[AMuS] Charles complained that he does'nt get the temp in the front tires but the prep of a long run is different than qualifying and therefore no indication that it must be a problem in qualifying. Also Sky Germany says that according to their information, both Vettel and Leclerc are using the Spec 1 engine this weekend.(****No one else has reported this****)
Thiis is getting alot of attention from F1 photo journo's. W10's pushrod "linkage" to the wheel hub. IMHO, there's probably more at the back but that area disappears under the engine cover/engine/gearbox area. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date
Thank you for all of your posts. VERY enjoyable and informative. Can you please tell me what I am looking at in the Pitwalkers video clip? Thank you. Kevin
Pirelli must be enjoying all the free press for being the ones deciding championships. And it’s not like they’ve been partial to any teams before by letting them test illegally and in complete secrecy...
On the Pitwalkers clip, it's just showing how the suspension works in the curve (where the W10 gains ground) relative to the car.
The Merc is in a whole different world universe to everything else. Unbelievable dominance. Most dominant F1 car of all time? Too early to tell, but it’s definitely possible... Soooo depressing.
Am I right in thinking that clip is showing the tyre remaining horizontal to the ground as it turns, i.e. maintaining its contact patch, as "normal" cars it doesn't...I think?
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/143610/mercedes-has-monaco-tyre-warmup-concern The Mercedes Formula 1 team admits it has a tyre warm-up "concern" for Monaco Grand Prix qualifying, despite its imperious form in the two Thursday practice sessions. The champion team arrived in Monte Carlo as a strong favourite following its five successive one-two finishes and its pace advantage in low-speed corners in the last event at Barcelona. It delivered on that form in Thursday practice, with Lewis Hamilton topping both sessions and leading a Mercedes one-two in the afternoon, as the W10s outpaced the best of the opposition by around seven tenths of a second. But chief race engineer Andrew Shovlin said after Thursday's running that the Mercedes was taking too long to get the tyres in an optimal state for a flying lap, which could pose problems on Saturday given the traditionally hectic and traffic-heavy nature of qualifying at the short street circuit. "We still seemed to have problems getting lap one out of the soft, despite the hotter track temperatures in the afternoon," Shovlin said. "Our number one concern is getting the soft tyre to work on the first lap; our headline times were good today but it took us a lot of laps to get there and qualifying is so important at this track. "We've got Esteban [Ocon, reserve driver] in the simulator this evening and tomorrow so hopefully he can help with some of that learning." Shovlin acknowledged the practice sessions had otherwise been "fairly smooth" for Mercedes, although he stressed that traffic meant the team could not gather as much data as it would have liked. "The first session was good, we were trying to run in the quiet parts of the session and were able to give the drivers a lot of time in clear air," he said. "The car was quite well-balanced once we got the tyres up to temperature. "We started the second session on the medium tyre, expecting it to be a bit of a handful but actually it was working quite nicely. "On the long runs we were suffering with an incredible amount of traffic and the drivers struggled to put two clear laps together. That has meant we've not got quite the level of information we'd like going into the race."
What a lot of ********. The team don’t want Liberty or the FIA stepping in if they get a sixth one-two, so they are inventing drama that doesn’t exist to try to help avoid sanction, and to help the FIA sell advertising during the race, because more and more of us will have switched off very early in the race, if not during the farce that is qualifying, due to Mercedes ridiculous non-challengable advantage within the rules written for their direct dominant advantage
OMG... will Mercedes be able to overcome these huge problems ever??? They really must be exhausted at this stage of the season having to deal with all these dramas and set-backs every week On Sunday LH and VB again have to thank the team that they were able to make a car work that originally was slower than the Williams despite the fears they had due to the impressive speed the SF had. They are really #blessed.. Gesendet von meinem SM-G930F mit Tapatalk
I agree. Looks like another Mercedes 1-2 with Verstappen 3rd. I don't think Red Bull has the chance to take Mercedes here
because they don't have a problem. Mercedes says the same thing after every practice ''oh we're really concerned, Ferrari/Red Bull look really strong here'', for the past 5 years. Then comes quali, smash it and they put on their best ''surprised'' face.
