I see those barge boards and I’m disgusted thinking how much money is wasted on those and how much uglier they make the cars. You could probably feed a small village for a year with the money spent on every team’s barge boards. Don’t understand why stuff in this area was not outlawed by the rules.
Day 1 lap count per team Mercedes - 48 laps Red Bull - 139 McLaren - 91 Aston Martin - 97 Alpine - 129 Ferrari - 116 AlphaTauri - 111 Alfa Romeo - 131 Haas - 85 Williams - 83
BBC What went wrong at Mercedes? World Champions Mercedes' day started badly when Bottas suffered a gearbox problem after just one lap. Mercedes decided to change the gearbox and investigate the problem later, but that cost the Finn nearly all his first day's running and he managed only a further five laps before handing over to Hamilton for the afternoon. Team principal Toto Wolff said:"It wasn't a good start because we had a gearbox issue that came out of nowhere that we haven't yet been able to identify and understand." When Hamilton went out at the start of the afternoon session, conditions were at their worst, the Sakhir track enveloped in a sand cloud and conditions on track treacherous, the cars throwing up plumes of sand. Hamilton found the car's balance to be poor and returned to the pits for set-up changes. When he returned to the track, the team concentrated on long runs with high fuel loads and used only the hard 'C2' tyres while others explored the faster and grippier C3s and C4s. Still the car did not look comfortable, though, with Hamilton clearly struggling for grip and having a number of 'moments' where he struggled to keep control, ran wide or locked a wheel.
LAP COUNT & KILOMETERS POWER UNIT: Ferrari (3 teams) - 332 laps - 1796.78 km Mercedes (4 teams) - 319 - 1726.17 km Honda (2 teams) - 250 - 1128 km Alpine (1 team) (Renault) - 129 - 698.15 km
Lewis's new 2021 helmet. He got rid of a P&R logo in the top center that was there in the 2020 helmet. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
i'm reading our pony looks hard to tame, a bit like last year...at least it should be faster on the straight....
Leclerc on why his car stopped on track: "We had a small combustion anomaly on the data and just to be sure, we stopped the car. Luckily it was just 10 minutes before the end of the session. It didn't cost us so much time on track." Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
It would support the village of Calabasas in Bentleys, Ferrari's, caviar and Botox for a year with ease.
stupid question, Joe, can you or somebody tell me which track config are they using? I'm assuming the regular extended one from races? Thanks in advance.
It’s the regular track. Below is track layout with the best sub-sector times today. The outer-loop track basically short-circuits (pun) corner 4 to 13. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Seb's right. He could've done it with a piece of paper. But he ruined the cheese instead. Starving kids somewhere could've eaten that!
https://racingnews365.com/gene-ferrari-engine-will-be-one-of-the-best-in-2021 Encouraging words from Gene, but: "we don't know exactly how much hp we gained''... err. that's quite possibly the easiest thing to measure, right? You have all the data, room temps, engine temps, and you see an exact readout with power. Stick the new engine on the same dyno and you'll know exactly how much you've gained and where. So with that in mind, how can he say Ferrari will be one of the best engines? --Criticism aside, Ferrari powered teams did drive with big wings and shown good speed.
Auto sport or someone said they got like 20 HP back. 1. How would they know 2. If 20 is ALL they got back they’re still at least 30 down
