2024 Aston Martin | Aramco F1 Team

[KimiRai]

Italians say they expect a qualitative leap for Aston in China. We'll see. It's the same source who first mentioned the Suzuka upgrades (at least from what I saw), so far they've been reliable on AM.

Would be interested reading about this, is there a link to this article?

Its that article a couple posts back .
https://www.funoanalisitecnica.com/2024 ... -cina.html

[diffuser]

what do they mean by making "anti-roll bars and shock absorbers slightly stiffer,".
will that help with the front end?

They'll replace them with stiffer ones. The aim is to help the car as a whole.

[-wkst-]

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alon ... /10599896/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/asto ... /10599881/

Krack confirmed the deadline regarding the contract of ALO.

ALO himself made an interesting comment that it's sometimes a problem that he can drive around a problem, being less sensitive, and "needs" the help of his teammate (maybe also a comment to butter up the Stroll family...).

[zoroastar]

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alon ... /10599896/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/asto ... /10599881/

Krack confirmed the deadline regarding the contract of ALO.

ALO himself made an interesting comment that it's sometimes a problem that he can drive around a problem, being less sensitive, and "needs" the help of his teammate (maybe also a comment to butter up the Stroll family...).

it has to be a little uncomfortable for him, waxing the floor with the bosses son week in and week out. im sure there is some truth to it, but there are a lot of drivers that can help develop the car while still scoring points every weekend. but whatever keeps the lights on haha

[f1universe]

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alon ... /10599896/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/asto ... /10599881/

Krack confirmed the deadline regarding the contract of ALO.

ALO himself made an interesting comment that it's sometimes a problem that he can drive around a problem, being less sensitive, and "needs" the help of his teammate (maybe also a comment to butter up the Stroll family...).

Maybe it's true and to some degree makes sense but sound really strange like when he said that Stroll was champion material or something like that.

[Wouter]

[Nikosar]

AMR for the China GP :

Most of teams opted for a medium-high downforce specification

The Chinese GP features a 1,4 km full-throttle section. The TOP Speed DRS of the AMR is superior to the the MERCs and McLaren. Despite that, Tom Mccullough thinks the margins are very, very close between the 3 teams.

AMR should score big point but this SPRINT format it will be tricky, any minor damage will ruin the whole week-end.

[KimiRai]

Well let's hope the car works, if McLaren is not so strong here we could be in the fight with them, hopefully I haven't jinxed it

[RedNEO]

Yeah let’s hope they can extract more performance from the previous updates once it’s more dialled in

[Waz]

Apparently, Stroll had a more loaded rear wing for qualifying and the race, which explains his frustration with top speed.

https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-as ... /10598610/

https://cdn-9.motorsport.com/images/mgl ... -stro.webp

Also this:

I hope it’s not another year of this. How come red bulls upgrades general correlate with what they’re getting in windtunnel compared to most other teams

I don't think the article is saying they had correlation trouble. I think it's saying the effect of the upgrades will suit Shanghai and Miami more than Suzuka.

Which is quite a sensible thing, because tracks like Miami and Shanghai are more common on the calendar.

Smart to bring them earlier to Suzuka then for correlation and set up.

[PapayaFan481]

Who Knows, if Honda Build a amazing engine Alonso may end up with more than 3 titles

First things first though, the team still hasn't won a single race

Not even Brawn GP had won a single race.

Hungary 2006 is calling (yes different name, but same team in essence)

[AR3-GP]

This team knows what victory looks like (Perez, Bahrain)

[Andres125sx]

Not even Brawn GP had won a single race.

Winning before existing is quite dificult

This act of doing everything calmly and progressively is useless. We need to start to win immediately and regardless of everything.

This act of doing everything calmly is not a decision, but how things work. None said "I don´t wanna win yet"

Brawn GP was the exception, not the norm. It was a new ruleset, they found a loophole and did exploit it perfectly. But that was a rare exception, no other team in all F1 history won at their debut, so using a rare exception as a reference, can only cause loads of frustration

There´s no stupid people in F1, all teams have very competent people even if armchair experts usually think otherwise, so no matter how good is your strategy and work, there will be several other teams with very good strategy and work too, and in those scenarios, experience is key.

That is the reason no new teams win titles in normal conditions, they need to earn some experience fighting at the top

They also said this about the AMR23 and at the start of the world championship it was second force. For me this reasoning doesn't exist, if you have capable people you win. Newey is a case of winning everywhere he went (Williams, McLaren and Redbull). You don't need any experience at the top, you need good engineers who make you the best car, end of story. Progression does not exist, as demonstrated by amr23 and even more so by McL60.

Ignoring the horse will not save you from his kick tough

[-wkst-]

Good job once again from ALO, awful from STR once again. Although I think ALO was very conservative, didn't want to risk a lot for a sprint Q. Also with the deployment, 3 push laps were probably too much.

[MichaelxScarn]

Well, that was some interesting qualy. P3, might actualy be even a little better than P2, so i’m really looking forward to tomorrow.