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Some say Horner said in post-qualifying show that the gearbox was a scheduled change to have two in the pool. Maybe it's safe after all
That was in his interview with F1TV. He said that it was all part of the plan to have 2 gearboxes in the pool and was going to happen regardless.
Weight savings are a challenge for everyone, not just Ferrari. That's the only explanation for Ferrari and RBR being so unreliable at the start of the year that I can come up with.
Thats nonsense. Peak torques are not engine related.
There's something else acting upon the driveshaft?
The track
Hitting a curb at speed induces far more peak torque an angine ever can
Also a bad gearshift blocking the rears at speed genetates much more torque an engine ever can.
I'd have to think about that; hitting a kerb results mostly in wheel travel and tire deformation. You're saying it also translates to an unusual amount of braking/accel of the angular velocity of the wheel? As for downshift, the tire ultimately can only act against the engine via the transmission; the transmission doesn't provide the braking regardless of quality of the shift or what gear it's in.
Max devenitly knows that checo is The wdc rival. This could be interesting when both Driver try to get The Point.
It isn’t going to get interesting at all. Perez is bang average, and Max is going to walk to another title. Going to be painful, and tedious listening to pundits trying to make out Perez can challenge.
Honestly, for once I'm amazed at Perez' race pace. I wasn't expecting him to be able to contain verstappen in the slightest. That's assuming both cars were indeed healthy, but for now I'm I'll give perez the credit. I'll go over both onboards in coming days to see how races unfolded for both. What we saw today was finally "the" Perez that was hired from racing point. I think this win ranks higher than all his previous ones, maybe even Sakhir 2020. This was the first time he was able to go head to head on pure race against Ver. Maybe Ver had a tenth on him at most.
As for car itself, I'd say 0.8-1s advantage over AM, 1s+ vs merc and rest. Obviously it's completely impossible to defend against DRSed RB on this track.
