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Ferrari failing their drivers again this weekend. (self.formula1)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by quintinza to c/[email protected]

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Ferrari really dropped all the balls this weekend. Sainz has been in the way of other drivers repeatedly, which falls on his engineer who should let him know when cars are coming. In rainy conditions the drivers can't see jack nothing in their mirrors and it's like Sainz was just left to his own devices by his engineer.

Honorable mention for Tsunoda doing his best mobile roadblock impression. Holy heck he was constantly in the way this weekend.

Then there is poor Leclerc. He asked for slicks, and his team overruled him and it caused him to be eliminated in Q2. How much longer can he stomach Ferrari incompetence before he starts putting feelers out for a drive elsewhere? As things are going at the Ferrari strategy desk it's clear the prancing horse has bolted the barn and his chances of getting a championship is in the low zeros.

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[–] quintinza 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel for him. He is one of the fastest drivers in the field, and where others' (Ham, Russel, Norris, for instance) lack of results this year is mostly down to a bad car package, in Ferrari's case it's just strategy and team not listening to their drivers.

I mean the Ferrari is not a slow car, up to Monaco it's been the second/third fastest car in the field, but the Ferrari clownshoes tripping over themselves has not allowed their drivers to get the most out of the car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, Leclerc has the chance to be one of the biggest and saddest what ifs in current F1 history. He's a bit prone to errors, I think he's trying to hard sometimes, to make up for shit from the pits. But I can't remember a driver and car combination so promising, yet so underperforming in current times.

[–] quintinza 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree re the errors. Key difference is that he has zero buffer against the odd error, because when he gets it right Ferrari goes out of their way to screw it up.

And 100% on him trying too hard because he has to try salvage a result against the pitwall's best attempts to snooker him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Before I read your reply, I had the sentence "Leclerc is clearly overdriving to compensate for Ferrari".

You can see it's eating him up. The Ferrari deeam is not how he imagined at all.

[–] WFH 6 points 2 years ago

Seeing him during interviews on french tv is getting more and more heartbreaking. What we see is a broken man, frustrated by so many fuckups that he lost all hope. Fred needs to step up and find race engineers who can handle the pressure.

I feel like he isn't overdriving anymore. There's no hope for championship, therefore no need to compensate for the clownery or the car's shortcomings. Last year's first half, he could keep up with the RBs by staying constantly at the limit, which left no room for mistakes, while Max could casually sbinalla and retake the lead in 3 laps. This year... yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

And this reminds me strongly of Vettel’s stint at Ferrari. Just drained the energy out of him.