2020 Austrian Grand Prix - Spielberg, 3-5 July

[Racer X]

Could Racing Point win a race this year? If Mercedes hits trouble at a race they could be in with a shout.

If Racing Point turns their focus entirely to THIS season....

Could they be Champions?

Could Perez be Champion?

(No) but it's fun to ask'.

[basti313]

Pink Merc has scary race pace. RedBull serious balance issues. Horner and Marko looking concerned.

It is nothing else but the race pace from Merc last year. Just tells the same story about sandbagging...

[Racer X]

Pink Merc has scary race pace. RedBull serious balance issues. Horner and Marko looking concerned.

It is nothing else but the race pace from Merc last year. Just tells the same story about sandbagging...

Everyone could be going slow and Racing Point at full speed.

[PlatinumZealot]

Scary enough. Racing point always tend to be very conservative in FP. Everyone else was holding back by about 7 tenths... But RP was holding back by 1 second by my estimates.

[Moore77]

Pink Merc has scary race pace. RedBull serious balance issues. Horner and Marko looking concerned.

It is nothing else but the race pace from Merc last year. Just tells the same story about sandbagging...

So a Merc 2019 chassis is superior to rest of grid even in 2020! That's how much they held back in 2019.

[DChemTech]

Pink Merc has scary race pace. RedBull serious balance issues. Horner and Marko looking concerned.

It is nothing else but the race pace from Merc last year. Just tells the same story about sandbagging...

So a Merc 2019 chassis is superior to rest of grid even in 2020! That's how much they held back in 2019.

It's not the chassis - I think it's the secret rocket pods they attached to the airbox. Must be activating them every time the camera is pointing elsewhere

[dans79]

Ha, red bull will be protesting two or three times a race weekend if they are competing with racing point.

[dren]

I hope it is just set up issues for Red Bull at the moment.

[LM10]

Ha, red bull will be protesting two or three times a race weekend if they are competing with racing point.

I highly doubt Red Bull is going to compete with the W10. They’ll be clearly faster.

[dans79]

Ha, red bull will be protesting two or three times a race weekend if they are competing with racing point.

I highly doubt Red Bull is going to compete with the W10. They’ll be clearly faster.

I don't know, right now the RBR looks real twitchy.

[jumpingfish]

[JordanMugen]

Scary enough. Racing point always tend to be very conservative in FP. Everyone else was holding back by about 7 tenths... But RP was holding back by 1 second by my estimates.

Interesting. How do you figure the RP to be so fast?

[PlatinumZealot]

Scary enough. Racing point always tend to be very conservative in FP. Everyone else was holding back by about 7 tenths... But RP was holding back by 1 second by my estimates.

Interesting. How do you figure the RP to be so fast?

Some napkin maths.
Compared last years FP1 times and how the teams ramped up in subsequent sessions.
Of course if Ferrari and RedBull has issues its all out of the window.

[Mansell89]

Anyone think the Renault looked very neat and tidy today under Danny Ric? I was quietly impressed with them in testing and it carried through to today.

The Ferrari is a strange one- reminds me a little of the 2017 McLaren - it seems to have downforce but might be a little draggy.

That said, Seb posted a good lap all things considered.

McLaren were pretty solid too.

All depends on how they go when the engines are turned up and the track temps rise but so far outside of Mercedes it looks very tight between the rest.

[vas_04614]

Scary enough. Racing point always tend to be very conservative in FP. Everyone else was holding back by about 7 tenths... But RP was holding back by 1 second by my estimates.

Interesting. How do you figure the RP to be so fast?

Some napkin maths.
Compared last years FP1 times and how the teams ramped up in subsequent sessions.
Of course if Ferrari and RedBull has issues its all out of the window.

I just looked at last year data. RP improved by 0.4sec while RB improved by 1.0 sec (diff of best times) from P2 to P3.

https://www.formula1.com/en/results.htm ... ice-2.html

So yeah lets wait for tomorrow for better picture.