I’m a born-again F1 fan, largely thanks to COVID and Drive to Survive, so I know not to get too excited when a middle-tier team starts a season off unsustainably hot. While the end product of auto racing is “cars go vroom,” the teams themselves are like slow-moving ships, capable of adjusting slowly and laboriously.
So it’s not a surprise to me, per The Athletic, that Andrew Bailey’s “don’t throw fastballs” gambit, which worked so well for the first half of the season, is reaching the end of its usefulness as the league finalizes its adjustments.