How many times has that been mentioned this season so far. If I had a £1 for every time I’d probably be able to retire and live comfortably.
What relationship has JPM got with Mercedes/AMG/Brackley?
…Again!!!
There was a rumour about the PU which, of course, we won't know about until we see the cars on track and even then mostly likely not until the race itself.chrisc90 wrote: ↑25 Aug 2022, 11:22How many times has that been mentioned this season so far. If I had a £1 for every time I’d probably be able to retire and live comfortably.
They have a new rear wing that’s for certain, but don’t think I’ve seen anything else tweeted yet by the paddock media. Unless they keeping it hidden until FP
Mentioned by who? The team? Or the hype train created by the press every race week? If you're listening to the team, then you'd have £3: Barcelona for the porpoising fix, Silverstone for performance, and the phase 3 upgrade for Spa that's supposedly going to show us what the engine can do. Of course all teams will be doing this, so any dramatic increase will be at least partially obfuscated. Keep in mind, a huge upgrade doesn't necessarily mean you're going to leapfrog the competition when they're trying to do huge upgrades too. Merc has been notably transparent from the start on when to expect big upgrades and they've stuck by what they've said.
Of late, JPM has suddenly become Mercedes/Hamilton fan which makes me wonder if he is trying to cozy up with Mercedes to get his son sponsored/signed. Not sure if he has insider links that reveals such information.
Unless the team tell us, we'll likely never know unless they're obviously quicker in a straight line..
They would need to take new PU elements, so that's the first indication if they were to bring an upgrade.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Aug 2022, 12:51Unless the team tell us, we'll likely never know unless they're obviously quicker in a straight line..
Maybe they were using them whilst testing new components, thus saving the better tyres for the race?
Maybe. In my mind I was thinking testing in FP1 and knuckling-down readying for quali & the race in 2. The next pilot who ventured onto H was VET all the way down in 15th, just seems like a waste of a session running H given the tempsJust_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Aug 2022, 18:20Maybe they were using them whilst testing new components, thus saving the better tyres for the race?
