In reply to trigun7469 :
Yes, it's about money. If Andretti goes out and lays an egg, how will that change US fan's outlook on F1? I'm not talking about winning, but being something other than 18-22 all the time, and being lapped every single race.
Haas isn't Andretti via name, sure. But they still struggle with money even though they are competitive. I really don't see Andretti coming close to them considering their lack of understanding of an Indycar relative to other teams.
Williams ended up being nothing until they got a massive influx of money, and they are among the best of the best teams of all time. Take the money Williams got, and remove their engineering team, and you have Andretti.
I REALLY want to see a US team do well, and I really like Andretti. But they have shown zero evidence that they have the capability of running in F1 at all. Herta's #1 problem with getting a Superlicence isn't his talent, it's the team he runs with.
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:
CrashDummy said:
Just when I think the other teams are gaining on RedBull Max wins by 14 seconds, after having to give up a 16 second lead at the red flag.
Some of that is thrown off by the tire changes at the red flag -- Verstappen was the only one of the leaders to have another set of new hards to throw on the car.
Also, Hamilton clearly had more pace in reserve that he was saving in case LeClerc got close. Not enough to catch Max, but he went 2 seconds faster on the final lap, taking the fast lap point.
This is one of the most impressive things to me about professional drivers. The ability to turn on/off pace as they need it and be able to drive to specific times and such.
Tom1200
PowerDork
10/30/23 11:57 a.m.
In reply to z31maniac :
Having worked with professional drivers they are indeed impressive......but Hamilton got an extra engine mode for the final lap.
Tom1200 said:
In reply to z31maniac :
Having worked with professional drivers they are indeed impressive......but Hamilton got an extra engine mode for the final lap.
How does that work? I thought they weren't allowed to change modes in the middle of a race any more?
mishka
New Reader
10/30/23 12:44 p.m.
Refreshing to see RickyD get some pace in the car again. Yuki, when not berserking, is a very fast driver, Daniel did well comparetively. He is experienced, but also seems very emotional, things get to him and throw him on a downwards spiral.
I remember reading Horner's comment on Daniel, when they took him in for sim work early this season. Said something along the lines, that he developed bizarre/ horrible driving habits while at renault and mclaren, so unlike where he was 5 years prior at RedBull. They seem to have sorted his technique somewhat, but were they able to help him become more anti-fragile?
trigun7469 said:
The Hamilton hasn't won in XYZ many grand prix drum is getting tired
Yes, the Sky F1 team has a bias towards Hamilton (and George to some extent). It gets really old. I miss Bob Varsha, Steve Matchett, and David Hobbs. I felt like they were a little more impartial.
In reply to CAinCA :
Oh man, I don't miss them - especially Hobbs. I would actually go looking for the Channel 4 broadcasts during the NBC era.
The wheel to wheel racing in the Mexico GP was great to watch. Yes some contact was made but that was a fraction of the passes made with effort. This is a race where DRS worked very well. Almost perfectly. It seems common to always point out when DRS goes wrong but Sunday it was just right.
I think the Alpha Tauri car upgrades have been very helpful for the team. Yuki is now battling a little more consistently up the grid and made a similar mistake as every driver on the grid has done over the past year or two. He came from the back of the grid to just behind his teammate before his mistake. Turned in too early almost as a way of pressuring the other driver to back out of it. But he should have driven more like Lando did going around the outside of Riccardo. Piastri makes his rookie mistakes but I think he would have given room to Tsunoda on the outside. They will both learn.
I was confused at why Logan didn't finish. I wondered if it was because of that rule about having a failed engine allowed a change with less penalty for the next race. But I don't know if that rule still exists.
Williams will be stunned if Alpha Tauri beat them in the WCC. I think AT has transitioned to a regular top 10 finishing team now that Aston has fallen. Williams, AR, and Haas still seem like points by luck teams.
Lots of rumors of Alonso and Perez swapping teams next year!
Javelin said:
Lots of rumors of Alonso and Perez swapping teams next year!
I would love to see this!
The Race is reporting that some credible German media is reporting that Audi is reconsidering their F1 program. So they are trying to figure out what in the world could be going on.
alfadriver said:
The Race is reporting that some credible German media is reporting that Audi is reconsidering their F1 program. So they are trying to figure out what in the world could be going on.
We've been hearing that in Audi Club for months. Basically, Audi is the manufacturer most quickly moving to all-EV, and a bunch of V8 F1 cars don't exactly align with that. VAG is considering just swapping Porsche and Audi so that Porsche is doing F1 and Audi is doing LeMans.
In reply to Javelin :
The odd part is that VW was going more electric well before they comitted to F1. Why tease F1 that they were going to get into it and spend a lot of money developing an engine only to stop. That's what is getting The Race all confused.
In reply to Javelin :
If I was Alonso I'd offer my services for pennies on the dollar(or free)to get in that car :).
Found an interesting tidbit in what's otherwise a puff piece about Mercedes upgrades for Austin and Mexico City https://www.planetf1.com/news/mercedes-discover-crucial-breakthrough-w15-arrival
While the original design of both the W13 and the W14 were flawed, Mercedes’ plight was not helped by their data at the factory failing to match up to what was seen on track
It took until the Canadian Grand Prix earlier this year for the team to finally recalibrate their equipment.
“Now what the car does [on track] correlates with what we are measuring in the simulations,” Wolff explained after the chequered flag in Montreal.
“And it hasn’t done that for a year and a half."
Explains a lot about Mercedes struggles, they couldn't properly develop the cars because there was no defined baseline. Wow..
In reply to 06HHR (Forum Supporter) :
If I remember correctly, they fired some engineers that messed up their simulations a while ago, which lead to the zero pod being their concept
It's too bad, the zero pod cars were very cool. I love that they managed to find a radical design change inside the rules.
But no correlation? Yeah, that's a big problem.
It's kind of interesting that it's taken this long to figure out the correlation problem. Seems that it would have been the #1 issue last season, and massive effort should have been put into that. I guess it could take that long if there was a serious calibration problem in the wind tunnel- but it seems to be a more systemic problem that just that.
tarach
New Reader
11/2/23 2:47 p.m.
The race from position 2 to 8 in the drivers championship is still very interesting with 3 races to go in the season. I am expecting Hamilton to finish at number 2 spot and Lando to finish the season at number 4 spot.
Alonso is very strongly denying the rumors, to the point that he's planning on taking it out on the journalist that started the rumor. He's pretty angry, according to "the Race".
Sweeping the track before Quali, seems there was a lot of rubbish and screws and whatnot on the track for FP1. At least 3 punctures suffered in FP1.
In reply to alfadriver :
I don't have a lot of sympathy for Alonso getting press he doesn't like. I'll bet the Honda engine team would agree.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I think there's a difference between critical news and just making up rumors.
Once again, the McLarens look strong. Can they maintain that for a whole race (even a sprint lenght)?
