MississippiLebowski

They must have turned their engines up a notch. George was faster in sector three than Lewis even with a yellow flag lift.

Aston Martin being a full second slower than Cadillac is wild. They had a disastrous start to the season but it’s surprising that they haven’t been able to do anything to fix the car yet.

Williams ability to get eliminated in Q1 with the best engine package should be a bigger story. They built a bad car.

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Max's manager: "We do need a package that allows us to compete at the front. That has always been the foundation. We feel at home at Red Bull, but we do want to be competitive. Ultimately, Max wasn't born to compete in the midfield."

"We now have the time to focus on the performance of the car. That has nothing to do with leaving or not leaving. We just want to see where we stand and how the car is developing. And that means we don't have to say 'yes' or 'no' right now. We have agreements and we are sticking to them."

I don’t think they will. I saw something a week or so ago saying that Cadillac would have to make changes to their car to fit the new engine so they might be a couple races behind Ferrari. I don’t think they are in a position where the engine is the only thing holding them back yet.

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I'm still not convinced Red Bull has the strongest engine right now.

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I don’t think it’s too far fetched that Ford built the engine with the most horsepower. I’m not sure they should be measuring horsepower by itself tho when the battery is such an important part.

Honestly I think Redbulls biggest problem right now is the chassis tho. They have been over weight and hard to drive for a few seasons now. I think the racing bulls is an easier car to drive.

That’s just par for the course for George this year. Mercedes has supposedly diagnosed their reliability issue as heat related, gets worse when they are following close behind another car. Doesn’t seem like they have an easy fix so this could really hurt them going forward.

Also have seen a few reports that Ferrari will have their new engine this week. Cadillac prolly won’t have it yet tho.

A couple of seasons of toiling around in the back of the pack has Carlos Sainz ready to reinvent formula 1.

Austrian GP to be free for anyone that has an Apple ID.

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I don’t know if all the new engines sound like this but, this one sounds like trash.

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Pretty good article about how they are now using the tire rims to cool the tires.

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Wheel rimes are no longer a standard component (they were in the ground effect era) and teams have been working closely with their partners - in this case Ferrari uses BBS - to perfect designs for maximum performance.
As well as weight and rigidity being important, there is a big push in using airflow, convection and heat dissipation to keep tyres as cool as possible.
And it's become an important area of development because the gains can be so big.