Lewis on him vs George and the damage from clashing with Perez.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hami ... 524805/
You'd hope so. They should hopefully understand exactly where the problem lies with their car by now. I think if they dont bring a floor this season, they will put all their issues down to the chassis. which does seem a little far fetched given they cant control the bouncing (as well) when they stick the downforce on.Luscion wrote: ↑24 Sep 2023, 18:51Rumor is their Austin upgrade includes a new floor so hopefully they've found a solution to the problem
When the cat's away, the mice will play
Regarding the no big recruitment thing, I don't think that's true. Toto has said they've been grabbing RedBull employees constantly (and from other teams) this year, it's just that they don't talk about it, hell I'm sure the only reason the media found of they managed to get Redbull's COO was because she was spotted in Merc attire walking with Toto in Bahrain. They even made a play to grab Newey, which let's be honest was never going to happen but they still tried.maygun wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023, 03:35One race Toto is missing and boys are fighting with each other.
Fun aside, what worries me about Merc is I do not see any reason they will be better than any of the current competitors (Ferrari, MCL, maybe even Aston) next year.
- No new infrastructure, no new tools
- No new big technical name (I dont know if James Allison counts as he was involved already with the previous two cars to some extent as well), even for other roles there was no big recruitment operation.
- This year no new bits that even close to innovative. All the new parts, suspension, sidepods, wings etc. were not something very different from than rest of the field,
- The engine side would be very similar as well due to freezes,
Probably the 3-4 teams again will be competing for the second place next year, which makes me sad and annoyed for the future years of F1.
I wonder if that comes at the expense of experience or knowledge. (As a generalisation rather than team specific)
Of course. You can get offered the same job in indycar for twice the pay due to the cost cap. There is brain drain from F1 happening
was just looking at the best pit stop of every race so far this season. we have rbr mclaren and ferrari. but no Merc.ringo wrote: ↑24 Sep 2023, 17:54It will be a tall order for hamilton to close 33 points to Perez. It can be done with a few podiums and perez typically u der performing. But the mclarens seem to have the podium locked out.
Ferrari do have the car that deserves P2 in the constructors but as you listed above there have been many issues that set them back in terms of points. I think Vasseur's making his mark now and the team os making less errors
They are rarely doing sub 3 seconds pit stops since last year.CHT wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023, 15:44was just looking at the best pit stop of every race so far this season. we have rbr mclaren and ferrari. but no Merc.ringo wrote: ↑24 Sep 2023, 17:54It will be a tall order for hamilton to close 33 points to Perez. It can be done with a few podiums and perez typically u der performing. But the mclarens seem to have the podium locked out.
Ferrari do have the car that deserves P2 in the constructors but as you listed above there have been many issues that set them back in terms of points. I think Vasseur's making his mark now and the team os making less errors