I am not. Apologies to everyone here on the Merc forum. It’s just that it baffles me that they can’t get to grips with this tyre/front/rear axle overheating at this stage of the regs. They are missing some expertise that they may have lost over the years in that area. Toto needs to recruit more technical personnel for that area of the car. They risk of bringing that issue to the W17.
Mercedes excluded due to lap times posted earlier in session, for what it's worth I think they are about 2-3 tenths off at most
Really the car is extremely sensitive to any significant temperature change, and only works on certain types of tracks when it’s low traction and power sensitive, that displays a major flaw in the aerodynamic department and also the mechanical department because of how numb it feels in the highspeed which I don’t know why?OverheatedTurbo wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 14:35I am not. Apologies to everyone here on the Merc forum. It’s just that it baffles me that they can’t get to grips with this tyre/front/rear axle overheating at this stage of the regs. They are missing some expertise that they may have lost over the years in that area. Toto needs to recruit more technical personnel for that area of the car. They risk of bringing that issue to the W17.
I really wish I could contradict your guys opinion but it’s the extremely sad realitySB15 wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 14:45Really the car is extremely sensitive to any significant temperature change, and only works on certain types of tracks when it’s low traction and power sensitive, that displays a major flaw in the aerodynamic department and also the mechanical department because of how numb it feels in the highspeed which I don’t know why?OverheatedTurbo wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 14:35I am not. Apologies to everyone here on the Merc forum. It’s just that it baffles me that they can’t get to grips with this tyre/front/rear axle overheating at this stage of the regs. They are missing some expertise that they may have lost over the years in that area. Toto needs to recruit more technical personnel for that area of the car. They risk of bringing that issue to the W17.
The Ground Effect era was a massive failure both in itself and for Mercedes. No matter what they tried, it just doesn’t work.
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Looks like Leclerc is going to drop another one to his 40 year old teammate. Who were the ppl saying he was beating hamilton by a larger margin than George again ?Chaithu.s23 wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 21:30It’s Max vs Rus vs Leclerc for 3rd in WDC.l81 wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 18:56The interesting point to me from a sportsmanship point of view.... according to speculation, Verstappen's performance clause is he must finish 3rd or higher? Otherwise he has a contract exit opportunity?
Max is currently 3rd place. George is currently 4th....
Should George try to beat Max in the drivers championship to the summer break? If George pushes and beat's Max, then that would mean Max could be a free agent and there is an opportunity to take George's seat!
Should George not push, and have some terrible results, in order to make his seat more difficult for Max? ....
What a conundrum to be in.....
Looking at the current car & driver performance, Leclerc is likely to get that 3rd. But it’s F1 anything can happen.
Merc-Russell struggle with Race Pace (Tyre Deg)
RB-Max struggle with the Car
Ferrari-Leclerc struggle with performance of the Car in Quali.
Points are given on Saturday? When does that start happening?TeamKoolGreen wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 17:07Looks like Leclerc is going to drop another one to his 40 year old teammate. Who were the ppl saying he was beating hamilton by a larger margin than George again ?Chaithu.s23 wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 21:30It’s Max vs Rus vs Leclerc for 3rd in WDC.l81 wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 18:56The interesting point to me from a sportsmanship point of view.... according to speculation, Verstappen's performance clause is he must finish 3rd or higher? Otherwise he has a contract exit opportunity?
Max is currently 3rd place. George is currently 4th....
Should George try to beat Max in the drivers championship to the summer break? If George pushes and beat's Max, then that would mean Max could be a free agent and there is an opportunity to take George's seat!
Should George not push, and have some terrible results, in order to make his seat more difficult for Max? ....
What a conundrum to be in.....
Looking at the current car & driver performance, Leclerc is likely to get that 3rd. But it’s F1 anything can happen.
Merc-Russell struggle with Race Pace (Tyre Deg)
RB-Max struggle with the Car
Ferrari-Leclerc struggle with performance of the Car in Quali.
George thrives in Qualy. To me, he is the best at it from the grid. Shame for LH/CL, they had the car for pole, but they bottled it. They got a car to challenge the front and move up, so I expect George to drop to P6.venkyhere wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 17:45Honestly, anyone from the McLarens, the Ferraris and Max could have finished on pole. All except one in that list made mistakes in their laps.
However, what I didn't expect was Russel to emerge P4. That was spectacular. It should hurt the ego of both HAM and LEC, that they are starting behind RUS, purely from their own mistakes (they only managed to match their Q2 laptimes in Q3)
