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Ferrari might do a very good job in free practice sessions. They can do the same in qualifying also but I'm not so sure about the race. Because we all know that Ferrari still have a problematic car compared to Red Bull. They are even slower than Mercedes these days. Unless things go their way this weekend neither Leclerc nor Sainz have much chance to win here. We saw how quickly Leclerc was far behind Verstappen after not so many laps were left behind in the previous race.

The thing I hope to see from Ferrari the most is that they don't make simple mistakes at least in this race. If they do the same in this special track for them then it would be much more embarrassing than the other races. Having clean races can still help them be on podium at least. As for Russell, he is the most consistent driver now and it wouldn't surprise me to see him on podium. But it depends on Mercedes' strategies with Hamilton also.

What are your thoughts and expectations before the first practice? Do you think we will see anything spectacular from Ferrari on their home field?
What will be stronger - support or pressure?

I hope Russel will have a chance to have a good weekend. He is in top 5 the whole season, top 3 again this time?

Yep, I hope they won't sabotage themselves so bad this time.


I wish to see something interesting and this can only work if Ferrari is on their good days. I don't even care if it's Ferrari - RBR or Ferrari - Mercedes.. or even both (heh...).


Iirc at some point Checo has been asking he no longer gets certain updates in his car, since it's now stable and he's comfy/happy in there. I may not remember all of it, but the lack of upgrades may be related to that. Or did he reconsider that decision and I've missed it?


I thought that you've implied that I only read the Monday newspaper and make some random posts based on that.
Maybe it was a misunderstanding from my part too.


I never said he's bad. Just he's not best (there's a very good chance there's no "best" at all in current line up).


More than welcome. We both can be wrong, but as long as we discuss it, all should be good.


Yep, can't wait. And it may be the first of the 3 I'll actually see it in time (and also at least the qualifying).

This is an important race for Tifosis indeed. It hasn't been a good season for Ferrari so far I'm afraid but they can at least fight for a win here. However the continuing durability problems are still a big hindrance for them. Leclerc can't keep up with Verstappen for a long time in a race. For example the previous race finished literally after 10 laps or so. Verstappen can easily open the gap with him in a short time. The latest changes by FIA helped Mercedes start to keep up with Ferrari. The latest races are a good proof for that as they were even better than Ferrari.

This week we can see another rivalry between Ferrari and Mercedes rather than a Ferrari - Red Bull one. I'm not sure about only Perez for Red Bull. Because the team gave Perez an old engine unit for the Dutch GP which caused him to fall behind too much. I don't know if they take a similar action again but I don't expect so.

Man, i did not insult anybody, sorry if you feel like that. (or maybe i dont know in english that was an insult)

Second, no i dont like Lewis Hamilton, i dont like him like person  and i dont think he its the better driver of the grid but he is a really good one.

Third, Thanks for response so carefully to all the points i made asides of we are not in the same line of thinking. Its good to see we can discuss more in depth in a place like this.

Well Monza a few days onwards, i nearly forgot we have the three in a row races.

I don't know what happens there. My current scenario is that with the huge development for this year and the problems afterwards, Ferrari may be short with money and try to do all they can with the current crew to not need more funds there too.

I've read some weak explanations today:



Imho it's a weak explanation because 24 - 17 = 7 seconds, while the pit stop was more than 10 sec extra (12.7s total). Imho they should have done a couple of rehearsals/drills to avoid this, especially knowing it's an oddly narrow garage.
Of course, some will argue that's easy to tell from outside. But don't they have a lot of well-paid people (including Binotto) who should think on all this way before they happen?!

I don't want to believe that Binotto really thinks that things are under control in the team now. He can't be satisfied with his crew right now I just don't want to accept this nonsense.

I think that he is talking like this for now because he doesn't want the team to lose their focus completely before the season ends. I'm pretty confident that we will see important changes in the team. We just need to see this otherwise Ferrari had better forget about the next season too. Maybe some of you can think that I'm prejudiced but you also see what is happening these days. How can a team do this kind of simple mistakes while it is a very important season for them? If Binotto is really happy with the people working here then who's at fault?

Thank you.

We are "Tifosi" are gonna watch on Friday-Saturday and avoid Sunday ~XD Fun-fact, the bush who are carry a power unit "Ferarri" is broken. I hope this is a sign, we got a bad luck on that truck and on the race the bad luck is gone ~XD.

Funny to see, even outside on the track we still got some problem.

The next race is already here and I am certain Ferrari are ready for action!
Just hope their crew and drivers can recover from all that has occurred at the last race and can bounce back with something for this one in at Pirelli Gran Premio d'Italia.


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The track in Monza is known to be the fastest racing track. With long straight sections. And here the power of the motors will be just important. Although the latest rule changes regarding the elimination of dolphining, I think they can confuse the picture in racing on this track. But it's still interesting to see who will be the favorite because these two aspects of the machines can give all riders a surprise.

While I could have been wording that better (only the ending part of the strategy was bad / missing), if you start with insulting people that will never prove your point.


If you make a strategy for winning when your car is that slow, unless you have Ayrton Senna at the wheel it means that you've smoked the wrong pot (and please don't come with bedtime stories about how good driver is Lewis).
Compared to the golden days they were pretty much expecting the unexpected and were one step in front of RBR, now they've adapted poorly. Leaving Hamilton with medium tyres when pretty much everybody had softs simply cannot end good. On soft tyres people get much faster (was it 1 second less per lap?) and they know all that. Indeed, the only good window for that may have been when the pack went through the paddock and maybe changing tyres for both pilots then would have been bad for Russell for short term, at least.
But if they would have been doing that, both cars could have been ending before Ferrari - which is the team they are battling now, not RBR.


With their winning mentality (lol to that), they've screwed it up. Just look at Hamilton swearing at near the end of the race.
They've lost valuable points. They're only lucky that Ferrari wants to win the title for the team that sabotages itself best over the history of F1.


OK, that does make sense for long term.. and would have if safety cars (virtual or not) wouldn't have been spoiling their plans. And in F1 they pretty much have to expect the unexpected and take advantage of everything they can. Well, they didn't. In the last laps they could have had a chance for holding positions only with softs, period.


While keeping the team together is a nice thought, while he is fighting for his team, this, instead of getting people more focused into doing their job perfectly, has the opposite effect: the team seems to be sloppier and sloppier with every week passing by. The strategy seems to be missing (I mean, not long ago they asked the pilot how he wants the strategy?!), the tyre changes go randomly bad, .. it's clearly easy to comment from outside, but something does look wrong there.

For those who are interested in the ongoing backlash with what's happened in the recent GP, Nico Rosberg has commented on Ferrari saying

Look at what Binotto said

I'm not sure but I just admire how he is handling the situation they really need to do some changes with that situation knowing that they are the top contenders when it comes to the current season. If they want to be more competitive, they need to do something.

Im really tired off people who comment with the "paper of monday".

So for you a team who makes a strategy to win the race with a car 0.5 or a second slowly, and was brilliant and ruined for one thing outside of their thinking (VSC of Tsunoda) its a bad strategy.

Second you are thinking with a loser metality, Mercedes dont. They want to WIN the GP, if they put soft tyres what can do? NOTHING, Verstappen was ahead with the same tyres as you and a car more more fast than you. SO.....

In fact Ruseel making that decision (and they giving liberty to make that) blow the "plan" because Russel has to be a plug in the relaunch to give space to Hamilton to try to make a gap and with a lot of luck win the race.

Other thing more, MERCEDES WORKS BEST WITH HARDEST COMPOUND. And they have really trouble puttin in the correct window the new tyres, so again if they change the two mans tyres, maybe the two can be a disaster for this tyre temperature trouble they have.

So i repeat with the result confirmed all have the true but in that moment when you have to make the decision its not easy, and more if you dont have the fastest car by far.

I think after the race and seeing the images also Hamilton will agree with the team.

And for them the final decision was. Maintain position in a track hard to overtake with Hamilton and try with the other driver the fastest compound. But clearly Russel dont have good relauch and dont have enough pace with the soft tyre, so GG. (You can  see Russel relaunch was pretty bad he nearly lose the position against the Ferrari).




I agree also the FIA its responsibile with one thing. HOW IN THE EARTH the top category of racing doesnt have enogh space between team boxes, its hilarious the thing of one man having to run the hoses of the team ahead of the one its making th pit stop for not crash with them, WHY so little space? but yes after crash happens put the board "safety first", come on man!

and the ferrari team.... no words.

No need penalty for the Ferrari.

Because Ferarri is being a Ferarri thing, It's normal for us every week to see a new kind of mistake from them. However, congratulation on the Ferarri we just unlocked a new strategy. Bring only 3 tires, must a new plan of Binoto. I hope from the last few incidents, Main Headquarters Ferarri will take some action to have some new changes on the team from Team Principle, Strategy, and Pit Crew.

Even Rosberg commented on this mistake, a crew/team from FP2/FP3 can do a better performance rather than Ferarri's current team.

You can find Perez's incident by this link: https://youtu.be/Fw0-51X0t8I?t=90

It was also really dangerous for everyone. Perez's tyre would have blown out and his race would have turned into a nightmare first of all. Or someone would have got hurt also of course. I really don't understand how Ferrari can be this much preoccupied in the race. They aren't hurting only themselves. They are dangerous for others also.

I'm pretty sure that we will see so many people getting sacked before the next season. I hope there won't be another fiasco after new people come to the team. They need a very skilled group of people like Red Bull have. I haven't seen Red Bull making big mistakes for a long time. Their pits are still flawless for example.

P14 (!)


Mercedes strategy was pretty bad. But while Russell was smart enough to get advantage of the pit lane situation, Hamilton wasn't.


I simply don't understand what is Ferrari doing. They are constantly sabotaging themselves. Completely unprofessional.


Yeah. I said I'll bet on him and I (sadly) didn't because was travelling again in the weekend. I've missed all the practice, qualifying and race too. I've just seen today a rerun of the race.
The race was interesting, especially the last 1/3 of it.

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Does anybody know the backgrounds of the incident when Vettel ignored blue flags and didn't let Hamilton pass? Any official excuse, or was it meant as a "farewell salute"?

Give them some credit, it's not really just about the stroke of luck.  Max Verstappen and Red Bull are really the best driver and the best team on the grid right now.  So yeah, it's def really hard to bet against them this season.  I mean if we're being honest with ourselves, who could come close against Red Bull?  Ferrari?  Lol, not with that team.  Mercedes?  Not with that car.

And did we forget about the race when Verstappen started at P10 or something and still won?

Yeah, don't blame the others for muttering about conspiracies and what not, I honestly thought the race had gone out of my hands in early practice and then to see that actually he didn't pay any consequence?

And Tsunoda, yeah, he was my pre-season pick to punch high but he's really, really underperformed and Tauri didn't have to ruin the race for everyone else man.

So that's what happened to Sainz in the pits. I was wondering why he was losing spots during the last quarter of the race. I was watching in and out between this and an EPL game that was on so missed this mishap with him.
And knew he wasn't going to finish in the top 3 since they did mention about his 5-sec penalty after release.
Very bad performance on Ferrari yet again with it coming down to their mechanics and staff. It being those telling them to pit last time that cost them the race.
@RealMalatesta Didn't know or hear about a piece of equipment (tire wheel gun) left on the ground and Perez running over it.
Wonder if there was a good shot of this posted up on youtube. Because I would like to see that and if it did infact fly up or indangered anybody around.
That should be a penalty to the team whose fault it was leaving that lying around in the way of the cars.

When is it not a terrible day for Ferrari. First of all, we are used to them not being good when it comes to strategy or pit stops and so forth, but this time they literally had a tire wheel guns laying around and Perez went over it.

What people do not realize is that, nothing happened and it was all fine, but that could have been as serious as deadly, what if the tire just shot the wheel gun back to Ferrari pit and hit someone in the head? Can anyone guarantee that it wouldn't happen? Of course not. Ferrari needs to do something about their staff, they have a horrible horrible team, a good car and good drivers but a horrible team, it is unreal.