2023 Canadian Grand Prix Closing Thread - eviltoast

As nothing else has been posted, I figured I’d open this up to discussion.

A brilliant race, I thought. Lots of fantastic battles. An intelligent strategy from Ferrari. Not too chaotic or arbitrary. Albon fighting on 40-lap old tires for a huge P7.

How’d everyone else enjoy it?

  • GoatTnder@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Favorite moment was Alonso’s pit telling him Hamilton was just 1.9s behind. “Okay, leave it to me.” And then suddenly it was a 6 second gap.

  • Welsh_kiwi10@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I know Max doesn’t need the help but my god Perez does not deserve that Red Bull put Norris in it or something.

    • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      +1 for putting Norris in as a fan. However if I was Red Bull management I’d keep giving him one year contracts until be becomes a liability. They’ve got constructors nailed on and a clear driver hierarchy. It’s ideal for them.

      • Welsh_kiwi10@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah they need what Bottas was to Hamilton, up there but never making a serious challenge for number 1 like Rosberg did. Then again Max is so dominant that maybe fixing what’s not broken isn’t an issue.

    • David Palmer@lemmy.nz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Put Albon back in that car, now that he has the experience. He’s proving how good he is at Williams.

    • jonj@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      The strategy was scary! Maybe with Meckies off to a new team someone else is getting a say

      • Matte@feddit.it
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I think they used all the bad choices with sainz… although I can’t blame them, a race here with no SC was really an oddity.

  • bazpoint@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Such a great effort for Albon… easy DotD, and huge for Williams in the lower WCC battle. Hope it’s a sign that the Williams upgrades are decent & we may see more of it.

    Russell cracked under the pressure of trying to stay on the back of Alonso… absolutely insane that the car almost finished the race after that hit… I was surprised it finished the lap! F1 cars are made of strong stuff these days.

    Max mega as ever… ominous that Newey appears to be fully invested in F1 again after a few years where he seemed to drift away.

  • Naminreb@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    I can’t understand how Perez just couldn’t compete with Ferrari’s pace at all. Not his best circuit.

    • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      My understanding is that he slowed down on the race track leading up to pit entry so that McLaren could double-stack him after Piastri. It’s against the rules to deliberately go slow and impede like that.

  • Ecksell@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    What the heck happened with Checo? He should have had a podium, but just got lost in a DRS train I guess?

    • Entropywins@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It seems like he’s just lost confidence or something… he’s not in the all time greats category but he should be able to push a little harder