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2023 Formula 1 Season thread

Glideslope said:
I was watching a recent interview with Adrian on the RB19 development. I was surprised somewhat to listen to him explain how his main focus was the suspension. While he worked closely with the Team Aerodynamicists his primary goal was to create a suspension that allowed the Aero to keep the RB19 ride height as low as possible. My impression was the Rear Suspension is the RB19's Secret Sauce.
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Well Adrian did perfect active suspension all those years ago at Williams so it’s one of those innovations he probably wishes was not banned so prematurely. I think his background is in aeronautics but decided to go into motorsport instead, hence why he’s such a good aerodynamicist.
 
The problem with activate suspension is that you have teams like Ferrari who are so incompentent, that instead of absorbing the bumps, it decided to jump on the bumps causing the Ferrari fly off the track. Which is one of the incidents that lead to the ban of active suspension.

It's actually funny that 30 years ago we had the most advanced F1 cars in history. Williams even had a F1 car with infinite amount of gears, but the FIA decided to ban it.

It would be interesting to see how F1 in 2023 would be under the old rules. In the end, these 2023 are quite slow as Ralph Schumacher in his old Williams car using 2022 tyres put a time that was almost as fast as the pole position time, and he didn't even try his best. He could have easily beaten Max his pole position time if he actually tried.

I think F1 cars under the old rules in 2023 would be hitting over 400km/h+ easily now with fantastic sound with all the grip in the world using 2023 rubber (instead of those silly grooved tyres and 20 year old tyre compound, which is like driving wet tyres in the dry).
 
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The-Real-Deal82 said:
Well Adrian did perfect active suspension all those years ago at Williams so it’s one of those innovations he probably wishes was not banned so prematurely. I think his background is in aeronautics but decided to go into motorsport instead, hence why he’s such a good aerodynamicist.
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Wow, I completely forgot about his stint at Williams with the active suspension. I think I'm going to start taking one of those memory boosters..........
 
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Zest28 said:
The problem with activate suspension is that you have teams like Ferrari who are so incompentent, that instead of absorbing the bumps, it decided to jump on the bumps causing the Ferrari fly off the track. Which is one of the incidents that lead to the ban of active suspension.

It's actually funny that 30 years ago we had the most advanced F1 cars in history. Williams even had a F1 car with infinite amount of gears, but the FIA decided to ban it.

It would be interesting to see how F1 in 2023 would be under the old rules. In the end, these 2023 are quite slow as Ralph Schumacher in his old Williams car using 2022 tyres put a time that was almost as fast as the pole position time, and he didn't even try his best. He could have easily beaten Max his pole position time if he actually tried.

I think F1 cars under the old rules in 2023 would be hitting over 400km/h+ easily now with fantastic sound with all the grip in the world using 2023 rubber (instead of those silly grooved tyres and 20 year old tyre compound, which is like driving wet tyres in the dry).
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I agree on the 400km/h+ speeds. The issue would be how to prevent death in a serious high speed off......
 
FP1 was a literal wash due to early rain so nobody could set a representative time therefore nothing to be gleaned about relative performance for drivers or cars as none of them did anything more than warm-up laps.

Perez binned it on his out-lap and took off his left front, but I presume Red Bull will have it ready for FP2 (which kicks off within the next 30 minutes).
 
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So again, hard to draw any conclusions from FP2 as some cars just did race sim and never put in a low-fuel qualifying run (like VER).

Yuki 4th and Danny 14th, .451 behind, but this was Danny's first laps in a car.
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In an Alpha Tauri as well...

NOR is keeping his form from last week...
 
Hamilton leads FP3 (.250 ahead of Max and Sergio) and almost the entire field was within a second of his time. Danny 18th and Yuki 20th with Danny three-tenths up on his teammate.

Now for qualifying!
 
If Dan Ric is not on pole, and does not win the race tomorrow, he should be fired, after all he is in the team as he is a super driver, can drive at 320km/h on ice.. expecting his firing Monday..
 
Danny out in Q2 in 12th.
Sainz out in Q2 in 11th.

Norris 1st with Lewis .099 back and Max 0.219 back (but Max walked that lap in after having one deleted for track limits).
 
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Danny out in Q2 in 12th.
Sainz out in Q2 in 11th.

Norris 1st with Lewis .099 back and Max 0.219 back (but Max walked that lap in after having one deleted for track limits).
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Seems Daniel did a much better job than DeVries did dispite never driving that car.

So it was a positive change.
 
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How can Perez put that rocketship in 9th when someone else put a much slower car on pole position?

This Perez guy never fails to disappoint.
 
Well that was fun! Really enjoyed qualifying. The field was so close.
Unfortunately Norris couldn’t quite get 2nd. Hope both McLaren’s get the drop on Max at the start.
Good to see Lewis delivering all the potential from those upgrades.
I’d love to see him get his elbows out at turn one, but I am still expecting a Max win. Hope I’m wrong though.
 
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Well that was fun! Really enjoyed qualifying. The field was so close.
Unfortunately Norris couldn’t quite get 2nd. Hope both McLaren’s get the drop on Max at the start.
Good to see Lewis delivering all the potential from those upgrades.
I’d love to see him get his elbows out at turn one, but I am still expecting a Max win. Hope I’m wrong though.
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Generally speaking though when Mercedes has been good on Saturday they are good on Sunday. I'm just fed up with this Tire nonsense. Toto said it best. "Get rid of it."

It's all about the race setup. I think Max was being honest post Q when he said it was tough and they need a couple more races to fine tune. He definitely could not find a balance and has been uncomfortable all week.

If I were Lewis I'd be more concerned about Lando.
 
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Mercedes is not good. They are behind Mclaren and Ferrari in terms of speed. Max is still the clear favorite to win tomorrow.

It is a difficult track to overtake, so I suspect Max will try an undercut and make use of Red Bull speed advantage to overtake Lewis during the pitstops.
 
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So Dan Ric is out of F1 again, he should be, no better than the bloke he replaced, not sure what the fuss was about, Dan Ric brings nothing better to the party, he has no right to be on the grid, out in Q2, really not sure what the fuss was about, he is so mid field, even Suzie Wolff might have done better... Dan Ric is a joke..
 
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