Yes indeed. Fan favourite to be sure. Might be good for him if he cannot get a better ride.

The Ricciardo situation is really odd to me. I had never heard of him before he started F1 but he did very well vs Verstappen and established himself as a great passer/late braker. He did OK at Renault with a so-so car... And now he's nowhere... Could it be that babyface Norris is actually a top 1% driver, clearly superior, and we dont know it because he's in a mclaren ? (but he was evenly matched vs sainz before)... Or is there something odd about that car ? I often wonder the same about Vettel being so superior with a double diffuser but essentially nowhere after. I agree Danny Ric would be a hoot in indycar !

Of all the F1 drivers, most of us mere mortals have never met them, or at most got a signature from them. We really have no idea what they are like personally, except from TV interviews.

Of all of the drivers, Danny Ric is the guy I would pick if I was allowed a day to hang out with one of the drivers.

A blast from the past,
 

Wish I'd bought two of these shirts, one of my favshttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657740816.jpg

I met ''pete'' who was a reserve driver for the new ATS team early 80's

he was in miami for the first miami ?GP downtown for IMSA

PETE WAS CRAZY but in a good way
he fell in love with our local secret waterfront bar in dinner key
and came by most days

fun to talk with a guy who knew senna and prost and was in awe of both

sadly at a later IMSA race ''pete'' died so he never came back the next year
guess I could look him up but we called him pete as he said no american could pronounce his full name correctly

Ham out!!
 

Ham has a stand in for first practice on Friday morn
it's either a haircut, a tattoo, groceries, or oil change. Whatever it is
I'm backing him, he's my man. Could even been tutoring French swear words.

The French could be wanting him to get some decent looking clothes to wear to the track.

Better wardrobe, I thought of that. That could be it.

Each driver at Mercedes has to give up one free practice a season to a young team driver. Russell's is going to be later in the season.

That was reserve driver Nyck de Vries

Well that race had a little bit of everything 😋 . Stupid unforced error by the leader , silly pit lane decision by a potential podium finisher and some wheel banging mid pack . A great move by Russell on Checo on the restart . Double points day for McLaren. Overall an interesting race .

So Russels move was legal? Where was Perez supposed to go with that nose stuck in there?

off track like he did

the red guys can't do pit stop strategy
and likely lost the title to the bulls today

Ferrari strategists must have all been drunk or high. Just WTF.

One thing the announcers mentioned, only one driver has seen the checkered flag in ever race this year, Hamilton. Every other driver has had a DNF. Crashing when in the lead has to really be an ego buster.

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I guess Ferrari gambled that Sainz’ tires could potentially fail before the end of the race, so that trying to hold 3rd Place would end up with a DNF, versus a late pit (and 5 second penalty) put him in a guaranteed but lower points position?

But regarding pit strategy - if the radio communications were in real time with what we saw on TV, where Sainz was passing Perez and Ferrari told Sainz to pit - that’s just stupid, and inattention to the actual race needs to be addressed by the team if they expect to maximize their points and position finishes through the rest of the season.

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How ironic…

I’m watching the Sunday pre-race show NOW, after watching the race, and they are talking to LeClerc about his qualifying lap, and he repeatedly talked about the rear of the car getting loose, and the downforce makes it tricky to manage the rear because if the downforce decreases, the rear can let go unpredictably. But he also said he like the chassis setup to be loose at the rear.

And if you watch the replay of his crash, it looks like when the rear broke loose, his counter steering response was way too slow, so the rear just came around faster than he expected.

RB on the counter steering it doesn’t seem the f1 guys do a lot of seesawing with the wheel. Looks like when it lets go it LETS GO. A function of aero downforce as opposed to the constant contractions involved in mechanical traction?

Bummed about the race result.

Gutted when LeClerc lost it. He had done a terrific job holding off the RB and getting him out of DRS range.

With all due respect to Capt and Won, who really do F1 for a living, I say only semi tongue in cheek that I could do a better job for calling the strategy for the Scuderia. Capt assured me that in addition to the trackside staff, Maranello has a room.for of engineers back at the factory poring over every aspect of telemetry to tell them what to do when. OK, that's great there are all those engineers doing so. But **someone** on the team has to be a racer with a feel for the pulse for what's going on in front of their eyes on the track.

To vascillate on whether or not (and when) to make that second stop, and then finally call in Sainz to box as he's actually 1) in the process of finally passing the car in front, and 2) just as he's coming onto the front straight (heck, could you guys have figured this out about 10 seconds and 2 corners ago, before the pit entrance?) Is just so disorganized and embarrassingly amateur.

If you think a set of mediums will make to the end (for what, like 35 or 40 laps?!) for a one-stopper, then you have to communicate that to the driver, whether it was Plan A, B, C, or D. But if you were going to make it a two-stopper, then you have to call him in for that second stop with enough time/laps left to allow him to catch up the 34 or so seconds a stop costs. Especially with the really slow pit in and pit exit of Paul Ricard. Ferrari should have called in Sainz with 15 or so laps left, not with only 10 to go. They dropped him from P3 to P9, with few laps to claw his way back through the pointier end of the peloton. had he stayed out, maybe he would have lost a place or two (or not) due to tire deg towards the end of the race. But that's an assessment that has to be made in prompter, real-time fashion. Either make the decision, or don't. But don't do it half-@$$ed and leave your driver with an impossible mission.