Anyone being fooled by the Wolfs BS?
Mercedes holding off on team orders for now
https://www.planetf1.com/news/merced...rders-for-now/Mercedes will hold off on implementing team orders in Lewis Hamilton’s favour until after the Singapore Grand Prix.
Although the team initially said they’d have the talk after Monza, a victory for Hamilton at the Italian GP gave the Brit breathing room in the title fight.
Hamilton won the race with a little help from his team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who held up Kimi Raikkonen for several laps, while Sebastian Vettel could only manage fourth.
The German’s hopes of a home win for Ferrari were undone when he collided with Hamilton on the opening lap and was pitched into a spin.
Hamilton’s lead is up to 30 points with a maximum of 175 still in play.
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff told Motorsport.com: “I don’t really like team orders, they are not cool and not good for the sport, and they are not good for either driver.
“Lewis doesn’t want to have anything gifted and Valtteri doesn’t want to give anything up. We are looking at it from race to race.
“We discussed it [on race morning], various scenarios and there was no necessity and we will see what happens in Singapore.
“I want to push that moment back as far as possible.”
"Formula 1 is not a sport anymore” - Fernando Alonso
a few weeks ago Toto said Bottas was a good 'wing man', i think everyone knows what that means.
Toto must be smoking some really strong stuff.
They already used Bottas to ensure Lewis won in Monza, sacrificing a podium spot if not for Max messing up and took a penalty.
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
I have a strong gut feeling that this year we will be losing 2 World Champions from the current grid starting 2019. Alonso is confirmed gone, Kimi might follow suit. I mean in all honesty where would he go after Ferrari? Merc is locked, RB is sorted (kinda) and no other team is even close to the top 3. Unless he wants to end up like Alonso fading away in the back he might call it quits :/
with Button and Massa already gone, it would be the passing of an F1 generation. Those 2 guys, plus Kimi and Fernando were all born within 2 years of each other i think.
So who would be the oldest driver next year?
Not sure but may be Hamilton
So why do we care about what Toto says?
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/me...monza/3173175/
unrelenting development imo
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
https://www.racefans.net/2018/09/08/...ferrari-wolff/
Mercedes had more power in race trim than Ferrari – Wolff
The Mercedes team principal said they “had the quickest car” on Sunday at Monza but the situation was different in qualifying the day before. “In qualifying we were off in every single straight,” he said. “This is not to make excuses but on the straights we lost three tenths yesterday in qualifying. That wasn’t the case [in the race].”
“It looks like the performance that they are able to deploy on one lap is maybe not something they can replicate throughout the race. I don’t want to go further because it could be read in a different way – that I’m trying to find excuses.”
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
Well it was not the case in Spa.And again we compare them with Kimis pace. SEb finish about 16 secs behind Ham and made a 8 thousands lesser Fastest lap(with ss but it didnt had much difference in Monza) , WITH a damaged car that it was estimated about 0,5s /lap !!!!!!!
So we realy dont know what it would be the case if Vet was in front!! Maybe we could see a Spa repeat.
FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
RedBull runs a 1.9 degree rake angle.
Ferrari a 1.5 degree
Mercedes a 1.2 degree rake angle.
60% of the downforce(suction) on current F1 cars comes from the floor plus rear diffuser.
Ferrari 1.53 vs Mercedes 1.25, pretty similar imo. And Mercedes W09 has more rake than the W08, Red Bull is more extreme.
And where does it say rake angle makes your car worse in the wets? Last year's Red Bull had the same rake (1.9) and it was pretty good in the wets.
Binotto interview in Monza
https://www.mtv.fi/sport/f1/uutinen/...404#gs.lU4FRME
2019 drivers
Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton -- Valtteri Bottas
Ferrari: Sebastian Vettel -- Charles Leclerc
Red Bull: Max Verstappen -- Pierre Gasly
Renault: Nico Hülkenberg -- Daniel Ricciardo
Haas: Romain Grosjean -- Kevin Magnussen
Force India: Sergio Perez -- Lance Stroll
McLaren: Carlos Sainz -- Lando Norris
Sauber: Kimi Räikkönen -- Marcus Ericsson
Williams: Sergei Sirotkin --
Toro Rosso:
Domenicali on two of my favourites: MS & Fernando
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...wycea86EW.html
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