I'm just waiting to see the video come out of him getting beaten over the head with a wooden spoon by a spice girl.
F1 2024 Discussion
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Interesting FP2 for sure. Merc looked good on the fast laps and Red Bull surprising didn't. Seemed like some thought was that Red Bull and Ferrari hadn't quite turned up engine modes and gone full qualifying sim.
I was watching lap times during long runs on softs over the last 5 or so laps of those stints and man it sure seems like Red Bull race pace is going to be ominus again. Max was putting in 1.36.7-1.37.0 consistently with Merc/Ferrari pretty much matching each other about 1.37.2 - 1.37.5. Sure seems like Max is going to have at least several tenths of race pace cushion over the field still. Might be close enough for that chasing group to match Checo though if he's still going to be ~3 tenths slower than Max like last year.
I was watching lap times during long runs on softs over the last 5 or so laps of those stints and man it sure seems like Red Bull race pace is going to be ominus again. Max was putting in 1.36.7-1.37.0 consistently with Merc/Ferrari pretty much matching each other about 1.37.2 - 1.37.5. Sure seems like Max is going to have at least several tenths of race pace cushion over the field still. Might be close enough for that chasing group to match Checo though if he's still going to be ~3 tenths slower than Max like last year.
Agree. So many teams treated P1 as just another testing session. Many with testing instruments on the car.
And with Bahrain, tires fall apart pretty quickly. Even qualifying may not relate to race pace. Thinking HAAS like stuff from last year where ever other week it seemed like they would qualify ok but then just eat their tires. This track is brutal on tires.
Yeah that's exactly what Haas did, treated it like another testing, heavy fuel runs. From what i've seen from Niko and Kevin, the car is at least a little better than last year. Hopefully doesn't eat tires as much.
Loved Guenther, but Ayao may be better from a technical direction. i just am tired of being dead last man...
I think they’ll probably be pretty bad to start but hopefully Ayao being in charge makes them better at developing over the season. Watching drive to survive reminded me just how far they fell off compared to the field last year.
They need to go back to the business model they had when they first got into F1... just a carbon copy of Ferrari.
There's no generic New Folder (12) in there? Please, these old guys don't know how to hide stuff.
Not that I would know anything about that....
Can’t wait to get this season going. A lot of things to watch this year.
