2025 United States Grand Prix - COTA, Oct 17 - 19

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COTA has now been announced to be another heat hazard weekend.

Have there been any statements from Singapore how/if the added weight affected the balances of the cars? The Mercedes performance came as a bit of a surprise, so I was wondering if it may slightly advantage them.

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COTA has now been announced to be another heat hazard weekend.

Have there been any statements from Singapore how/if the added weight affected the balances of the cars? The Mercedes performance came as a bit of a surprise, so I was wondering if it may slightly advantage them.

average weather day in texas

[f1isgood]

COTA has now been announced to be another heat hazard weekend.

Have there been any statements from Singapore how/if the added weight affected the balances of the cars? The Mercedes performance came as a bit of a surprise, so I was wondering if it may slightly advantage them.

Should be a McLaren domination since you can pass easily in the race.

Mercedes pace isn't surprising in my view. They are very good at stop and go type tracks. Canada, Baku, Vegas, Singapore they have been good these regulations, relatively speaking.

I think if they can fight for the win at COTA then they have done something solid with the car. Very interesting to see where every team lines up.

[Matt-A]

The milky bars are on Kimi

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Should be a McLaren domination since you can pass easily in the race.

Is passing easily in the room with us...

Call him Picasso because this was a masterpiece.

[rbirules]

Should be a McLaren domination since you can pass easily in the race.

Is passing easily in the room with us...

Honestly (and not trying to derail the thread), I can't think of a single track where you can "pass easily in the race", without a top car being way out of position, especially since they shortened the DRS zones in Spa and Baku.

McLaren have been able to pass, or come through the field more easily, when they are behind slower cars (after a poor qualifying) at tracks where tire wear and/or temps are very high and their ability to take care of their tires gives them a significant pace advantage. On the rare occasions that the McLarens were behind other cars they were able to overtake them on track at Miami (both on Max, first stint IIRC), Spain (Lando on Max, first stint), Silverstone (Oscar on Max in the wet) and Zandvoort (Lando on Max, first stint). Those aforementioned characteristics (hot, high tire wear/deg) could very well be present in Austin this weekend.

They couldn't pass front running cars in Japan (Max), Jeddah (Max, no need with a penalty coming), Imola (Oscar nor Lando could get past Max), Monza (Max, after the start), Canada (Kimi kept 3rd), Baku (Lando didn't gain a place after qualifying 7th), and even Singapore (after the start). Some of those are more surprising (Baku), than others (Singapore, 3rd and 4th after first 3 turns).

Long story short, if you're not starting at the front, it hasn't been that easy, even for McLaren drivers, to pass on track in this final year of these regulations, but this track and weather forecast just might give McLaren its ideal conditions to do so.

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Have we seen that wing before on the Mclaren?

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McLaren is going to be very hard to beat in the race when the temperature is this hot. Like last year it will probably require someone to get in between in the first stint to let the leader get away.

Quali should be interesting nonetheless.

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Have we seen that wing before on the Mclaren?

Yea. Spain FP1

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