2023 United States Grand Prix - COTA, Oct 20 - 22

[InsaneX_Badger]

God I hope the three teams behind RB have similar race pace

[Sevach]

The white line was enlarged indeed.
Mercedes and Mclaren gain a lot going to the soft.

[chrisc90]

I missed the widened line in T19 in my clip above....literally a minute after I posted the clip twitter lit up with the widened lines.

Seems the RB is very strong on the medium tyre.

[organic]

The white line was enlarged indeed.
Mercedes and Mclaren gain a lot going to the soft.

That surprises me as usually McLaren work very nicely on the harder compounds

[organic]

[f1jcw]

The white line was enlarged indeed.
Mercedes and Mclaren gain a lot going to the soft.

That surprises me as usually McLaren work very nicely on the harder compounds

If Merc and Mc struggle to put heat in the mediums quickly it might be a benefit in the race.

[ringo]

Amyone changed their minds on the RB19 after this sesion. I know it makes things more exciting to pretend the car is slightly weak. But today is enough to show that Max simply did a better job today than he did yesterday.
He makes mistakes like any other driver. Even today's pirouette is enough proof of that. He doesn't need to be defended everytime someone else does a better job.

[AR3-GP]

@GrizzleBoy another trip to Qatar? hehe

Leclerc on pseudo pole then.

Edit: George seems to go backwards every time the car takes a step forwards.

I think even if Leclerc doesn't get ahead by T1 which he really should, then he will be past on the back straight quite easily. The Ferrari has been a rocketship on the straights here.

[ringo]

Is russel crying?
Whats up with this kid!

[falonso81]

Secondly, it's hilarious how many people talk here about drivers going outside track limits without understanding the rules.

Max was 99% out of track limits at T9 on his Q2 lap. I do not know how to post video or image but i rolled back F1 tv footage and saw it a couple of times. Unfortunately the camera is far away.
Edit: Sorry, its T11 i am talking about.

[f1jcw]

Secondly, it's hilarious how many people talk here about drivers going outside track limits without understanding the rules.

Max was 99% out of track limits at T9 on his Q2 lap. I do not know how to post video or image but i rolled back F1 tv footage and saw it a couple of times. Unfortunately the camera is far away.
Edit: Sorry, its T11 i am talking about.

They just need some magnetic strips and sensors
Humans can't be relied on

[Spoutnik]

Is russel crying?
Whats up with this kid!

Where did you see that ?

[organic]

Secondly, it's hilarious how many people talk here about drivers going outside track limits without understanding the rules.

Max was 99% out of track limits at T9 on his Q2 lap. I do not know how to post video or image but i rolled back F1 tv footage and saw it a couple of times. Unfortunately the camera is far away.
Edit: Sorry, its T11 i am talking about.

Post the image then

[search]

Amyone changed their minds on the RB19 after this sesion.

what reason would there be? The result is the same as yesterday: 4 teams within ~0.1s. This is obviously not normal for Red Bull.

[Sieper]

Amyone changed their minds on the RB19 after this sesion. I know it makes things more exciting to pretend the car is slightly weak. But today is enough to show that Max simply did a better job today than he did yesterday.
He makes mistakes like any other driver. Even today's pirouette is enough proof of that. He doesn't need to be defended everytime someone else does a better job.

It seems that whatever happens, you always find a reason to downplay what Max is doing. He made a mistake yesterday into turn 1, locked up and from that point onwards was taking every risk. Too much like he said and he missed turn 19. I think this does show how well Max can judge just how close he is to the limits these days. Maybe he can still learn a bit better to than not take that ultimate risk and get a f.e. About a P3 starting place that was in the cards with 1,5 tenth lost. But that is not what you do in qualy, at least, not Max and likely in this phase of the season that is defendable. In any case, does that show the car is so easy to drive? Today there were engine/shifting drivability issues, wheelspin out of turn 1 for example. This is a thing that has been there with the Honda for years.

If max does well it is the it’s the car playbook. We don’t even need to wait 5 minutes for that. If he does not he himself is ofcourse not as good as most think. Whatever happens with you he almost can’t win.