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The spanish tweeter is talking about an "important step forward in acceleration", but honestly it still looks really bad for AM there, the Ferrari accelerates faster out of 2, out of 8, out of 10, out of 13 (pretty significantly) and also out of 15. Now that Ferrari lap was clearly a hotlap (from the way Lewis clearly runs out of juice in the end), hard to tell about the AM.
Did Audi started engine development before Honda? And should Stroll sr. snach Honda people back from Redbull?
Surely Adrian has already been in this situation when Honda arrived in RB a d knows how to direct them in proper direction!?
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I'd love to know the root cause of this situation. Because it seems like they've just unpacked all their resources. But they haven't had any luck with the first serious test. From now on, we'll see.
I suspect that, as usual, there's something we don't know about. Some Honda system to improve performance, probably electrical, perhaps. That isn't meshing properly.
The bad thing is that both the engine and the car are having problems. And I still think the gearbox is too long, or that these cars like short gears, whichever you prefer.
We'll see how long it takes them to put the pieces in the right place. We're supposed to have the best of everything.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
Did Audi started engine development before Honda? And should Stroll sr. snach Honda people back from Redbull?
Surely Adrian has already been in this situation when Honda arrived in RB a d knows how to direct them in proper direction!?
Acting the MCL way didn’t work and won‘t work. Engine is Build by Honda not AM.
Imho the key person required is Franz Tost
IMO so much nonsense (a few days ago Alonso was beaming at the shakedown, now scowling and throwing his gloves around) and revisionism (what happened with McLaren-Honda and the way to success for Honda) posted. Key people needed - the people they have, plus hard work.
Eventhough I don't expect the gap from Honda to the best engine to be like it was in 2015, we must also acknowledge that there's much less low hanging fruit in the sport these days. There's no mediocre Renault engine, there's no Marussia, Manor, or privateer Sauber anymore. Only Audi looks to be a bit vulnerable on the PU side, and only Cadillac is "easy prey" on the chassis side. If things are as bad as they look Aston could genuinely be competing for 17th-22nd on a regular basis. One has to wonder how long Fernando would tolerate such performance before there's a blow up of epic proportions. We know what happened in 2015, we all remember the team radio. Fernando is hardly going to be more patient or considerate at age 44 when he knows that every year could be his last.
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Acoording Matteo Bobbi in Youtube the engine is OK and they cant use correctely because if they do the gearbox colapse and Aston would have around 40kg overweight and this is not solve before Australia. They will run 200km from filming day, today.
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40KG!!! How credible is the source? How much development time and cost they need to dedicate only to reduce weight. Unless they nailed the aero, I doubt they’ll score that many points. Hoping it’s not true.
Calm down, guys, it's still testing. Ted Kravitz and Lobato also said that Newey has already identified the problems and has a plan to fix them. Regarding the engine, It's not just a gear change problem, but improvements have already been seen from day 1 to day 3.
Calm down, guys, it's still testing. Ted Kravitz and Lobato also said that Newey has already identified the problems and has a plan to fix them. Regarding the engine, It's not just a gear change problem, but improvements have already been seen from day 1 to day 3.
If the issue is with engine and gearbox, how is Newey 'planning' to fix them ? He is just going to ask the powertrain guys to debug and fix this. I don't understand the obsession of media with "thanos-like designer who can do everything from tightening a bolt to writing an ECU algorithm"
40KG!!! How credible is the source? How much development time and cost they need to dedicate only to reduce weight. Unless they nailed the aero, I doubt they’ll score that many points. Hoping it’s not true.
40KG is absolute nonsense, that’s not something you can just solve with upgrades in the season. Fake news as always
Did Audi started engine development before Honda? And should Stroll sr. snach Honda people back from Redbull?
Surely Adrian has already been in this situation when Honda arrived in RB a d knows how to direct them in proper direction!?
Honda have 10k people in R&D, surely they're not short of ICE PHDs.
