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[SSJ4]

The car ran well though? Seems weird to change it

[diffuser]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

That’s exactly it and can be seen the whole year already. They can also focus on slow corners in Budapest and don’t need to balance it with high speed corners like elsewhere, where the team is not good at.

Budapest is actually a fairly fast circuit, corner-wise.

It's always been a false myth that Monaco and Budapest were similar in characteristics. Not at all. Main comparison is that they're smaller tracks without much in the way of straights, encouraging very high downforce package. But that's about it. Monaco is a street track with most every corner being slow. Hungary is a smooth race track with tons of curvy, medium speed corners with plenty of fast changes of direction required.

Or in other words - aero matters a lot in Hungary, while much less so in Monaco.

The other trait they have in common is that it is very hard to pass at both tracks.

It's often been described as Monaco without the walls.

[diffuser]

The car ran well though? Seems weird to change it

Not much in the way of pictures from today anywhere. Even if there was,not sure how he'd know which floor.


This video shows they're running the same sidepods as yesterday ...

[FNTC]

Aston going out on track first on the second set in Q1, when the clouds are giving high track evolution. Let's hope they are fast enough for it to not matter...

[RedNEO]

Ok that last lap from Alonso made me sit up and pay attention. Almost 4 tenths faster than Stroll and only 0.070 slower than Piastri. Piastri made his lap later when the track was a bit quicker too. Alonso also 5 tenths faster than Verstappen! Incredible

[FNTC]

But new tires vs Piastri on olds maybe? Still good speed compared to last weekend.

[RedNEO]

But will we see all the other cars get way faster like always happens in Q2? Q3? I hope Aston keeps up with the pace in the next rounds. Both cars through

[TLof]

Alonso probably has reached the maximum with that lap like he usually does very early. Let's see what happens

[diffuser]

From F1 TV images, Aston seems to be running old sidepods. Confirmed they used 2 new sets of Softs in Q1.

[Rikrikrik]

Aston goes 100% power all the time, the other teams growing after. Alonso confirm this situation last week. Calm down, will be difficult to enter on Q3.

[RedNEO]

From F1 TV images, Aston seems to be running old sidepods. Confirmed they used 2 new sets of Softs in Q1.

If this what old sidepods can do chuck the new ones away

[FNTC]

Rain on parts of the track, this could get interesting.

[RedNEO]

Rain into the mix? Oooh boy

[diffuser]

First run in Q2 was on New softs.

[RedNEO]

Stroll going a bit early but maybe he feels comfortable on an empty track.