https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/144919/red-bull-has-extra-confidence-for-german-gp Red Bull says it is heading to this weekend's German Grand Prix with "confidence" after fighting near the front at Silverstone where engine performance is vital. Although the team failed to take a podium at the British Grand Prix thanks to a collision between Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen, its form throughout the race indicated that it had the second fastest car behind Mercedes there. Considering that Red Bull's engine supplier Honda is still behind Mercedes and Ferrari, such a strong performance at the fast Silverstone circuit has delivered a boost heading to F1's double header in Germany and Hungary that should suit it even more. "We have confidence going to Hockenheim given the performance [at Silverstone]," said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. "After Monza it is one of the most power-sensitive circuits on the calendar. "You are flat out on the lap for pretty much the equivalent of the entire Barcelona lap. "So that is encouraging for us, and certainly for a circuit like Hockenheim that is less power sensitive." Horner said that Silverstone showed that Red Bull was not losing too much time on the straights, and was also a good match for Ferrari in the corners. Image Unavailable, Please Login "To be this close to Mercedes around that type of track that we know is power sensitive, and to be able to follow the Ferraris as close as we were able to through Maggotts, Becketts and Copse, Max was able to take some serious momentum behind the Ferraris there, and that is usually the sign of a pretty decent car." Red Bull's form in recent races has been lifted by some small updates to the car - including a change to the front wing - which has helped deliver a better platform for its drivers. Horner has suggested that the true potential of its package was not even on display at Silverstone, thanks to a throttle-lag issue in qualifying and then fighting with the Ferraris in the race.
Weather is warm overall weekend. Rain shower potential for Saturday. Race is sunny for the current forecast.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/49072173 Haas are to continue with an experiment of running their cars with different specifications at this weekend's German Grand Prix. The team ran the split strategy at the British Grand Prix, in a bid to understand inconsistent performances. But they will have to repeat it at Hockenheim, after a first-lap collision between Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen led to early retirements. That caused a lack of data, where the team's struggles have been biggest. Grosjean will continue with the car in the aerodynamic configuration which was used at the first race of the season, while team-mate Magnussen will have Haas' latest upgrades on his car. It is an unusual step for teams to run their cars with different aerodynamic specifications but Haas have been struggling to make their tyres work in race conditions, leading to a lack of pace. The team scored a double points finish in May's Spanish Grand Prix, where Haas introduced their first major aerodynamic upgrade, with Magnussen seventh and Grosjean 10th. But they have not scored since Grosjean earned one point for 10th place in the subsequent race in Monaco and in that time have slipped from sixth to ninth in the constructors' championship, ahead only of pointless Williams. Team boss Gunther Steiner said: "We decided on this exercise to get data and understand better what the difference between the two cars is, good or bad, then we can see where we can make improvements. "We weren't sure if the update we introduced in Barcelona was better or not.
itinerary from Thurs. thru Sun. Mick Schumacher will be driving his father Ferrari F2004 on Saturday and Sunday. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hamilton, Max, Bottas, or Bottas, Hamilton, Max. I don't think Ferrari knows what to do at this point, and Leclerc and Vettel are just along for the ride.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz, call it now, for Christ’s sake... there is no competition here for titles, they were done months ago. Fresh start to the season, put the tyres back as they were supposed to be at the start of this one, and let’s see if 2019-B gets a bit more competitive..... Merc will still win it no doubt, but at least we’d get the occasional race, and maybe a little real drama instead of the made up rubbish liberty have to ask Toto Wolff to pretend to have every weekend Let’s face it, am I the only one waiting for the regular ‘yeah, we are really concerned at the turn of speed red bull have shown recently, we are really on the back foot as we forgot where we put the button for full power on the new steering wheels’ that no doubt will be marched out by Mercedes to try to inject a little tension for the less-thoughtful fans out there
Nice expose’ on Bottas - https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/27243217/why-bottas-believes-beat-lewis-hamilton-f1-world-title
