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[AR3-GP]

Max will have plenty to celebrate this weekend.
I’ll be amazed if he doesn’t win on Sunday

Yea this is his best track outside of Spa

He has been on the podium here every year since 2018 and was P4 in the Toro Rosso in 2015. Therefore, yes I would say it's a naturally good track for him.

[Sergej]

So this weekend it's win or fail, good to know

[f1isgood]

I will wait till Sunday. The car will be good, but I think it will be a McLaren win as everything plays into their strengths.

[Henk_v]

Arguably, Norris' point deficit is more difficult to overkomen than Verstappens. He is in equal machinery and can't exploit differences to his advantage.
We are going into T1 with a seething Piastry a desperate and insecure Norris and a Verstappen who knows how to start a bowling party and get away with it. Heck, Piastri out may be worth a 10 sec penalty

[pantherxxx]

Austin weather will be relatively modest on Sunday. Only 28 celsius at max, this good for Red Bull.

[stephen]

Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko has confirmed the team will decide its 2026 F1 driver line-ups after the Mexico City Grand Prix.

https://racingnews365.com/red-bull-fina ... ren-talent

I am having a feeling that we will see someone replacing Yuki for the 2026 season, but I am not sure which driver it would be.

[Paa]

Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko has confirmed the team will decide its 2026 F1 driver line-ups after the Mexico City Grand Prix.

https://racingnews365.com/red-bull-fina ... ren-talent

I am having a feeling that we will see someone replacing Yuki for the 2026 season, but I am not sure which driver it would be.

Hadjar seems obvious, no? I mean who else can you imagine?
There were some gossips about bringing Albon back, but it kind of went away quickly.

[f1isgood]

Arguably, Norris' point deficit is more difficult to overkomen than Verstappens. He is in equal machinery and can't exploit differences to his advantage.
We are going into T1 with a seething Piastry a desperate and insecure Norris and a Verstappen who knows how to start a bowling party and get away with it. Heck, Piastri out may be worth a 10 sec penalty

He just needs to only outqualify Oscar and start well. Everything will then work out as cool headed Oscar seems to be hot headed now.

Also, I don't think Piastri is as fast as Norris anyways not in the race. If Norris leads into Turn 1 it's over for Oscar.

Verstappen is also driving a slower car especially given the evidence of last week and I don't think anyone actually believes either drivers of the Orange card are actually as quick as Verstappen.

[f1isgood]

Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko has confirmed the team will decide its 2026 F1 driver line-ups after the Mexico City Grand Prix.

https://racingnews365.com/red-bull-fina ... ren-talent

I am having a feeling that we will see someone replacing Yuki for the 2026 season, but I am not sure which driver it would be.

Hadjar seems obvious, no? I mean who else can you imagine?
There were some gossips about bringing Albon back, but it kind of went away quickly.

I think Hadjar is the right move eventually but might be too early. That said it's generally true that either you have it or not.

I would stick with Lawson/Tsunoda for another year in the sense that have one of them drive the second car.

New regulations full reset so we all start from ground 0.

[AR3-GP]

FP1 Race sim

[Valeo]

Looked like Max played it a bit too safe in S1. McLaren looks strong in S2, not sure if that's only engine modes.

[f1isgood]

Car was probably running too low. We will lose some performance I suspect come sprint qualifying.

[search]

Car was probably running too low. We will lose some performance I suspect come sprint qualifying.

they can still raise the car after the sprint, if it's a problem. Usually shootout+sprint should not be, the threshold is the same for less than half the laps.

That's also how Ferrari won in China, for example.

[Paa]

Car was probably running too low. We will lose some performance I suspect come sprint qualifying.

Maybe it was so low as it was hindering them: Max complained that he can't stay on track and Tsunoda also snapped in the S corners etc.. So small raise might even gain laptime by giving the drivers more confidence.
Or they lose some with raising, but still gain something with completely unrelated other optimization etc.

[AR3-GP]

It's not just a case of raising and lowering. The stiffness of the suspension plays a role.