Many of the deleted laps came as a result of track limits being breached at Turn 9. But yeah, a rookie mistake made at a particularly harsh section of the track made his performance look worse than it was IMHO.
I wouldn't even call it a rookie mistake, he pushed his car to the limit and overcooked his entry into the chicane due to cold tyres (I presume). He didn't plow into the barrier at top speed, in fact his crash looks rather tame, given how torn up the car ended up in comparison.
I wonder if they'll be more strict with track limits after last race's farce. Track limits have to be track limits without any ifs, whens or buts. If you are allowed to ignore them in
this situation but have to follow them in
that situation, it's pointless to enforce them at all. Drivers need to be forced to treat them as brick walls at all times. I mean, I am not a big fan of having such arbitrary, artificial limitations (though I understand the idea behind them), but if you have them, enforce them.
I wonder how Perez will do off the start tomorrow. I am worried (as a fan) he could get nervous and fuck it up, possibly taking out some of the other front runners.
I have high trust in his abilities and I am confident that he will do fine. It's just surreal to think that this guy almost lost his seat in F1 due to shitty corporate shenanigans.
Still happy for Vettel to have a shot at AM to show that he's still got it, but it came at a high cost to Checo and if any driver deserved to keep his seat, it was him. Now he sort of flips AM the bird by knocking out the competition. Vettel/Perez would have been invaluable to AM's car developement process, given their experience, now RB can take advantage of Checo's input.
They are easily recognizable with the two flaps in the front which is the filter. Red Bull and alpha Tauri, Aston Martin, and Williams are the teams off the top of my head that used them. And this week all of them are back to those shitty paper masks. That’s weird, I wonder if the contract for the sponsorship ended because it was only a one year deal from the beginning of last season?
The masks looked like shit anyway and I was always amused how badly they worked. The guys had to constantly reset it on their nose when talking, the shape didn't fit well on their faces and the masks look cheap as fuck.
It's F1, you'd assume they got fuck-off money to make masks tailor made for at least their drivers and team principals, that fit well, work well and allow them to talk without the mask to slip off their nose with every syllable.
Yeah, I read about it a while ago on reddit but didn't think it was important.
"The case of the
U-Mask has reached its epilogue. After days of controversy, unleashed after the denunciation of
Striscia la Notizia ,
the Ministry of Health has ordered the stop to the sale and the withdrawal of all products from the market. The U-Mask Model 2 are " potentially hazardous to health ", according to the ministry, and cannot be classified as medical devices as they do not have regular certification."
~Google translate from
https://archive.md/3Yo1u
Wild guess: The filter is replaceable, but since the rest of the mask is reused over and over again, it accumulates contaminants or spores and works like a petri-dish for fungi and whatever the fuck else grows on there. And they looked like they didn't properly close off the gap between the cheeks and the upper rim of the mask either... so yeah.
Using disposable paper masks is a lot smarter (although MUH GREEN IMAGE is out the window with the mountain of trash that creates
)
www.bbc.co.uk
