F1 2024 Oz (Australia - Melbourne) Pre-Race Thread

Great place and Max wins.........again. Close thread lol I hope the weather is good. Want to see full speed and performance here.

 

maybe the Australia GP turn 1-3 gods will deliver us a miracle

 

True and good point!!

 

Australia was, is, and will always be the season opener for me. Just like Interlagos is the season closer. All these desert races before and after are just money grabs, no soul at any of those events.

 

So who gets the 'experimental' set up lol

Mercedes planning Melbourne “experiments” with W15 F1 car
Mercedes Formula 1 trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin says the team is designing “experiments” for the Australian GP weekend in an attempt to solve issues with the W15.

 

I'm going with both red cars on the podium.

 

Australia comes first? Damn, i thought it was Suzuka.

 

Looks like the 3rd dud in a row, maybe Mercedes need to hire Binotto now.

 

Ingegnere Sir Lewis Hamilton.

 

Nah give em to Russell that new team leader. LH is now a soon to be non employee and the less he knows the better. Russell is so keen to be the #1 lol.

 

This race needs to be first. And the track needs to be changed back.
thanks for your consideration

 

Experimenting on race weekend. Not always a sign of strength……

What would Rudi or Alfred do?

 

Neubauer would give it to Lang. Rudi would do it himself.

 

Irrelevant.

If he gets the setup and is beaten, the set up is bad.
If he gets the setup and beats George, he's the genius that made it work.

 

No not if they set up both with an experiment lol. The engineers are driving this because of the data from Race 1 and 2. We can be flippant or actually objective if even you dont like LH for whatever reason.

This is nothing new in the Cost Engineer's Championship. Early races are tests. There is not enough testing or money to truly fix a car that is not competitive from the start. Thats blatantly apparent in this series now. If you have a .5 or more deficit now, you are not going to catch MaxBull lol(who isnt using full capability).

Not by summer when you run out of money and now must defer resources to the next car. Mclaren, Ferrari and Mercedes have deficits built into their designs. They dont need a 90% new car, they need a 100% new car and one fully tested. Not happening until 26 maybe. My guess is the entire aero packages are not optimal to compete with Max Bull = suspension, floor and all wings. Those packages are not synched to not just be competitive but to-- catch, pass and maintain the lead.

 

You missed the point.

What I wrote above is what the narrative will be.

 

Mercedes- One of these tests is likely to be reverting to its Bahrain test-spec floor to see if its race one upgrade has introduced an unintended side effect.

 

And you say I'm the troll.

 

McLaren will “protect” Piastri from busy Melbourne F1 schedule
McLaren will “protect” Oscar Piastri from an overly busy schedule in Melbourne as it pays more attention to driver commitments in 2024, according to Formula 1 team boss Andrea Stella.