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The reality is nothing the team did yesterday caused him any real problems - he had the 2nd fastest car and couldve finished an easy 3rd if he'd kept cool, but instead he ended up 5th and risked 6th after a possible penalty. And with Mclaren and (particular Hamilton's) Merc roughly at par with him for pace he can't risk that for second half of the season.
There's loads of different versions of this but...
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
”Car 1 approached the turn faster than on previous laps (due to DRS) and braked at the same point as previously. The driver of Car 1 argued that Car 44 was changing direction under braking. The driver of Car 44 stated that he was simply following his normal racing line (which was confirmed by examination of video and telemetry evidence of previous laps).”
Apart from that - taking a different line from previous laps isn’t against the rules. Alonso is a master at constantly changing his line slightly for defensive purposes, avoiding falling into a predictable pattern.
Lewis also played a blinder against him earlier in the race. It was all well played in my book.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
You could see it a mile off and with that sort of lockup Max was never gimping to make the corner. That’s what irks me about the lack of penalty. It was Brazil 21 all over again - intent was to run the other guy off and go off yourself so you can’t be accused of just pushing him off the track directly.
as planned either. It seemed to unsettle their car. Which shows how hard it is being out front with a target on your back!
I was starting to warm to him recently (just a little, mind
Max will probably have to take an engine penalty at some point and without the car advantages that will be a tougher mission to get back up the points. Here's hoping Lando can chip away slowly. There's a lot of races left yet, mind you we need to see how they are in Belgium to see where they end up then to truly get a picture of the rest of the season.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Sunday was a different scruffy story and a reminder that Verstappen will easily revert to 2021 mode when he doesn’t have a clear technical advantage.
Much being made of the fact that Max was up to 3am playing computer games the night before the race. I’m sure the team will be throwing that back in his face at the postmortem for the Grand Prix weekend.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/ckvg0zpyn5zo
Not surprised TBH; the lack of progress is putting off prospective drivers, and the power struggle between Seidl and Hoffmann doesn’t lead to a happy working atmosphere. The seeds of this were sown in March when Hoffmann was booted off the Audi board and parked in the F1 project with the responsibility of overseeing all pillars of Audi’s F1 project. Which sounds an awful lot like Seidl’s job.
Hoffmann was urging the Audi Board to sack Seidl and hire Mike Krack from Aston Martin to replace him. Seidl was advising the board to boot out Hoffmann, elevate himself to Chief Representative and appoint Krack as Audi Team Principal. So they at least agreed on Krack.
It seems the board took a very evenhanded decision to sack them both and ignore the idea of bringing Krack into the team
The jury is still out on Seidl as an F1 guy, but at least it’s looking like the structural changes & capex upgrades at McLaren were absolutely the right way to go.
I wonder if this is partly a last-ditch attempt to get Sainz onboard.