Are both Fcars with new engines this weekend?? Engines(title) sorry.
I think everyone except Rubens and Coulthard, who had engine changes in Malaysia. Everyone started with a new engine in Australia (and Massa had to replace a R1 engine so he was still R1). RB and DC had to swap from an R2 to a new R1 engine in race number 2, so they would have had new engines in Spain, while everyone else was on R2. But I'm not sure of the effect of the Friday engine change rule. Last year, you had to run one engine for two complete weekends, but this year, you supposedly can changes engines during Friday practice without penalty. But does that mean they don't run the race engine at all on Friday, or if they blow up the race engine on Friday, they can put in a new engine for the race? If the latter, I'd think everyone would be blowing up their engines on Friday so they'd have a new engine every race.
I'm not following you completely here...You must use the same engine for two race weekends (quali and race). You can use that same engine on Friday practice, but you risk using it too much and blowing it up forcing an engine change and penalty. Instead, you can put in a completely new engine for Friday practice only for you to save the race engine for quali and raceday only. You can blow up the practice engine all you want and have no penalty. Once you blow up your race engine, you get penalized (unless you blow it up during the race of course ).
I don't think a new engine is a partcular advantage over a used one at Monaco. The only advantage would be to have a narrower car
Or a handbrake. That's always been one track where I'd like to see a comparison of lap times between the F1 "supers" and, say, a WRC car or a street 360. We've all seen the videos comparing econoboxes to sports cars to F1 machines on one lap at "normal" circuits. But would the smaller cars be nearly as quick as the F1 cars in those tight quarters?
