https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/234790/h ... night.htmlHamilton extended his contract at Mercedes a few days ago. He does see just work to do for his team: "There's lots of learning from today, and we will have a bit of work tonight to try and improve for Saturday - as we always manage to do. I know that the team will do great work overnight to improve the set-up and car balance so that we can be quicker tomorrow."
"It's been a messy day," Shovlin said after the first two free practice sessions at Monza. "Partly with red flags, but also because we don't have the car in a good place at the moment. That means we have a bit of work to do overnight to get the setup in the right place for the rest of the weekend," he continues.
Russell talks about his experience in the two free practice sessions: "The car was feeling reasonably good, but we have some improvements to make on the soft tyre. The high fuel pace was looking pretty strong, so the focus tomorrow will be on finding more speed for qualifying."
Hamilton actually said that FP1 was feeling really good. So they did roll off the truck well from the simulation tools. Then he says they made the car worse for FP2. Why that is (and it's becoming a pattern), we can't be sure.
Hypothetically speaking, if he were to win the F2 championship next year it would create a situation where he can’t race anywhere serious in 2024 without an F1 seat available.
Looked like night and day difference between George and Lewis through Ascari all through. Very nervous for Lewis.
What's troubling for Lewis tomorrow is he will likely need to use the medium and hard tires tomorrow, not that it looked any better on the softs.Tvetovnato wrote: ↑02 Sep 2023, 17:09Looked like night and day difference between George and Lewis through Ascari all through. Very nervous for Lewis.
Wild take here but I think he's going to get overtake the Williams within the first few laps. Didn't Max have problems during qualifying in Budapest because he set-up for the race? Could be the same for Lewis.Tvetovnato wrote: ↑02 Sep 2023, 18:01I think it will settle down as usual on high fuel, but progress will be almost impossible with that Williams ahead, at least in the first stint. Overcut and create a tyre offset will be the only way to move forward.