Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Driver61" channel.

  1. There should be a rule that says that when there is a likelihood the race will finish under SC, the race should stop and be restarted.
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  2. Considering that during the season there have been several incidents where actions by Mercedes cost Verstappen dozens of points, I'd say that though Masi's decision was controversial, it does serve justice. Verstappen was the quickest throughout the season. If, for example, Hamilton hadn't punted Verstappen out at Silverstone, Max would have been crowned champion last week. In the end, Masi had the prerogative to make this decision, though e.g. a full restart might have been a better solution to the situation.
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  3. Mercedes has earlier been one of the loudest advocates to decide races by racing, so they shouldn't complain that Masi took their advice.
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  4. Personally, I think the way Mercedes dealt with its engines should be penalized MUCH harder. F1 should even out the playing field better, penalizing gratuitous engine changes progressively. The penalties for a second gratuitous engine should be double those for the first. Not half, as is now the case. This enabled Mercedes to just throw money at new engines to effectively buy victories. On the other hand, teams should be able to compensate unforced write-offs of engines due e.g. to crashes without penalities, or with a penalty compensated for the age of the engine. A write-off of an engine in its first race, should incur just 1/6th of the penalty for a write-off of a 7-race old engine. I think Verstappen was penalized far too hard for having a fresh engine taken out at Silverstone, but Hamilton was penalized far too little for deliberately breaking the principle that teams should limit replacements on their cars.
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  5. Hamilton got off way too easy when he punted Verstappen into the barrier at break-neck speed.
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  6. Many of the controversial episodes in this season became controversial because Hamilton did not yield like he was supposed to under the rules. And usually, the FIA sided with Hamilton...
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  7. There are sooo many trade offs in managing an engine like this, like the rev limit, the temperature limits, how rich the mixture is. It might be as simple as maintaining maximum power for a few seconds longer that significantly reduces engine life-span. The longer max power is maintained, the hotter the engine gets, the more it wears out. Similarly, the higher the temperature of combustion, the higher the thermal efficiency of the engine, but the lower the life-span. So running a (slightly) leaner mixture may increase maximum power but wear the engine out much quicker, because lean mixtures burn hotter than normal.
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  8. ​ @kirstenalexander7339  "penalties either need to be reduced or engine amounts increased" Do not agree with that. The amount of engines was limited so teams with lower budgets could better compete, and to make the sport less wasteful. The penalty for designing an engine so that it wears out in just two races should be prohibitively high, ESPECIALLY if you do that more than once during the season. Budget caps favour teams that build their own engines (like Mercedes), as building it yourself is (usually) cheaper than buying one if you already have the facilities and expertise in-house.
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  9. I think Verstappen has made the right decision. As there is a significant difference between driving the Sim and Reality, a driver needs to learn to drive Sims well in order to push the car to the max, like you would in reality. Max is putting in the time and effort to drive the same in the Sim as he would in Reality, which is highly beneficial for the developers. Lewis, on the other hand, relegates the Sim to other (lesser?) drivers. Meaning that the Sim car operates in a different regime than the Real car does with Hamilton. Which means that the car is optimized for a different regime. Which may well be one reason why Mercedes sucks so much this season. If you can call being second in the constructors ranking, "sucking"...
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  10. 5 for the fourth, 10 for the fifth, 20 for the sixth. And no penalty for replacing an engine lost in a crash. The crash itself is sufficient penalty.
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  11. The problem is all the hard braking. That converts a LOT of energy into useless heat.
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  12. ​ @hoen2009  Exactly.
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  13. -- But not apply that penalty when a fresh engine was lost due to a crash. Like happened to Verstappen at Silverstone, for which he was punished extraordinarily hard but which was the fault of Hamilton 🤯🤯🤯. The rules should differentiate between lost engine replacements and gratuitous ones. With perhaps a third category for engine loss due to bad engine design. Some engines just are unreliable (looking at you, Renault), no need to punish these as hard as gratuitous engine replacements.
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  14. I wouldn't put it beyond F1 teams to maximize dirty air, to make it harder to overtake. So, great move by the officials to make racing more exciting -- I hope. Because it may also mean that in the end, the car with the most HPs wins by reducing the skill that is required for overtaking.
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  15. Bottas is showing signs of less loyalty to Hamilton. I think he got team orders to let Hamilton go ahead into T1. He probably thought righto, mate, I will, but then you deal with Verstappen yourself. But in the end, it did not matter. Verstappen was much quicker around the track, and would have taken the pair even when he hadn't been let past by Bottas.
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  16. It is fair and legal under the current rules. You can't blame Verstappen for using the rules to his best advantage. Just like Hamilton does. Whining about it is like whining about a goal that was rejected due to the off-side rule. If the rule hadn't been there, the defending team wouldn't have let the attacker get behind the defense but have made sure a defender was between the goal and the attacker.
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  17. You are amazing at explaining these extremely complex issues!
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  18.  @fergalhopkins1230  The penalty should depend on the reason for the change. If you have a fresh engine taken out by a crash that was not caused by you, you should not get a penalty at all for replacing it. And some engines just have faults that cause things to break. OTH, gratuitous engine changes just so you can overload them to get more power should be penalized much harder. Running engines so they last only 2 races due to wear should be prohibited.
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