The pitstop was huge, but judging by Norris’s performance today he would have been powerless to challenge Verstappen regardless. He might have limited the damage though and kept his hopes alive for the following races.
The pitstop was huge, but judging by Norris’s performance today he would have been powerless to challenge Verstappen regardless. He might have limited the damage though and kept his hopes alive for the following races.
Do you know if they value the WCC more, or if they (like the common crowd) put a higher value on the WDC?
It’s a shame we won’t be able to maintain the title fight delusion anymore for the rest of the season, but this was a cold shower for McLaren - both literally and figuratively. Neither the race strategists nor drivers are of a high enough calibre, and it’s really a shame since the mechanics, designers and factory workers have been amazing. Trying to root for them this season has been so damn frustrating it’s starting to make me feel hostile emotions about them.
From what I understand they’re only present at a fraction of the races, and so the storylines they try to put together are heavily influenced by what races they were around to film at. I think if they’re here there is plenty of material about either McLaren throwing the title fight or Alpine getting a surprise double podium, but it would not surprise me in the slightest to learn that they were not here filming and this race goes completely unmentioned in the season.
It’s giving me flashbacks of last year. I can feel the PTSD.
Norris about to add re-starts to his miserable record on race starts?
Today’s McLaren are like Ferrari of old, the amount of mistakes they make is way too high. The bar is Red Bull right now and they make maybe one or two mistakes per season, not per session.
Wet races already don’t have mandatory pitstops, but otherwise I agree with your point.
I’ve been rooting for them all season just because I wanted a break from last year’s Verstappen dominance, but you can’t look at the performance of the team this year and say they properly deserve to win the title.
That’s pretty much a guaranteed win by Max now I assume and the official end of the title race?
Now albon. Way way too many red flags in conditions that are challenging but not terrible. What is going on?
Drivers have been complaining about the new tarmac all weekend, probably making grip in the wet even worse and more unpredictable than usual.
Probably, yeah. With the current ground effect cars, visibility concerns from rooster tailing means the window for a track being both safe to drive and the full Wets being the fastest tire is like imperceptibly small.
It’s easy to forget between all the times of praying for interesting weather that there is very much such a thing as too much rain.
Sync. But it’s working now, confusingly.
Your link isn’t working for me but I see now that you already linked this community. Totally my bad, I apologise!
It’s a super useful place for finding new communities to subscribe to! I also heartily recommend !communities@ponder.cat
Yeah but it’s not really the same thing years later when most people are long finished with the game. Was the same with playing BG3 around release last year, participating in conversations with friends and strangers alike about discoveries in the game as it’s happening and everyone is talking about it and playing it at the same time. I’m sure similar things happened this year with Black Myth Wukong and Silent Hill 2 Remake to some extent, though I didn’t play those.
It’s not about spoilers so much as participating in the buzz and culture and community that only really occurs around release.
This is all hearsay but I’ve heard said Carlos Slim is considering dropping support for Perez in favour of backing Colapinto instead. As we’ve come to learn during the Checo tenure, cash flow seems to be the only thing Red Bull cares about post Mateschitz.
Totally. And between stuff like the stage fight in AW1, the Ashtray Maze in Control and We Sing in AW2 Remedy has gotten so damn good at integrating music and gameplay too.
I personally was blown away by POE - This Road as well. The track is mesmerising and every time a new variation on it played after an Alan chapter I had almost goosebumps. I still regularly go back and listen to the whole 9 minute track on YouTube.
Twice!