“Only if you feel you can’t stay ahead of him Lewis”.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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F1 is not the only motorsport in the world, so go ahead and post your shitposts about WEC or MotoGP or IndyCar or ralley or Polish Speedway or whatever. Even Formula E, I guess. It needs some love, too.
By the way, F2 > F1.
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Let's be honest - Ferrari needs to be talked to like this until they stop waffling on strategy and screwing both drivers. Lewis has the confidence to do it and I applaud him for it.
I bet Toto is proud
Half or all Ferrari race management should be sacked.
Loving the radio messages
And still, he wasn't faster than Leclerc, when he had the chance
It seemed to me like they took so long the tyre difference disappeared.
Go back and watch. Watch the distance to Sainz. He was well in DRS, .5, zone while Hamilton wanted Leclarc to lift for him. So 2 laps of Sainz still in DRS and Leclarc's tires improving while Hamilton only had 4-5 good laps left on his tires. Hamiltons tires were shot to the point that Sainz was almost passing him at the finish. Sainz wasn't out of the race but Hamilton was more worried about taking a shot that he didn't think about the team, Leclarc, possibly being passed by Sainz.
Every sane team would have made the call on their own. "Team mate on faster tires from behind. Make room, we'll swap back in X laps."
When he got past LeClerc, he was making up between 3 and 5 tenths each lap, if he wasn't told to swap back, he would have been very close by the end. If they swapped him sooner on fresher tires, he probably would have gained the position.
I mean it took 4 or 5 laps between him asking and the team getting around to do something. So yeah he lost the tire advantage by that point and the entire thing became rather useless.
^ This!!! Although I don’t think Lewis had the tires to catch 5.5 seconds & overtake even if they’d done it straight away, but I think he’d have been close to DRS range with still 4-5 laps left, they could have then swapped back & Charles on the hard tire could have had a chance at least…