2023 Mexican Grand Prix - Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Oct 27 - 29

[CHT]

After a slight blip in pace last week I am expecting it will be business as usual for RB and MV this weekend. Lets hope Perez can live up to the expectation for this one.

[basti313]

Lets hope Perez can live up to the expectation for this one.

I fear it will be a (the last?) humiliation with Perez not finishing on the podium. The track luckily has no fast corners which seems to me like an issue for Perez and is to some degree (stadium) to drive like a street circuit. BUT it is still slippery in the stadium and this kills Perez in overtaking. I tried to look back some years and he never overtook anyone on this track as far as I can see it. Furthermore the Q is very selective, many errors in Q...

[ringo]

If mercedes get it right, it could be Russel or Hamilton on Pole. Russel heats the tyres quicker, so I expect maybe a suprise pole from him. Ferrari I am not sure. If the turn down their engines they may be handicapped.
Mclaren still had low speed weakness,.. but Norris did not do too badly in singapore.

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Yes Ferrari's performance depends on their choices with engine. They apparently need to take an engine penalty with Charles somewhere - could be here if they don't expect to be strong already

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did they turn down all engines last year, or was it some kind of specific issue for the Ferrari team? Bottas in the Alfa looked surprisingly strong back then

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did they turn down all engines last year, or was it some kind of specific issue for the Ferrari team? Bottas in the Alfa looked surprisingly strong back then

Ferrari turbos were in safe mode. Don't think it affected customers ?

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sounds like something they may be able to fix then. But if they need a new engine anyway, it would probably still make sense to bring it in before Vegas, so either now or in Brazil.

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sounds like something they may be able to fix then. But if they need a new engine anyway, it would probably still make sense to bring it in before Vegas, so either now or in Brazil.

Yeah it sounds like they're gonna take one this weekend IMO. From Duchessa

However, what limited performance the most in Austin were many small problems that other teams also experienced, namely the management of the Power Unit - especially critical for Charles Leclerc - and the brakes . In Maranello they are waiting to unveil a new engine for this season finale , so as to have greater security.

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WINGS

Looks like AMR have their med-high wing on instead of the Monaco wing they used at least for first part of weekend at Austin

McLaren continue with their Singapore spec med-high wing

[stephen]

Max Verstappen to have extra security for Mexico GP due to online threats.

[SirBastianVettel]

Max Verstappen to have extra security for Mexico GP due to online threats.

That's just sad.. Why do they hate him so much in Mexico? Just because of the team order thing in Brazil last season?

[chrisc90]

That could be a decent reason SVB. It could be perfectly credible to think so for us people outside Mexico (and seemingly the USA/COTA).

Nobody competing in a sport deserves death threats or insults towards them. We have seen it countless times over the years, theres even a good few instances over the last few years. Latifi in 2021, Masi in 2021, Max's Family when they received abuse that Max called out in the press conference (cant remember the venue/date), now we have rumours of it going to happen in Mexico. I'll dare bet Lewis has been on the wrong end of abuse online/trackside in many years. (which does lead me to think, you typically dont tend to see too many instances of hate towards Lewis from the crowd than others online. I remember a recent clip of fans booing the RBR mechanics for some odd reason. You dont tend to see that towards any other driver from what ive seen)

Its a shame and these people are not true fans of the sport. They need to be called out publicly and shamed for it. Im sure F1 recently introduced some anti bullying/abuse measures just this year to target things like this.

[PlatinumZealot]

Max Verstappen to have extra security for Mexico GP due to online threats.

His rise in F1 grew along with the rise in "soccer fan behaviour" in F1 as well. Not helped by his million strong orange army. In other words fan factions aka tribalism.

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[PinkFloydPulse]

Acapulco completely destroyed, not a single power line made it through the storm... Military on the streets doing cleanup, many presumed dead and missing... Wonder if it will affect the race...