Show in red
But Were the battles seen in China, particularly between the two Ferrari drivers, ‘real’? This is the question that many F1 fans asked themselves while watching the Shanghai race and the beautiful and prolonged duel that saw Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc opposing each otherwith the Englishman eventually managing to prevail and take home his first podium as Maranello’s standard bearer, receiving applause and compliments from his garage partner after the race. These new F1 rules, so dependent on energy and its use, have left the most skeptical of them dumbfounded ‘genuineness’ of the show showcased by the two red single-seaters.
In ‘defense’ of this beautiful duel and the excellent performance expressed on the track by a rediscovered Hamilton, however, the reference commentator of Sky Sports for F1 in the UK: David Croft. The voice of Sky UKanalyzing what happened on the track between the two Ferraris, highlighted the areas in which Hamilton completed some of his overtaking moves against Leclercclaiming that it was all ‘his own making’ and that it was a maneuver not assisted by the use of the battery.
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“There are some overtakings that are not assisted by the battery, which do not depend exclusively on the overtaking mode – explained Croft – Lewis Hamilton, twice during the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, made a overtaking at turn eight. It’s not just about using the battery. That’s a point you normally can’t overtake – Croft recalled – and my feeling is that much of what we are seeing is an ‘organic’ race. Of course the pilots are using the tools at their disposal, but not always [i sorpassi che vediamo] They have battery assistance“.
Also for this reason Croft returned to ask for one greater ‘clarity’ from a graphic point of view to F1, to allow spectators and commentators to understand better what is actually happening on the track and inside the pilots’ cockpit: “There is the idea that everything we see is happening thanks to the battery, but this is not always the case. We need to see more graphical representations so we can all understand this at the beginning of this regulation”concluded the English commentator.
