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I've been supportive of Russell earlier in the thread - like 2022, he seems to have started the season better than Lewis.
But I do think he has a tendency to crumble under pressure. Alonso seems to have been given the blame for the incident in Australia but am I being unfair in thinking that other drivers would have used the situation to their advantage - i.e. Alonso was a sitting duck on the following straight had Russell not binned it?? As an aside, I think that when Lewis does leave at the end of the year, Mercedes will be glad. I've had colleagues before who only seem to utter negative things about your work and it can really sap morale. |
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There's nothing ordinary about Russell's pace. What he needs is to do is nail the results.
He has always considered himself a proper 'racer' though (isn't Montoya one of his heroes?) and such drvers hardly ever play the percentage game, they will always go for the riskier move. |
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For me Alonso is the one that comes out of this looking bad not Russell. Perhaps Alonso fans would disagree, but I don't see any complaints from Aston Martin. |
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I am an Alonso fan but for me a two event ban would have been more appropriate. Before someone gets hurt
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It was a bad mistake from Alonso, no way would Russell have made that mistake on his own. I think Alonso deserved at least a talking to for that
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To be honest at the time I presumed Alonso was being smart, braking a little early and more than he perhaps needed to, to harvest some additional battery power to use later in the lap and to help counter any slipstream, DRS benefit, or performance advantage George might have had opportunity to use. Brake early at a point where he couldnt be passed, be able to power out of the corner earlier plus benefit later in the lap with more battery power at his disposal.
Having said that I didnt hear any mention post incident of the fact Alonso had / might have braked early for those harvesting reasons. |
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It's certainly gonna make future incidents like this come under more scrutiny, which is not what we need. We already have enough racing incidents investigated without things like this being investigated too.
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I tend to think if two cars are in close proximity and one has a serious crash, there is no reason to not "investigate". Investigations should not be a problem. No investigation would mean only a casual (if any) examination of any facts. Instead, I think you are asking for appropriate punishment which may include no punishment. Richard |
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an assertion that seems to be supported by the data the stewards have provided in their explanation. |
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