Scott Mitchell-Malm
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And I think in there I said, like, you know, it's got a weak front axle, a weak rear axle.
It's bad on braking.
It's bad on downshifting.
It's bad on corner entry through corner balance, corner exit and traction.
It's down on power and it's unreliable.
Other than that, it's a great car.
But it's all over the place, isn't it?
And all that stuff we were hearing on Thursday, which maybe you can explain to the people listening to this, because we didn't do an In Car Insights equivalent like this on Thursday evening.
Alonso and Stroll were talking about this.
They were warning about this.
Alonso had that moment, didn't he?
Under-breaking for the Nouvelle Chicane.
Probably saved a bigger one, really.
Did quite well, I think, to basically only break the front wing off of it.
Downshifting, rear-locking, throws him into the wall.
They were warning this was going to be a nightmare track for them on Thursday, weren't they?
But I think it's probably been even worse.
At all.
Exactly.
It's exposing the worst of all the things we've talked about that's making that fight at the front.