After the MonacoGP , theFIA took Max Verstappen's car for a post-race inspection. There was nothing wrong with it. So does this clear the flexi-wing issue????? Image Unavailable, Please Login
I hope Ricci starts to show more speed/pace this race! https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24239/12322929/daniel-ricciardo-will-the-scene-of-past-starring-roles-in-baku-be-the-time-for-a-mclaren-breakthrough Daniel Ricciardo: Will the scene of past starring roles in Baku be the time for a McLaren breakthrough? After a painful Monaco, Daniel Ricciardo heads to another street track where has performed strongly in the past. Mark Hughes assesses the Aussie’s Azerbaijan record to date and asks whether Baku can be a crucial turning point in his adaptation to McLaren's MCL35M Last Updated: 02/06/21 2:41pm Daniel Ricciardo's Baku track record is spectacular in terms of performance, if not always results (it was here in 2018 he had his infamous collision with team-mate Max Verstappen, for example). But he arrives here off the back of his worst performance against a team-mate in his whole F1 career. At Monaco he was 0.567s slower than Lando Norris in Q2 (a session from which Ricciardo failed to graduate) and was lapped by him in the race. Ricciardo said after Monaco that he intended to try to stop the mental gymnastics he was wrestling with in attempting to decode the singular traits of the McLaren, the very different driving style required into slow corners which Norris has shown such mastery of. Ricciardo felt he needed to give his brain some recovery time, something which very often allows the missing pieces of a puzzle to begin slotting into place as the subconscious takes over. Image Unavailable, Please Login Baku would be a fitting place for Ricciardo to make that breakthrough, given his performances in the four Azerbaijan races to date. In 2016 he put his Red Bull on the front row (albeit only after Sergio Perez's gearbox penalty), from where he started next to Nico Rosberg's Mercedes. Team-mate Verstappen had been delayed by twice getting mixed up with Valtteri Bottas' Williams in Q3 but admitted that even without that he couldn't have matched Ricciardo's time. Red Bull had opted for a very low downforce set up and it quickly destroyed their tyres, forcing both drivers to two-stop in what was ideally a one-stop race. Ricciardo - after initially closely tracking leader Rosberg - came home seventh, one place ahead of Verstappen. Ricciardo emerged victorious in the 2017 race after a crazy roller-coaster of a weekend in his Red Bull. He hit the wall in Q3, leaving him starting back in 10th, his brake ducts were blocked by debris early in the race, forcing him into what looked like a disastrously early pit stop to have it removed. But those things combined quite by fluke to put him on the perfect strategy for what was about to play out. Three safety cars not only forced much of the rest of the field onto a less favourable tyre strategy than the one imposed on Ricciardo by his early stop, but they also gave him the opportunity to spectacularly make up places on the restarts through his demon late-braking. Image Unavailable, Please Login In one such move he out-braked the Williams of both Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll in one move. That left just two cars ahead of him - both of which would soon be out of the reckoning. Sebastian Vettel took himself out of the equation behind one of those safety cars, incurring a penalty for deliberately hitting Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes after mistakenly believing he'd been brake-tested. Hamilton himself later lost the race as a piece of his headrest worked loose and he was instructed by race control to pit to have it fixed. All of which put an incredulous Ricciardo into a lead he held to the end. It was a less happy story in 2018 when Ricciardo and Verstappen were fighting intensely over third place (behind Vettel and Bottas) and collided. After dominating the practices Ricciardo fell away from Mercedes and Ferrari in qualifying because of their Q3 engine modes, but still lapped faster than Verstappen. The latter got ahead in the race but Ricciardo succeeded after several tyre-rubbing moments, to repass him.
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The FIA has placed yellow sticks on the rear wing of each car to analyze the flex of the rear wings this weekend. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Placing targets next to the end plate seems odd. Seems they are still trying to understand the issue and how it relates to their current test.
Red Bull Racing brings new rear wing to Baku https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/85677/red-bull-racing-brings-new-rear-wing-to-baku.html Who thinks it's only a coincidence?
Norris unable to drive McLaren F1 car the way he wants By: Jonathan Noble Co-author: Filip Cleeren Jun 3, 2021, 7:40 AM Lando Norris has admitted that even he is unable to drive McLaren's Formula 1 car exactly like he wants, despite his run of podiums. In the wake of Daniel Ricciardo's struggles to adapt to the McLaren MCL35M, team principal Andreas Seidl conceded over the Monaco GP weekend that the current car needs a 'special' driving style. And while Ricciardo's difficulty to deliver that has been obvious as he has been on the backfoot in the early 2021 races, team-mate Norris' situation has not been so clear. But despite taking podium finishes at Imola and Monaco, Norris says that it has been hard to get the most out of the current McLaren – and he is not able to push it in a way that he could in previous cars. "This year the car is different, and there are different things on the car that you have to drive in a different way," he explained ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. "I'm still learning a lot now, with every race that we do, about the car. I would say Monaco was my best qualifying that I've done, but I made mistakes in previous qualifying and races because of not knowing about the car enough. "I'm still learning a lot of things and, especially in Bahrain, for example, and in the first couple of races of the season, I was driving it too much like last year's car and I had to adapt a lot to this year's car.
Yes and RedBull were happy to try to slow others Max lol! Verstappen: Rivals trying to 'slow down' Red Bull Max Verstappen has reiterated that Red Bull's 'flexi' rear wing is legal and believes teams are just trying to "slow down" F1's new championship leaders.
Mercedes must improve their box performance - A fine point that RedBull are much quicker with. https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/31559180/bottas-raised-concerns-mercedes-pit-stops-monaco
When do the targets go on the frontvwings? The sooner Todt vacates the building the better, best take Tombazis with him too.