2025 Canadian Grand Prix - Montreal, June 13 - 15

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Isola was predicting a two-stop race at least, but Leclerc did 14 laps on his first set of Softs in qualifying. To me it doesn't really look like there's much deg this year.

[venkyhere]

Maybe the Td impacted Mclaren afterall? Especially weak lap from Norris, and both Russell and Verstappen beat Piastri. Breaking stability is especially important here, more than in Barcelona. So it could have made the car harder to control.

Nothing of the sort. The only 'ace' of Mclaren that can come to the party here is traction. This track doesn't have long corners, so their 'other' typical advantages (sharp front end, stable rear, ability to run as low as possible) are absent on this particular track where the kerbs ask for higher static ride height. Make no mistake, the MCL39 was still a front row car for this track ; just that today showed up their drivers for lacking that 'final 0.5%' when it comes to putting together a near perfect lap in Q3. Guys like Verstappen and Russel thrive on coming alive for that white-knuckled lap in Q3. LeClerc too could have delivered a stunner Q3 lap (purple S1) but according to him, was 'disturbed' by dirty air from Hadjar cooling down ahead (not sure whether it's true, could well be driver error).

[erudite450]

It's a clear one stopper except there's a late SC/VSC.

[Mostlyeels]

Albon loses half of his bodywork on the straight. Don't think I've seen this before.

Toro Rosso losing its engine cover? Verstappen I think?

Well done to George, great lap.

mmh, was that around the same time when they just lost their front suspension? That was a super fragile car back then. Also some of the first Newey Red Bulls.

Buemi losing his front wheels? A little earlier I think.

[cplchanb]

Its going to be even hotter tomorrow... will the marshmallow c6s last for merc and max? They burnt through all their meds

[Paa]

Its going to be even hotter tomorrow... will the marshmallow c6s last for merc and max? They burnt through all their meds

I don't really get your logic? They have to take their used softs, because they also used their mediums.
Of course this is a slight disadvantage to those who have brand new mediums, but it won't drive their tyre choices for the race.

[LHamilton]

These onboard cameras need to be --- fixed. Stop these stabilizing/gyro-cams. They are horrendous. They project weird movements and induces motion sickness. As terrible of an implementation as sprint races. Makes watching onboard not a very pleseant experience.

[Spacepace]

These onboard cameras need to be --- fixed. Stop these stabilizing/gyro-cams. They are horrendous. They project weird movements and induces motion sickness. As terrible of an implementation as sprint races. Makes watching onboard not a very pleseant experience.

I agree just go back to original tcam and keep wider lense with no motion correction

[langedweil]

Only 6 pages in the race thread in the night after qualifying whilst the holiday season hasn't even started .. something about that seems to tell me that many ppl are no longer overly enthousiastic about the season.

[SB15]

Only 6 pages in the race thread in the night after qualifying whilst the holiday season hasn't even started .. something about that seems to tell me that many ppl are no longer overly enthousiastic about the season.

What does that gotta do with anything? people got lives outside of this you know

[Seerix]

Maybe the Td impacted Mclaren afterall? Especially weak lap from Norris, and both Russell and Verstappen beat Piastri. Breaking stability is especially important here, more than in Barcelona. So it could have made the car harder to control.

Nothing of the sort. The only 'ace' of Mclaren that can come to the party here is traction. This track doesn't have long corners, so their 'other' typical advantages (sharp front end, stable rear, ability to run as low as possible) are absent on this particular track where the kerbs ask for higher static ride height. Make no mistake, the MCL39 was still a front row car for this track ; just that today showed up their drivers for lacking that 'final 0.5%' when it comes to putting together a near perfect lap in Q3. Guys like Verstappen and Russel thrive on coming alive for that white-knuckled lap in Q3. LeClerc too could have delivered a stunner Q3 lap (purple S1) but according to him, was 'disturbed' by dirty air from Hadjar cooling down ahead (not sure whether it's true, could well be driver error).

I don't get it, didn't you say it's McLaren track earlier? Or did I misunderstand your post?

10-11 being the only 'interesting' corners in an otherwise McLaren snoozefest of a track.

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Haven't seen an official list yet, but this should normally be what teams have left for the race:

[venkyhere]

Maybe the Td impacted Mclaren afterall? Especially weak lap from Norris, and both Russell and Verstappen beat Piastri. Breaking stability is especially important here, more than in Barcelona. So it could have made the car harder to control.

Nothing of the sort. The only 'ace' of Mclaren that can come to the party here is traction. This track doesn't have long corners, so their 'other' typical advantages (sharp front end, stable rear, ability to run as low as possible) are absent on this particular track where the kerbs ask for higher static ride height. Make no mistake, the MCL39 was still a front row car for this track ; just that today showed up their drivers for lacking that 'final 0.5%' when it comes to putting together a near perfect lap in Q3. Guys like Verstappen and Russel thrive on coming alive for that white-knuckled lap in Q3. LeClerc too could have delivered a stunner Q3 lap (purple S1) but according to him, was 'disturbed' by dirty air from Hadjar cooling down ahead (not sure whether it's true, could well be driver error).

I don't get it, didn't you say it's McLaren track earlier? Or did I misunderstand your post?

10-11 being the only 'interesting' corners in an otherwise McLaren snoozefest of a track.

I expected the 'slow corner traction' advantage of McLaren to be massive , just like how it has been in any slow corner encountered this year. And it might well have been the case here too, unfortunately we didn't get to see the McLaren on the C5 in Q3.

[HungarianRacer]

I expected the 'slow corner traction' advantage of McLaren to be massive , just like how it has been in any slow corner encountered this year. And it might well have been the case here too, unfortunately we didn't get to see the McLaren on the C5 in Q3.

The C5's and C6's performace over one lap have been virtually identical all weekend, bizarrely it were C6 runners who were often finishing their laps stronger, Charles would have been in the pole fight on them with a clean lap (or could have sloted into 2nd place at the very least), there definitely wasn't 2 tenths+ of extra pace in the C5s...

[selvam_e2002]

1st lap crash between Russel and Max. Alonso in P3. Mclaren 1 and 2.