Felt like the first 10 or 20 laps had a tremendous amount of wheel to wheel racing and phenomenal passes. Things seemed to settle down around lap 25. Not a ton of action after that.
I feel like there’s a good chance things will settle down a little bit as drivers become more effective at managing their batteries. So I don’t think every race is gonna be chaos like this at the beginning. But I definitely think we’re gonna see more action than we did last season in the early stages of races.
Very curious about the Mercedes pace. Hard to tell if they would’ve been under pressure if the VSCs would’ve worked out differently. Certainly seemed like they had a lot more pace that they weren’t showing.
Some speculation that Ferrari will have an advantage at slower tracks like Hungary and Monaco. Somewhat similar to Red Bull during the Mercedes dominant years.
Reliability being a factor is something we haven’t seen in a long time. As long as the championship isn’t to run away, and it very well could be, we could see a few surprises this season.
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