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Baku 2021 Pre-Race Thread

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  1. jgonzalesm6

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    Ferrari: Baku simulations do not raise too many hopes

    The Scuderia, after showing its full potential in Spain and Monaco, goes to Azerbaijan with a different spirit. Laurent Mekies, sporting director of the horse, admits bluntly: "Now begins a part of the season that promises to be complicated for us. To use a football metaphor, we will try to make a good defense and hit on the counterattack".

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    The numbers speak for themselves: Ferrari looks to the Azerbaijan GP with great realism. The Cavallino simulations make it quite clear that on the Baku track the SF21 will not have a brilliant approach like the fans have been able to appreciate in the Principality.

    “Now begins a part of the season that promises to be complicated for us - admitted Laurent Mekies, Ferrari sporting director -. If in Spain the SF21 was clearly the third force on the field and in Monaco it even showed the potential to win, the situation should be different in the next matches, starting with Baku ”.


    We have repeatedly stressed the fact that the correlation of data between the wind tunnel, the track and the simulator, allowed the Scuderia to immediately deploy the Reds with the ability to show their true potential.

    If the indications that emerged from Spain and Monaco confirmed the positive forecasts of the last two GPs, we must also take the simulation data for the Baku citizen as good as they do not feed too many hopes of repeating what has been appreciated in the Principality.

    The long straight in the citizen of Baku certainly does not play in favor of the SF21, while a McLaren on the ball is expected, more than ever convinced of defending the third position in the Constructors' championship ...
    "We are already expecting a very strong McLaren this weekend - continued Mekies -, who should adapt very well to the characteristics of the circuit and therefore assume the leadership of the group behind the two teams fighting for the world championship. Just as we believe that Alpine, AlphaTauri and Aston Martin will also be very competitive ”.


    In short, the Ferrari that challenged Mercedes and Red Bull openly in Monaco is destined to fight in the center group, where the difference of even just one tenth is capable of making a great selection ...
    " ours will be to express all the potential available and try to make the most of every opportunity. To use a football metaphor, we will try to make a good defense and hit on the counterattack ”.

    The Scuderia fans don't have to think about Charles Leclerc's pole position in Monte Carlo, but they will have to think in more utilitarian terms to keep third place in the Constructors' standings within reach.

    In the last two GPs, Ferrari has benefited from the excellent work done by the team in understanding the Pirelli tires: it will be interesting to find out what the Reds will behave on a track that, at least on paper, should not be in favor of the SF21.

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    Mercedes are still pressing the issue of RedBull's rear-wing flexing issue.

    We should here something about it in the coming days.
     
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    Marko threatens with the front wing of Mercedes for protest. Such F1 love lol :)

    Nice to see this thread. Speed is Baku unlike Monaco!
     
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    https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/flexi-wings-wont-be-a-game-changer-at-all-in-baku/6518881/

    Flexi-wings won't be "a game-changer at all" in Baku F1 race
    By: Luke Smith
    Co-author: Roberto Chinchero
    May 31, 2021, 10:15 AM
    Frederic Vasseur believes teams running Formula 1's disputed 'flexi-wings' will not enjoy a huge performance gain in Baku, saying it "won't be a game-changer at all".
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    Following comments from Lewis Hamilton about Red Bull's "bendy wing" over the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, a saga emerged surrounding the flexibility of the rear wings run by a number of teams.

    The FIA wrote to teams announcing it would be clamping down on rear wing designs from the French Grand Prix onwards, sparking a variety of responses up and down the paddock.

    Mercedes and McLaren both questioned why the more stringent tests were not being introduced sooner, with Toto Wolff warning there could be a "very messy" protest situation at next weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix if the FIA did not give clarity sooner.

    Alfa Romeo team principal Vasseur was particularly unhappy about the ruling, calling it a "joke" after diverting resources to take advantage of the rules as they were initially written.

    Suggestions were made that the flexi-wings could be particularly effective at the Baku City Circuit, which has both a slow-speed section and one of the longest straights on the F1 calendar.

    But Vasseur denied this would be the case, believing there would not be a huge performance benefit in Baku.

    "We have to be serious with the wings, that it won't be a game changer at all," Vasseur said.

    "I think with Ferrari, we showed that on this kind of layout [in Monaco] we are performing. Perhaps that it will be the same in Azerbaijan.

    "In Azerbaijan you have two different part of the track. You have the city, and the philosophy of this part of the track is quite close to Monaco. And then you have the 2.5 kilometres or something like this of straights.

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    The Baku City Circuit pit straight

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    "This will be probably a bit more difficult, but it is like it is."

    Vasseur expanded on his position on the flexi-wing saga in an exclusive interview with Autosport's sister publication Motorsport.com Italy, saying it may change his approach moving forward after investing time and money in the design concept.

    "I'm not writing the rules, the FIA did it, then we designed the car with the rules published," Vasseur said.

    "We have to go to the limit on every single area. This is the philosophy of the F1. And this is the philosophy of every single team, and that [is like that] in terms of weight, for the design and on every single topic we have to go to the limit.

    "And suddenly, I don't know the reason – perhaps just because that one team started to complain one week ago – we had a new technical directive.

    "I think it's a shame to come so late with the clarification, because I think all the teams asked for clarification much earlier. And we have also to consider the fact, that we are all collectively doing big effort to reduce the cost.

    "We had tons of discussion to know if we have to reduce the personnel on track by one or two people and so on and so on and so on. And then they come [up] with this kind of TD, and we'll have to redesign the wings, and to produce new wings.

    "I'm not speaking about the performance penalty, because honestly, we did a back-to-back a couple of times and it's not a big drama, and it won't change the approach.

    "But at the end, it will change my approach, because that I will have to spend a big part of my development budget on this. And this is unfair for me."
     
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    After the sheer brilliance of the Indianapolis 500 this is sure to be a letdown.

    I'll still be watching though.:D
     
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    The 500 was great. The changes of fortune a yellow can bring out...amazing
     
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    The photo shows how insanely large the cars have become.
     
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    They literally look like stretched limousines.
     
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    100% look how much smaller cars were. Now they are the size of a plane...‍♂️ These road corses are too small for passing pretty much it’s if your up front you will win unless a failure or crash!
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    I agree. So, why do they copy each other? Ultimately there has to an advantage.
     
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    It’s the technology look at our cellphones they started big then went small and now you have big screen for a phone. Also there is a lot more in these modern cars computer wise then the older cars
     
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    Baku is Charles favourite track if i'm not mistaken..that's my hope....
     
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    I think it's Stroll's as well.
     
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    Stroll has had good luck there, but generally due to the bad luck and/or misfortunes of others.
     
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    Luck, whether good or bad, is Stroll's specialty. He can start with being a member of the lucky sperm club.
     
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    Wait till Mazespin and Tsunoda try to go through there side by side;-)
     
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