Vettel ratlos, Schumacher schlägt zurück! Kann Alonso gewinnen? | Formel 1 2022

Hello, dear friends of Motorsport Magazin.com and Formula 1 fans, the qualifying day in Canada and the rain announced by the meteorologists, actually arrived, not as true as it was on Thursday's press day, but the third free practice session was very wet. At the beginning of the sorting it should dry out a little. At the beginning of qualifying it was raining quite a bit and then it continued to dry out. However, the track was never ready for slick tires, even if George Russell saw a little of it. otherwise. The rain fell on the field, as usual, Formula 1 fell apart, not at the front of course, we'll talk about that later, but especially with the German drivers in the IXS Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel, yesterday seemed like an omen completely different in qualifying with Schumacher, who then obtained the best result of his formula so far. 1 Sixth starting place in his career for the driver from Harz, who recently had so many difficulties finding the right path and, above all, in difficult conditions.

On a street circuit, Sebastian Vettel achieved the best qualifying result in his history in Formula 1, but he only finished in 17th position and yesterday was completely different from what we already mentioned yesterday. Yesterday the result was a little better thanks to the additional classification. set of soft tires. At least from a meteorological point of view, I think it was the right decision. He certainly didn't need it today and it was still right in the third free practice in Assen, really, really good for him in third position, only 55 thousandths slower than Fernando Alonso, the fastest in the morning practice, so "It could also be a bad decision.

Vettel himself said that the car just didn't feel right. It felt like something was broken. , especially on the rear axle on one side. I also think it was not like that. It was smart to switch from solid tires to new tires during Q1. A total of three drivers used this strategy. Pia Grassley, who went nowhere after change the tires, he says we may have had problems with him too Tours are related For you, Sebastian Vettel's teammate qualified one place lower and Sebastian Vettel himself was eliminated after they went back to full betting in Q1. It was the wrong strategy, I can't explain the setup, Aston Martin didn't make many adjustments.

The truth is that Stroll is also known for driving well on street circuits and in the rain. You can't imagine that Vetel and both of them screwed up like that, although there is also a bit. The yellow flag at the end made the route a second faster and they weren't allowed to improve any further, but I think that's more of an excuse when you look at the lap times and it didn't really work with Schumacher who was in the position six, the best classification. result for him, it will finally be something related to the points, that is the big question and of course this has bothered him for a long time, but we must not forget that of course very fast cars come out behind him that he normally does not The race starts, so it will be a defensive race for him at that point and his teammate Kevin Magnussen finished one position ahead of him.

I can't say anything about it either because I think we'll upset him a little. during qualifying and it certainly looks like we could. He kept his teammate under control at the end, it wasn't enough with Schumacher himself saying a little more might have been possible, but if you ask the drivers they say it would have been more if you were at the right time and in the right position. correct place on the track. It would have also been Lewis Hamilton, who was fourth, and he said that maybe we would have been P2 if we had managed the battery differently and if we had gotten over the "The line is at the end, so you can always say that it would have been the best classification." anyway.

Result for me, Schumacher, but these difficult conditions and now we finally have to settle the points. Fernando Alonso, we have already spoken to him. he shone in the third free practice and then again in qualifying with him, something like He was also on Friday. In practice he was already very, very good. Then, in the third free practice everything was parallel to Sebastian Vettel, but Alonso was actually able to put it into practice in second place on the grid. For the first time Since Hockenheim 2012 in almost ten years, Fernando Alonso started again excitedly from the front row of the grid, which did him relatively little, in fact he accepted it quite coldly, he said just proves once again that experience is important, that age does nothing to you, it was already predictable throughout the qualification curious fact max expand fernando

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that was the order in q1 order in q2 and order in q3 so Surprisingly, it was not there in all the conditions and it was really strong the Dry Friday and then wet Saturday, so it should always look pretty good.

But for him he is still somewhat pessimistic and believes that the goal is to finish in fifth position. That would be like a victory for Alpin because he doesn't think he can keep Carlos Sainz, Claire and Sergio Pérez behind him in race condition. Yes, the best teams have started out of position in a race or two this season. And they usually had it easy with the rest of the platoon. Why is Fernando Alonso Alpin doing so well here? The experienced guy says, well, because in no session did we have the same conditions in FP1, very little grip on the track. on the fb2 track then significantly more simply mp3 worked better than in completely wet qualifying changing the conditions and it became clear that he is the one who has experience in the field so fifth position would be the victory for him Fernando Alonso has announced that he wants attack really hard at the start and lead another race like that because they will be in the lead on the first lap, that would be their goal and Max Data will have listened to it very carefully because he was sitting next to him at the press conference. and they are for each other Alonso put on a smiling face so he attacked with everything at the beginning he spoke Max is not so happy with that he looked yes to fast it is about the World Cup for Fernando Alonso personally relatively little for alpino are of course points important, but it should be there Something will happen, it is definitely Max Deppen who is the biggest loser today.

I can't praise you for our beautiful magazine printed today for 30 euros, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel if you haven't already, activate the bell and if I liked the video you can still have it installed but no, we're not there yet in the end. We have to talk a little about politics again after we have been doing so excessively these last two days. Today there was a press conference for the crew chiefs and there was a crew chiefs meeting in Montreal at the track and he was supposed to go there, he got very loud.

Toto Wolff, the boss of Mercedes Motorsport, took the floor and approached the other team bosses correctly, why Toto Wolff? he largely accuses the other teams of having a political agenda. It's no secret that Mercedes would like to see some rule changes. Help with rebounding or whatever the coach had now, but not everyone liked it. Many team leaders were very critical of this. and Toto Wolff says that everyone is looking for their competitive advantage in all this, but it is something completely different. It's not that we have problems, no, it's a fundamental problem with these ground effect cars, it's not a Mercedes problem and this problem.

It's at the expense of the drivers' health and that's why he said it's pathetic how other teams sometimes behave. Behavior is at play here, the drivers' statements are sometimes dictated by public relations people or team managers, although almost all drivers or at least In almost all teams, at least one driver said that what was happening in Baku was dangerous for the back or the eyes. What happened with the other team leaders, of course, was not calm, especially Otmar Szafnauer, who was particularly worried about the Mercedes mainstay. On Friday during training, Mercedes placed an additional shock absorber on the underbody.

This buffer was allowed by Thursday's technical directive. This technical directive was issued by the FH and was partially withdrawn. They said they were looking into the problem in Montreal, but there are no consequences if someone exceeds the limit values. Many team leaders think he has the strength. They didn't drive, they had a car and it was also very, very strange that Mercedes was the only team that immediately had a prop. According to the technical directive that can be expressed on Thursday, Mercedes is training on Friday with this prop, so some teams think they cannot do it with the right.

They definitely wouldn't have made it. On the plane. You can't react so quickly. Mercedes is supposed to have a crystal ball, that is, a crystal ball that you may have seen her in before, Zac Brown said, implying that Mercedes already knew. Otmar Szafnauer said that they were pushing for this solution to be used and that he was specifically targeting this strut because this strut does nothing but stabilize the underbody. He says, well, we do it. We chose that the underbody was simply reinforced, which costs us weight and in these cars the weight simply goes down because all or almost all of them are over the weight limit and that is why it is unfair for a team to create this strut that has exactly the same effect The reinforcement with the strut does not cost that much weight and that is why Massa even hinted that he wanted to protest a little if Mercedes continued to circulate with this strut this weekend because in reality the technical directive was more or less withdrawn.

The technical directive was the only thing that allowed this strut, the technical regulations did not. They did not allow this additional strut before Mercedes made it clear that they knew nothing about it. That weekend they found a solution to quickly make this prop there, but then they took it down immediately on Saturday and it's gone. If it is used at all in the sense that it is no longer a political issue, the story of the bristly rebounds will definitely remain with us, but in the end a little bit about the sports debater Max Deppen has still not been sufficiently recognized here First free training, the best time almost a second free practice, the best time before a strong Q1, better something there and Q2, the best time of the hard drives.

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season and then of course the question arises of who should stop him in six. No Other has been tenths of a second faster than Fernando Alonso, so it is most likely that there will be no competition in the race. Carlos Sainz is in third position with the Ferrari, but Ciencia still has a victory in Formula 1 and did not necessarily distinguish himself with his excellent race pace, that matters to him, so he would put a big question mark behind Sergio Pérez, the teammate of a team that was able to challenge Verstappen a little at least recently, who threw the car, only starts in 13th position and Shell Claire. , it was already clear for a long time that he would receive a sanction.

Yesterday it was already correctly anticipated that other components of the power unit were changed and that we got a completely new engine, including a new turbocharger, that's why he was behind the grid between him and Yukiko or was it just for the penultimate starting position? She decided to start. So from position 19 there is competition for the US top data, but we are not there either, so at the top the finish doesn't really look promising. too much excitement but we have Pérez who does not start in his usual position we have cleared it up from all the Backfire I am sure it is done and we will have a lot of fun in the midfield with great comebacks and of course the great ones The question is if Schumacher finally got his first point in Formula 1.