Courtesy of a PU that was so far ahead, with oil burning trick that no one else figured out until late 2017.JPBD1990 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:32Mercedes ironically 2016-2017Andres125sx wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:31Mercedes struggling makes me afraid about 2022... looks like they stopped developing this car long ago, much sooner than any other.
Some dominating team kept dominating after a huge rule change in F1 previously?
Literally never proven that they burned oil. Ferrari were the only team found with an extra oil tank.Ryar wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:43Courtesy of a PU that was so far ahead, with oil burning trick that no one else figured out until late 2017.JPBD1990 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:32Mercedes ironically 2016-2017Andres125sx wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:31Mercedes struggling makes me afraid about 2022... looks like they stopped developing this car long ago, much sooner than any other.
Some dominating team kept dominating after a huge rule change in F1 previously?
The rear floor rule change has massively hampered Mercedes. It's given the championship to Red Bull.
Agree, i wondered why they didn't use the QR code. Although tbf the whole lateral flow test is an honour system anyway (for those rewarding: you have to enter the result into the govt website yourself)Starkblood80 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:16I was at Goodwood on the Friday, I cant say they were very particular at the gate I went in, all I did was hold my phone up with the covid pass, they didn't ask for ID or scan the QR code, pretty lax to be honest.
They have just one practice to test the updates and no more practice before qualifying. Why on earth would they be sandbagging?qatmix wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 16:43Interesting first (and only) practice. Even if the Mercs are sandbagging, I cannot believe they are going to make up for the seven tenths they are behind.
Really pleased to see Lando up there, poor guy has been through a lot, so this will hopefully help him put some of that behind him. So far he is my driver of the season.
Mercedes introduced their final engine way earlier than anyone would consider and therefore wasn't subject to this rule(at least in 2017).
If I’m not mistaken they changed several engines so they didn’t had to follow those rules for the 2017 season
Both HAM and BOT were running in low 1.30`, with the former a couple of tenths faster
That's what it looked like to me as well. The soft runs looked like they were just trying to figure out a soft set-up, and might have had extra fuel onboard.atanatizante wrote: ↑16 Jul 2021, 18:23Both HAM and BOT were running in low 1.30`, with the former a couple of tenths faster
VER was doing a 5 stint on softs doing high 1.32` and PER did a 5 stint on hard tyres doing middle 1.33`
Seems to me that Merc was doing most of their work for the Sunday race setup ...
The last time Mercedes took a pole position was in Spain, the 4th race, we are now at race 10. And on a 64 second lap in Austria they were 2 tenths behind Verstappen, that's nearly 0.3% which is quite a sizeable gap. Perhaps P4 is pessimistic rather, they will be fighting with Norris and Perez again for the 2nd fastest qualifier. P1 in has almost become a formality for Verstappen bar a red flag or something along those lines.