2024 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne, March 22 - 24

[Waz]

Expecting 2 Red Bull's and 2 Ferrari's in the top 4 followed by a jumbled order of McLaren, Mercedes and Alonso Martin

[BorisTheBlade]

Expecting 2 Red Bull's and 2 Ferrari's in the top 4 followed by a jumbled order of McLaren, Mercedes and Alonso Martin

Bold statement!

[Vanja #66]

or for all those who copied the 2023 Red Bull? I'm honestly not quite sure yet the pattern will be the same again this year.

Not sure any team figured out exactly what RB is doing. AMR has a similar diffuser kick as RB, but other than that a lot of big differences and obviously different suspension setup.

[Waz]

Expecting 2 Red Bull's and 2 Ferrari's in the top 4 followed by a jumbled order of McLaren, Mercedes and Alonso Martin

Bold statement!

Unfortunately I fear we've gone back into the era of 2 clear front runner teams, followed by 3 teams pretty equal with just circumstance changing the finishing order behind the top 4. Points for the other teams look as if they will be really hard to come by this season.

[Sieper]

Yes, Albon also said exactly that in the post race F1TV interview. It is already what the drivers of the car in the midfield are thinking about.

[Watto]

Yep can see that fly enough

[bluechris]

Expecting 2 Red Bull's and 2 Ferrari's in the top 4 followed by a jumbled order of McLaren, Mercedes and Alonso Martin

Bold statement!

Unfortunately I fear we've gone back into the era of 2 clear front runner teams, followed by 3 teams pretty equal with just circumstance changing the finishing order behind the top 4. Points for the other teams look as if they will be really hard to come by this season.

I think Ferrari will close the gap more, for the rest behind i don't have a clue.

[Sieper]

Mercedes was quite close here last year.

[Waz]

Mercedes was quite close here last year.

Last year had circumstance play into their hands. Unusually cool conditions for the tire selection meant the front runners were pegged back a bit in temperature that suited the Mercedes.

We have almost no idea if that might even benefit them this year, or affect the others as much.

A few variables like that would be quite welcome again.

[Sieper]

Good points, hadn’t thought off that.

[Mansell89]

Any chance that the softer tyre compounds (C3/4/5) could cause a bit of a form upset around Albert Park this week?

I’m assuming the C5 won’t be a race tyre at all?

Flicking through the 2019 race I think Bottas won it with a one stop C4 > C3 - is deg higher now on the back of track changes since then?

[organic]

Any chance that the softer tyre compounds (C3/4/5) could cause a bit of a form upset around Albert Park this week?

I’m assuming the C5 won’t be a race tyre at all?

Flicking through the 2019 race I think Bottas won it with a one stop C4 > C3 - is deg higher now on the back of track changes since then?

Last year the C2 could've been used for the entire racing distance. Deg was super low. Expecting 1-stopper even with C3-C4

[organic]

Bahrain trim

[FW17]

For moment i got excited that SV returned

[venkyhere]

- Want to see how the RB20 has solved their previous ride-height weakness; although Singapore and Monaco will show it proper, this track will give a clue.
- Hoping for Ferrari and McLaren to properly deliver with the slow and medium turns here and challenge Redbull.
- The USP of this track is the speed from T6 all the way to T11, with a 'braking turn kink' T9-T10. Will be interesting to see who loses speed the least through 9-10. (btw, when i look at the track map at the start of this thread, the T6 to T11 is a huge DRS zone, was this the way it has always been ? something feels odd; did they add an extra zone here somewhere?)