Recent content by Mrcento

I've a sneaking suspicion Grosjean will either end up at Force India or back at Renault.

Vettel for me has twigged exactly why Alonso left, I suspect he's looking elsewhere too.There's no motivation there. He took his seat, got a much better than expected car, Ferrari seemed all positive, he was living the dream and fully motivated with the promise that this year, they'd be serious...

FRIC as it was, is banned. Doesn't mean they haven't found a way to replicate the results. They were one of the masters of it before, it wouldn't be at all a surprise if they'd re investigated it. There's an awful, awful lot of evidence to suggest trickey with their suspension. From the types...

If i'm right about Mercedes and their FRICMk2 suspension, then it's not going to matter a jot next season, they'll still be waltzing off. Yes more downforce to cars, yes wider tyres, yes the floors will be producing more compared to now. But all that tied together still works best when the car...

Don't get me wrong, Bernie is a problem to the sport, but i don't think he's the single biggest issue. If i had to chose, i'd have preferred to see Bernie go now and a clean slate come in, but i guess he's in for 3 years to allow the new people to get their feet under the table, see how the...

Yes and no. There's still a decent gap, one that will be hard to bridge (although removing the token limit will be a help). But is that Mercedes unit really that far ahead? if you look at what it's doing in other cars, yes it's the class of the field, but on the most engine dependent tracks...

Yeah it's going to be Lance Stroll. They may as well announce it, it's clear as day. Teams don't organise multiple test days for drivers unless they are determined to put them in the car long term. Williams want money to help them compete and Stroll, aside from having an impressive record (on...

Yup. In an era of no real testing, what exactly is he supposed to develop? Apart from his tan on the beach..... It's clearly a deal to keep the sponsors happy and have them completely covered if Alonso leaves. Probably the right decision though.

LOL, can read them like a book. they're running visibly a very skinny rear wing, hitting near 220mph with no tow but look likely to swap ends through the faster corners and well off the Mercs so far.

It's all cobblers with Ferrari right now. "Oh we're upgrading but we don't expect a big difference" Aye ok. That'll be Ferrari code for "We're going to run with less wing to look competitive in a straight line, but when we're actually further away from Mercedes and Red Bull, we can point at...

Definitely the right decision from Massa. He's been slipping backwards for a while now (albeit a good chunk of that is car related) but it was becoming more and more telling that he wasn't quite at the level he should be. I wouldn't say he ever truly had an "edge" of a great but at his best, he...

1. Daniel Ricciardo. This seasons nearly man. Has only really made the occasional small error, the team has cost him a couple of wins, couldn't realistically have done more over the piece. Consistently one of the top 3 performers every single week. 2. Lewis Hamilton. His season should have been...

The start... I think Verstappen is getting too much blame for the first one, it was a relatively ballsy move, we'll never know if he'd have made it without hitting Raikkonen, but by the time they would have likely contacted it would probably have been no more than banging tyres. Vettel was to...

Game on i reckon, Vettel set his time earlier and had a scruffy last sector which probably cost him a tenth or so. They aren't "quite" at the Mercs,but definitely well in striking distance!.

My feeling looking at the cars is that the order is- Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Williams, Force India, McLaren, Renault, Sauber, Manor. Haas, The midfield looks ridiculously close though! The Sauber and Williams look comparatively disappointing from where they were last year...