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The blind men who do not want to see - Hungarian Grand Prix review

Implosion. Self-destruction. Disaster. The drivers were at a loss to find the words, but fans and media didn’t have any trouble to describe another horror show. Even Mattia Binotto, seemingly unflappable through all the previous messes, walked away from Ferrari’s pit wall into the back of the garage as their race began to fall apart. In the media pen, BBC journalist Jennie Gow asked the drivers if there was something fundamentally broken with Ferrari; they snubbed the suggestion, but the fact the question was even being asked says a lot about where we are right now.

Looking back 3 months, it is hard to believe this title fight is well and truly done. At the start of May, even though the title challengers had 2 wins apiece, Leclerc had a healthy 27-point lead over Verstappen. The Ferrari looked quick and, despite his mistake at Imola, the Monegasque looked to be in the form of his life, wringing everything out of the F1-75. It is astonishing that 9 races later there has been a 107-point swing in the standings. Verstappen could skip the triple header after the summer break and still emerge in Singapore as championship leader... even if Leclerc won those 3 races with the fastest lap.

At the sharp end of F1, what has always separated the good from the truly great has been how much a team can maximise its results. Regardless of whether they have managed to find the ideal set-up to push the car close to its limits, teams need to be able to execute their race weekend in such a way that they can walk away with the feeling that they have done all they possibly could to get the best possible result. This is one of the reasons Mercedes prevailed for so long, even when challenged by Ferrari in 2017 and 2018: even when they didn’t have the fastest car, they always got as much as they possibly could, results-wise, from almost every single weekend.

This is where Red Bull is today. Despite the lack of pace to compete with Mercedes over the turbo-hybrid era, they continued to push themselves to the limit, gathering as many points as possible, grabbing podiums and occasional wins when those with faster cars faltered. This is where Mercedes still is today, despite not having produced a championship challenging car: despite qualifying between 0.5 and 1 second behind Ferrari for most of the season, they have as many podiums as the Scuderia as we head to the summer break.

Ferrari’s failures, however, are not new, and are providing some perhaps much needed perspective on Vettel’s struggles with the team in those seasons when it seemed possible for them to put an end to the Mercedes hegemony. The leadership has changed (and often) but the issues have not gone away and continue to plague a team bereft of vision. The lack of decisiveness and ruthlessness in their decision-making process has cost them more wins and podiums than reliability issues, and yet there does not seem to be any awareness of the decision paralysis that is so harmful to them.

In the Hungary aftermath, Binotto said he didn’t think there was any need to change anything internally, summing up the weekend as bad luck. Perhaps, as team principal, he feels the need to say such things in public, for face saving purposes, but as we have seen over the years at Mercedes, acknowledging mistakes, even to the media, can be the first step to learning from them and turning a bad weekend into a learning experience. As we hear so often, the first step to addressing an issue is to admit that you have an issue.

Ferrari seem to have a cultural problem, ingrained deeply within. Multiple team principals have come and gone and yet the team mentality (and problems) remain stubbornly the same. The Scuderia can certainly produce some of the fastest F1 cars around, but continue to not be able to cure the operational mess that has plagued them since the departure of Schumacher, Brawn and Todt.

So we move on to the summer break, with Mercedes now closer to Ferrari than Ferrari are to Red Bull. At this point, you would be forgiven to think that with some upgrades on the W13, the Silver Arrows might end up troubling Maranello more than they will trouble the Bulls at the top of the standings. If anything, given what we have seen so far, it would even be a surprise if that weren’t the case...

Talking points

- Mercedes went from a miserable Friday to pole and a double podium. Undoubtedly, the lower temperatures during the weekend helped the turnaround; reading too much into their race pace might lead to disappointment. Nevertheless, it never ceases to amaze how often they can deliver even when the car is not quite there. Once the car has the pace to challenge at the front again, they will be formidable adversaries to Red Bull and Verstappen.

- The field has very clearly split in 2 as the season progressed: Alpine and McLaren have moved away from the midfield fight and although they can’t challenge the front runners, they are also well ahead of the competition behind. Alfa Romeo, in particular, has fallen away and although the reliability of the Ferrari PU has not helped, it has to be a concern to them how much of their pace has disappeared. The feel good stories of Bottas’ rejuvenation and Zhou’s emergence have been put on hold.

- Haas brought their one and only big upgrade package to this race weekend, but only for Magnussen’s car. The Dane’s race was compromised on the first lap, so we can’t make a fair comparison, but in qualifying that upgrade was worth 2 grid places. It’s early to judge, of course, but Gunther Steiner did say that upgrades were over-rated...

- As Williams will probably attest to. Despite Latifi’s heroics in a wet FP3, and a monumental first sector in Q1 that ended up being the second fastest of the whole weekend (!), Latifi and teammate Albon are still nowhere near the pace of those around them. Of even bigger concern is that Aston Martin, the team that qualifies the closest to them, has shown some mighty race pace and have been able to get themselves into the top 10, even from the bottom of the grid. The reset that 2022 afforded to the historic team is not going their way.

- Bernie Collins, Aston Martin’s lead strategist, had her final race weekend in Hungary. It is a shame to see one of the paddock’s most prominent women leave the sport altogether, specially as Aston Martin’s strategy has been one of the team’s highlights over the years. The team will miss her, and so will F1.

- Although yours truly does not know the actual reasons behind this decision, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the overloaded schedule had played a part. The incessant travelling coupled with the heavy workloads that such a job implies mean that there will be people working close to exhaustion, and the distance this creates to their families and friends will inevitably take a toll. As it tries to stretch the calendar as far as possible, F1 risks the health of many staff, and an eventual brain drain if a proper balance cannot be stricken.

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Memories, what memories.

Fifty years ago on Saturday I experienced my greatest high watching our famous club. It took place in London on a Beautiful Spring day by the banks of the Thames. More of that later as first we must concentrate on the matters in hand with an excellent win at Coventry last Saturday and the visit of play-off achievers, Barnsley, to Deepdale on Saturday for our final home game of the season. Please God let this be the last home game ever played at Deepdale when no fans will be there to cheer the boys on.

Last Saturday we mathematically made ourselves safe from relegation and by the time Monday had come I was trying to work out if we could make the top half of the league or not if results went our way. North End beat and in form Sky Blues by one goal to nil scored by Captain Alan Browne and I think on the day North End deserved the victory. Coventry play a lovely brand of football and it is a credit to Mark Robins what he has done for them given the almost impossible circumstances surrounding the club. North End won with a stonewall penalty midway through the second half nicely put away by Browne. To be fair we should have had another but thats another story. The win left North End on fifty five points with two games to go and the real fear after the Luton defeat at home had dissipated.

On Saturday we face Barnsley at Deepdale in our final home game of the season. It has been so tough watching the boys on a computer and hopefully this will be the last time. The Tykes have done an excellent job in finishing in the top six and they have proved that money isn't everything in the Championship and their achievement should really give North End some inspiration for the next campaign. This is one of those game that you just cant judge who will do what. Will Frankie try a couple of fringe players with next season in mind or will he stick with his tried and trusted system and try to make his case to get the job full time stronger. With Barnsley you wonder will they try and keep going for fourth place to get the second semi final leg at home of will they rest one or two of the key players for the big play off games that lie ahead. I think it will either be a very boring 0-0 draw or might be a real full bloodied encounter. Lets hope its the latter.

And finally this week:-   Indulge me as I take a personal trip down Memory Lane and to an event which now seems a lifetime away. The date is Saturday 1st May 1971 and the venue is Craven Cottage, home of Fulham Football Club, in West London. The game is Fulham v Preston North End and with the home side already promoted the Football league have brought the Third Division trophy to the game to present to Fulham after they have duly won the encounter. For Alan Ball`s Preston there is a chance of automatic promotion as North End sit three points clear of their only rivals, Halifax, with just two games to play (2 points for a win in those days). The equation is quite simple for Preston - win the game and we are promoted back to the second tier at the first attempt after being relegated 12 months earlier by Blackpool at Deepdale. I cried that night as a nine year old and thought the world had ended after my beloved North End had dropped into the third division for the first time ever. Just ten years after Sir Tom had retired and we were down with the also rans. The day started around 5.30am as I excitedly scurried about bursting with anticipation and anxiously asking my Dad was it time to set off for the coach. Fishwicks ran two coaches to the game from Leyland and they were to depart at 7am prompt with the long journey to London ahead of us.Finally the clock ticked round to 6.40 and we set off on the 10 minute walk to Fishwicks to catch the coach that would take us to our destination. London seemed like the other side of the world to me and as we passed Charnock Richard I thought that we must be getting close as we had been on the road for ages. My Dad and my Uncle chatted to the others on the bus as I just looked out of the window hoping to spot a blue motorway sign saying London. We stopped at Keele for half an hour and my excitement grew as there were hundreds of other North End fans on the same pilgrimage. Off we go with the next stop being Watford Gap. Even more North End fans who were singing and shouting and even though we were 90 miles from Fulham the atmosphere was starting to build. Finally I saw a sign “London 44”, we were getting nearer as Lunchtime approached and we hit the North Circular Road to take us towards Hammersmith. It must have taken us half an hour in those days to do the mile and a half from Hammersmith to Craven Cottage as the traffic was horrendous.At last we are there and are met with a buzzing around this famous old ground the likes of which I had never heard before. The crowd was officially recorded at 25,774 but it seemed almost like Wembley on Cup Final day with the chaos and noise around the ground. The queues to get in were massive but my Uncle Charlie could get where water couldn`t get (God rest his soul). Suddenly he burst out - “stay there, Stan” (to my Dad), I will be back in a few minutes. Incredibly he was back in no time with three stand tickets for the Stevenage Road stand right in the middle of the Fulham fans. Most of the North End fans were on the open Putney End but there were pockets of Blue and White all over the place. We are in and as the clock ticks round the teams run out separately at 2.55 with North End playing in Red.The Teams are announced, Fulham first then North End …. Kelly Ross McNab Bird Hawkins Spavin Heppolette Ham Lloyd Spark and Clark, with Dave Wilson as sub. John Gow from Swansea is referee and the game kicks off to a thunderous roar as North End are cheered by about 5,000 fans.The game is cagey but quite open and North End are holding their own kicking towards the Hammersmith End in the first half. Twenty two minutes gone and North End get a corner on the right hand side. Clive Clark jogs over and takes an in-swinger which Norrie Lloyd flicks on to Ricky Heppolette who gives North End the lead with a diving header into the Fulham net. The Putney end goes mad and all round the ground the satellite groups of North End fans are dancing with delight. Fulham counter quickly but Bird and Hawkins see them off like two rocks in the middle of the North End defence. Half time comes and goes as the Preston fans start daring to dream, can we do it against the odds at the home of the league leaders. North End are on the back foot in the second half but only really have one scary moment as Fulham throw everything forward. Five minutes to go, four, three, two, one, “TIMES UP” my Dad announces to the world as half the stand give him a look of disgust. How long will Mr Gow add on as North Ends slender lead remains intact? All eyes on the man in black as the whistle goes to his mouth Yeeessss…….ah No, wait, the whistle hasn`t blown and Fulham have the ball. Suddenly, from nowhere, the long shrill blow of the three whistles and we`ve done it - yes we`ve done it, Preston are back. Alan Ball runs on to the pitch and kisses the turf as the Championship Trophy quickly disappears from out of the stand. The Putney End is going berserk and me and my Dad and my Uncle are hugging each other amid a crowd of home supporters looking slightly mystified as to why the plan has not worked out. The North End players hug and congratulate but its not euphoria just a job done by the late great Alan Ball and his boys. We come down the steps to the stand entrance and our coach is the first one we see among about 60 others the length of Stevenage Road.Its 5.50 before we move an inch but nobody seems to care as the singing goes on and on until we finally make our way back up the M1. By the time we reach Coventry it is well past 8pm but the coach is thirsty and its an ale stop for the adults and pop and crisps for the ten or so kids on the bus who are entertained by a jovial coach driver. Finally we get back to Leyland, it`s Midnight but nobody seems to care as the streets echo to the sound of “Preston, Preston” and the road back to the second division is finally complete. Without actually trying to count them I have probably seen over 2,000 North End games since then but I doubt anything will ever surpass that day in West London and if it was ever in doubt before where my footballing loyalties would lie I knew from that day that me and Preston North End would be together for a lifetime.

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