2023 Qatar Grand Prix - Lusail, Oct 06 - 08

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It should normally be better inside the track (that's what Jon Noble tweeted, at least), but not ideal to set up the car for the entire weekend, for sure. Also because of limited tires available for practice, due to expected high deg and track evolution.

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06 Oct 2023, 13:40
It should normally be better inside the track (that's what Jon Noble tweeted, at least), but not ideal to set up the car for the entire weekend, for sure. Also because of limited tires available for practice, due to expected high deg and track evolution.
Gonna be chaos for sure. I wonder if some of the top teams will try to use mediums in some quali sessions with the lack of low speed..

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06 Oct 2023, 13:43
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06 Oct 2023, 13:40
It should normally be better inside the track (that's what Jon Noble tweeted, at least), but not ideal to set up the car for the entire weekend, for sure. Also because of limited tires available for practice, due to expected high deg and track evolution.
Gonna be chaos for sure. I wonder if some of the top teams will try to use mediums in some quali sessions with the lack of low speed..
would need to double check the rules, but I don't think it's allowed?! Softs only for Quali, M-M-S for the shootout, as far as I remember.

edit: I just had another look, and it seems like they can run whatever they want in Quali, but need to keep two new sets of mediums to be allowed to participate in SQ1/SQ2

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Yea it's not about not being allowed to but simply not having enough sets, especially with the race in mind.

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06 Oct 2023, 14:17
Yea it's not about not being allowed to but simply not having enough sets, especially with the race in mind.
it's actually an old rule I was referring to. In 2021 only soft tyres were allowed during Qualifying at sprint weekends.

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05 Oct 2023, 23:47
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05 Oct 2023, 13:48
Max df with gurney flap for RB, Merc and Ferrari I think..

Can't say anything about BWs yet

No dramatic intent but can someone explain to me how are those RBR and Mercedes wings legal?

Wasn't the idea of the rounded rear wing that you would stop generating vortices and reduce the efficiency of the wing to help the following car? They basically reintroduced the side plate on the rear wing and even started putting little DF generation surfaces on the sides.
It’s the same as with the front wing endplates.
The meet the letter of the regulation (the surface continuation radii comply where the surface is continuous), but stomp all over the intent.
The only way that I can see these kind of developments disappear is for a standard supply endplate to be issued. Doesn’t really sit nicely with me, but there you go.
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Wouldn't be surprised if someone loses the car against those gusts. A disturbed lone FP session will be disastrous for setup work. Hopefully nobody goes off.

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Merc found a nice setup?

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dialtone wrote:
06 Oct 2023, 07:24
Oh well, remembered incorrectly.

But yeah, i didn’t forget that other loophole :), that’s why they became British instead of staying indian.
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CaribouBread wrote:Wouldn't be surprised if someone loses the car against those gusts. A disturbed lone FP session will be disastrous for setup work. Hopefully nobody goes off.
Not saying it will be Austria 2.0, but I predict a lot of track limits, judging from FP1 so far.

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CaribouBread wrote:Wouldn't be surprised if someone loses the car against those gusts. A disturbed lone FP session will be disastrous for setup work. Hopefully nobody goes off.
Not saying it will be Austria 2.0, but I predict a lot of track limits, judging from FP1 so far.
It seems like it will be worse than Austria.
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FOM really are dirty for how they have handled screen shots on F1TV....
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Mario Isola is saying that the track surface is not very good. The ageing process used doesn't seem to have panned out