He absolutely did. 2012 was such an outlier, too. The MP4-27 was fast, but super fragile. He retired from the lead 3 times with technical issues, IIRC. And of course, that painful 2007 one which was just so, so preventable by McLaren…..
I’m still amazed that “Hey, Hey What Can I Do” wasn’t able to be used anywhere besides being the B side to Immigrant Song. I know that they couldn’t really fit it on LZIII, but it’s a better track than “Hats Off To (Roy) Harper” is. The only other album it really “fits” with is IV, and you can’t kick out anything there for it (maybe “Four Sticks”, but I like that track).
Looking at it again, this is nearly a spec engine without calling it a spec engine. That’s disappointing. There will be some room for ERS differences, but with the MGU-K having to be built-in with the battery, that means battery placement will essentially be required to be behind the engine and may require liquid cooling with all that heat buildup, which may mean larger sidepods, etc. Just seems like a big technological step back, but I guess that’s what VW AG wanted.
All George is saying there is that he thinks the new TD will slow RB and Ferrari down a little (through he does then hedge a little bit), and it probably will at least a small amount.
NoName and Burt Macklin, FBI are both correct. The new regs are a double edged sword, because while it is much easier to follow other cars now, the slipstream effect is MUCH less as well, so they still currently either need to use DRS or have a lot of tire offset to actually pass in many cases.
Sounds like he wanted more than a 1 year deal which Alpine wouldn’t do because of Piastri. Which is fair, since they aren’t fighting for wins anyway and he wants a big salary, and Alpine does want Piastri in the car sooner rather than later.
It is how the overtaking regulations from earlier in the season are written. He was trying to play to that. Most people would agree that it wasn’t a reasonable overtake attempt, but I see what he was trying to do.