Nice video of Pierre Gasly talking about STR13 as he drives F1 2018 the Game
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TkrmGALRVoQ
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I hope so. But remember, higher performance, higher stress to the engine component. Plus impact from strolled also may lead to some micro crack. Luckily STR dont have to pay since they have free engine from honda and its hartley car, not gasly. Based on performance alone he would not get any point in this race except unfortunate even happen at the front of the grid. I would say next year engine would several KG heavier than 2018 one to improve its reliability. Honda always working in methodological approach to solve its problem and hence expect reliability issue every time they change the design and improve the large chunk of performance.
Issues in 2017 were way way deeper than just tighter packaging. There was a very very lengthy and detailed interview posted on reddit (And here in Honda engine thread i think) that proves that. But yea, Newey has historically being a bit too aggressive on packaging.
Nice FP report. Impressed with the level of detail they provide. Hope they give Hartley a good run plan or else he will be on the back foot for qualification too."It's always exciting to come to a new track on the Formula 1 calendar, and it's great to be back in France after so many years away. Since it's a new track, there's an awful lot of pre-event work that the team has done across all factories in Faenza, Bicester, Milton Keynes and Sakura, to come here as well prepared as possible – which overall has paid off. We had a minor segment issue on the first run, meaning the track didn't necessarily match all of our simulation work, therefore the energy management wasn't optimum, so we lost a little bit of track time because of that. The team recovered well and we managed to get back out within the 40 minutes. Unfortunately, luck was against us, because we then had an issue with the power in the garage, which meant we lost all of the telemetry and timing, but most importantly we lost the radio. So coming up to the end of the 40 minutes, we weren't able to communicate with the drivers that they needed to box. Brendon luckily came in, but Pierre was focussed on getting the timed laps in, and unfortunately we broke the 40-minute P40 tyre rule. After that we had a good session, being a new track you want to focus on lots of laps, and you also need to complete more setup work than normal. Although we covered a large amount of pre-event work it's not quite the same as being on the track and experiencing the track temperatures and the wind, so FP1 was spent mainly focussed on setup work and trying to find an optimum balance. In FP2 we made some further improvements to the car, but the most significant thing was the wind changed 180 degrees between sessions, so what was a headwind became a tailwind and the balance changed completely. The wind was more like it should be on Sunday, so FP2 was much more representative conditions of what we will have in the race and that's positive. In terms of our tyre choice, Brendon had the harder of the three tyres for his long run, that meant his first qualifying practice was on the harder tyre, so that compromised him slightly going into his qualifying run on the ultrasoft, because he'd done his warmup on the soft compound – which is quite a step in grip. Therefore, he wasn't able to maximise the full potential of the car. On the other hand, Pierre did his baseline run on the supersofts and progressed onto the ultrasofts, and managed to extract much more from the car, setting a competitive lap time. We've had a PU issue on Brendon's car which is still to be fully understood, and that ended his session early. Unfortunately, he'd only just gone out on the soft tyre, so we will head into Sunday with limited understanding on that tyre. That will have a bit of an impact on our understanding but shouldn't be significant. We will take all of the data gathered today and come up with the best strategy for Sunday."
We have to look Gasly's engine for reliability situation of engine. It is not perfect as Ferrari or Mercedes as we all know. This is its second race without any none race sessions. Lets look how many race it will live
This is the PU that suffer the accident last race. Even with the inspection, somethings are almost impossible to check without breaking the FIA seals.