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F1 F1 2023 - The Rise of Oscar
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How did Oscar end up in 10th there? I thought he was looking good for a top 6.
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Decent effort from Lando and Gasly.
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Oscar is apologising on his team radio for messing up the last lap
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Expected a little more from Aston Martin, does Alonso have car issues?
bad final sector must have made a mistake otherwise should have been top 6 easily
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I think so. IIRC they said in commentary that is why he only did one lap in Q3.
he stuffed his floor in q1 running onto the gravel
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Unless Sainz or anyone else can nudge ahead of Max at the start, the race is a foregone conclusion. I mean, to be fair, even if Max drops to last, he will still probably come through anyway!
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The last corner changes should see a fair bit of overtaking this year
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It should be easier to follow, remains to be seen if it's a genuine passing opportunity.
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So Zak said Oscar's time in sector 1 and 2 were right up with Lando but he made a mistake in sector 3.
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Last couple of Spanish GPs there have been passes made into Turn 1 (nowhere else on the track though). Certainly not as bad as it was in the Turbo Hybrid era (Max won his debut race for RBR purely by having track position back then).
So if that exit improves things, then expect that to be where 99% of the overtakes happen, and there will be a few with quite a few cars out of place.
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Two 3 place grid penalties for Gasly for impeding so he drops to P10 and Oscar moves up to P9. It is good for Oscar to have someone between him and Checo and George. With how quick the Alpine has been, hopefully Gasly can hold up the RB and Merc.
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for some reason, mclaren left it until a couple of mins before the end of qual 3 before they sent their drivers out. tough ask for someone as inexperienced as oscar. still, getting to qual 3 is a plus imho.
Out of tyres I expect.
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Everyone other than Hulk and Alonso did 2 runs in Q3.
Max Versappten clobbers Monaco walls and makes errors in qualifying.
Fans - Ooohhhh, Max is a special talent. RB should build the team around him even though Ricciardo is beating him.
Sergio Perez clobbers Monaco walls and makes errors in qualifying.
Fans - FINISH HIM!
Fans - Ooohhhh, Max is a special talent. RB should build the team around him even though Ricciardo is beating him.
Sergio Perez clobbers Monaco walls and makes errors in qualifying.
Fans - FINISH HIM!
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The difference being Max still managed to get pole despite clipping the wall a couple of times and win the race whereas Checo binned it and started at the back.
I'm talking about a few years back, 2017 & 18?
max was the only driver who had 2 new sets left, the rest did bankers on used sets
Its a fair point discintly remember the year danny ric won monaco max binned it in free practice trying to match him.
I would say though max had youth/inexperience as an excuse and some great performances to his name in between all the errors while sergio has already peaked as a driver, his performances in between are just okay and doesnt really have an outclause for making errors at this stage of his career
As someone who thought Perez was a soft****, I'm not sure about this. I think there's still a margin for improvement.
Driving for the top team with a teammate that's better than him. It exposes a weakness he had more than normal or didn't know he had because he's never been under that spotlight (Driving the car or working with the team). Any strength of his is diminished or completely nullified.
If he can work out what is wrong and learn from it, I think he could move to Ferrari or a Hamilton-less MB and possibly produce performances and consistency that'd shock even the most hardened F1 fans.
The consistently good performances we're used to seeing from Verstappen only occurred after Ricciardo left and was out of the way.
I thought that must have been a replay from another session!
How do you hit the gravel on the formation lap?
How do you hit the gravel on the formation lap?
