Posts by Amanda Kelly

Nico Rosberg had a good run there.
He held onto his lead, and honestly, his only real competition wasn't even in the same zip code.
On top of that, he made them look pretty bad.

I think Max is actually faster than Richie.

swiftmaker12 said:This isn't even about the Australian Grand Prix.
For three days straight now, Ferrari fanboys have been whining about how their team had the win "stolen" from them...
just projecting their own little fantasies about how they should've crossed the line first...

Thank God you showed up to enlighten us all.
What fanboys? What whining? What fantasies? I haven't seen any of it. 🤔

swiftmaker12 said:The fanaticism from Alonso fans is maybe 1 or 2% compared to how crazy the Ferrari fans are...

who'll be lucky to grab maybe one win this year....

Don't insult us like that.
What 1-2%? Compared to us, they're basically zero.

swifttiger75 said:How much of a lead do you think Vettel would have built up at the USA if there hadn't been that red flag, and how would he have handled the tire changes later? Just your take.

I'm asking because I honestly don't think we could have snatched a win in Los Angeles, no matter how much we wanted to.

Probably not enough.
If you want to be optimistic, there was some actual competition out there, which gives us a reason to look forward to the next race.

Robert Cox46 said:I'll admit, I agree that they messed up by using those used USA cars later on.

What else could they have even used? There wasn't really a choice to begin with. That’s the whole damn problem.
And those first USA stints were way too short—they basically gave up on them because they were too busy chasing Rosberg in the pits.

stormybadger8 said:It’s not even about the components. It’s all about the layout.

I’d say it’s actually the other way around.
Another software suite failed us. Instead of the SS, we got nothing.

stormybadger8 said:Honestly, the biggest mistake was using those old SS tires. It was obvious to anyone watching that there was no way they’d hold an advantage of more than two seconds per lap. And let's be real—there wasn't a prayer they'd last more than ten laps, let alone twenty.

They knew exactly what they were doing. Honestly, I don't see any major flaws in the selection either. To me, it just feels like a slight variation on a theme.
I think the biggest mistake we made was following Mercedes.
Maybe Ferrari shouldn't have jumped on Rosberg in the pits right away?
A red flag is just some higher power playing games with you. Sometimes it hits you head-on, sometimes it catches you off guard. For Ferrari, that was the turning point—just one unlucky string of events after another. Vettel lost his edge, the tires went bad, and everything just fell apart.
I was trying to say that the real issue for Vettel was that red flag and being stuck without an S-spec set. As far as I'm concerned, what tires they picked for the restart is secondary.

Honestly, I don't think Ferrari really screwed up here.
The tire call was basically forced by how things were playing out on track. Alonso's mishap pretty much trashed what was looking like a solid, promising situation.
At the end of the day, I trust the strategy calls from the pit wall way more than I trust whatever the commentators are rambling about on TV.

Decent race.
It was actually pretty good watching Ferrari get a shot at this.
Even with the loss, it felt alright. Unexpectedly so.

Drew Bennett68 said:Mina is leading the pack!

And what's wrong with Mina?

stormybadger8 said:It’s just that such a massive leap isn't really believable. Honestly, saying it's nearly impossible might be an understatement...
At most, McDonald's might make a big jump, but what does that even mean? They might climb from the bottom of a well halfway up, or maybe miraculously get near the top, but they definitely aren't jumping out of that well and clearing Mercedes...

A slightly more realistic scenario is Ferrari. They made a huge leap last year, but mostly because they were absolutely screwed the year before. Still, overtaking someone else is incredibly hard because those final hundredths of a second are where the real battle happens...

The jump is definitely possible; the only question is how big it actually will be.
There was plenty of room for improvement, both technically and in how they handled the car during races and qualifying. And don't even get me started on the second driver.
Even at Mercedes, they aren't aliens.

It’s not exactly rocket science to say we won't know the true situation until we hit Australia.
But we'll know a hell of a lot more than we do now after these first few days of official testing.
We could have seen the relative gaps clearly after the first sessions in Barcelona last year.

We'll hopefully know a little more starting tomorrow. Right now, trying to call it is just a shot in the dark.
But hey, if anyone actually has a solid, well-reasoned prediction, I'm all ears.

Ferrari made a massive leap last year.
If they pull off another one this season, they might actually be in the title fight.

As for Mercedes, I'm skeptical they've made a real leap. Sure, maybe some progress, but a jump? I doubt it.

1. Rosberg
2. Hamilton
3. Vettel
4. Bottas
5. Massa
6. Raikkonen
7. Hülkenberg
8. Ricciardo
9. Kvyat
10. Verstappen

1. Hamilton
2. Rosberg
3. Vettel
4. Bottas
5. Massa
6. Hülkenberg
7. Raikkonen
8. Perez
9. Ricciardo
10. Kvyat

swiftmaker12 said:They tossed the legend Schumacher aside like an old rag just because they wanted to prove Ferrari was bigger than him... well, look where that got them now.

So, what, the Italian press is basically responsible for Schumacher walking away in 2006?!
A little more context wouldn't hurt.

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Rosberg
4. Ricciardo
5. Raikkonen
6. Massa
7. Bottas
8. Kvyat
9. Verstappen
10. Hulkenberg

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Rosberg
3. Sebastian Vettel
4. Kimi Raikkonen
5. Daniel Ricciardo
6. Daniil Kvyat
7. Felipe Massa
8. Valtteri Bottas
9. Sergio Perez
10. Nico Hulkenberg

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Rosberg
3. Valtteri Bottas
4. Felipe Massa
5. Sebastian Vettel
6. Nico Hulkenberg
7. Sergio Perez
8. Kimi Raikkonen
9. Romain Grosjean
10. Pastor Maldonado

Two different camps.

1. Nico Rosberg
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Sebastian Vettel
4. Kimi Raikkonen
5. Daniel Ricciardo
6. Daniil Kvyat
7. Valtteri Bottas
8. Felipe Massa
9. Nico Hulkenberg
10. Romain Grosjean