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

[chrisc90]

Something like this. Obviously with a wider white line to start with.


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Tyres/strategies for today.

So Norris will have to go for M-H-H ?

Russell said it's on the edge between one and two stops. I'd think Norris will try to go for one only.

Suicide mission if you ask me. You will have no pace at the end of the race. 2021 and 2022 were 2 stop races.

[Spoutnik]

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Tyres/strategies for today.

So Norris will have to go for M-H-H ?

Russell said it's on the edge between one and two stops. I'd think Norris will try to go for one only.

Hmm, then I wonder what Verstappen & Hamilton will do
Ferrari will probably be unable to go for the one stopper

[chrisc90]

For what its worth.

I think after yesterday, its safe to assume that Lewis isnt going to be doing 1:41's on the hard tyre like he did in practice. I think that run was on much lower fuel, as someone pointed out after practice.

I'd say the 1:42's (mid-high) will be somewhat representative of the time expected on the hard tyre stint which will drop down to the 1:40's as the race goes on before dropping back onto the medium and doing the 1:39's we seen yesterday.

Id imagine laps 2,4,6 from Verstappen were on 'low' fuel, especially since the hard is in the 1:37s at that point. Remember we didnt see that sort of pace on the medium tyre at the end of the sprint yesterday.

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Seems temperature forecast has crept back up above 30C

[Wouter]

His first win tonight would be great!!

[dans79]

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Tyres/strategies for today.

Mcl is kinda screwed with only one new set of mediums.

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Tyres/strategies for today.

Mcl is kinda screwed with only one new set of mediums.

M-H-H works fine here and Mcl always gets the harder compounds working better than others

In other news Haas will start from pit with new setup on both cars

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[Wouter]

You have to change X.com into the old twitter.com to get the tweet here.

[chrisc90]

And Aston will both start too from the pitlane. One car on the old Qatar spec floor to compare the two over race distance

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And Aston will both start too from the pitlane. One car on the old Qatar spec floor to compare the two over race distance

Notably Alonso on the old package nepotism at the highest level

[dans79]

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Tyres/strategies for today.

Mcl is kinda screwed with only one new set of mediums.

M-H-H works fine here and Mcl always gets the harder compounds working better than others

yea, but with only one set of softs, they could be pretty vulnerable to an inoppertune safety car!

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yea, but with only one set of softs, they could be pretty vulnerable to an inoppertune safety car!

Good point

[Mogster]

And Aston will both start too from the pitlane. One car on the old Qatar spec floor to compare the two over race distance

Notably Alonso on the old package nepotism at the highest level

I wonder if he’s phoned Audi yet, the Andretti’s…

[Juzh]

Joining the game of potato footage of max in Q2.

Max was perfectly on the white line there! No violation!

It’s pretty clear that 1 Angstrom of his wheel is touching the white line! It’s “on the edge of the rules” not over it as always with Max!

Fortunately this one is a much clearer violation, but "because it's hamilton" nothing happened:


Again ferrari just letting it slide, same as in Qatar when russell got away with it.. If i'm Vasseur I'm probably protesting race result, even if it doesnt make a difference with the shitty 5s penalty.