Different strategies, too early to claim that this driver is faster than vettelle.
Team Orders at Ferrari?
- Thread starter Paul Jeffrey
- Start date
Ayrton Senna would not see the top ten in that Williams lol
Last edited:
Aha, for sure you KNOW he is faster than Vettel, without any doubt, right?
I would not be so confident at this moment. Don't get me wrong, LeClerc is
a huuuge talent, but you better wait with such premature judgements
because it isn't really necessary now and not much more than a personal
bias in my eyes.
According to the pilots themselves, their biggest rival is their teammate, and if you can be ahead of your teammate because you have more pace (are faster), but your team decides to tell you to stay behind .... that stinks
Leclerc could have won his teammate in his first race with Ferrari, it is not a minor fact
Leclerc could have won his teammate in his first race with Ferrari, it is not a minor fact
Sasha Jednak
Sasa Jednak
Did Leclerc had engine troubles? Same as Vettel had... Don't see anything bad with this, they said Vettel is No1 and they are going by that. They were on different strategy and couldn't win anything ahead of them. So they decided to keep position (Malaysia 2013?!).
On the other hand, those who need, know what was the pace of both of them, even without looking at final standings.
On the other hand, those who need, know what was the pace of both of them, even without looking at final standings.
Did we get clear evidence, like a radio communication recording, that Leclerc held back due to team orders?
If I was Leclerc, and it was my first race at Ferrari, I would have naturally stayed back without the need for anyone to whisper in my ears to stay back. Under the circumstances, I think it was intelligent for Ferrari to just bag the points that they could and regroup for the next race. They did not have the pace to challenge the Mercs and that was just smart on their part to acknowledge that.
No need to have two teammates challenge each other needlessly and risk having them crash into each other or stress the cars to the point of failure.
If I was Leclerc, and it was my first race at Ferrari, I would have naturally stayed back without the need for anyone to whisper in my ears to stay back. Under the circumstances, I think it was intelligent for Ferrari to just bag the points that they could and regroup for the next race. They did not have the pace to challenge the Mercs and that was just smart on their part to acknowledge that.
No need to have two teammates challenge each other needlessly and risk having them crash into each other or stress the cars to the point of failure.
Some logic you have there...
Let's look at last years top3 GP2 and see where they're at this year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIA_Formula_2_Championship
And believe it or not, Lance won the F3, so the only one left without a history of winning lower formula classes is Max. Well, someone with knowledge saw something in him and he took the chance when he got it. And won the first F1 race he ran when he got upgraded to RB.
Last edited:
Yes Michel, that's a fact. I hate team orders but they are part of the
game unfortunately. But slowly i get the impression that whatever Ferrari
is doing, they can only doing it wrong, at least in the eyes of the media
and some others. Surely it's not nice to stay behind your team mate when
you are (during the second half of the race because of an early pitstop of
Vettel and possibly "other" reasons) faster than him, but i have NO doubt
that LeClerc has not any problem with that at this point in his career given
that he knew it because ferrari was crystal clear regarding the hierarchy
since the preseason. So it's not a big problem at all despite some want to
make it look like this.
That was painful to hear. Being smart and preventing teammates from colliding in each other is one thing but this is entirely something else. Based on the recording, Leclerc could have gone ahead and challenge Verstappen. I am dejected.
