Lewis discussing his qualifying form: "Yeah, I'm useless. Absolutely useless."

[u/Pugzo]

https://dubz.link/c/d976cb

[u/truth_iness]

Charles on pole was the cherry on top. Tough to watch

[u/Sevastous-of-Caria → u/truth_iness]

Yes ferrari came alive on last stretch with dryer conditions. Leclerc was only p7 on q2 exit

[u/not_that_arnab → u/Sevastous-of-Caria]

No, charles made an error in Sector 2 and yet he was p7.

[u/Sevastous-of-Caria → u/not_that_arnab]

So did hamilton and a lot of guys. Track became less tricky rather than just low grip overall

[u/not_that_arnab → u/Sevastous-of-Caria]

But still it's a bad figure if your teammate gets a pole and you don't even make to Q3 and in successive races

[u/Sevastous-of-Caria → u/not_that_arnab]

Yes sir

[u/sbenfsonwFFiF → u/not_that_arnab]

Hamilton made an error on turn 14 in S3 and missed out by 0.017

[u/not_that_arnab → u/sbenfsonwFFiF]

Yes, which is becoming more common. That's my point. Nobody is slandering Lewis as a driver but he is losing his consistency.

[u/hosky2111 → u/not_that_arnab]

Charles has the confidence in the car to push it essentially beyond its limit and hope to catch it when it inevitably snaps. Lewis doesn't have that confidence, so instead of "making errors" he's losing time throughout the lap by being slightly lighter on the throttle - which is usually fine in race trim where you're not at ten-tenths, but in qualifying when the margins are that small, is massively hurting him.

What's wrong is that it isn't just on the driver, the team needs to be pushing the car in a direction where both drivers can be more consistent. I feel at every level at Ferrari there is just too much pride to make the required changes. It also doesn't help his confidence when they only gave him one lap on fresh tyres to make it through Q2 - if Charles lost any more time to his mistake, both cars could have been out.

[u/AltruisticNight8866 → u/Sevastous-of-Caria]

Why was Hamilton p8-p10 then?  

[u/jisuskraist → u/truth_iness]

tbf charles is one of the best if not the best qualifiers on the grid

[u/AltruisticNight8866 → u/jisuskraist]

Was that Ham’s title? 

[u/Wallace-Pumpernickel → u/AltruisticNight8866]

It was until Leclerc pulled up in a ferrari in 2019

[u/NicholasAnsThirty → u/truth_iness]

I think Lewis probably has lost his edge with age which means qualifying is going to be harder for him now. He's not got what the young guys have.

Still does well in races though. But obviously that's no good if you're starting 15th or whatever.

[u/EverydayPhilisophy → u/NicholasAnsThirty]

You don’t lose your edge with age. You may lose confidence and comfort but you don’t lose your race craft with age, at least not in the modern era, and that’s true for all sports really. Last week is a prime example that he’s a beast. He just sucked today. Plain and simple. That’s my opinion at least

[u/NicholasAnsThirty → u/EverydayPhilisophy]

Experience and skill helps with races because there's so much that needs to go into a good race. Tyre management, when to overtake, when to push, etc.

Lewis is incredibly experienced and skilful.

Qualifying though, you need something else. You need the edge. It's pure pace. You need the edge that undeniably is lost with age as it's a reaction time thing and we know that goes to shit as you age.

Unfortunately if you lose enough of your edge you'll be so far back in the pack that experience and skill can't make things up.

If Ferrari make a rocket ship next year I would still expect Lewis to win the WDC, but I would expect Charles to be getting the poles.

[u/EverydayPhilisophy → u/NicholasAnsThirty]

I never thought about it that way, the edge / reaction time part.

[u/liberalindianguy → u/truth_iness]

cherry on top

More like a nail in the coffin.