I see it again and again, people trying to judge things that happen in F2 by the measurements in F1 and i understand that the official titles and descriptions are misleading many fans into believing they are the exact same but they are not so here is a small explanation;
What is the goal in F1? Obviously, winning titles, both drivers championship and constructor championship. How do you achieve that? Build the fastest car, get the best drivers, and make the most points. Now what's the goal in F2? You’d think it's winning the title, but actually it's showing off skill and attracting F1 teams. How do you do that? Again, you’d think you would win and get the most points, but that hasn’t been the focus in years, today it's showing off your skill.
But shouldn't skill translate to wins? Well, technically yes, but there's two more huge differences between F1 and F2. First of all, the drivers are younger, they are more reckless and crash more often. The drivers DNF a lot more and oftentimes they are not at fault but they don't get points, also there's things like the reverse grid which are active tools so drivers can show off their overtaking skills too.
More importantly though, is the fact that F2 is a spec series while F1 is also an engineering contest. For explanatory reasons; in F2 every driver has the same base car, the teams can change set-up and such things but generally the cars perform very similarly. There's still some performance differences because certain teams work better with the cars but it's not comparable to F1, where every team more or less builds their own car.
Now here is the point where a lot of people misunderstand the use of F2; F1 teams look at F2 drivers and choose who they want for their teams and this year, Oliver Bearman and Kimi Antonelli are closely discussed while Paul Aron with more points is pretty much ignored. A lot of people expect the F2 champion to get an F1 seat, but in this year, even if he makes less points, Antonelli is proving himself to be a world class driver with overtakes like this one. Antonelli suffered through, with multiple DNFs, getting involved in crashes and other things out of his hand, while Aron was very lucky, at least until Spa where we could see how even good drivers can get really unlucky.
In the end, F1 teams know the best which driver is really good and which drivers fit their cars the best. They are observing the drivers in all the younger categories, so if Aron is really good enough for F1, a team will pick him up, but at the moment he doesn't show the results.
The same goes by the way for F3
watching the front positions of f1: Same 5 guys trading off finishing positions with each other every week
watching the midfield/backrunners of f1: Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon are roleplaying Javert and Hugh Jackman in a Les Miserables fight to mutually assured destruction over a no-points position. Lewis Hamilton is going to physically fight his own car to the death. Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo are going to physically fight each other to the death, but Daniel has a disadvantage because Lance Stroll has a sniper rifle aimed at his head. The Saubers are rewriting the federalist papers in the pits. Kevin Magnussen has planted a bomb on the track, and the blast has inevitably caught a Williams.
shout out to george russell for being the only bitch who doesn't quiver and move out of the way the second max verstappen is in his mirrors much less for a whole race. merc you better kiss the ground this man walks on or istg.
do i have work to do? idk, haven’t checked.
am i going to check?? nuh uh.
am i gonna rewatch Bones from the start and skip eps im uncomfortable with? uh, hell yeah!!!
CHARLES LECLERC YOU ARE THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND
if i was charles, i would simply pull the 'but you promised 15-20 years of us racing together' card at max everytime he mentioned retirement. that + the puppy eyes would work 100%
Max has really had one race like Charles and snapped 😂😭
Charles: just for your info I think we have around- I mean do you want to know the margins ?
Pit: No, Charles. We're not interested. We know.
Charles: you said no right?
Pit: NO! We are NOT interested.
Charles: das rude ://
come mi fai sognare | charles leclerc
Someone finally must have asked McLaren the right questions about Hungary!
Autosport have finally got to the bottom of it. Things we have all been saying since the race.
Andrea Stella admits thry didn’t have a plan that took into consideration Lewis and Max behind them.
Could you ever imagine Red Bull or Mercedes being caught out like that?
So they put the two drivers into a situation they hadn’t discussed. Lando found himself out in front and assumed this was what the team had planned.
And then the pitwall proceeded to not communicate this to Lando. And seemingly did not know how to communicate it.
So somehow the guy who is driving round at 300kph is left thinking he needs to up his game.
Being given position, with no prior plan of this and he is looking at catching Max in the Driver’s Championship, what exactly was he meant to think?
However, they realise, without all the information how can they expect either driver to just simply comply.
The fact that post race the engineers seemed to have a different understanding of the morning meeting than the pitwall mid race is scary as hell. No wonder Lando and Oscar were asking questions from the second pitstop onwards.
They might have been told post race they were free to race after the second pitstop but the radio messages and the fact Lando assumed they were in final positions after that point says otherwise.
Oscar and Lando are many things. Psychic is not one of them!
They have a shot at both championships. This is not a training camp, it’s happening now. This needs sorting out.
I know it must be hard for a team to publicly admit their failings BUT the whole world saw and heard them. At least they acknowledge it. Even if it has taken them all week.
My only hope is they have looked back on the radio messages and privately have realised how damming and manipulative they sounded and have addressed that.
this came to me in a dream