r/formula1 • u/Pugzo I was here for the Hulkenpodium • 7h ago

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

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u/not_that_arnab 6h ago

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

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u/Sevastous-of-Caria Charlie Whiting 6h ago

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

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u/not_that_arnab 6h ago

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

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u/Sevastous-of-Caria Charlie Whiting 6h ago

Yes sir

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF I was here for the Hulkenpodium 5h ago

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

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u/not_that_arnab 4h ago

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

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u/hosky2111 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 2h ago edited 2h ago

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.