.

 

That's a rather brazen faced statement.....do you?

He (CL) knew full well as he left the pits he was running out of time

 

Yes.

Not necessarily the details of the flow through the diffusers and over the winds and such, but well enough to understand the effect thay will creat behind the car and how that will effect one following.

To clarify, graduated Penn State in '73 with advanced degree in ME. Spend 20 years developing and applying computational fluid dynamics codes. Co-founded company specializing in such. Many publications in the field.

And I put "seems" in italics so as not to be taken as offending.

 

Well it was offensive as you know zero about me.
Perhaps they should consult you on how to make the races less boring, my answer would have been to tell CL to speed up or he will miss out. The simple things are the best!
To clarify - Commonsense
Tony