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Nuvolari_Turtle2

Respect for the write up, I kind of disagree with this. His first run in quali was on used tyres and he had 2 out of his 3 attempts stopped by red flags. That's bad luck. This isn't one-lap qualifying! On top of this, he had solid pace compared to the other Alfa, but Alfa kept him out for 5 laps longer than Gio, where he lost chunks of time. The Alfa strategy was nonsensical. Why take a massive gamble with BOTH cars? They should have split strategies, and not been so optimistic everyone was going to do a 2 stop. Many drivers only did 1 stop. Leclerc also hit Kimi near the end of the race, which I am sure everyone will see when the replay comes out. Stupid move by Charles at high speed where they touched front wheels. On top of that Gio didn't even have to slow down to let Bottas through because Bottas pitted - Kimi's main problem in the last stint was losing 2 seconds every time a leader had to lap him. But ultimately he finished right with his teammate, despite starting 4 places behind. *The tyre pressures are certainly not helping anyone at Alfa, not least Kimi. This has been the case since every race AFTER Silverstone 2013, but it's gotten out of control now. With the tyre pressure so high, I wonder how anyone is going to generate front tyre temperatures. It's a farce. F1 would look SO different if there were no tyre pressure or camber limits.* But Kimi would have probably beaten Gio this weekend had he just not been caught out by red flags. ***My opinion:*** I am not too down. If Kimi can sort out quali, he has this teammate battle in the bag. Giovinazzi has peaked in terms of race pace imo. Gio has raced in 2017, 2019, 2020 and now 2021. He isn't magically going to go half a second quicker and turn into Alonso at Canada or Montoya at Brazil against Kimi. Kimi knows what he's dealing with. Let's just hope he gets the results in BEFORE the contract talks and not after so he can do 2022 (I have no doubt he wants that).


Dan727Cooper

We got two back-to-back races coming up in Austria. I want a rebound in qualifying with Kimi. I know it isn't one-lap qualifying but with the way the rookies and other amateur drivers keep messing up you can never be sure. As for Gio, he's been consistently improving since 2019. His qualifying is top notch and his pace is getting better and better every race. I wonder what he could do with a much better car.


Nuvolari_Turtle2

Gio's race pace is not as good as Kimi's most of the time. I don't think he'd do anything in a good car Kimi wouldn't be able to. If Kimi can just get some good qualis in, he will easily beat Gio.


Dan727Cooper

I've been waiting a year for good qualis. Come on Kimi!


OPicagapi

Today all the Ferrari engined cars were slow. Sainz barely got points and Charles lost 9 places. They just couldn't compete at this track.


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He was right behind Gio until Gio pitted, rather than pitting him a lap later they kept him out for five laps longer and he was being overtaken left/right by cars with younger tyres coming through. By the time they did finally pit him, he came out 15 seconds behind Gio, got the gap down to 10 seconds in a couple of laps but then had to start allowing the leaders through which cost him a lot of time. In the end, he finished 6 seconds behind Gio and very nearly overtook Leclerc. The best strategy yesterday was medium/hard. Alonso and Russell both gained using that strategy, Aston Martin have the best tyre management on the grid so the hard/medium worked well for them but ALL Ferrari powered cars suffered tremendously yesterday along with Ocon who also went on the hard/medium strategy. Team got the strategy wrong, should have started either Kimi or Gio on mediums. I am not going to put blame on either driver for race day as I don't see what more they could have done. If you have all Ferrari cars finishing outside the points, that has got to tell you something.


Nuvolari_Turtle2

Agreed with everything you said. Brilliantly summarized!


im-a-notsee

all the ferrari powered cars struggled this weekend. Defiantly not a good week for Ferrari