[Artemis]

Originally Posted by NickyC

I’d remove the chicane after the tunnel and add a DRS zone as soon as you enter said tunnel to spice things up. Then put the mini chicane near the end of the straight with a TON of safe barriers.

You could also add a rule that cars exiting the tunnel in the lead of the car behind them by less than a second MUST stay to the left until the mini-chicane. If the car behind wants to pass, it must be done on the right.

There are really no good options for this track of course, but I never want to see it go away!

I had the same thoughts. But if the Turns 10/11 (chicane after the tunnel) are removed, a mistake on that downhill part upon approaching Turn 12 could be very dangerous because of high speed. Brakes failure at 300+ km/h = low chance of survival when plunging into the walls at Turn 12. Tempting for drivers to overtake at maximum speed in that part of Sector 2. A super fast Sector 2 with DRS zone and a bit more tire degradation, would improve the race.

[G30M]

More about Hamilton race engineer madness

https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/...er,199740.html

[LH44]

Originally Posted by G30M

More about Hamilton race engineer madness

https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/...er,199740.html

Adami needs to go. You can't have this many blunders a third of the way through the season and still keep your job.

There was no excuse for thinking Max was slowing down for the impeding incident. A competent engineer would have picked up on the fact that it was towards the beginning of the lap and Max would have no reason to abort the lap that early.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by G30M

More about Hamilton race engineer madness

https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/...er,199740.html

That's just the way it is, oh those problems with Ricky mixed in compared with real world problems we have

[AmuroRay]

Originally Posted by G30M

you forgot to blame ricky his race engineer. that guy has managed to destroy Seb, and then he was "helping" Sainz when Sainz decided to be his own race engineer, now Ricky is a meme in itself. I'm not sure why he's still around. Ferrari like to fire people but not him it seems.

It's just Ferrari things. The communication the whole weekend was a problem, but it's just going to be one of those things Lewis overcomes.

[AmuroRay]

Originally Posted by NickyC

I’d remove the chicane after the tunnel and add a DRS zone as soon as you enter said tunnel to spice things up. Then put the mini chicane near the end of the straight with a TON of safe barriers.

You could also add a rule that cars exiting the tunnel in the lead of the car behind them by less than a second MUST stay to the left until the mini-chicane. If the car behind wants to pass, it must be done on the right.

There are really no good options for this track of course, but I never want to see it go away!

I wouldn't be bothered to not see it again for a long time.

[HeelToeShift]

Originally Posted by G30M

More about Hamilton race engineer madness

https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/...er,199740.html

Of course - just the next excuse for poor performance. You're 1 minute off the pace so you blame your engineer, next week it's the car again...

As an aside, it is interesting to see how Alb has really a big edge over Sai - I wonder what all those people who said Sai was going beat the racing shoes off Alb are saying now?

[GuidoK]

[dumptruck]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

It's just Ferrari things. The communication the whole weekend was a problem, but it's just going to be one of those things Lewis overcomes.

Imo, its what hes there to fix.

[AmuroRay]

Originally Posted by dumptruck

Imo, its what hes there to fix.

I agree. But I don't want to see Adami fired, I hate for anyone to lose their job. Give them some time to gel.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

I agree. But I don't want to see Adami fired, I hate for anyone to lose their job. Give them some time to gel.

Riccardo Adami is an Italian clown.

[M3WC]

Originally Posted by G30M

More about Hamilton race engineer madness

https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/...er,199740.html

Originally Posted by HeelToeShift

Of course - just the next excuse for poor performance. You're 1 minute off the pace so you blame your engineer, next week it's the car again...

As an aside, it is interesting to see how Alb has really a big edge over Sai - I wonder what all those people who said Sai was going beat the racing shoes off Alb are saying now?

If anything Lewis needs to figure out why he is so far off Charles pace in quali. China is only track Lewis qualified ahead of Charles.

His race engineer can't find .3+sec in quali. That is on Lewis.

[Killed by Death]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Riccardo Adami is an Italian clown.

It's Ferrari so they are all clowns. But, Monaco is notorious for causing communication problems. So I cut him a small break here.

[DrFerry]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

LEW's girlfriend Sofia Vergara was the way .. According to the paddock rumors , she set the Ferrari box 44 on fire (!) As you can see

Also known as Sofia Viagra...
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[DrFerry]

Originally Posted by Artemis

I had the same thoughts. But if the Turns 10/11 (chicane after the tunnel) are removed, a mistake on that downhill part upon approaching Turn 12 could be very dangerous because of high speed. Brakes failure at 300+ km/h = low chance of survival when plunging into the walls at Turn 12. Tempting for drivers to overtake at maximum speed in that part of Sector 2. A super fast Sector 2 with DRS zone and a bit more tire degradation, would improve the race.

I had similar thoughts: Remove turns 10/11 and also increase the radius of turn 12 to make it a higher speed sweeper like turn 9 and some of the yawn snootzfest is solved. Regarding the danger: pretty much the entire circuit is surrounded by armco barriers so Monaco is already quite a dangerous place. Especially turn 1... Turns 15/16 also really bother me too. By this I mean the radius of turns 15/16 are far too small given the long wheelbase of today's F1 cars. The same can be said for Turn 1. Get the city council away from track layout/modification decisions.
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[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Riccardo Adami is an Italian clown.

Drivers will always moan and complain whatever

[G30M]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

if you've forgotten then it's not important. i need to remember this when the boss asks.

also they forgot they were drinking tea not coffee no?

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

I agree. But I don't want to see Adami fired, I hate for anyone to lose their job. Give them some time to gel.

Could also be that Riccardo Adami says "Basta" and asks Ferrari to be transferred to another position.

[HeelToeShift]

Originally Posted by M3WC

If anything Lewis needs to figure out why he is so far off Charles pace in quali. China is only track Lewis qualified ahead of Charles.

His race engineer can't find .3+sec in quali. That is on Lewis.

3 tenths or more in quali and half a second or more in race pace. Yes it’s 100% on him but don’t tell him that because it’s always something else. These ground effect cars take an immense level of talent, ability, and deftness to drive fast.
Ham was extremely lucky both MB had issues because it not they’d have both been in front of him too.

[AmuroRay]

Originally Posted by HeelToeShift

3 tenths or more in quali and half a second or more in race pace. Yes it’s 100% on him but don’t tell him that because it’s always something else. These ground effect cars take an immense level of talent, ability, and deftness to drive fast.
Ham was extremely lucky both MB had issues because it not they’d have both been in front of him too.

They don’t take much talent - they can only be driven one way - so if anything your style isn’t that way, you’re not going to do well. This has been confirmed by multiple drivers.

It’s impressive that the 8time WDC Can adapt to a foreign driving style at 40 and still win races. wdc confirmed.

[HeelToeShift]

Originally Posted by AmuroRay

They don’t take much talent - they can only be driven one way - so if anything your style isn’t that way, you’re not going to do well. This has been confirmed by multiple drivers.

It’s impressive that the 8time WDC Can adapt to a foreign driving style at 40 and still win races. wdc confirmed.

Actually the entire field has said they take a lot of talent to drive include Ham who has blamed their difficult nature on his poor, very poor, pathetic, and downright laughable performance. Everyone has had to adapt and Ham has spent more time trying to adapt than anyone as MB has stated his time doing so has been exhorbitant. And yet, nearly everyone adapted better, faster or both with maybe the exception of guys like Mazepin and Latifi so he’s in that company. Again, all bark and no bite. $40k he does not win WDC this year. You’ll back down though as you won’t put your money where your big and usually wrong mouth is. So put up or flat out STFU because you’ve got nothing but keyboard warrior written all over you.

You mention winning…he hasn’t won a GP in nearly a year (not that he actually won at Spa) and despite having a very fast car and arguably the fastest car in Monaco he was nearly 1 second off the pace of slower cars. They should call him Christmas because the entire field is dangling their balls all over him.

[M5Rick]

Oh well...back to work