|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
View Poll Results: Who gets it? | |||
Red Bull | 1 | 4.17% | |
Mercedes | 10 | 41.67% | |
Aston Martin | 0 | 0% | |
McLaren | 2 | 8.33% | |
Ferrari | 3 | 12.50% | |
Alpine | 0 | 0% | |
Alfa Romeo | 0 | 0% | |
Haas | 0 | 0% | |
Williams | 0 | 0% | |
AlphaTauri | 8 | 33.33% | |
Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
29 Oct 2023, 20:59 (Ref:4183574) | #1 | |
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 9,114
|
Team of the Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix 2023
Who gets it?
|
|
|
29 Oct 2023, 23:06 (Ref:4183596) | #2 | ||
Race Official
20KPINAL
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 23,742
|
Mercedes. Hamilton and Russell started 6th and 8th but finished 2nd and 6th.
|
||
__________________
"If you're not winning you're not trying." Colin Chapman. |
30 Oct 2023, 02:41 (Ref:4183617) | #3 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 6,098
|
Agree that Mercedes is on top. They didn't qualify spectacularly or poorly, but they did move up significantly and while not a threat for the win, was racy.
Ferrari went backwards, so can't give it to them. Red Bull continues to be a one driver team. So can't give it to them. Richard |
|
__________________
To paraphrase Mark Twain... "I'm sorry I wrote such a long post; I didn't have time to write a short one." |
30 Oct 2023, 09:35 (Ref:4183656) | #4 | ||
Team Crouton
20KPINAL
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 39,926
|
Yes, Merc for me.
|
||
__________________
280 days...... |
30 Oct 2023, 10:01 (Ref:4183665) | #5 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,636
|
Merc, but its hard to pick one team really.
|
||
__________________
It's just my opinion. |
30 Oct 2023, 11:22 (Ref:4183680) | #6 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 11,888
|
Well i voted for alpha Turi, by far there best performance in ages so they got my vote today
|
||
|
30 Oct 2023, 12:10 (Ref:4183690) | #7 | |
Racer
Join Date: Feb 2023
Posts: 268
|
Alpha Tauri
I can not vote for Mercedes, Russell race was pretty poor |
|
|
30 Oct 2023, 12:24 (Ref:4183691) | #8 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 18,692
|
||
__________________
He who dares wins! He who hesitates is lost! |
30 Oct 2023, 12:51 (Ref:4183700) | #9 | |
Racer
Join Date: Feb 2023
Posts: 268
|
No the result was not good but he was competitive and fighting withe other cars that should normally in front. Just like Ricciardo.
So for everything except result that was a good race for the 2 cars. But not for Russell I think. 1 more lap and he would even be behind Alpha Tauri of Ricciardo. That is difference I feel. |
|
|
30 Oct 2023, 23:24 (Ref:4183782) | #10 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 4,496
|
I said Ferrari because the highest placed team over both entries.
The were lower than their grid positions but they were outliers and may have simply been because of the track temperatures on their first run. Not many could replicate their first Q3 run. |
|
|
31 Oct 2023, 00:52 (Ref:4183785) | #11 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 6,387
|
I went for Alpha Tauri because they have showed the best increase in pace of all in recent events since their upgrades. That Tsunoda was actually faster than Danny Ric was blotted by clumsiness, but prior to that he had gone from an engine penalty enforced last row start to have caught up to within a second or so and a car of Danny when he had his clumsy moment with the almost as clumsy Piastri. To me the team have showed a great turnaround of late from wooden spooners to regular points getters, and have dragged themselves from a comfortable last in the WCC to now being a regular points contender with both cars.
|
||
|
1 Nov 2023, 19:54 (Ref:4183980) | #12 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,481
|
Alpha Tauri is an odd one. It's very hard from where I'm coming from to judge how their drivers are actually delivering. But, it's a good point that they have indeed shown some late progress, which is nice to see.
Ferrari I think was kind of lucky to get both cars up there in the points. I know I heard one commentator say team radio had told their driver to lift and coast for 200 meters on the straight! But, what matters is how you finish. They have two very equally matched drivers, so if only the team get on top of the car... |
|
__________________
Drive faster and longer than the rest ...in anything but a Honda... |
1 Nov 2023, 21:58 (Ref:4183994) | #13 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,927
|
They should put Max in the Alpha Tauri, he will get the points they need for P7 and then Daniel and Checo can have a shootout in the Rb seat for 2024 in the last 3 races.
|
||
__________________
Part time wingman, full time spud. |
2 Nov 2023, 12:17 (Ref:4184052) | #14 | ||
Race Official
20KPINAL
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 23,742
|
|||
__________________
"If you're not winning you're not trying." Colin Chapman. |
3 Nov 2023, 15:24 (Ref:4184185) | #15 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 11,071
|
||
|
3 Nov 2023, 15:58 (Ref:4184190) | #16 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 9,947
|
but surely the real test is to see who can stand up to Max as a team mate. you cant do that if Max isnt sitting in the other seat.
this is no doubt way too harsh but whats the value in determining who the better journeyman is when neither one of them can deliver anywhere near close to what Max is currently putting on the table? |
||
__________________
Home, is where I want to be but I guess I'm already there I come home, she lifted up her wings guess that this must be the place |
4 Nov 2023, 05:30 (Ref:4184271) | #17 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 4,496
|
Quote:
If this is true then why are so many demanding that Perez be replaced by another journeyman who may prove to be equally incapable over a season, when Perez was clearly not incapable over the early races of the season. And the same reasoning is used against Stroll when he outqualified Fred and was third overall in Brazil. So much of the driver criticism is either ill-founded or based on indicators that arent true. Ricciardo was 4th in Mexico but out in Q3 in Brazil and beaten by Tsunoda. Does this make Horner's comments about him untrue? Or is there far more to it than simple indicators and uneven reasoning. |
||
|
4 Nov 2023, 11:34 (Ref:4184287) | #18 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 6,387
|
I believe that Danny is not really the quickest driver in the shed... as pointed out Yuki outqualified Danny here and is (more ?)often the quicker of the two albeit a tad erratic.
Perhaps Danny's strength and greatest contribution is his experience helping with feedback to the engineers helping to unlock and optimise the updates and driving set up direction. Without doubt Alpha Tauri's updates package intro'd at Singapore have been further fine tuned and what was a tail ender is now, in both Yuki and Danny's hands a regular 'midfield' point scorer. 13 of their total 16 points have come from the last 5 events, 11 in the last two with Yukis 5 from USA and Danny 6 last week. |
||
|
5 Nov 2023, 23:20 (Ref:4184659) | #19 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,927
|
Quote:
|
|||
__________________
Part time wingman, full time spud. |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
[Official] Driver of the Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix 2023 | Born Racer | Formula One | 7 | 30 Oct 2023 11:19 |
[Official] Team of the Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix 2017 | Born Racer | Formula One | 18 | 6 Nov 2017 16:57 |
[Official] Team of the Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix 2016 | Born Racer | Formula One | 9 | 1 Nov 2016 01:08 |
[Official] Team of the Grand Prix: Mexican Grand Prix 2015 | Born Racer | Formula One | 14 | 3 Nov 2015 17:30 |