I remember when Red Bull were lambasting Renault in public and always thought it was Horner driving that narrative. Perhaps it was actually Newey pulling Horner's strings. With Newey now being front and centre for the team, he has to say these things himself.AR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Mar 2026, 10:47
It seems like his goal is to embarrass Honda as much as possible. After the Bahrain test, it leaked that Newey said the Honda PU wasn't capable of harvesting at 250kw, or 350kw as proposed. Honda later denied this.
Now Newey put "nerve damage" into the public record and said it's all Honda's fault. Stroll said it feels like being electrocuted. Headlines: Honda PU = nerve damage, electrocution.
"nerve damage" is currently trending on my twitter...AMR is doing a bridge burning speed run.
I wouldn't bother about updates unless its addresses the root of the problem, as the drivers said they physically cannot drive this car for a race distance.
The fix introduced only stops the vibrations reaching the battery. They are still being transmitted into the chassis, and from there into the steering.
"There's no point in not being open and honest in this meeting on our expectations," Newey said.
"We are going to have to be very heavily restricted on how many laps we do in the race until we get on top of the source of the vibration and improve the vibration at source."
Pretty crazy fallout when they don't even communicate about what to say before the press conference, then Newey says they probably can't do more than 15-25 laps, and Stroll says it's like being in an electric chair.It wasn’t just the microphones that weren’t in sync. The two speakers at the press event also hadn’t spoken to each other about what they were going to say: “It’s something Koji and I unfortunately haven’t been able to discuss ahead of this meeting, but we will have to limit the number of laps we can do in the race until we’ve found the cause of these vibrations and can fix them,” said Newey as Watanabe sat beside him.
Newey with drivers through the years:
if you read the full quote in context, they did speak before the meeting, just didn't decide yet about what precautionary measures to take run plan wise. Media spreading false info on top of an already dire situationFNTC wrote: ↑05 Mar 2026, 13:04https://www.gpblog.com/en/features/tota ... rian-newey
Pretty crazy fallout when they don't even communicate about what to say before the press conference, then Newey says they probably can't do more than 15-25 laps, and Stroll says it's like being in an electric chair.It wasn’t just the microphones that weren’t in sync. The two speakers at the press event also hadn’t spoken to each other about what they were going to say: “It’s something Koji and I unfortunately haven’t been able to discuss ahead of this meeting, but we will have to limit the number of laps we can do in the race until we’ve found the cause of these vibrations and can fix them,” said Newey as Watanabe sat beside him.
Seems odd to me with all the sensors on an F1 car they can't locate the source of the vibrations. Surely a sensor, or sensors, somewhere must be giving off incorrect or extreme data due to it compared to others.FNTC wrote: ↑05 Mar 2026, 12:33Andrew Benson-article: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/arti ... ykk74re1ro
Excerpt:The fix introduced only stops the vibrations reaching the battery. They are still being transmitted into the chassis, and from there into the steering.
"There's no point in not being open and honest in this meeting on our expectations," Newey said.
"We are going to have to be very heavily restricted on how many laps we do in the race until we get on top of the source of the vibration and improve the vibration at source."
