2020 Formula One Season ***Possible Spoilers***

You're ridiculous. It's a two car race. Who is Lewis beating? Bottas? Oh yeah....the guy who used to get beaten by a well past his prime Massa. Lol what an achievement. Lewis is very VERY lucky Nico retired.

Daniel fastest lap of the race. Good on him.

 

Terrible!

Ferrari's results:

Spa 2019:

FP1: P1 and P2
FP2: P1 and P2
FP3: P1 and P2
Qualy: P1 and P2

Spa 2020:

FP1: P14 and P15
FP2: P15 and P17
FP3: P17 and P20
Qualy: P13 and P14

 

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I just watched a replay of Hamilton's pole lap. It was very scrappy, and yet he was still 1 second faster than Max.

We all know Lewis crumbles under pressure, but I can't see him being pushed this year or next.

 

I'm not so sure. Let's ask him with a lie detector next year when McLaren/Mercedes laps him

 

BELGIAN GP STRATEGY

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Maranello 01 September 2020

It was a bad weekend at Spa-Francorchamps with no points scored, Sebastian finishing 13th and Charles 14th. A frustrating result as emphasised after the race by Team Principal, Mattia Binotto. However, it only serves to increase the team’s determination to get out of the storm it is in at the moment to reach calmer waters as soon as possible.
Looking back at the Belgian Grand Prix, once again we talk to the Scuderia’s Head of Race Strategy, Inaki Rueda to understand key moments of the race, starting with the tyre choice.
“The behaviour of the three Pirelli compounds in Spa and, unfortunately, our positions on the grid, actually gave us plenty of flexibility in terms of tyre choice for the start. The safest bet was the Medium, which would have allowed for a relatively early stop to switch to Hards or to go as long as possible in the first stint to then try and finish on the Soft. Starting on the Soft would have been an advantage in the early laps, especially those when DRS was not yet enabled. With both drivers out of Q3, it made sense to split the strategies, so Sebastian went on Mediums and Charles on the Softs, which would also put him in good shape if there was an early neutralisation or one towards the end of the race.”

Charles’s strategy seemed to work. Is that the case?
“Yes, Charles managed to go from 13th (actually 12th as Carlos Sainz did not start) to eighth place in just one lap and it even looked as though he might pass Stroll for seventh. But after that, the car’s shortcomings in terms of performance saw him slip down the order.”

Then there was the incident involving Antonio Giovinazzi and George Russell which brought out the safety car.
“Both drivers were very near turn 17 and therefore close to the pit lane entry: ideally we wanted to bring them in on the same lap and do a double stop, as we did in the second Silverstone race. However, there was an unknown factor to consider, namely the fact that the engine’s pneumatic valve system on Charles’ car was using too much air. His stop would therefore have to be longer, as topping up the system normally adds three seconds. So a double stop would have penalised Sebastian, which is why he stayed out for one more lap. It meant that Charles lost a place to Räikkönen because of topping up the air so that Seb was now in front of his team-mate.”

How does the pneumatic valve air system work?
“Formula 1 engines use air to operate the valves which, as is the case with the oil, can occasionally consume more than normal. The air bottle on the car can be topped up by connecting it to the compressed air system and in the case of the SF1000, the connector is on the left hand side. That’s why on tv, we saw a mechanic attach to the car a sort of jack with a compressed air bottle. These things happen from time to time and we practice these procedures over the course of the race weekend.”

After the first stop, how did the race pan out?
“We put Hards on both cars thinking it was the best option at the time for having a one stop race, but we did not know – and neither did the other teams – how this compound would hold up towards the end. Seb had a pretty lonely race to the flag, hoping that those ahead of him would suffer with a performance drop or make a second stop. Unfortunately, neither of those two scenarios occurred. With Charles we also had the air problem, as his consumption increased again, although not to a dramatic extent. In the position in which he found himself, a second stop seemed a possibility, both in order to make the most of a set of new Mediums and also to avoid the risk of having an air problem in the final laps. At the beginning of the new stint, in clean air, his pace was very good and he set the fourth fastest lap time of the race even though at that point he still had a lot of fuel on board. But given that the Hard held up to the end, for Charles moving up the order remained just a dream and he finished the race practically in the same position he was in at the time of his second stop.”

 

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BELGIAN GRAND PRIX - NO POINTS FOR SCUDERIA FERRARI AT SPA

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Spa-Francorchamps 31 August 2020

Scuderia Ferrari came away from the 65th Belgian Grand Prix empty handed at the end of a disappointing race, which saw both cars finish outside the points. Sebastian Vettel was 13th and Charles Leclerc was 14th.
No pace. The team ran different tyre strategies, with Charles pitting twice and Sebastian one, but the SF1000 struggled to get any of the compounds to work properly. The drivers therefore lacked grip and pace and were uncompetitive as a consequence.
Italian races. The 2020 Championship continues apace and now heads to Italy for two rounds, next Sunday at Monza and the traditional Italian Grand Prix, and then the following week at Mugello, which hosts a championship race for the first time; the Toscana Ferrari 1000 Grand Prix.

 

https://www.ferrari.com/en-AU/formula1/articles/f1-belgian-gp-2020-tech-talk

 

Urgh

https://racer.com/2020/08/31/ferrari-engine-saga-leaves-a-sour-taste-horner/

 

What a wanker

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I'm convinced.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-wolff-free-to-race-miscommunication/

 

Fixed