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in the meantime, behold Ferrari's rotating wing


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Well seems like the most logical solution. Better then demanding changes in the technology so short before the season start.

Also, it seems that the teams are slowly loosing the sandbags considering we had 1.32 times today. Heck, even Audi managed to break into the 1:33's But Cadillac either seems to be really slow or they are only doing long run testing.
For Ferrari ti didn't went that well, Hamilton had to sit in the pit for the entire morning session (except 5 laps)
 
Alonso's stoppage yesterday was due to part of the battery pack breaking. They have no spares so are having to run a "revised testing plan" according to their statement to the press.

Amazing how Honda screwed Alonso at Mclaren. Then won 4 WDCs on the bounce. Then when to Aston and screwed Alonso.
 
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Alonso being the best developer Honda can ask for. Verstappen is probably looking on and waits for the right moment to come over.

I wonder though how well Cadillac will do. They seem to be the slowest among the entire field, even slower then Aston Martin
 
Coccxys said:
Alonso's stoppage yesterday was due to part of the battery pack breaking. They have no spares so are having to run a "revised testing plan" according to their statement to the press.

Amazing how Honda screwed Alonso at Mclaren. Then won 4 WDCs on the bounce. Then when to Aston and screwed Alonso.
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cant wait for another wave of great team radios from fernando this year, im afraid its gonna be his last year in f1.
 
Balr0g said:
I wonder though how well Cadillac will do. They seem to be the slowest among the entire field, even slower then Aston Martin
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The heartening thing is that I haven’t heard about serious driver errors or mechanical failures from them the whole of testing, so even if they struggle on pace, BOT and PER together with a surprisingly reliable car may grab some points.
 
Not A Bunny said:
I called this. Also, Leclerc to Aston Martin in 2027.

Silly season gonna get serious this year.
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If the Ferrari is as good as it seems (Best time in testing by far) Leclerc might stick with Ferrari. Of course let's see how the Grande Casino will act should they again be pushed into the top role
 
Coccxys said:
Amazing how Honda screwed Alonso at Mclaren. Then won 4 WDCs on the bounce. Then when to Aston and screwed Alonso.
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GP2 engines are back on the menu! Did all of the engineers who made the Red Bull engine eat fugu and die or something?
makingmaker said:
cant wait for another wave of great team radios from fernando this year, im afraid its gonna be his last year in f1.
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I can see Nando quitting if he gets too frustrated, but Daddy Stroll will likely drop him a big bag to stay on. If he does quit, that massive bag is being thrown at Max for next year.
Balr0g said:
I wonder though how well Cadillac will do. They seem to be the slowest among the entire field, even slower then Aston Martin
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It's a new team with a new PU, so not surprising. That's why they picked a couple veteran drivers who will be able to tell the team what needs to be fixed.
Großmann said:
The heartening thing is that I haven’t heard about serious driver errors or mechanical failures from them the whole of testing, so even if they struggle on pace, BOT and PER together with a surprisingly reliable car may grab some points.
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And one of them will still be kicked out of the seat for Herta next year. Note to Caddy: if you want to be "America's team" because you have the right flag next to your name, make sure you're on a platform where Americans can actually watch you! The only Americans who will pay that massive fee to watch are those who already have favorite drivers and teams.
 
Balr0g said:
If the Ferrari is as good as it seems (Best time in testing by far) Leclerc might stick with Ferrari. Of course let's see how the Grande Casino will act should they again be pushed into the top role
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I doubt it. For the first couple of Verstappen's WDCs, he could hide behind the excuse of "What can you do? It's Max."

Leclerc is at a sticking point where he knows who around him has aged out (I swear, I really am a Sainz fangirl, but it ain't because he's in the running for a WDC; I'm not a blind optimist) and how close he is to it himself. And last year was McLaren proving that "if it bleeds, we can kill it", meaning Verstappen domination. He's not in that conversation, and both McLarens are younger than he is. If he doesn't even come close to a WDC this year, no matter how good the car is, he's out.
 
They're already looking at nerfing the electrical power output because they cannot run full power for a whole race without extreme clipping.

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Of course that means lower power in general for the cars. What a failure these regs are turning out to be before we've even had 1 race lap.
 
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Coccxys said:
What a failure these regs are turning out to be before we've even had 1 race lap.
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People (including me) said this back when they were initially unveiled. There’s no way that every engineer in F1 hasn’t been warning them that these regs are a terrible idea, but the idiot environmentalists in charge wouldn’t listen.
 
In other news Newey has said their electric motor is struggling to charge at the 250 kW normal rate, let alone the 350 kW max rate. They're going to struggle to even qualify in Australia at this rate.

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I'm amazed a team actually decided to partner with Honda, considering all the dogshit engines they made in prior years. The 2021 season was a fluke of a good engine, and what saved Red Bull was the engine freeze from 2022 onwards.

So this is going to be a rough year for Aston Martin.
 
I'm still somewhat new to motorsports fandom but it blows my mind that the governing bodies are obsessed with environmental issues. Seems like "make it faster" or "make it safer" would be the only priorities.
 
ForTheHoard said:
I'm still somewhat new to motorsports fandom but it blows my mind that the governing bodies are obsessed with environmental issues. Seems like "make it faster" or "make it safer" would be the only priorities.
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it allowed car manufacturers to justify spending billions into f1 technology. it all made sense like a decade or so ago when EVs were something new but now this whole idea is stupid. youre burning more fuel to charge battery. they now have ways of making clean fuel, expensive as fuck but still "clean". theres nothing stopping them from bringing v8's or v10 back, clip those at 15k rpm to make engines cheaper and race on sustainable fuels. fuck, engineers could even mess with idea of recycling exaust gases into engine chamber or do some fun stuff with turbo or whatever but nah, as long as mbs is fia president we wont get nice things
 
ForTheHoard said:
I'm still somewhat new to motorsports fandom but it blows my mind that the governing bodies are obsessed with environmental issues. Seems like "make it faster" or "make it safer" would be the only priorities.
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There are two reasons for this. First are activist shareholders who were the ones who pushed all the DEI and ESG to the forefront as part of their environmental plans. Second is political pressure from the various European and Anglosphere countries where the exact sort of hateable elitists do their damnest to drive these things out of business. FIA being a French org, is very much vulnerable for this sort of pressuring when it happens in France.
 
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