The FIA have issued a directive to limit the porpoising on this yesrs car due to concerns over driver safety. It suggests teams that are struggling with it must raise the ride height which would be bad news for some

Perfect. I was worried it would be a blanket Ride height rise which would force people who were on top of it to be handicapped purely because the whinging twat and his somehow less likeable Boss aren’t 1.5 secs a lap ahead of everyone.

 

 

Would have been grossly unfair to hobble other teams because Merc f***ed it and cried about it instead of doing the one thing that would prevent it (coz I’m sorry but if you lose a sec a lap porpoising and raising ride height loses you a sec a lap then aren’t you at a net nil but your driver now can actually see the braking zone?????)

I think a blanket increase in ride height may well have affected each team fairly evenly - i.e. +1 sec a lap for all, which would maintain the status quo. At face value this doesn't seem that bad but what you end up with is that that teams who navigated the rule change better see their performance reduced in line with teams that have created a car that physically harms their driver. That's a bit like penalising someone who has done nothing wrong

 

The directive is all about driver safety (as it should be in this case) and unfortunately for some it will expose how poor their design is compared to others.

 

Notably this will hurt Mercedes and likely drop them down the grid but the Ferrars are also quite extreme on the vertical oscillation and this could effectively wriy=te off their title challenge. Whilst I'm ok with that (Red Bull do have the best car by some margin) it would effectively end this years title fight early.

 

On the flip side Alpine and Alfa Romeo could leap up the standings, so it's not all bad

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If both Ferrari and Mercedes are stung by this then we're on for Verstappen breaking Schumacher and Vettel's record of 13 wins in a season this year.

 

Leclerc also with a 10-place grid drop this weekend just to compound things further...

If both Ferrari and Mercedes are stung by this then we're on for Verstappen breaking Schumacher and Vettel's record of 13 wins in a season this year.

 

Leclerc also with a 10-place grid drop this weekend just to compound things further...

Verstappen was already on course to beat it if he maintained his current win ratio

True but Leclerc surely wouldn't retire every race. Now it might be that they can't even compete at all, hopefully not though.

Leclerc wouldn't have to retire.

Even with Max's 2 early DNFs and before Charles' own 2, Max was on target to beat the record. And even without this new directive, which won't affect anything this weekend, MAx has the advantage and he's playing it smart. Whereas Leclerc and Perez are spending time setting their cars up for performance runs to fight it out for pole, Max is quietly spending the practice sessions on race trim, and Monaco aside it's working out. No-one knows what Sainz's plan is because he's not in the race long enough to work it out,

Qualifying set up may put you at the front but it's not so great on tyres which the Ferrari is poor on anyway. Regardless of the new directive I think Max has it under control unless his car's reliability becomes a problem. Charles still had questions about being error prone and impulsive too which has already cost him.

 

If Ferrari can get their collective act together we may have a genuine title fight this year but right now Perez looks like the real challenger to Verstappen and Max will outdrive him comfortably across the year

Well I am in a f***ing good mood this evening 😁😁😁

bit of a bizarre quali

pity Max is so so so far ahead it looks like an easy one for him

It's looking like it will be an exciting race, very much looking forward to it.

 

I suspect if he gets a half decent start Alonso will lead to start with. I think Max is now in a position and of a maturity where he won't fight too hard at the start given he can probably get past and his two main rivals are well down.

 

 

Alonso vs Verstappen in the first corner. Could prove to be interesting.

Oh Perez..

Another virtual safety car , Mick has stopped.

The Wall of Champions feels so lonely this weekend ...... no visitors

Full Safety Car now.

Verstappen is low-key dominating this championship. Six wins from nine races and a huge points lead. Ferrari desperately need to win at Silverstone.

Red Bull never looked under pressure, but Max kept his cool. Russell, keeping his consistency by being in the top 5, safety cars kept this race interesting, though.

Canada Review

 

Best driver:

Worst driver:

Best team:

Worst team:

Best overtake:

Worst overtake:

Best moment:

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Best thing about the race:

Worst thing about the race:

 

And the race in a sentence:

Alonso classified in 9th after five second penalty for weaving.

 

To be fair it was pretty bad and he should know better

Best driver: Verstappen

Worst driver: Latifi

Best team: Mercedes (for completely turning around the cars performance across the weekend)

Worst team: Williams

Best overtake: Leclerc on Zhou (I think but honestly none were very interesting)

Worst overtake: Magnussen on Hamilton

Best moment: Safety car deployed

Worst moment: Perez out

Best thing about the race: Cars qualified out of position/Circuit Gilles Villenueve

Worst thing about the race: Nothing that exciting happened

 

And the race in a sentence: A welcome return for Canada but Verstappen remains well in control