@Don Rhymus what's your thoughts on vettel this season and f1 in general breh...think vettel is just having a bad run or its s more
situation? Cos danny is starting to consistently outshine
@Ari Gold Bawse thoughts?
was pulling the :avbyeesh: smiley when nico was talking, kinda felt bad for him with the booing but he got dumb wild with his mouth chatting about the "british" fans in belgium (
) and nicki lauda being a consultant
Vettel I think honestly has packed it in for the season, and I think he did it fairly early on. During the winter he and Horner were super low key talking at each other through the media, Vettel in the most polite way possible saying that the team focused so much on developing the car late last year that they didn't put enough resources into the new one, and Horner just being like
drive the car.
The big thing that's happened behind the scenes that isn't really being talked about much is Newey has pretty much waved the white flag. He's now "Chief" technical director, but from what I gather the situations seems like this: Newey missed on the new car, and genuinely can't think of a way to improve it. He was unusually vocal a month or so back, saying the new regs were restrictive. This coming in the summer (when development of the next years cars/late season changes is kicking up) means to me he was drawing blanks at the drawing board. In his new role, it seems like he'll be designing in a very broad sense, but the cars will come from the Red Bull staff under him.
Can't really under sell how much the changing regs may have altered things. Looks like for a second time new cars have COMPLETELY fukked Kimi like the tire switch from 07 to 08 did. Vettel's strengths are mid-speed corners and tire preservation, and he's been shyt at both this year. The new regs in general seem to favor the traditionally more aggressive drivers. Nico, Lewis, Alonso, Bottas, and Ricc are all from that school, and then you look at brehs like Vettel, Kimi, and Button who are smoother drivers and they can't get shyt right.
The lower-revving, lower-downforce cas seems to favor the brehs who were really dominant in the lower formula, like Nico, Lewis, and Hulk who beasted in GP2 and Ricc who was crazy in FRenualt and Bottas who won in GP3. Guys like Vettel, Kimi, and Button didn't spend much time at the higher end of lower formula, but got into F1 early and immediately took to it. Newey said the cars were like GP2 cars now so there's definitely a correlation.
at the east coast getting that sticky icky 15 years down the road from Still D.R.E.
pushing somebody from behind is not foul? talking about "its a contact sport"