Welcome
Hello everyone and welcome to the Canadian Grand Prix Weekend thread.
Details about this race can be found here.
Sessions
This thread will cover all the sessions this weekend, so that’s all 3 practice sessions, qualifying, and the race.
We will monitor how this goes to see if we need more granularity.
Spoilers
The rules around spoilers are not yet in place, therefore we won’t be enforcing anything around spoilers this weekend. This goes beyond the scope of this thread too.
If you do not want spoilers, please do not look in this community this weekend.
The aim is to have a finished set of rules ready by mid next week.
Max for the first time this season had to push to not get caught. Alonso and later Hamilton with the mediums had practically the same pace as him. It was a shame that Alonso didn’t had a new set of medium tyres and the issues with the rear brakes, he was faster than Hamilton when they had the same compound. The 33 is coming. 😎 Russell made a good comeback after the crash, having to retire the car was very harsh after all he did to get into the points again.
I wouldn’t say he had to push. The only actual pushing he did was to get out of the DRS zone and make a healthy gap, which he achieved with ease. The rest was just managing tire temperature because it’s a track where you have to push to keep temperature in the tires. He couldn’t cruise the laps like he could in warmer climates with tracks that have more corners.
Brundle was honest - he noted how far ahead Max would be if the race was clean without incidents. So in pure race pace that would be at least 10s faster than the next two teams.
I’m all for Alonso this season with his stupendous performance, but Max and RB’s package is still the package to beat. AM need to be smarter to beat RB and Merc later into the season. Sucks that Alo’s strongest performance yet was hindered by a rear braking issue.
If you wanna see how fast Max is, just compare him vs Checo…
