You gotta watch qualifying from 2018 or specially Lewis’s Q3 lap. Man was on the LIMIT, The W09 wasn’t even supposed to be on pole that weekend due to the characteristics of this track.
As mentioned, you need to check out the quali session and Lewis' full onboard pole lap. Definitely one of his best laps seeing he nearly got out in Q1 and barely hang on in Q2
In every singapore race there has been atleast a single saftey car. There has been 12 Singapore races and 21 saftey cars so we must except some drama this weekend as well
I’m pretty sure Max only wins the championship in Singapore if Charles finishes P8 or below. So realistically Max is winning his 2nd championship in Japan.
Lewis Hamilton is still in his prime! He just doesn’t have the machinery to win at the moment. If Mercedes can bring a good car next year there should be an awesome fight between Max, Lewis and maybe even George. Would be super cool to see!!!
Fun fact. Mercedes wasn’t the best car in Singapore that year. It was only 3rd fastest behind the Red Bull and Ferrari. Everyone expects Max to be on pole that time. Lewis putting it on pole in qualifying by over a second is simply astonishing. You should watch that.
Looking closely at Checo's car it seems he got massive understeering. He committed to corner and front wheels were just sliding and not steering enough to avoid Ocon. That is technique I have used on track with pushy car, but fatal flaw is you can't do anything after turning as braking would just make car go straight to wall and accelerating would do the same. Then he crashed to Williams when car switched from understeering to oversteering as rear wheels lost grip making a fast jerk as turned front wheels got grip. That car was accident waiting to happen, but he should have known better not to push it over the limits. No guts no glory style.
One thing to note about the 2018 tyres is that they weren’t the same as what we gave now (soft medium hard). There was a MASSIVE range, from hyper soft, ultra soft, super soft, soft, medium, hard, super hard … yeah it was kind of insane. 😅
I think Singapore is a city state almost like Monaco. I really hope Merc build a decent car next year for Lewis to get an 8th title, i do think it would be a tough battle with George and Max as well, Ferrari will find i way to shoot themselves in the foot as always.