Funny piece of trivia, the last time that neither Kimi nor Seb participated in a GP weekend was Malaysia 2000.
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Yeah, we're entering into a new era!
I have to admit I have a biased against billionaire's sons... I tend to think they got their racing seats mostly because of money.
Maybe I'm wrong with Latifi...
Still, it'll kinda suck if Albon end up finishing his F1 career running dead last in a Williams. Really hope that won't end up being the case.
Shocking helmet cam footage from Hamilton's car with the porpoising.
Yeah, because he's black and hip-popping, right?
You know George Russell is also a black jazz pianist and he's probably into head bobbing too?
I don't know much about the musical tastes of the white George Russell.
Anyway, I think Mercedes has probably screwed themselves by having such tiny sidepods... resulting huge part of the floor being unsupported? Which caused porpoising particularly difficult problem for them to resolve?
Last edited by Crazed_Insanity; March 18th, 2022 at 10:45 AM.
It's not the sidepods, their problem is with ride height/suspensions, they can stop porpoising if they raise the car / soften the suspension, but then they lose downforce, it's a balancing act.
Mclaren, for example, cleared that hurdle more easily, but it is suspected that Mercedes can't get on top of their issues because their potential gains are so much bigger than McLaren's.
I couldn't find it, but there's a picture of one of the Alfas lifting the inside wheel off the ground while cornering hard, it's an example of how stiff the cars have to be to make the ground effects work properly, like I said it's a balancing act, and it affects all cars in low-speed corners and in hard braking, they basically suck at those things now, but all the time they lose then, they make up in medium and high speed cornering.
That's why drivers and fans are anticipating a dismal Monaco grand prix, these cars are just not made to be nimble.
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McLaren might have cleared that hurdle, but end result is them ending up near the bottom of the field!!!
Anyway, George is still pretty high up there..., don't count Mercedes out yet. However, Mercedes seems to have lost their previous advantages before the rule change and starting off a bit behind. Can't wait to see quali and the actual race...
First pole of the year for Leclerc by 0.1
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Ferrari one lap pace looks to be real. Reliability should be real too? Now we’ll find out if they have race pace.
What happened to George? Why is he so slow?