Smooooth operator
I suspect the format assisted Oscar run his best times knowing he didn’t need to manage his tyres.
Formula 1 - 2023 Season
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Another sprint weekend means race quali is in two hours. Lance lost almost all of free practice because of a brake issue, so expect his quali (and possibly race) misery to continue.
The F1 Beyond the Grid podcast had a couple of great interviews recently: Adrian Newey and Andrea Stella. Some neat car dynamics info from Newey.
Edit: Q3 was tighttighttight! Max ahead of Checo, Charles over Carlos, Lando over Oscar, Lewis over George… but mixed up. T1 could be crazy Sunday.
Also, not sure why some talking heads even think Red Bull wants to ditch Checo next year. Max has said a few times he’d prefer winning easily to close fighting. RB has always said they valued the drivers’ over the constructors’ championship for advertising purposes, and they’re not going to want Checo taking points off of Max if the field is tighter. Lawson may have to wait another year for an Alpha drive. Danny Ric will probably get the RB second seat alongside Max as RB probably think he’s still slower than Max but more marketable than anyone else.
The F1 Beyond the Grid podcast had a couple of great interviews recently: Adrian Newey and Andrea Stella. Some neat car dynamics info from Newey.
Edit: Q3 was tighttighttight! Max ahead of Checo, Charles over Carlos, Lando over Oscar, Lewis over George… but mixed up. T1 could be crazy Sunday.
Also, not sure why some talking heads even think Red Bull wants to ditch Checo next year. Max has said a few times he’d prefer winning easily to close fighting. RB has always said they valued the drivers’ over the constructors’ championship for advertising purposes, and they’re not going to want Checo taking points off of Max if the field is tighter. Lawson may have to wait another year for an Alpha drive. Danny Ric will probably get the RB second seat alongside Max as RB probably think he’s still slower than Max but more marketable than anyone else.
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Quali was weird, especially in Q3. P1-P5 are separated by a quarter of a second, and P8 is only half a second away from pole. Both Ferraris exploded out of the blocks in Q3. Ricciardo P4, outqualifying Checo! Pity Tsunoda will start from the back of the grid because of a new engine, so I’m not sure he tried to set a time as a benchmark vs. Ric. Alonso had another spin, knocking him out in Q1. Norris had a bad lap and some pitbox confusion and exited stage Q1, too.
Max is probably okay starting P3 because he’ll get a tow for the huge run to T1.
Mark Hughes has a great article on quali explaining why Q3 came to Ferrari (dropping track temps affected car balance, favoring rear-limited cars) and went away from, well, everyone else.
Max is probably okay starting P3 because he’ll get a tow for the huge run to T1.
Mark Hughes has a great article on quali explaining why Q3 came to Ferrari (dropping track temps affected car balance, favoring rear-limited cars) and went away from, well, everyone else.
If Norris qualified deep into q3 he probably had a good shot at podium.
Piastri struggled out there it appears, Danny was incredible, and it looks like Hamilton is starting to get his groove back.
Ferrari is looking good again. Quite an interesting ending to this season.
Piastri struggled out there it appears, Danny was incredible, and it looks like Hamilton is starting to get his groove back.
Ferrari is looking good again. Quite an interesting ending to this season.
yeah and hopefully rbr wont just add 20% over the winter and be unbeatable again
and ferrari should stop with the alphabet soup of strategies
ive seen 2 episodes, i think its fun
Didn't he go hard x2? I think he had to pit.
Yeah he went hard x2 and had to pit, but he drove a feisty race
Yea hard x2 then M for his final run. He was catching people, I feel like Mclaren should have executed the pit stop earlier.
LeClerc made me a fan today. I am almost getting close to mimicking his “arggggh”
That he does on radio whether he wins or loses.
Super crazy consistent. I don’t think he will top this year. Next year competition is bound to be much closer as soon as everyone emulates their suspension setup - RB will need to pull another massive trick from their sleeve to replicate this success.
if he tops this year it will be the most incredible thing in sport ever or something
hopefully more competition at the front in 2024, love to see more winners
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