{"id":5149,"date":"2018-05-29T19:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2018-05-29T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:12:47","slug":"f1-today-29052018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/f1-today-29052018\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Today – 29\/05\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verstappen trying too hard \u2013 Horner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Max Verstappen is \u201ctrying too hard,\u201d and needs to learn from his teammate Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian won the Monaco Grand Prix, while Verstappen failed to qualify and finished ninth.<\/p>\n

In all six Grand Prix\u2019s the Dutchman has made errors at all of the races so far this season. Speaking to BBC News, Horner said \u201cMax has an abundance of talent and has had some harsh lessons this year,” Horner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a modified approach will benefit him. He has a very good teacher in the car next door to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horner’s remarks echo those of Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko, after qualifying he said, Verstappen’s accident had been “unnecessary” and caused by “a lack of patience”. Marko said Verstappen “had to learn not always to drive flat out”.<\/p>\n

Horner said he would “of course” talk to Verstappen but added: \u201cThe only person who can address it and deal with it is Max. This weekend was very painful for him. He’s very aware. We talk weekly. He’ll be in the factory this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horner says its frustrating because Verstappen was working harder at the moment and was learning in a very public arena what you can and can’t do, while others have done that in the lower formulae.<\/p>\n

Verstappen is currently seventy-five points behind Lewis Hamilton, meaning unless he can start delivering points soon he is effectively out of the race for the title. Horner pointed out that Verstappen’s series of errors were also damaging Red Bull’s hopes in the constructors’ championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be right there with Mercedes and Ferrari. We have given away 65 points or so. We need both drivers performing at their optimum to be able to fight with those two teams.\u201d Added Horner<\/p>\n

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Hamilton says Ricciardo should stay at Red Bull<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton believes that Daniel Ricciardo will say at Red Bull next season. Both Hamilton and Ricciardo don\u2019t have contracts in place for next season, with the Australian being linked to both Mercedes and Ferrari.<\/p>\n

The four times champion who doesn\u2019t yet have a contract with Mercedes, has already indicated that he expects to stay with the team. He believes that Ricciardo will remain at Red Bull for at least 2019.<\/p>\n

Hamilton told Sky Sports, \u201cI would imagine his future is there. He is one of the top drivers and in the top areas there are only Ferrari and Mercedes that he could ever consider.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that is unlikely here and l don’t think that is going to happen. And if you look at Ferrari, l imagine Kimi will want to continue – he is driving really well this year and doesn’t seem to be ageing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Bull boss Christian Horner has suggested that the wage demands of Hamilton could only be met by Mercedes, while Hamilton has suggested that Ricciardo should only be prepared to stay at Red Bull if he achieves pay parity with Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n

The Dutchman signed a bumper new deal with Red Bull seven months ago, which is believed to make him one of the highest earners in the sport, but has been emphatically out-performed by Ricciardo so far this season. Hamilton added “From what l hear, he has a team-mate who is making a lot more money than him, and yet he is more consistent at keeping the car together and more often than not pulling it through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s important in a team that you are valued at what you are worth.\u201d Hamilton also says Ricciardo should stay because Red Bull is likely to get a better engine which will bring them closer into the mix.<\/p>\n

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Leclerc says Toro Rosso played \u201ca bit off a game\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Leclerc believes that Toro Rosso played \u201ca bit off a game\u201d by asking Brendon Hartley to slow down during the Monaco Grand Prix. Hartley\u2019s teammate Pierre Gasly ran a very long first stint to rise from tenth to six, but it looked as if he would drop out of the points as others stopped earlier and eradicated his pitstop window.<\/p>\n

Hartley was twelfth, heading a group of midfield contenders that moved into points contention by stopping earlier, and just 15 seconds behind Gasly on lap twenty, but had dropped to twenty-eight second behind when Gasly pitted ten laps later.<\/p>\n

Leclerc told Motorsport.com \u201cThat was so frustrating. I think Toro Rosso has played a bit of a game. Brendon was clearly slowing down at one point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were like 2.8s slower than the laps we were doing at the end of the race. Before that, we were in a very good place to score points, theoretically. Gasly exceeded expectations with his management of the hypersofts, admitting that it was an improvisation from his team as it monitored the performance of the otherwise unpopular compound.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the phase, Hartley caught a five-car train led by Nico Hulkenberg, who was also running long. Gasly stopped before his teammate struggled with graining and Hartley had a damaged front wing.<\/p>\n

Hartley picked up a five-second time penalty for speeding in the pitlane, which meant that even when it looked like his group would get ahead of the runners yet to stop he was poised to tumble down the order.<\/p>\n

Leclerc added \u201cIf we were in their position, considering Brendon’s penalty, we probably would have done the same as a team. It’s not blaming anything on Toro Rosso, it was just frustrating to be the car behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Teams go hyper for hypersofts <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pirelli has announced the driver’s tyre allocation for next weekends Canadian Grand Prix, for the race, they have chosen there softest compounds the hypersoft, ultrasoft and supersoft with most of the teams have gone for the hypersofts.<\/p>\n

Both Mercedes have five sets of both the hypersofts and ultrasofts as well as three supersoft. While both Ferrari\u2019s, Red Bull\u2019s and Toro Rosso\u2019s have eight hypersofts, three ultrasofts and two supersofts. Both Renault\u2019s and Force India\u2019s have eight hypersofts, two ultrasofts and three supersofts.<\/p>\n

Williams has chosen seven sets of hypersofts for both drivers, but Lance Stroll has a single ultrasoft and five supersofts. His teammate Sergey Sirotkin has two ultrasofts and four supersofts.<\/p>\n

Both McLaren\u2019s have seven hypersofts, four ultrasofts and two supersofts. Both Haas\u2019s also have seven sets, but Romain Grosjean has four ultras and two supersofts. Both Renaults have eight hypersofts, two ultras and three supersofts.<\/p>\n

Both\u00a0Sauber have seven hypersofts, but Marcus Ericsson has four ultrasofts and two supersofts with Charles Leclerc having three of both the ultrasofts and supersofts.<\/p>\n

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FIA considering dropping drivers briefing<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sports governing body the FIA is considering dropping the Friday drivers briefing and replacing it with a joint briefing with team managers on Thursday. Currently, the team managers meet on a Thursday ahead of the weekend, to discuss track changes and any issues from the previous race.<\/p>\n

The drivers join the team managers for a separate Friday session after the first day of practice, ostensibly so that they can give the FIA feedback on the circuit, and so on.<\/p>\n

However following the departure of the managers, sometimes the drivers only briefing becomes a trade union meeting of the Grand Prix Drivers\u2019 Association (GPDA) after the team managers leave. Speaking about the possibility of bringing an end to the drivers\u2019 briefing, F1 race director Charlie Whiting said: \u201cIt\u2019s a suggestion only at the moment. It certainly won\u2019t happen this year, unless everyone wants it to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main reason that I have suggested this is simply that we discuss things in the team managers\u2019 meeting on the basis that they will pass them onto their drivers, and when we get to the drivers\u2019 meeting, it\u2019s quite evident that sometimes this hasn\u2019t happened, and we have to go through it all again.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he says one of the reasons for the Friday briefing was for drivers feedback, bit says that \u201creally isn\u2019t of any value, because whenever they see anything, they tell us anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verstappen trying too hard \u2013 Horner Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Max Verstappen is \u201ctrying too hard,\u201d and needs to learn from his teammate Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian won the Monaco Grand Prix, while Verstappen failed to qualify and finished ninth. In all six Grand Prix\u2019s the Dutchman has made errors at all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[44,314,357,358,390,393,412,493,573,576,664,675,709,712,846,853,902,1283,1298,1363,1364,1544,1553,1637,1642,1770,1771,1843,2025,2026,2056],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-analysis","tag-44","tag-brendon-hartley","tag-canadian-gp","tag-canadian-grand-prix","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-charlie-whiting","tag-christian-horner","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-driver-market","tag-drivers-briefing","tag-f1","tag-f1-today","tag-ferrari","tag-fia","tag-gpda","tag-grand-prix-drivers-association","tag-helmut-marko","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes","tag-monaco-gp","tag-monaco-grand-prix","tag-pierre-gasly","tag-pirelli","tag-red-bull","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sauber","tag-sauber-afla-romeo","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-toro-rosso","tag-toro-rosso-honda","tag-tyre-choices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}