I would be damn curious to know just what has really gone down at Ferrari between Seb and the team. The relationship has just imploded at warp speed.

I would be damn curious to know just what has really gone down at Ferrari between Seb and the team. The relationship has just imploded at warp speed.

I hope this is really the last Spain GP, cuz this track is just crap. It has a contract for only this year. Its very hard to pass.
Its good for testing but racing not, even the rain does not want to come to this track since 1996, i would take Paul Ricard anytime over this track

I wouldn't mind the circuit if they just got rid of that awful chicane. It's added absolutely nothing since they started using it. It might be difficult for the cars to follow through the high speed final corners, but I think the DRS zone is long enough to make overtaking possible. The higher speeds would also push the tires more. It couldn't make things any worse, anyway.

about Leclerc and the seatbelt, could FIA punish Ferrari for lack of safety?

I would be damn curious to know just what has really gone down at Ferrari between Seb and the team. The relationship has just imploded at warp speed.

the ferrari is designed for leclerc's style of driving now i bet. vettel has always been reliant on an understeer-y, high downforce style car; and leclerc is a much more adaptable driver, being better able to get more out of the underporforming ferrari


i also remember reading or hearing somewhere that ferrari engineers have known by looking at the data, that vettel is not on the same level as alonso was during his time there

the ferrari is designed for leclerc's style of driving now i bet. vettel has always been reliant on an understeer-y, high downforce style car; and leclerc is a much more adaptable driver, being better able to get more out of the underporforming ferrari


i also remember reading or hearing somewhere that ferrari engineers have known by looking at the data, that vettel is not on the same level as alonso was during his time there

Pretty much. Even back in 2010, Webber was beating him until they changed the way the blown diffuser worked to give the car a more planted rear end (although the more I think about it, the more I think Webber was ultimately undone in his career by the high-deg Pirellis). Seb won 4 world titles when virtually everything was stacked in his favour - with only one or two things stacked against him, he has routinely mentally fallen apart, and has never shown any growth in that area

As far as his reputation's concerned, he has been very lucky to have had the success at the beginning of his career - unlike, say, Button who had to put up with years of criticism about not being that great unless everything was right until he finally had a car to show how good he was. I don't think there's that much difference between them in terms of pure ability, but you'd be hard pushed to find anyone who says Button was better than Vettel, which is probably a bit unfair given that Button's given hell to Lewis and Alonso in the same team

And, y'know, without wishing to bang on about it, Rosberg is underrated too...

AWS have produced what F1 is describing an objective list of the fastest drivers since 1983:

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... iH1Cz.html

Enjoying that Kovalainen and Trulli are, in the eyes of F1, officially objectively faster than Vettel

Hacks like Kovalainen, Trulli and Hulkenberg make it onto that list but not Hakkinen who routinely destroyed Coulthard in qualifying? A fun but ultimately silly and meaningless article. This is about as pointless as their tire performance graphic.